Dinosaurs

[VladimirIlyich]

4 hours ago, Shooter in the Motor said:

An interesting take. Although they were around, they are known as crocodilians and there were others who were there too. As they're cold blooded they survived the fallout that destroyed the dinos as they were warm blooded. They also can survive with only one meal per year.

 

 

I would have added snakes and lizards too but crocodiles make my point too. Crocs are also named Saurians,as in Dinosaurs but I have no idea if this is an actual classification or sort of a nickname.

[Mudface]

49 minutes ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Brontosaurus was never, and will never be, a real dinosuar...

 

Sorry.

 

https://text.npr.org/166665795

Yeah, I put in the post Bobby quoted that the info in that book has been largely superceded now. I remember reading a similar article saying that Brontosaurus wasn't a thing a while back, and thinking, 'bullshit'. Then remembering that the book I first read about dinosaurs was probably written the best part of 50 years ago.

 

Although, it could just have been written out of history by sneaky T Rexes fucking its birds on the sly.

[Guest]

1 hour ago, Bruce Spanner said:

 

Brontosaurus was never, and will never be, a real dinosuar...

 

Sorry.

 

https://text.npr.org/166665795

That's quite the revelation and it appears to be have been confirmed for over 40 years? (Something about being debunked in 1979?)

[Evelyn Tentions]

Brontosaurus is back. From Wikipedia

 

Almost all 20th-century paleontologists agreed with Riggs that all Apatosaurus and Brontosaurus species should be classified in a single genus. According to the rules of the ICZN (which governs the scientific names of animals), the name Apatosaurus, having been published first, had priority as the official name; Brontosaurus was considered a junior synonym and was therefore discarded from formal use.[33][34][35][36] Despite this, at least one paleontologist—Robert T. Bakker—argued in the 1990s that A. ajax and A. excelsus are in fact sufficiently distinct that the latter continues to merit a separate genus.[31] In 2015, an extensive study of diplodocid relationships by Emanuel Tschopp, Octavio Mateus, and Roger Benson concluded that Brontosaurus was indeed a valid genus of sauropod distinct from Apatosaurus. The scientists developed a statistical method to more objectively assess differences between fossil genera and species, and concluded that Brontosaurus could be "resurrected" as a valid name. They assigned two former Apatosaurus species, A. parvus and A. yahnahpin, to Brontosaurus, as well as the type species B. excelsus.[4] Paleontologist Michael D'Emic made a critique.[37] Paleontologist Donald Prothero criticized the mass media reaction to this study as superficial and premature.[38]

[Guest]

Blimey that was a quick revival!

[Clem H Fandango]

9 hours ago, johnsusername said:

Everything about dinosaurs is mind-boggling. Their size, how long ago they lived, how long they were around for.

 

My favourite is any that could fly. Especially the Quetzalcoatlus. A massive, flying bastard.

 

 

With beak like that, was it found in Colombia?

[TheBitch]

9 hours ago, Captain Willard said:

…so we would have been a tiny blip in the history of the planet compared to them. 

Hopefully.

 

Cunt humans. 

[Alan Sex]

I watched the first bit of Attenborough talking about dinosaurs, 

 

Binned it as he never said “not the mama”. 

[Captain Willard]

This tiny speck inside the red circle is the size of the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs after 160 million years of being the dominant species on the planet.  Just amazing.