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DINOSAURS, BITCH. Anonymous
Post some motherfucking dinos.

Other prehistoric animals are ok too.
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Feathered dinos are weird looking motherfuckers.
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I find this image strangely beautiful...
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t-rex knows how to PARTY HARD
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Had dinosaurs survived, would something like this be possible? Could humans ever domesticate anything that enormous? Would humans have even survived in a world filled with beasts like this?
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>> Anonymous
Did Dragonball ever explain WHY there were dinosaurs living out in the countryside?
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>>74387
I think so. In a sense. I like to think dinosaurs would display a similar pattern as modern lizards in captivity. Your bigger guys, like the monitor lizards, tend to be more intelligent, and "remember" things better...

Oh, and in Dinotopia, there was no "domesticating". The Dinosaurs were super-intelligent and the equals of the humans.

:D
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>>74395

That's the dumbest picture I've seen in the last 10 minutes.
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>>74395

If i recall properly, thats from a toy box.. had one of them when i was little.
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>>74396

More like awesome.
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>>74387
Probably. Humans have domesticated other beasts considerably bigger than themselves. Also, during the Cretaceous, mammal and dinosaur brain power seems to have been roughly equal, so it's actually likely dinos would now be about as smart as modern birds and mammals.

Would we have survived? I'm pretty sure we would have. Our ancestors evolved in trees and early humans would have been of interest only to small to moderate sized theropods, which would be on the same danger level as big cats and bears.
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Supersaurus is super
>> Anonymous
>>74461
>Our ancestors evolved in trees
unless the aquatic ape theory explains how we evolved
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>>74465
AQUATIC APE THEORY DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY!
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>>74396
I'm not sure whether I agree or disagree.

All I know is that if dinosaurs were still alive it'd be fucking awesome. Deadly, perhaps. Awesome, hell yeah!
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>>74461

Well, we've been able to domesticate elephants, yeah. But fucking DINOSAURS??? Many of them were considerably larger than anything we've ever dealt with.
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>>74523
Not nearly all dinosaur were immense giants, and mammals themselves have evolved into enormous forms since, even though they aren't around anymore. If dinosaurs survived today, most of them might be well less than elephant-sized.
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>>74525
"According to paleontologist Bill Erickson, estimates of median dinosaur weight range from 500 kg to 5 tonnes; a recent study of 63 dinosaur genera yielded an average weight greater than 850 kg — comparable to the weight of a grizzly bear — and a median weight of nearly 2 tons, or about as much as a giraffe. This contrasts sharply with the size of modern mammals; on average, mammals weigh only 863 grams, or about as much as a large rodent. The smallest dinosaur was bigger than two-thirds of all current mammals; the majority of dinosaurs were bigger than all but 2% of living mammals."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
>> Anonymous
>>74527
63 genera out of several hundred? Not to mention about 70% of all dinosaurs remain undiscovered, and due to size bias in preservation, most of those unknowns that have fossilized are still going to be giants.
>> Anonymous
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur
>>There is an almost universal consensus among paleontologists that birds are the descendants of theropod dinosaurs. Using the strict cladistical definition that all descendants of a single common ancestor are related, modern birds are dinosaurs and dinosaurs are, therefore, not extinct. Modern birds are classified by most paleontologists as belonging to the subgroup Maniraptora, which are coelurosaurs, which are theropods, which are saurischians, which are dinosaurs.
>> Anonymous
Elephants, Giraffes and the such are easier to tame because they are also plant eaters. To us we're not much of a threat. We can tame lions and tigers because we know how to take advantage of their social behavior, but they still can turn on us at any time they see fit. I'm sure that raptors are just as smart as todays animals, if not smarter, but I can barely wrangle an ostrich or emu without a lasso, try and control a massive meat eating ostrich that can think beyond gnawing on my ear.
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>>74651
I don't think anyone was proposing the taming of big raptors or tyrannosaurs. After all, what's the point? Dogs are the biggest domesticated predators for a reason.
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>>74379

I love how the designs on this card pretty blatantly plagiarize animals from a pair of old 1950s sci-fi flicks (one of which was a damned Harryhausen creation, those bastards). Pretty pathetic.

Also, obligatory Albertosaurus. One of the most badass dinosaurs ever.
>> Anonymous
>>74594
Since we descend from apes would you then say that we ARE apes? No? Then shut the fuck up. Dinosaur != Bird.
>> Nagi
>>74842

Humans are an evolutionary branch-off from apes. Therefore, we are both apes in a grander sense, as well as a distinctly unique branch of ape evolution that has become something new within the animal kingdom. Birds are the same thing. They are dinosaurs in the grander sense, but are also a unique branch of dinosaur evolution that managed to become something new and decidedly different from their predecessors.

So basically, in looking at things from a wider perspective, birds do indeed = dinosaurs. But then again, this is the same wider perspective that classifies all mammals as a special type of warm-blooded reptile with specialized scales and reproduction.
>> Anonymous
>>74842
Humans are hominids. Just because some people feel offended by the thought that we might belong to the exact same group of simians as orangutans and chimpanzees does not make us any less a member of that group.

Also, humans are only descended from apes in the same sense as chimpanzees, gorillas and orangutans are descended from apes. That is to say, prehistoric species of ape that are now extinct.
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>>74844
Birds = dinosaurs in pretty much the same sense as dolphins = mammals.
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>>74847
That's not very scary. Looks more like a six-foot turkey to me.
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>>74852
You need glasses, son. That's a three-foot turkey.
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HAY GUYZ!
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Wookiesaurus rex is WOOOOOOOOKIEEEEEE.
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>>74852

a 6ft turkey wouldn't be scary?
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>>75295

It would be delicious, emus arent scary, ostriches arent scary

Fail for not catching the Jurassic Park reference
>> Anonymous
>>75295
Given that a normal turkey is enough to scare George W. Bush, we can safely say that a 6ft one would make him shit his pants and scream like a sissy.
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>>74395
AWESOMOSAURUS!
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>>75412

I'M SORRY MADAME...BUT YOUR SON....IS DUMB