Great article. I was almost lost in the first section though, as I’m sure 99% of humans understand “dinosaur” to mean “all those huge ass animals that lived 200 million years ago” and not a particular biological group. The Wikipedia page on dinosaurs does a much better, non-pedantic job at explaining the distinctions.
Jurassic Park Dinosaurs Illustrated with Modern Science
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Your link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs. In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-li…
Funfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
Exactly. I love this and sometimes think of the running birds in my garden as little velociraptors (or should I now say Deinonychus?)
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#23Earlier quoted context omitted.
Your link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs. In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-li…
Funfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
Yet for some reason nobody appreciates when I label the leftover chicken in the fridge "dino meat."
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I remember having two Jurassic Park velociraptor toys as a kid. One had the arms positioned as in the film but, oddly enough, the other got it right, as in the article. Wrong: http://www.toydreams.co.uk/images/jurassicpark/loose/dinosau... Right: http://dinotoyblog.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/07/JPRaptor-4...
That second image just triggered something in my brain. I remember the texture and the smell of the rubber after 20+ years.
I remember 2 being harder plastic and 1 being the more rubbery one. Though I could well be wrong. Sold all that stuff years ago except three or four of the bigger ones, which my kids play with.
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Your link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs. In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-li…
Funfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
Yes! We buy dinosaur eggs and dinosaur meat from dinosaur farms, wild dinosaurs play around and crap on statues. World is wonderful.
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#26Nice article indeed. There are actually less feathered species than I expected. It reminded me of one of my favourite article about how dinosaurs are drawn [1]. Two paleoartists draw modern animals like Hollywood draws dinosaurs. It was eyes opening to me. We mostly have skeletons of dinausors but fat and soft tissues play a very important role in how animals look. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer…
Many of those illustrations are by C.M. Kosemen, from the book All Yesterdays [1], which is fantastic.
[1] https://smile.amazon.com/All-Yesterdays-Speculative-Dinosaur...
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#27Great article. I was almost lost in the first section though, as I’m sure 99% of humans understand “dinosaur” to mean “all those huge ass animals that lived 200 million years ago” and not a particular biological group. The Wikipedia page on dinosaurs does a much better, non-pedantic job at explaining the distinctions.
But isn't the whole point about this article to be "pedantic" about popular misconceptions?
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#29Nice article indeed. There are actually less feathered species than I expected. It reminded me of one of my favourite article about how dinosaurs are drawn [1]. Two paleoartists draw modern animals like Hollywood draws dinosaurs. It was eyes opening to me. We mostly have skeletons of dinausors but fat and soft tissues play a very important role in how animals look. [1] https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/natashaumer…
Your link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs. In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-li…
Not just birds -- humans who were born with no arms learn to become dextrous enough with their legs and feet to where they can cook, paint, operate a computer and even drive a car almost as well as if they'd had all four limbs.
T. rex got along just fine with its stumpy little kiwi-bird wings.
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#30The thing about the motion sensitive vision was only hinted at in the movie but the book explains it as a result of the frog DNA used to fill in missing sequences.