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ITT we talk about our favourite dinosaurs.
HARD MODE, no T. rex or Velociraptor.
Go go go!
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FUCK YEAH BARYONYX
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Ankylosaurus, motherfucks
>> Rick Dominated
Pfft, T. Rex and raptors are for pussies, real men go for the Iguanadon
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Deinonychus. It's not a T-rex or a velociraptor. It is a theropod that really really resembles a velociraptor, though.
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>>302733
They're hugging!!! That's sweet.
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Pterodactyls are the winningest dinosaurs ever.
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I always thought Plesiosaurus and Ichthysaurus were pretty cool dinosaurs.
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Dimetrodon, utter badass and king of the dinosaurs.
>> Anonymous
>>302762
Wut?
>>302765
Wut?
>>302767
WUT?
>> Anonymous
always liked protoceratops
>> Anonymous
in b4 Raptor Jesus
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Sarcosuchus!

Pictured here eating some kind of giant bird-reptile thing.
>> Anonymous
>>302757

Um, yeah, good choice, since that's the dinosaur that the velociraptors in Jurassic Park were based on...
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Check out the chompers on this dinosaur. Yikes!
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Triceratops, superior.
All other extinct life-forms, inferior.
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Apatosaurus, bitches. Been my favorite since childhood.
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Pachycephalosaurus
the most METAL of dinosaurs.
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>>302807
>> Anonymous
>>302752
FUCK YES.
>> Anonymous
>>302805
Couldn't have said it better.
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Albertosaurus
>> Anonymous
Spinosaur.jpg

Ah, a question, are "pterosaurs" classified under "dinosaurs?"
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>>302762

Trolling.
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>>302806
Please stop breaking the neck bones of sauropods.
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CRYOLOPHOSAURUS, BITCHES.

JUST CHECK OUT THAT FUCKING CREST. FOR FUCKS SAKE.
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Microraptor - biological biplane small enough to fit in your pocket!
>> Anonymous
AERODACTYL!

Er...wait real animals, right.

Triceratops.
>> Anonymous
>>302843
He's so awesome that the Aurora Borealis just FOLLOWS HIM AROUND.
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>>302843
Is he somehow related to the cosmic T.rex?
>> Anonymous
>>302903

man i loved those books.

Allosaurus is my favourite.
>> Anonymous
>>302848
That's a bird, troll.
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I'M A MEGALODON!

I'M A MEGALODON!

SUCK MY GIANT DICK!

I'M A MEGALODON!
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Rawr
>> Anonymous
>>302807
agreed.
>> Anonymous
pterodactyls rock
>> Anonymous
>>302826

Holy fucking SHIT, someone actually beat me to it!

Lean, agile, pack-hunting tyrannosaurines for the fucking WIN.

>>302796

Sort of. Basically Michael Crichton chose to follow Greg S. Paul's hare-brained idea that all dromaeosaurs fell under the genus Velociraptor, and thus called his animals Velociraptor antirrhopus, when everyone else in the paleontological community was doing the right thing and calling it Deinonychus antirrhopus and completely ignorieng what Paul had to say (he does pretty pictures, but not so much sound theories).

Then the movie came around, and their fact-checker was Jack Horner, so the fact that the "Velociraptors" had been mislabeled Deinonychus the entire fucking time was glossed over (seeing as Horner tends not to have a fucking clue about theropods, as exhibited by his entire fucking view of T.rex and his insane hyping of Spinosaurus on the JP3 DVD).

So really, the Velociraptors in Jurassic Park weren't "based on" Deinonychus, they WERE Deinonychus. It just seems as though Jurassic Park is based in some bizarre, parallel universe where Greg Paul's idea won out (and...y'know...dromaeosaurs magically lacked feathers).
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No love for Stygimoloch? Blasphemy!
>> Anonymous
>>303298

i named my rampardos in pokemon diamond Moloch.
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Ankylosaur :3
>> Anonymous
Dilophosaurus, yes because of the movie. I know it didn't spit venom, but it still looks cool and I had the toy.
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>>303317
Did you know it was actually much larger, had a different sort of head and no frill?

