How to make Dinosaurs...

awesome bossum · Dec 7, 2013

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waltky · Sep 12, 2014

possum thinks if it was still alive it would eat him...

Spinosaurus fossil: 'Giant swimming dinosaur' unearthed
11 September 2014 ~ A giant fossil, unearthed in the Sahara desert, has given scientists an unprecedented look at the largest-known carnivorous dinosaur: Spinosaurus.

The 95-million-year-old remains confirm a long-held theory: that this is the first-known swimming dinosaur. Scientists say the beast had flat, paddle-like feet and nostrils on top of its crocodilian head that would allow it to submerge with ease. The research is published in the journal Science. Lead author Nizar Ibrahim, a palaeontologist from the University of Chicago, said: "It is a really bizarre dinosaur - there's no real blueprint for it. "It has a long neck, a long trunk, a long tail, a 7ft (2m) sail on its back and a snout like a crocodile. "And when we look at the body proportions, the animal was clearly not as agile on land as other dinosaurs were, so I think it spent a substantial amount of time in the water."

Spinosaurus is thought to be the largest known carnivore and would have feasted on huge fish and sharks

While other ancient creatures, such as the plesiosaur and mosasaur, lived in the water, they are marine reptiles rather than dinosaurs, making Spinosaurus the only-known semi-aquatic dinosaur. Spinosaurus aegyptiacus remains were first discovered about 100 years ago in Egypt, and were moved to a museum in Munich, Germany. However, they were destroyed during World War II, when an Allied bomb hit the building. A few drawings of the fossil survived, but since then only fragments of Spinosaurus bones have been found. The new fossil, though, which was extracted from the Kem Kem fossil beds in eastern Morocco by a private collector, has provided scientists with a more detailed look at the dinosaur. "For the very first time, we can piece together the information we have from the drawings of the old skeleton, the fragments of bones, and now this new fossil, and reconstruct this dinosaur," said Dr Ibrahim.

The dinosaur has a number of anatomical features that suggest it was semi-aquatic

The team says that Spinosaurus was a fearsome beast. At more than 15m (50ft) from nose to tail, the researchers say it was potentially the largest of all the carnivorous dinosaurs - bigger even than the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex. Scientists had long suspected that the giant could swim, but the new fossil offers yet more evidence for its semi-aquatic existence. Dr Ibrahim explained: "The one thing we noticed was that the proportions were really bizarre. The hind limbs were shorter than in other predatory dinosaurs, the foot claws were quite wide and the feet almost paddle shaped. "We thought: 'Wow - this looks looks like adaptations for a life mainly spent in water.'" He added: "And then we noticed other things. The snout is very similar to that of fish-eating crocodiles, with interlocking cone-shaped teeth. "And even the bones look more like those of aquatic animals than of other dinosaurs. They are very dense and that is something you see in animals like penguins or sea cows, and that is important for buoyancy in the water." Its vast spiked dorsal sail, though, was probably more useful for attracting mates than aiding swimming. The researchers say that Spinosaurus lived in a place they describe as "the river of giants", a waterway that stretched from Morocco to Egypt.

A life-size reconstruction of Spinosaurus is on display at the National Geographic Museum in Washington DC

They believe it would have feasted on giant sharks and other car-sized fish called coelacanths and lungfish, competing with enormous crocodile-like creatures for its prey. Commenting on the research, Prof Paul Barrett, from London's Natural History Museum, said: "The idea that Spinosaurus was aquatic has been around for some time and this adds some useful new evidence to address that issue. "But finding a more complete skeleton after the best material was destroyed in a WW2 bombing raid is significant, and this has allowed some surprising things to be found out about this animal. "One of the things about this paper that struck me as particularly neat was the suggestion that Spinosaurus was a quadruped - all other meat-eating dinosaurs were bipeds. It would have moved in a really freaky, weird way in comparison with its relatives - whether on land or in water. "One issue though, due to the way it was obtained - through a private collector - is that it would be good to get confirmation, such as the original excavation map, to show that all of the parts definitely came from a single skeleton."

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-29143096
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waltky · Sep 12, 2014

possum hidin' under the couch `cause Uncle Ferd told him there's one outside waitin' to scoop him up...

