paleontology

[hallow spear]

isnt OMNH 1708 the largest with curtices measurements

[stiff osprey]

1371 has its ends worn off so it is potentially larger

But still 11m class

Oh MFP already said that

[fluid inlet]

Did they reconstruct this based off one bone?

[ancient knoll]

No, the small silhouette is a different juvenile specimen. The adult one is known from way more

[fluid inlet]

Just from looking at it I figured it was a megalosauroid 🔥

https://x.com/haolonggood/status/1874126655373164926?s=46 @stiff osprey trying tag the not dilophosaurus guy but don’t see his @

Haolonggood (好龙谷) (@Haolonggood) on X

#Haolonggood | Brachiosaurus

Twitter · Dec 31, 2024, 4:13 PM

@zealous ravine

[stiff osprey]

Hard

[tough parcel]

They sealed the Brachiosaurus in resin

[fluid inlet]

I find pnso sauropods better in detail besides argentinosaurus from Haolonggood which in my opinion is the best sauropod model out.

[zealous ravine]

I saw, Concavenator was also confirmed for January, sometime after the toy fair, so I imagine we’ll see it then (Jan 6-9)

[fluid inlet]

Do you know what else is confirmed ? Crazy that no one has made Dreadnoughtus

[zealous ravine]

That’s it

[fluid inlet]

Brachiosaurus and Concavenator both in January, I will have to buy both 🤣

I wasn’t a fan of their last release the styra seemed like they just chalked something up quickly and just threw it out there. IMO.

[wary heath]

haolonggood is there when pnso doesn't have a specific species

[zealous ravine]

I liked it, it was a more subdued, natural looking figure.

[light osprey]

Perhaps depalma has seized them?

[frigid delta]

this is why i love the og more

[ancient knoll]

here you go

[fluid inlet]

Thanks brother

[hazy abyss]

i always wonderd when in official path of titans will add Diabloceratops with Dryptosaurus

[lavish frigate]

💀

[polar scroll]

tell me anything,but that deff isn´t a komodo dragon in the thumbnail

[lavish frigate]

Idk what your talking about, clearly a highly accurate Komodo

[frigid delta]

Rajasaurus is an indian dinosaur, yes?

[ancient knoll]

yes

[velvet burrow]

... not AI slop
Man biology sci comm really sucks

[fluid inlet]

This artwork goes so hard

[velvet burrow]

Is that Spain?

[indigo cradle]

What's the fuzzy theropod

[plucky basin]

Heres a better image quality

[plucky basin]

Most likely Eotyrannus

[fluid inlet]

This might be my second favorite artwork only behind

[fluid inlet]

I’m not sure tbh.

[sterile trail]

This is my favorite

Yeet the gator

[frigid delta]

the res be like:

[sterile trail]

Its the first image I found of it

Personally I think the low res makes it funnier

[umbral kite]

is it true that Alamosaurus had spikes on it neck and back

[thorn grove]

not exactly spikes but it had osteoderms yes

[fluid inlet]

F U Sarco ( path of titans)

[umbral kite]

so it didnt have spikes but thing like spike on it and this where usual on it back or on it under neck

[tulip stream]

These slop videos suck so much https://youtu.be/1BJbFybO9w4?si=ZJGTYmRM-05A0hnD

The information isn’t even accurate either

[stiff osprey]

Ah yes. The 2 ton animal that can run like a racehorse is worse adapted than a dodo

[fluid inlet]

My favorite paper https://www.livescience.com/bulldog-faced-abelisaurid-found-in-egypt#:~:text=An abelisaurid somewhat resembled a,Cretaceous to a screeching halt.

[tulip stream]

T. rex on steroids yet they only found a neck vertebra

[topaz shell]

What is the current max size for the largest paleoloxodon (if I misspelled that it’s on me)

[stiff osprey]

5.2 m tall and 22 tonnes

[fluid inlet]

Size estimations?

[white matrix]

atleast 2

[tranquil quartz]

Why is there a hunter in the background

[ripe walrus]

Happy new year 🎇🎆🎉

[tall forge]

https://tenor.com/view/carno-dancing-gif-25977094

Happy new years

[steady rock]

How accurate is the new Pachy tlc?

