What's Your Favorite Dinosaur?

[Skanky Burns]

Yes. This he painted on the neighbours shed. The T-Rex (posted previously) is out the front, inside a wire fence. (not electrified though)

[Mr. President]

Oh wow, those are so cool! That last one seems familiar to me for some reason. When I have time, I'll look at the covers of some of my old dinosaur books and get back to you.

[Straybow]

Yes, Victorian era paleoarcheologists made a whole lot of assumptions that have been dismissed after careful examination. I believe the story on Tyrannosaurus is that the teeth are the wrong shape for a big game hunter. Any twisting action of the T's head or the live, large prey would tend to break the teeth. Or something like that.

[tniem]

Originally posted by Straybow
Yes, Victorian era paleoarcheologists made a whole lot of assumptions that have been dismissed after careful examination. I believe the story on Tyrannosaurus is that the teeth are the wrong shape for a big game hunter. Any twisting action of the T's head or the live, large prey would tend to break the teeth. Or something like that.

I also heard it had to do with the way they know believe his bone structure went and that to have chased down animals at high speeds would have expended so much energy that it would not have been worth it. But I might be wrong with that.

[DinoDoc]

Mamenchisaurus

I just love the name.

[Mr. President]

That is a cool name.

Another cool name (for me, anyway) is "Saichania", which they dug up in Mongolia.

[DinoDoc]

Do you have any info on the species Mr. President? I haven't heard of it before.

[Mr. President]

From The Dinosaur Society Dinosaur Encyclopedia (Don Lessem and Donald F. Glut, Random House 1993):

Saichania

Type Species: chulsanensis

Order: Ornithischia

Suborder: Ankylosauria

Family: Ankylosauridae

Name: Mongolian saichan = beautiful

Size: 7 meters (24 feet) long

Period: Late Cretaceous, 79 million to 75 million years ago

Region: Mongolia

Diet: Herbivorous

"Saichania was an ankylosaurid, an armored dinosaur with small spikes on its flanks and a clubbed tail. It was unique among armored dinosaurs in that both its back and its belly armor were discovered. Others may have had such extensive protection, but their armor was not preserved.

"Saichania and Pinacosaurus differed from most of the other known Mongolian ankylosaurs in the structure of their nostrils and nasal cavities. The nasal cavity was divided into left and right passages. Within these passages were thin, spiralling bones. In living mammals, similar bones are covered with membranes that warm, moisten, and filter the incoming air. Similar nasal bones were recently discovered in Nanotyrannus, a newly named tyrannosaurid.

"If Saichania had a keenly developed sense of smell, it could have compensated for its slowness by warning it of approaching predators, and by helping it locate food sources in the semi-arid environment of the ancient Gobi."

[tomcat ha]

Sorry for Rzz this topic
Me likes Megaraptor very much
why?
9 meter big Raptor
Smart, big and gunting in packs

[Dr. Stiby]

I remember having this book on dinos when i was a kid (yup this was before Jurassic Park). My theory by that time was "the bigger the better". So I kinda liked the Brontosaurus, which I believe was the biggest in that book!

[Jac de Molay]

I think there's one even bigger than the Bronto, isn't there?

Dave

[Dr. Stiby]

Originally posted by DetroitDave
I think there's one even bigger than the Bronto, isn't there?

Dave

I'm pretty sure there are couple of species bigger than Bronto, but I don't recall them from that book I once owned. My dino interest has severely slumped away since then (only to be boosted again by the release of jurassic Park and the announcement of Sid Meier's Dinosaurs ..)

[Mr. President]

I think Brachiosaurus is bigger than Brontosaurus / Apatosaurus. Diplodocus is longer, I believe due to its tail, but around the same height and weight. I read a while ago that they discovered fossil fragments from a couple of species in Montana that they dubbed "Supersaurus" and "Ultrasaurus" (I don't know if those were the official names or what) because the vertebrae were around eight feet long or something like that.

[Jac de Molay]

You are correct sir. Ultrasaurus would be the largest land mammal discovered so far, with Supersaurus a distant. Both were discovered in Colorado in the 80's

Dave

[MattyBoy]

Triceratops is my favourite - cannot explain why.