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J W Campbell
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| Posted: 25 July 2014 at 6:38am | IP Logged | 1
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John Byrne wrote:
| What WOULD be a good collective for dinosaurs? |
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An AAAAAIEEE …?
(Edited for broken quote tag.)
Edited by J W Campbell on 25 July 2014 at 6:39am
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Pete Carrubba
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John Byrne
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I had a discussion on that topic with a well known dinosaur artist, some years back, and his position was basically the same as Calvin's.
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John Popa
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I remember as kid being terribly disappointed to learn the Triceratops, my favorite dinosaur, was a vegetable eater, and not the bloodthirsty carnivore I had envisioned it to be.
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John Byrne
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If you want a REAL heartbreak, seek out some of the modern restorations of Triceratops, with its face filled out with muscle, and more muscle filling in behind the fringe. Looks like a mutant rhinoceros.
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Thom Price
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In my head, dinosaurs will always look like they do in the original KING KONG.
And it's a brontosaurus.
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John Byrne
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And it's a brontosaurus.•• I have a real dinosaur bone, about four feet long, and when people ask me what it's from, I say "Well, I still insist on calling it a Brontosaurus!" That said, most of the modern restorations make SO much more sense. There was a lot of Really Bad Science in the early days of dinosaur hunting. The bones made people think of lizards and dragons, and thus were they restored, without real attention being paid to the physical evidence (and physics!) There are dinosaur trackways all over the world, for instance, and NONE of them show signs of dragging tails.
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Michael Roberts
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That would be acurate but a feathered dinosaur seems less intimidating to me than a more reptile looking one.
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When I've seen ostriches and cassowaries up close, they were pretty darn intimidating. If they came in bigger sizes, they'd be terrifying.
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Brandon Frye
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QUOTE:
| I remember as kid being terribly disappointed to learn the Triceratops, my favorite dinosaur, was a vegetable eater, and not the bloodthirsty carnivore I had envisioned it to be. |
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When I saw the 1933 King Kong as a kid, I remember being confused when I saw the Stegosaurus, and later the Brontosaurus, aggressively attacking humans. Until then, everything I had seen and read on herbivorous dinosaurs portrayed them as gentle and friendly.
The way they were presented in King Kong actually makes more sense to me today. A Hippopotamus is a herbivore too. Try walking up to one and see how docile it is!
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Jeff Siedlik
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Enough speculationÉ. let's just clone one and be done with it already:D
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Robert White
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It is silly how we all cling to what we think we know. I'm certainly guilty as charge. On one hand, I want to know the truth, the reality, about everything without bias or aesthetic leanings getting in the way. Yet...I have to admit that I really want the T-Rex to have looked like the version in Jurassic Park.
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Pete Carrubba
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JB wrote:
| Looks like a mutant rhinoceros. |
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