[fossil ingot]

Isn't it like
The same lol

[tranquil quartz]

Yeah I don’t think they changed the model

Maybe textures

[fossil ingot]

Pachy is as Old as Pycno who they didn't touch with its TLC so

[steady rock]

idk the tail seems longer

[outer tusk]

the body is way too short I know that

[frigid delta]

lipless
every. single. time. i wanted to search a free accurate theropod 3d model, they always gave me either JP/JW, cartoonish, paid model (i am very broke), and the worst of all, lipless

[stiff osprey]

skill issue

[trim bluff]

I swear they slimmed it down a little

[frigid delta]

oh god they look so horrible without lips

[sweet field]

Mesozoica

[indigo cradle]

No beak, 3/10

[thorn grove]

being lipless is made even worse by them all having a massive overbite, those teeth are like 6 inches in front of the lower jaw on tarbo

[balmy oyster]

These videos are the ultimate slop

I feel bad for the guy who made the OG ones with actual effort done with research

[tulip stream]

The Australian guy actually did research

[balmy oyster]

I just read the comments and thankfully there is hope. People are calling bro out for this

[tulip stream]

And he put effort into those videos but now that people are trying to go into prehistoric slop they’re not researching crap

[balmy oyster]

The og channel that did current day animals is honestly a really good channel, I actually learnt a thing or two

[tulip stream]

I loved the comments they made the video bearable

[round hedge]

What are your guy's thoughts in the new saurophaganax ?

Imo, the name doesn't really make sense for a sauropod, because being "the lord of the lizard eaters", would imply that You are a carnivore yourself, and we don't see that here.

What new name could work for this gentle giant ?

[indigo cradle]

That's not how naming works tho
We have a Ankylosaur called like "flesh render" or something, it happens

[distant mauve]

also the name can still work

[round hedge]

Bro, how can a carnivore name work on a herbivore ?

[distant mauve]

such as "lord of the lizards that eat alot" as a example

not the same but the meaning can still work

[round hedge]

Ok, but it doesn't specify eating meat or anything, that name example You gave could work, but a name about eating lizards or something can't really work for an herbivore, those are 2 different things, but i kinda see where you're coming from with this

[indigo cradle]

Did we ignore what I said about this happening before and it's fine

[scenic flame]

if the holotype material for sauro is indeed a saruopod, it's name won't change

[distant mauve]

👆 yeah it has no reason that it would change

[indigo cradle]

"oh no the name doesn't make sense" are we ignoring that most these animals are called lizards in their names?

[distant mauve]

basilosaurus is a whale and has saurus in its name. names dont need to make sense

[indigo cradle]

Most of the cool scientific names are taken by insects anyway

[round hedge]

But saurophaganax doesn't mean "Something lizard", it means "Lord of the lizard EATERS" , giving that title to a sauropod, it's like calling an elephant lord of the lions or something

Also, basilosaurus is refered to as a lizard bc it looks like one, even If it's not

But......ok, i understand how crazy names can be, but sometimes they are just meant to sound badass and cool, but a name about eating flesh being assigned to a herbivore is still kinda....weird, but ok, the name should stay the same, even If not logical

[round hedge]

Why tho, it's the same thing with laelaps long ago

Why do insects get all the cool names ?

[indigo cradle]

I'm not trying to argue, btw, you're concerns are valid, but I don't think it's something to get worked up over considering it's not even an isolated incident

[round hedge]

I'm also not trying to argue

But it's just thoughts like these that keep me awake at night

[compact leaf]

unironically it’s because there’s so many of them, there’s a ton of names that are still safe of course but anything that could possibly be applied to an insect will be

[round hedge]

I mean, they make up most of the life in Earth, but why can't we just give them more boring names, like why name a flee (i think, i don't remember well) after a greek mythological dog that never fails its hunt ?

Like sure, dryptosaurus is cool, but laelaps would still make more sense on anything but a flee species

But the painting's name "leaping laelaps" still remains i guess .....

[hardy sentinel]

about 1 ton is my estimation

[topaz fjord]

Lizard of the lord eaters

[sterile trail]

I propose: "Pseudotitan maximus"

If my memory serves correctly, It would translate fully to "Greatest False Titan"

[halcyon cobalt]

yeah no

[pliant cedar]

he is so fire, all the clones are ruining him

[frigid delta]

James Toland Superior
Clones Inferior

[crystal dock]

James Toland is gonna make a new video for the new year and it's a whale

[cedar comet]

i hope everyone here has a great day and that you all have a good 2025 💕 🦖

[frigid delta]

hey i got one of the clones in my feed recently-
and they're doing Rex
https://youtu.be/E2YWN1YeVwg?si=WL_S-YvxeG9xhs8g

[pliant cedar]

that video sucked

[outer tusk]

Woah, stolen artwork

[pliant cedar]

truly slop content

[stable sun]

You can't rename it

[outer tusk]

Sarcolestes (meaning "flesh robber") is an extinct genus of ankylosaurian ornithischian

[flat pond]

Not too particularly accurate but I do like the little detail of them adding teeth to the top part of its mouth since I think modern depictions of it has them.

