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dinos! Anonymous
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/r/ing artist.

Personal Favorite: Allosaurus. :3
>> Anonymous
hey theres a jindo in that pic. WHY?!?!! WHAT DOES ARE MEAN? koreans rule the world
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>>87289
That's one disproportionate left leg, there.

BTW, it's amazing how hard it is to find pictures of T. rex with realisticly placed nostrils.
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Tyrannosaurus was a big old softy.
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>>87303
lol they're all eyeing allo's junk
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who does /an/ think will win in a fight between T-rex and Spinosaurus?
>> Anonymous
>>87369
The millions of years and geographical separation will always win.
>> Anonymous
>>87369

I would believe the rex would.. Given it supplied a strong build and powerful jaws that could easily snap a femur in two. Spinosaurus, however lacked those specific muscles as it was more adapt for fishing/scavanging.

And don't give me that BS "OMG THEY DONT SCAVANGE!!!!1!!" All predators scavange from time to time.
>> Anonymous
>>87369
Hollywood.
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>>87309
>> Doctor ? !yOVYMaY/uQ
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Utahraptor.

Think of a Velociraptor, but half the size of a Tyrannosaurus.
>> Anonymous
>>87604
I like the Velociraptors more though! =) They've got this edge to them.
>> Anonymous
>>87550

good god are there really people who give a shit?
>> Anonymous
>>87604
you fucktard. Velociraptors are about the size of a turkey.
>> Anonymous
>>87695
Hence, why he said, "LIKE a velociraptor, but about half the size of a T-rex"
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>> Anonymous
This thread wins. My favourite is Deinonychus. I'd google a pic but I'm too lazy. They aren't that huge, I guess about the size of a normal car, but they hunted in pack (or at least that's what the scientists believe, and it sounds logical) and could catch quite a big prey.

>>87604
I have never heard of Utahraptor, but it sure sounds (and looks) brilliant! Awsome...
>> Anonymous
>>87604
Utahraptor.

It's about the size of a fucking polar bear. Megaraptor was about half the size of a T-rex.

lern2dromaeosaurid
>> Anonymous
>>87720
I'm pretty sure any amateur paleontologist worth his salt is pretty sure what a deinonychus looks like. =P
>> Anonymous
>>87713
how does raptor know what swords is
>> Anonymous
>>87692
Yes. They are called "paleontologists".
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>>87720
Deinonychus was the size of an average man, not the size of a car! But I guess people have a tendency of imagining cool beasts as bigger than they really are/were.
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Dinosaurs killed by flood?
>> Anonymous
>>87889
This is the most retarded thing I have been allowed to read.
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>>87890
Yeah, isn't it?
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Albertosaurus, FTW. A Tyrannosaur that sacrifices just a bit of its size for better speed and agility, all so it can run you down all the more easily. In packs, no less.

>>87749

Ah, but Megaraptor was not a Raptor. It was an Allosaurid.

>>87506

Quite the contrary, I get sick of people thinking they're smart by saying "lol t.rex was dumb he do nothing BUT scavunge." Predation is opportunism, and all carnivores do some measure of both to ensure their survival. Why people think T.rex was some magical exception that go ALL of its food by one method or the other exclusively is utterly beyond me, but...well...there you go.
>> Nagi
>>87923

"go" = "got" Fucking typo.
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>>87890
you just ain't seen nuttin' yet.

http://truthforyouth.com/main.htm

The evolution one is so cool.
I like how the guy is like: "Oh gee, you're right, evolution is rasist and stupid, thank you for opening my eyes. And my excuses to God for doubting His ways."
>> Anonymous
>>87863
An avarage car is lower than a human, right? I read it in a book and since I don't remember the exact numbers, I can't say anything but I always thought "about the size of a car" meant that Deinonychus was pretty low but quite long from the nose to the tail. Could you tell me what this "size of an avarager man" means so I don't get mixed up in future?

(Also, sorry for my grammar.)
>> Anonymous
>>87960
The average height of men is dependent on genetics and nutrition. For example the Dutch are crazy-tall. The average "Western" (Europe, Northern America and, say, Australia) man is somewhere between 175 and 180 cm or 5 feet 10 inches and 6 feet tall. Global average would be somewhat lower, especially when counting women in it too. Weight probably varies even more, global average going between 65 - 80 kg, or 135 - 175 lbs. Please note am completely talking out of my ass, making assumptions and generalizing. I am not to be considered a verifiable source. I'm merely giving my understanding of it.
So, that would pretty much make Deinonychus the size the Velociraptors were in the Jurassic Park films.
Besides, when people say "the size of X" they usually mean roughly its volume. Not its dimensions in direct resemblance. For example you might shape up the volume of a car to give a tail, legs, etc and still keep "the same size".
Ass, talk, etc.
>> Anonymous
>>87960
Deinonychus had an incredibly long, slender tail, so that maybe accounts for a length comparable to a small car, if that car is under 3 m long, that is. Otherwise it was more like a human or large dog in size, 1,5 m tall at most, weighing maybe 75 kg.
>> Anonymous
Meteor>Dinosaurs.
>> Anonymous
>>87889

