I loved them as a kid, but sadly am very out of date when it comes to the info
At first it was a weird sort of letdown that they weren't the thing I imagined in my head. Then I realized that just meant that birds are way closer to literal dinosaurs than people realize. Also crows are cool as fuck and probably one of the most intelligent remnants of Dinosaur descendants.
Wow I just looked this up because I had no idea. https://smea.uw.edu/currents/manta-rays-theyre-just-like-us/
Some ceratopsians had bristles on their tails so it's possible that triceratops did too
This is the most rank revisionism possible. All dinosaurs were lizard looking, as was known for 150 years before that wrecker Bakker showed up.
As they do not exist, and never did, my unshakeable faith in lizard dinos shall keep me safe!
My folks read me the Dinotopia books when I was a kid, I want to live in that world
I read the first one a couple years back and it’s still good. The Victorian naturalist dad is like “how can u live with these dinosaur savages!?” And the humans are like “dude they’re people too, chill” Also this dinosaur philosopher is like “the western concept of time is a line, the eastern concept is a circle, us dinosaurs think of it as a spiral” and that’s stuck with me for 20 years.
That should pretty much be when we start openly telling libs to revolt with us.
Like if that's not the line what the fuck is? When the government just says fuck you and dismantles a public service and sells it off to their friends that's how you know the fascist takeover already happened.
That's literally the goal, there's no other endgame besides creating more enemies to rally against thus becoming a death cult of endless war. We already had the endless war part, now they're just going all in on the rest with the pillaging of liberal institutions.
Dinosaurs are sick; PBS Eons ( https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCzR-rom72PHN9Zg7RML9EbA ) is a great channel full of dino information.
The extinction of dinosaurs caused by an asteroid impact took longer to be accepted than it should have because of the liberal belief in incremental change.
I always found it fascinating how these huge creatures could sustain themselves.
We still don't know what they really looked like but they probably didn't look shit all like what Jurassic Park made them look like
I actually wrote an article about some of C.M Kosemen's work on paleoartistry. He's done some really cool things which highlight how strange our predictions about how dinosaurs are by applying them to animals' skeletons that are around today. Defo worth looking up his stuff. Kosemen's a chill ass dude as well, sent me an email telling me he liked the article.
Trey the Explainer on YT has some pretty great dinosaur (and other ancient life) videos. 'Paleo Profile'
I hope I live long enough for us to one day bring back a dinosaur to life. if that's even possible. i would cum fountains
The cool thing is that we still don't know the cause of all the mass extinctions in the Earth's history, just for lack of evidence. Dinosaurs were probably either a meteor or a volcano, but that's just one out of the five extinctions we had. I've watched professors argue about it to the degree that one of them mentioned afterwards that there should be a mandatory retirement age, it's the funniest shit when you're an undergrad who doesn't know enough to have an opinion.
if only those selfish bastards hadn't gone extinct, then mammals would never have had the opportunity to evolve, and none of us would be here today. a better world was possible and they ruined it.
Did you also have that book, I think it was Encyclopedia of Dinosaurs or something like that, and it had a bunch of images of detailed (albeit wrong by today's understanding) clay sculptures of different species?