But if there is any depictions of Pachy I do like, it’s these

[round hedge]

I got it already

And wow, surprised I'm not the only one here who plays undertale and Deltarune

[round hedge]

...If You were to ask me what i thought sarcolestes was, i'd Say it's a featheres tyrannosauroid of small-medium size

[outer tusk]

wish

[round hedge]

...

Yeah, I'm not gonna be able to sleep this night.....

[ionic crescent]

0 accurate besides being called pachy and having a dome

Proportion wise the tail is completely off, as those fellas are build like barrels, with a very thick tail base and a very thin tail end

It's thinner than it should be, since as stated before pachy is build like a barrel

Neck should be a tad longer

And the head is completely off, no beak, only lips, is awful and to me one of worst pachycephalosaurus depictions in media

A lot of those things are carried over Beaked Pachy but is intended since the main reason of it's existence is to at least fix the face

[flat pond]

I wonder why they wouldn’t have done with something like this

[ionic crescent]

Legs, arms and head are a tad off there as well. However body proportions are fine

I have plans long term on remaking pachy mod (once it re-releases) with a brand new concept made by Reptileano, having better proportions and a more up to date model

[flat pond]

Ah, interesting. What skeletal will you be using as reference

[ionic crescent]

Probably a mixture, since Scott Hartman's is reliable but still needs some proportions tweaks

We'll probably be asking here and there as we did for Eotrike remake concept

I'm looking forward something like this from the side (Reptileano Stygi) but with the obvious devious proportions lol

Dude gonna be funky from the front

[flat pond]

Interesting

[ionic crescent]

Regarding this, they probably wanted to go like The Isle's ones (if you look at both, they share a similar side view)

But making em completely different on the texture, which is what it ruined it for me. The back osteoderms are cool, however the lipped thing is what destroys me

[flat pond]

Ah, fair. Still though they should have at least given it a beak. Also do they have top teeth since this one has them. You can see them here somewhat

[ionic crescent]

Those teeth are present in em skulls, in like

Almost all pachycephalosaurids iirc

Also, as some random fact, is likely those were NOT carn teeth (MUH OMNIVORY DIET NU)

But teeth used for root eating, a lot of deers nowadays have fangs/teeth like those

[flat pond]

Ah yeah, I was wondering if they were really there but it’s good to double check. Also I feel like the teeth on the in game pachy are a bit too long but could be a trick of the eye for me

[ionic crescent]

They are ye, should be half the size +- they are now

[flat pond]

Figured they was. They almost look like fangs

[stable sun]

i mean I've seen someone named "W.D. Gaster" in a different paleo server and someone else with piles of Asriel's dust on their pfp so that isn't very surprising

[flat pond]

Also trying to figure this out again but how long is Isisaurus

[round hedge]

Fun fact, i played the Impossible quiz and there was a question where the sentence was in windings and the answers were also in windings, i know the answer now, but i don't know the translation

[stable sun]

I am not sure what that is

[round hedge]

The Impossible quiz is a very hard game made by a user called "Splapp-me-do" wich has 110 very illogical questions and even more illogical answers

But we can't talk about that in a paleontology channel

[lavish frigate]

For some reason with all the dinosaur ones it always has zero parental care for the individual it’s following 💀 like. All of them.

[halcyon cobalt]

the humble titan wing ( arambourgiania would get the name if it didn’t exist )

[round hedge]

THAT FREAKING FLY !

[halcyon cobalt]

arambourgiania is a way better name tbh

[opaque kayak]

I thought it was a chimera, so the name goes poof

[round hedge]

What does Humble titan wing translate to Anyways ?

[stiff osprey]

Humble isn't part of the name, it's titanopteryx something

[pliant cedar]

isnt the remains from allosaurid sauro from both camarasaurus relatives and apatosaurus relatives

any genera named from that stuff would probs end up a nomen dubium

[pliant cedar]

fire name wasted on a damn fly

[stable sun]

It can't be a chimera because it's one bone

[stable sun]

Saurophaganax is Saurischia incertae sedis but probably a sauropod.

refferred material is sauropod and Allosaurus anax individuals

[white matrix]

can anyone explain that “blood” dna stuff that this one woman found in a t. rex bone?

[lone zephyr]

dna has a half life of 500 years its impossible for dino dna to be around today (besides bird dna ofc)

[lone zephyr]

sarcolestes, it means flesh thief

also does anyone know if one of the hunt critters is meat to resemble a silesaurid

[pliant cedar]

there is a silesaurus critter

[steady rock]

is saurian pachycelphosaurus accurate?