hilarious! source?
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I've always preferred Daspletosaurus to tyrannosaurus. It may be smaller, but it's badass.
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another Daspletosaurus to give you a sense of scale
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Another favorite of mine, Deltadromeus (the guys in the background). I seem to have a fascination with carnivores that were both big AND capable of high speed, because these guys were about as long as a T.rex, but weight about half as much, and had very long legs made for running. Oddly enough, they're distant cousins of Ceratosaurus (though Ceratosaurus is a distant cousin of Coelophysis, so it might not be TOO odd).

The guy they're harassing in the foreground is a Carcharodontosaurus, BTW.
>> Anonymous
>>87996
That's about how I thought it would be. Thanks anyway. I will get some exact numbers next time...

Still, an awsome thread this is. Dinosaurs, especially the smaller predators are just beautifull creatures. Were...beautiful. What ever.
>> Anonymous
GRINMAN LIKES TO GRIN!
And also dinosaurs.
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>>88024
Saw this. Shat bricks.
>> Blargg
>>87506
Cheetahs don't scavange.
>> Anonymous
>>87695

Aren't velociraptors roughly the size of a human, and utahraptors about one and a half or two times as big?

Not sure, but I've seen velociraptor and tyrannosaur skeletons, so...
>> Anonymous
>>88429

Nope. Velociraptors aren't much taller then the average dog.
The misconception of the size is due to a Jurassic Park blunder.
The Utahraptor has the same size as the JP Velociraptors, while Megaraptor is huge.
Like, 12 feet tall an' shit.
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>>88440
And to reiterate: Megaraptor wasn't even a real "raptor", but a freaky-looking allosaurid.
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Deltadromeus for great justice.

Bigger than T. rex but a far more active hunter. I'd say they hunted in packs because it sounds cool, but that's only an unconfirmed hypothesis.
>> Nagi
>>88389

Yes. They do. No carnivore is so overwhelmingly successful that it can attain all of its food by killing, and a cheetah that's let one too many gazelle slip past it WILL turn to scaring away vultures to nibble on a carcass.

No predatory vertebrate is an absolute hunter or absolute scavenger. Hyaenas are capable pack hunters, male lions will hunt on their own while seldom obtaining their own food as head of a pride, vultures and tasmanian devils will gladly turn to mousing when carrion is scarce (a rarity for vultures, to be sure, BUT...), and we've all seen sharks sucking up chum on cue (which, of course, is dead meat).

Carnivores eat meat, and they don't care if it's alive or dead, just so long as it's fresh enough to be nutritious. There are no exceptions.
>> Anon
>>87289
Dinosaurs' modern cousins make the proud:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070503/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_spain_vultures;_ylt=AqzeuLb15jLbQNjpNDUaxhLtiB
IF
>> Anonymous
>>88461
How can you possibly say a given dinosaur was more active hunter than a T.rex if you've never observed a T.rex in the nature? The damn thing was built to running in a way no other giant theropod was, and even as a gargantuan full-grown adult could run twice as fast as a Triceratops.

>>88496
Obligate scavenging on the other hand... that stuff just doesn't work. The only vertebrates that have any hope of living off carrion alone are birds, since they can soar, using minimum amount of energy locating and moving to the next food source.
>> Nagi
>>88582

I know that. I'm saying that both sides--the ones that promote absolute predation and the ones that promote absolute scavenging--are complete loons that haven't observed how animals really function in the natural world. The one thing that always frustrates me about the paleontological discussions I come across is that the majority of people involved insist that things are black and white, and that a species either did nothing BUT hunt or nothing BUT scavenge in its time on this planet. Things just don't work that way, and every vertebrate carnivore species that has ever lived on this planet has done some measure of BOTH hunting and scavenging in order to ensure its survival.

Why people--especially when it involves dinosaurs--don't seem to understand that is beyond me. T.rex most certainly picked clean any free carcass it came across, but it was also certainly more than capable of running down its own kills. Velociraptors may have been capable pack hunters, but it's naiive to think they didn't also got meat from animals that died of dehydration out in the Mongolian desert.