I used to like Dilophosaurus MORE before Jurassic Park ruined it for everybody for many years to come. Fortunately it was never seen again in the franchice UNLIKE A CERTAIN NAKED-PLUCKED BIRD RELATIVE! RAGERAGERAGE!!1!
>> Anonymous
>>303355
Yes, I looked all that stuff up when I was a kid.
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>>303227
Actually I just got back from a paleontological dig hosted by Montana State University. Jack Horner was there and I had the "fortune" of asking him about the whole Giant Velociraptor and Spinosaurus-killing-Tyrannosaurus business and what he had to do with it.

In quotes:
Jack "Well, it's a movie, it LOOKS COOL."

Now I'm no hornerfag. He's got a horrible personality and nitpicks everyone constantly, thinking that only he knows how to dig fossils correctly.
But he's done his fair share of Theropod research, and depending on interpretation his T rex scavenger theory has some truth to it (olfactory lobe, speed, prey/pred ratio at area, etc) But all in all, Jack Horner is the kind of scientist who'd encourage us to look for evidence to prove him wrong, rather than agreeing with him.

tl;dr Jackass Horner, Dinosaurs are awesome,

Also pic related to topic, my favorite would be the Therizinosaurs.
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Ultrasaurus, big as hell
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>>303366
Actually no. What was supposed to be the humerus of Ultrasaurus turned out to be a femur. And in fact all the remains that have been named Ultrasaurus in the past may simple belong to previously known genera, making the name completely obsolete.
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>>303368
Also, there is a brachiosaur-like macronarian called Sauroposeidon that really was as big or even larger than Ultrasaurus was supposed to be.
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Favourite dinosaur.
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Achillobator fuckin' giganticus.
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>>303374
Seems like somebody isn't up to date with dinosaur wrists. Strangely enough, looks like one of Brett Booth's dinos, which are usually very accurate. An older pic maybe?

Also, my good old favourite, Allosaurus. (The pic was titled Epanterias, but it's now considered synonymous with Allosaurus).
>> Anonymous
Who the hell likes Tyrannosaurus anyways?

Also lots of good choices itt, but Stegosaurus remains superior.
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>>303396

I do, the best fucking dinosaur ever, overrated? I think not. Don't mess with the motherfucking king.
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>>303522
READ OP DAMMIT

Say, how many holes does that T rex want on it's underbelly? Triceratops here can do up to three.
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>>303522

Inaccurate T Rex is inaccurate
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>>303570

kawaiiraptor is kawaii
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>>303567
Fuck yeah lambeosaurus!
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>>303659
How come we know that those are same animals of different sex/ growth stages instead of just different species?
>> Nagi
>>303662

Observation of skeletal anatomy goes vastly beyond just looking at skulls. Looking at the entire known skeleton of various specimens and comparing the changes between individuals of extinct animals to changes between extant animals across gender, species, and stages of growth gives us a fairly good idea of what's what.

It's not 100% certain, but it's hardly an uneducated guess.
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>>303681
So what's anon's opinion on Jackass Horner's theory that Triceratops -> Torosaurus and Dracorex->Stygimoloch->Pachycephalosaurus?
>> Nagi
>>303726

Mind you, I'm still in the process of learning about analyzing skeletal remains, but I don't see where he got "Triceratops = Torosaurus" from at all. As for Dracorex, I can kind of see it being a juvenile form, but I get a little skeptical about Stygimoloch being a teenage Pachycephalosaurus. It's possible, but I just don't see it personally.
>> Anonymous
UtahRaptor = Much love here..
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>>302717
what about the Gigantoraptor?
>> Anonymous
>>303544
More like two. Triceratops' skull would shatter if it tried to butt with the nose horn.
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>>303749
Giant oviraptorsaur ftw
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damn forgot pic
>> Anonymous
stygimoloch