[lone zephyr]

i thought so, thanks!

[outer tusk]

yes

[tough parcel]

The tail is unfounded/completely wrong, but otherwise it's decent

[sterile trail]

We all like speculation

[tough parcel]

Sure! When it's not contradicted by every pachycephalosaur to ever exist 🤗

[hushed fossil]

It's a game

[steady rock]

a game that was striving for accuracy?

im pretty sure some creatures were gonna be excluded because they didnt live in the exact area the game took place in, thats how accurate it was gonna be

[pliant cedar]

whyd they give pachy a gecko tail 💀

[tough parcel]

In a past dev log, I believe it was said to be sole speculation and considering the recent papers being worked on (Such as kickboxer Pachy), I doubt it was extremely thick

[steady rock]

oh

[ionic crescent]

Body wise, it is yes

Is the tail what's off, alone

Only tail basically

[ionic crescent]

I just found out you replied it before I did lol

[steady rock]

how were the other designs in saurian? like uh, dakotaraptor! ( does it even exist anymore?? )

[rancid dove]

i like this design

[polar scroll]

350 KILOGRAMS?!?!??

[ionic crescent]

Moto Moto would like em

[tough parcel]

I mean there's nothing explicitly wrong anatomically except maybe the wing structure

But it likely wasn't that big

[steady rock]

would pachy be on the menu for it?

[tough parcel]

Supposedly

[steady rock]

is dakotaraptor even valid anymore?

[tough parcel]

On the basis that no-one has been allowed to re-evaluate it, yea

[light osprey]

Lancian’s magic metatarsal lost and forgotten 🙏

[steady smelt]

Funny thing

[regal cloak]

Oh hey

[pliant cedar]

hi

[steep sundial]

i think i just made one of the most accurate Tyrannosaurus Rex models of the century.

[zealous summit]

love this little guy, gotta be one of my favorite genders

[white matrix]

What do we think?

[fluid inlet]

Not very paleo accurate what’s up with the no lips?

[steep sundial]

shhh…. Hes just showing off his pearls

[cerulean hazel]

Actors needed for a Documentary dm if interested

[fluid inlet]

Actors in paleontology chat 💀

[bitter quest]

Megalodon cannibalism found or aggression towards each other https://www.app.pan.pl/article/item/app011882024.html

Also new species of tianzhenosaurus https://cnki.net/KCMS/detail/detail.aspx?dbcode=CJFD&dbname=CJFDAUTO&filename=HBDX202406006&uniplatform=OVERSEA&v=puwVbh87_QUSdknWMH7NezKnMCDxEYawTW3WQEsv7vSS2_S12kf0vqBKGcbSDr-8

[orchid rain]

I went to Shan hi’s museum of natural history

[steady rock]

OMG IM A ACTOR

[zinc solstice]

Is Graciliceratops climbing trees possible

[halcyon cobalt]

seems so

[warped peak]

Technically yes. By no means reasonable though.

[balmy oyster]

Probably a tad bit speculative, but I presume it could be possible to an extent

[light osprey]

The leaping tyrant lizard

[sullen cairn]

dinosaur parking lot

[steady rock]

do you take dinosaur formation suggestions?

[sullen cairn]

sure

[steady rock]

Shaximiao Formation

[sullen cairn]

fortunately someone else's already made one

[steady rock]

is it like the morrison formation but in asia

[steady rock]

how about the Lourinhã Formation?

[sullen cairn]

Don’t think there is one afaik

[steady rock]

alright then that one!

[stiff osprey]

how on earth did they scale the stegosaurs

[steady rock]

which one? theres alot

[fluid inlet]

What a beauty

[steady rock]

could megalania's fat self climb a tree? ( for a backer chat discussion )

[sly viper]

Now I need to see the lynx yuty

[indigo cradle]

Unfortunately megalania is definitely too big to be able to haul itself up a tree

[fossil ingot]

Younge ones likely yeah
Adult's tho no

[stiff osprey]

a juvenile could

[tulip stream]

as a baby it would have climbed trees

[fossil ingot]

We love Fragmentary Animals

[fluid inlet]

Sup juvi here

[steady rock]

can i ask a dumb question

why can adult grizzlys climb trees but not megalania?

[fossil ingot]

Adult Grizzlys Climb?
I know Black Bears due to their Claws, if Grizzlys also climb then probably cause of its claws and more and cause also likely Bear Moment

[steady rock]

@fluid inlet do you have that bear image you sent of it climbing?

