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Title: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: mellestad on April 29, 2010, 07:54:07 PM
I love dinosaurs and associated megafauna.  Today I was browsing my daily links and I found this guy, he's my favorite for this week.  Crazy!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Panochthus_frenzelianus.jpg

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Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Angel Eyes on April 29, 2010, 08:00:45 PM
The armadillo from hell.

Put a saddle on that bad boy.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Battle Monkey of Zardoz on April 29, 2010, 08:02:06 PM
T Rex. With the Stegosaurus and Triceratops a close 2nd
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Boomhauer on April 29, 2010, 08:09:36 PM
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Couldn't tell you what's my fav dinosaur. I used to visit all the traveling Dinosaur museums and such as a kid, lots of fun.

Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: kgbsquirrel on April 29, 2010, 08:28:57 PM
LOL. The 'dillo of doom! Imagine if a semi-truck tried to run that thing over.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Mabs2 on April 29, 2010, 08:35:18 PM
My favorite dinosaur is whichever one tastes best.
That's the main reason I want modern science to bring them back.
Holy crap I bet some of them taste great.
bbq sauce, deep fried, oven baked.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: AJ Dual on April 29, 2010, 09:12:15 PM
Favorite Dinosaur?

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Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Jocassee on April 29, 2010, 09:37:02 PM
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Couldn't tell you what's my fav dinosaur. I used to visit all the traveling Dinosaur museums and such as a kid, lots of fun.



T-Rex clearly needs a shoulder rig.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Jim147 on April 29, 2010, 11:44:40 PM
My favorite dinosaur is whichever one tastes best.
That's the main reason I want modern science to bring them back.
Holy crap I bet some of them taste great.
bbq sauce, deep fried, oven baked.


What does it matter? They all just taste like chicken. ;)

jim
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Mabs2 on April 29, 2010, 11:49:03 PM
What does it matter? They all just taste like chicken. ;)

jim
So?  Chicken is delicious.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Jim147 on April 29, 2010, 11:55:04 PM
Then you should get some chickens and feed them eggs and bacon for every meal to see how big they get.

jim
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: crt360 on April 30, 2010, 03:42:36 AM
That must be the armadillo from the old Lone Star ads.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ub2lgjWxsRY
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Ron on April 30, 2010, 08:07:37 AM
Back before the first Jurassic Park movie came out, I read the book. The first book is actually pretty darn good.

From that point on Velociraptors became my favorite dinosaur. Before that it was T-Rex, although the Woolly Mammoth was a close second in deference to the coming ice age. As a child I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I had books about them, whole sets of plastic dinosaurs, models and I even made a paper mache T-Rex in grade school.

Anyone remember the rice cereal back in the 70's that had plastic dino's in every box?
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: AJ Dual on April 30, 2010, 08:37:31 AM
The main problem with both the book and the movie is that the Velociraptors are really only about the size of a large turkey.

At least in the size of any fossils that have been found to date.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Ron on April 30, 2010, 08:49:27 AM
The main problem with both the book and the movie is that the Velociraptors are really only about the size of a large turkey.

At least in the size of any fossils that have been found to date.


Crichton took the liberty of combining attributes of the raptors (Dromaeosauridae) with some creative license into his own raptors for the book and movies. I think the Utah Raptor was what he used to justify the size discrepancy.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Cromlech on April 30, 2010, 09:44:01 AM
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Clever Girl...
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Tuco on April 30, 2010, 10:02:18 AM
Triceratops
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: AZRedhawk44 on April 30, 2010, 10:23:16 AM
Washasaurus Rex.

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Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: roo_ster on April 30, 2010, 12:34:44 PM
My favorite dinosaur is whichever one tastes best.
That's the main reason I want modern science to bring them back.
Holy crap I bet some of them taste great.
bbq sauce, deep fried, oven baked.


That's beautiful, man. <sniff, sniff>

I think a Jurassic Park-like island set up as a hunting preserve to subsidize the protection of endangered species would be the coolest thing since sliced bread.


(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F7%2F7a%2FPanochthus_frenzelianus.jpg%2F800px-Panochthus_frenzelianus.jpg&hash=d6539703f4da48653b68580bcc508e8cabac3908)

Feakasaurus Maximus?

Hemispherasaurus?



My favorite dinosaur?
The Argentinosaurus I saw at the Atlanta Fernbank museum. 
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My favorite non-dino megafauna?

Carnivorous would have to be Ursus maritimus tyrannus
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Ursus maritimus tyrannus roughly translates from the latin as, "Holy crap, that's a big honkin' bear!"

Herbivorous would have to be the Megatherium giant sloth, for absurdity's sake:
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~10,000 lbs is a whole lotta sloth.  Even the laziest folks I have met can match that! (http://www.instantrimshot.com/)



Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: mellestad on April 30, 2010, 01:03:33 PM
My favorite living example of megafauna:  
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Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: mellestad on April 30, 2010, 01:12:35 PM
Although you have to admit, whatever critter these belonged to would have been impressive as all get out:

(https://armedpolitesociety.com/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fupload.wikimedia.org%2Fwikipedia%2Fcommons%2Fthumb%2F1%2F1f%2FCarcharodon_megalodon.jpg%2F585px-Carcharodon_megalodon.jpg&hash=647d3be1b57a19caef57fa0156b06cc43223c274)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megalodon

I got to see some recreated Jaws in an aquarium once, very neat, teeth the size of daggers.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Scout26 on April 30, 2010, 05:13:45 PM
As a child I was obsessed with dinosaurs. I had books about them, whole sets of plastic dinosaurs, models and I even made a paper mache T-Rex in grade school.


I didn't make the Paper Mache ones, but yep, from the time I was about 8 until 11 or 12, Dinosaurs were the bomb.

Now my son (age 9) is a dino freak.  Mrs Scout doesn't understand his obession with them.  But I do.  Get to do it all over again...... =D =D =D =D
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Tallpine on April 30, 2010, 08:08:11 PM
A thesaurus, which is just another word for dinosaur.
Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Harold Tuttle on April 30, 2010, 10:53:50 PM
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Title: Re: Favorite Dinosaur?
Post by: Harold Tuttle on April 30, 2010, 11:07:33 PM
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