Ancient Flying Reptile Named After 'Avatar' Creature
September 12, 2014 WASHINGTON Some of the most visually stunning sequences from director James Cameron's blockbuster movie Avatar involved graceful flying creatures that were ridden by blue human-like beings facing ecological destruction on a moon called Pandora.

It turns out that an animal very similar to those Avatar creatures, called Ikran, actually did exist here on Earth long ago. Scientists on Thursday announced the discovery of fossils in China of a new species of flying reptile called a pterosaur that lived 120 millions years ago and so closely resembled the creatures from the 2009 film that they named it after them. It is called Ikrandraci avatar, meaning Ikran dragon from Avatar. And this pterosaur is noteworthy for more than just its resemblance to a movie creature.

Throat pouch

The scientists said it appears that Ikrandraci avatar had a throat pouch similar to that of a pelican. It probably fed on small fish from freshwater lakes, flying low over the water and catching prey by skimming its lower jaw into the water, they said. It may have stored the fish in the pouch, they added. This Cretaceous Period pterosaur boasted an unusual blade-like crest on its lower jaw like the one on the movie creatures. The head structure is similar in this pterosaur to the Ikran in 'Avatar,' said one of the researchers, paleontologist Xiaolin Wang of the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology, Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing. Of course, nobody and nothing can ride this pterosaur, Wang added.

The ecological reconstruction of Ikrandraco avatar is shown in this handout illustration.

Another of the researchers, paleontologist Alexander Kellner of Brazil's National Museum at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, joked: Please, [there were] no blue hominids during the Cretaceous. Ikrandraci avatar, whose fossils were unearthed in China's Liaoning province, boasted a wingspan of about eight feet (2.5 meters), Kellner said.

Flying vertebrates

It did not have a crest on the top of its elongated head as many pterosaurs did. Behind the lower jaw crest was a hook-like structure that appears to have been the anchor point for the throat pouch, Kellner said. It had relatively small teeth good for snaring small fish. It lived in a warm region teeming with life, with feathered dinosaurs, birds, mammals, frogs, turtles and other animals along with a variety of trees and other plants, Wang said.

The researchers studied fossils of two specimens of Ikrandraci avatar. Pterosaurs were Earth's first flying vertebrates, with birds and bats making their appearances later. They thrived from about 220 million years ago to 65 million years ago, when they were wiped out by the asteroid that also doomed the dinosaurs. The study was published in the journal Scientific Reports.

http://www.voanews.com/content/reu-ancient-flying-reptile-avatar/2448323.html
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awesome bossum · Feb 20, 2016

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Mmmm... stringy linguini in clam sauce...

One Mind · Feb 20, 2016

Dinos never existed. Why? Because no living life form has bones composed of rock. And all we find are rocks that resemble bones. But they are just rocks, that look like bones. Given enough time, rocks can start to resemble bones. Just like, given enough time, a creature that lives in the water, and looks like he comes from the water, turns into a chimp, swinging about in trees. So these rocks that look like bones, is just like looking into the clouds and seeing something that looks like Aunt Matilda, or Uncle Jabbo.

Anyways if bones can turn into rocks, that means that every skull on this forum, especially the conservative skulls, are doomed to be rocks, and nothing is any dumber than a bag of rocks.

Dinos never existed, because I have never seen one. I just see rocks that some people claim are bones, that is all I see. But if they did exist, I wonder if they tasted like chicken? And why did they get so damned big, some of them? And why did god create them, and then got tired of looking at them, and sent a big rock to destroy them? Were they sinning pretty badly or what? What did they do to (*)(*)(*)(*) god off so badly, that he would just kill em all? And leave the world to these shrew looking mammals that lived under the dirt? So that they might become man, through evolution. I mean, one day you got these little furry rat looking creatures, and then as time passes, the universe turned them into creatures who walk on two legs, and who got busy destroying the very environment that sustains them, with the goal of the ones on top, to see how high they can pile their gold, their wealth, as they look about and see others starving to death? I think god should have stuck, with the dinos. But if their brains finally developed like ours did, they sure would have to build bigger cars and planes, to transport such huge bodies around.

awesome bossum · Feb 29, 2016

I love how presumptive dino's are, and how easily confused by Primate in Dromeus skin.

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