[fossil ingot]

Yeah seems like a Bear Moment

[steady rock]

it looks like its hugging it for dear life

[halcyon cobalt]

the advantages of superior mammalian weight distribution, flexibility and adaptability

[fluid inlet]

@stiff osprey are tree carnivores

[steady rock]

i told him trees abosrb the nutrients from dead bodies in cemeteries

[inner kraken]

It’s quite a stretch.

[fluid inlet]

Who here is a plant expert I got some questions

[inner kraken]

Not an expert but I used to have fly traps.

[stiff osprey]

that's like asking if your grandma is a silicate rock

[fluid inlet]

U muda trucker

[frigid delta]

SAUROPODS MENTIONED!!!

[indigo cradle]

Because mammals are op

[velvet burrow]

Nice
Now what about Bajo de la Carpa

[hallow spear]

It’s actually not that difficult

[tough parcel]

Yet this is not your chart......curious...................

[sharp knot]

Anyone have any good in flight pterosaur skeletals/references for modeling?

[hardy sentinel]

Any chance that Pachycephalosaurus could have had feathering/hair like quills covering it's body? Quills are ancestral to Margincephalia to my knowledge

[steady rock]

could allosaurus actually do this or was it just something to look cool for the episode?

https://tenor.com/view/sauropod-allosaurus-running-jumping-animal-gif-17282623

[sly viper]

Probably not

[pliant cedar]

if you were to put every dinosaur from the dinosaur park formation single file in an NBA court, the game would get cancelled

[frigid delta]

wrong reply

[frigid delta]

how heavy is that Allo
bcuz if that Allo weighs above 1 tons, doubt it for a jump/leap like that (any animals that weighs above 1 tons has the impossibility to jump)

||although headcanon exist for a reason||

[frigid delta]

i lost Randomdinos Mapu skeletal again
for those who has it, send me again pls

[calm agate]

Any animal that can get airtime when sprinting can jump as both are mechanisticly the same thing. Realistically speaking Theropods up to almost 4 tonnes can jump to some degree depending on how their legs are built.

[short talon]

How strong would the armor on an Anodontosaurus have been?

How effective?

Also how effective would their clubbed tail actually have been.

They certainly look more than physically imposing enough, but how effective would their trademark armor and clubbed tail actually be?

[scenic flame]

I would assume that jumping onto a larger animal such as depicted in the above wwd clip would greatly cushion the blow for the allosaurus

[polar scroll]

Jurassic formations back in the day were crazy 💀

[frigid delta]

this and Morrison

[tulip dove]

Peak formations

[polar scroll]

yeah bro,sauropods were booming in diversity back in the day

[frigid delta]

get reduced in creatceous

[polar scroll]

Who´s your fav sauropod

[frigid delta]

what time period?

[polar scroll]

any you want

[frigid delta]

Jurassic: Brachio
Cretaceous: Argentino

[polar scroll]

also you can count sauropodomorphs if you want.
here´s mine:

Jurassic- Diplo
Cretaceous- Idk

[frigid delta]

oh come on
hold on lemme just-

Triassic: Plateo
Jurassic: Brachio
Creatceous: Argentino

[round hedge]

Allosaurus weighs an avarage of 1,5-2 tons and is about 23-26 feet long, do You know how much musculature it would need to leap off the ground ? Definetly more then it had

[polar scroll]

plateo also my fav

[calm agate]

That and in the clip from WWD you can see that most of the jump is forward-momentum rather than carrying the animal upwards, the hips don't go much further up than they would be if the animal was running normally and the vast majority of the impression of this being a gigantic leap comes from it leaning its body upwards to get a grasp on the Diplodocus.
People just seem to forget that at the more common sizes Allo is an animal that runs at near on 40km/h, it's fast and very powerfully muscled, it can very much jump forwards a good distance and I'd not be shocked to find that it'd probably have a decent vertical for its size.

[pliant cedar]

i forget that large dinosaurs can jump
it frightens and upsets me

[round hedge]

Oh.................well I'm an idiot

(No surprise, i know)

[round hedge]

Well that's for the documentary, i said how i thought it would've been irl, wich is what the question was, but i was wrong anyway

[frigid delta]

no need to apologize dawg i'm just messin around in here

[round hedge]

It likely had a few quills on its tail, but not really anything close to plumage, the whole body being covered in quills is a bit far-fetched, we're gonna need more evidence for this tho

[round hedge]

Same, I'm just a silly dinosaur fan whose username comes from his first username in Jurassic world alive

[outer tusk]

btw there's no real average weight for allosaurus in general as an adult speicmen could be as low as 250kg

[round hedge]

Bro, i swear i don't even know pachy specimens that weigh that low 💀

Allosaurus truly IS a different lizard...

