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Stegosaurus Anonymous
give some love for the plated dinosaur
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Contributing Kentrosaurus and making this thread about all stegosaurs.
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One more Kentrosaurus to get the thread going.
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Vintage Stegosaurus, back when we thought it only had one row of plates.
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>>151247

Better CG Stegosaurus.
>> Anonymous
Thagomizers FTW!
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>>151279

Poor Thag. Never saw it comin'.
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Tuojiangosaurus in a failing attempt to keep this thread alive.
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And a bonus Lexovisaurus.
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>>151263

ugh, the old depictions of dinosaurs makes me cry now. How we thought Stegosaurus was a half-circle shape with the head and tail down on the ground,that wasn't even anatomically possible.
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>>151348

Hell, if you think that's nuts, just have a gander at what they once thought Diplodocus looked like.
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>>151470

I remember that, all right. Diplodicus as a sprawler, dear god. It would have buckled and fell, and it's belly would have had to have been in a trench.

Then there's the classic Tyrannosaurus rex pose that children's books and shows still insist on using, the tripod position.

*shudder*
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>>151474

Oh hell, putting dinosaurs in tripod stances was hilarious, because it wasn't merely scientific ignorance, but at times a blatant fudging of the facts. When museums were mounting Iguanodon skeletons as tripods, they actually deliberately broke several tail and I think hip vertebrae to force them into that position.
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>>151348

Triceratops, with three long horns
a beak like a parrot and a frill where his neck is
Triceratops, with four long legs
and a taaaaaaaaaaaaaail in back
>> Anonymous
Turkey all sorts.
>> Anonymous
Usually the position used was the one with narrow vertical center of gravity. This style of posing was used to save floor space.
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>>151476

Really. You'd think the fact they'd have to destroy part of the fossils meant they were doing it wrong. *le sigh*

When they were mounting the first T. rex skeleton, it was originally going to be as it should, body balanced on the legs. But 2 tons of bones were too difficult to mount like that, so the static tripod pose was used instead.

<---- the only tripod Tyrannosaurus that didn't look goofy.

"SHARPTOOOOOOOOTH!"
>> Anonymous
bump for terrible lizards
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Bump for awesome lizards
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>>151691
this is not a lizard.
>> Bitter Anon !!WJLRQ1cwCyZ
>>151712
What's your point?
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>>151712

No dinosaurs are lizards, but their name still means "terrible (as in larger than life, not fearsome) lizard" when literally translated.
>> Anonymous
where the fuck are the feathers? this thread is bullshit.