[pliant cedar]

what

[outer tusk]

the 4.7m allo is about 250kg

[pliant cedar]

allosaurus can go from squaring with a torvo to being cooked by a campto 💀

[frigid delta]

when the predator got cooked by their own prey

[round hedge]

He's a good boy, he don't bite

Like, he's just a bigger dog, albeit, bipedal, scaly and with serated teeth, but he's still a good boy
(Or she's a good girl)

[outer tusk]

what

[round hedge]

It could make a great pet

[halcyon cobalt]

they’re a good them

[frigid delta]

again

this i why i hc Allo as her
along with Cera & Torvo
i love my Morrison Trio Girls

[halcyon cobalt]

I don’t think you can headcannon real things that existed at some point

[flat pond]

And then we have the most accurate Tyrannosaurus to come to any game at this point, not counting mods

[pliant cedar]

jurassic world evolution 2:

[flat pond]

I said minus modding, meaning that those mods don’t count cause they are not official models made by the devs

[pliant cedar]

who said i was talking about modding.

[winter marsh]

kind of like a turtle but if you flip it its over, the club would destroy anything it hits but since Ano is small it wouldnt be as strong as like Ankylosaurus

[pliant cedar]

it did live with like
significantly smaller predators than rex tho, so being smaller than anky wouldnt be much of a disadvantage

[winter marsh]

just saying it woulnt be as destructive as an anky, but for what it is its decent enough to hold its own against same sized and larger predators

[polar scroll]

Oh damn the hatchling is TINY.

[pliant cedar]

could ksi survive the cretaceous

[stiff bough]

We’ve got some new tracks! Over 150 metres worth from a Megalosaurus and a Cetiosaurus found in Oxfordshire!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c24nzeqq1l2o

[pliant cedar]

yeah i heard bout that
awesome

[west coral]

there is

[flat pond]

I request the Nemegt Formation

[sudden wind]

I require the burgess shales.

[pliant cedar]

bahariya

[polar scroll]

is that the heavy from TF2 serving as the base height comparision-

[outer tusk]

bro why is the Lourinha formation so peak 😭

[pliant cedar]

wow

[polar scroll]

it´s always the underrated formations that have peak rosters.

[outer tusk]

rosters bro this ain't no game

[stable sun]

TRUE

[polar scroll]

i mean,you can also use it outside of games,so-

[polar scroll]

but i completely agree on this message 🔥

[polar scroll]

LOURINHÃ ABOVE MORRISON!??!?!??!

[warped peak]

Move Morrison off the list entirely

[polar scroll]

funny how hell creek ain´t even on the list XD

[outer tusk]

Still a good formation but uhh not top 10 material right now

[wraith kindle]

I require the Edicaria fauna.

[wraith kindle]

Why are the top three Chinese, nothing against them, but....

[outer tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/patrick-spongebob-patrick-bottlehead-powerpoint-template-gif-27163942

[light osprey]

Ojo Alamo made it in but not the Hell Creek fm

[outer tusk]

Alamosaurus is Ojo Alamo's saving grace

[wraith kindle]

Other than Patrick cosplaying a volcano, I don't get it.

[outer tusk]

also Lourinha is not in China

[round hedge]

Nah, I'm actually not surprised

[polar scroll]

srry,for late response,i was playing some PK.

Speaking of,we really need to apreciate the PK team for giving us some GORGEOUS designs of these extinct creatures

[round hedge]

It's ok bro,

But like, sure, there was t-rex, edmontosaurus, triceratops, ankylosaurus, anzu, pachy, quetz, but seriously, i'd even pick the lance formation over it

[round hedge]

I couldn't agree more

[polar scroll]

lemme get one rq

damn,they are so gorgeous i can´t pick one

[outer tusk]

Hell creek has more dinosaur in it than Lance and just more content in it

[polar scroll]

Imma just go with plateosaurus cuz plateosaurus is cool

[round hedge]

Ik, but the obscurity of the dinos in the lance formation and the fact that they are way less popular gives it a certain charm for me, i like lesser known dinosaurs more than popular ones

[round hedge]

PEAK

[polar scroll]

Peak indeed

[outer tusk]

I mean for the most part lance also has some of the same animals in the hell creek minus edmontis sp. and nedoceratops

[round hedge]

I didn't even know about nedoceratops 💀

[polar scroll]

what the F- is a nedoceratops...
i mean,i can already guess it´s a ceratopsian of some sorts,if not,im curious

[tough parcel]

A deformed Triceratops

[round hedge]

Yep, a basal trike

[polar scroll]

damn,only the head is known bro got decapitated.

[tough parcel]

Considering the (= Triceratops? (horridus?) sp.)

It's possibly Triceratops proper, not a "basal Trike"

[west coral]

top ten worst things of all time

[round hedge]

What is that smaller spino ?

[outer tusk]

petition to rename it to "midceratops"

[polar scroll]

cuz it´s mid-sized?

[outer tusk]

sigilmassasaurus aka better spinosaurus

[round hedge]

I swear i forgot that sigil also lived in Affrica

[polar scroll]

The oxalaia instinct kicked in.

[round hedge]

Rugops could also make a good pet

[polar scroll]

Anyways,back to playing Pea-K (Prehistoric Kingdom)

[round hedge]

[round hedge]

Bahariasaurus is taller than carchar

(I know carchar is larger bc he's longer and heavier, but bahariasaurus being taller looks so cursed)

I scales them equal, but i think the reference i used for carchar was too small itself

[outer tusk]

That's not correct at all

[round hedge]

My photo choises were off, and my scaling too

But i have a question, is deltadromeus a carnivorous theropod simmilar to bahariasaurus,but smaller, or does it have a long neck and sleeker limbs and body ?

[frosty cedar]

Isn't sigil invalid?

[outer tusk]

No

[frosty cedar]

Damn, I thought it was like "3 T-Rexes" case.

[outer tusk]

For Deltadromus its likely omnivorous and separate from Bahariasaurus which for Deltadromeus is likely in ceratosauria and bahariasaurus being in coelurosauria

[hardy sentinel]

What makes you say just the tail? What would exactly stops the quills from spreading?

[round hedge]

@outer tusk the second one is the real deltadromeus ?

[outer tusk]

here

[round hedge]

It's like in between the two

Well I'm glad it's not like the gallimimus from wish looking one

[outer tusk]

Do take in note do to any distinctive neck or skull material deltadromeus is in between ceratosaur or avetheropoda ( the latter being in question )

Although if I got to be bias I prefer the ceratosaur reconstruction

[hardy sentinel]

Wasn't Deltadromeus a basil Tyrannosauroid? I know body plans change and allat but I feel like the Ornithomimid body plan just doesn't work

[wary junco]

most recent analyses consistently find Deltadromeus to be a noasaurid

[round hedge]

Same

[hardy sentinel]

Oh dang

[hardy sentinel]

Ceratosauria moment

[outer tusk]

^

I would adore ceratosauria if it had more complete members ngl ( still peak theropod family )

[light osprey]

I doubt it had a giant Masiakasaurus skull

[round hedge]

Let's be for real, we would need to accept that If it's real, but in our hearts it will still remain anything BUT a noasaurid, an ornithomimid ripoff

[outer tusk]

why are you call it a "ripoff" bruh these are real animals not some product

The real peak in question:

[hardy sentinel]

The peak in question

[frosty cedar]

My brain is too smooth to get this joke.

[round hedge]

It's a joke btw, but the noasaurid version of deltadromeus looks like it's trying too hard to look like an ornithomimid

(I know ornithomimids and noasaurids are not really simmilar but the noasaurid version of deltadromeus looks like a "we got gallimimus at home" variant of a very underrated dinosaur)

[hardy sentinel]

Abelisaurids are bald and Ceratosaurus is seen as a hyena of it's ecosystem (aka just being a scavenger for a long ahh time)

[frosty cedar]

Alright, tnx.

[round hedge]

Nvm, it's a "We got masiakasaurus at home" looking dinosaur

[calm agate]

*we've got Masiakasaurus but way cooler because funny 8m 40km/h animal. Despise that this animal is an actual literal tonne

[round hedge]

Masiakasaurus on steroids

[wary junco]

tmw deltadromeus pre-dates masiakasaurus in both chronology and date of discovery

[hardy sentinel]

Someone say a dinosaur group is peak, I wanna make fun of it

[round hedge]

Then masiakasaurus is a fun-size deltadromeus ?

[frosty cedar]

Stegosauria.

[round hedge]

Noasauridae is PEAK

(I just wanna see You roast it)

[frosty cedar]

Nice one.

[hardy sentinel]

I already made fun of Ceratosauria

[round hedge]

They're the same ?

[outer tusk]

Nosauridae is inside of ceratosauria 😭

[round hedge]

Look, i am just dumb, i didn't choose to be like this

[hardy sentinel]

According to wikipedia (flame me later) they fall even into the abelisaurids

[outer tusk]

Which also falls into ceratosauria

[hardy sentinel]

So, Noasauria

[round hedge]

Yes....yes.......YES !

[mellow prism]

no

[hardy sentinel]

Someone give me a dinosaur group to make fun of

[outer tusk]

Ceratosaurus ingens

[round hedge]

The whole of carnosauria as a whole

I do know that spinosaurids are my favorites, and that they fall in carnosauria, but i don't care, i just want to see what You can cook up

[hardy sentinel]

1. Allosauroids (which includes Allosaurids, metricanthrosaurids and charcharodontosaurids) literally just being the same for their entire evolutionary journey

2. Spinosaurids being fragmentary

3. Megalosaurids heads being boxes

[round hedge]

we let you cook...........

AND YOU MOST CERTAINLY DID !

[hardy sentinel]

Give me another group, let me cook more

Actually lemme do Coelurosauria, I got a single image that describes it

[tough parcel]

Can't believe giving us microwaved food is cooking nowadays!!

[hardy sentinel]

Coelurosauria moment

[round hedge]

Have You not Heard of microwave mug cakes ?

[stable sun]

Did you scale that Carcha to Stromer's specimen

[stable sun]

Bahariasaurus and Deltadromeus are not closely related

[stable sun]

Abelisaurians, not Abelisaurids

[fossil ingot]

That Carcha is scaled to the Neotype using Randomdinos skeletal

[hardy sentinel]

?

[stable sun]

Noasaurids are Abelisaurians, but they aren't Abelisaurids

[stable sun]

Neotype is from Kem Kem though

[hardy sentinel]

is that the larger group that holds Abelisaurids and their relatives?

[stable sun]

it's the larger group that holds Abelisaurids and Noasaurids yeah

There's also Abelisauroidea which contains that and some other taxa, like Eoabelisaurus (although that one might be Abelisauridae proper)

[west coral]

There is abelisauroidea, not abelisauria

[stable sun]

Abelisauria also exists though

[velvet burrow]

Noasauris revision from a few weeks ago suggests that Deltadromeus is a carch because it's inclussion in Noasauridae kinda f*cks up any phylogenetic analysis

[stiff osprey]

no it doesn't, it just suggests that phylogenetic analysis is not good

[velvet burrow]

Ye right mb, it only kinda mentions it

[stable sun]

actually it suggests that Deltadromeus is not good

[stable sun]

Deltadromeus has two possible placements in the matrix they used, basalmost Ceratosaur or next to Ligabueino and more basal than Berthasaura

[warped peak]

Ligmabueino is my favorite dinosaur

[mellow prism]

i think carch Delta is real

make sense

[clever stirrup]

HOW DOES THOSE 3 GUYS EXISTS,EXPLAIN ME

First one is a denosor

[warped peak]

One is a transition to losing teeth, one is just a standard long necked dude, the other is just an odd glider

[clever stirrup]

The first one looks like me😭

[warped peak]

I hate to say this then but you seem to be evolving a beak

[clever stirrup]

Not the beak,im talking about the teeth

My friends call me food armazenator

[warped peak]

Yes. You're evolving a beak, based on those teeth.

[clever stirrup]

Ohhh i understanded it as another thing

Does you know this guy?
No?
He is the motive of me being 30 mins on toilet,this guy can make megalodon an toy,its the livyathan

[warped peak]

(It would not be doing well against Megalodon)

[clever stirrup]

It was going to be an epic fight

[warped peak]

Really wouldn't be. 40 ton whale vs 100+ ton shark specialized for hunting big whales is gonna be a massacre

[supple sandal]

Whale with psychic mind blast

[keen forum]

oh yeah no megalodon isn't something livy would want to come across at all

[brave stump]

Third one is so goofy ahah

[umbral kite]

guys wat is the aize difference between achillo and teno

[polar scroll]

the 1st one: idfk
the other 2: Triassic logic ig? idk if they are from the triassic so idk

[keen forum]

this wouldn't be much of a fight i agree

[warped peak]

That adds a lot more context and I think it looks pretty funny

[sudden wind]

That's Hella foockin based 🔥🔥

[wary heath]

Why is there still talk about bringing mammoths back.

[wraith kindle]

Nevermind then.

[stable sun]

okay are you joking

[mellow prism]

skądże

[stable sun]

this guy can in fact not make megalodon a toy

24 m Megalodon is a thing y'know

[bitter quest]

Ah yes the underestimates of Livy. But to be fair Livy more than likely lived in pods compared to otodus m.

[warped peak]

Those aren't really underestimates

[stable sun]

not an underestimate

[bitter quest]

To me it is till a complete or near complete skeleton of a bull is found

[stable sun]

yes and it totally will be 170 m long

[stiff osprey]

Why are we comparing an average livyatan specimen to the largest out of hundreds of megalodons

[bitter quest]

Never said that

I just doubt that's the advantage size of Livy that's all

[stable sun]

who said it's average though

[stiff osprey]

Statistics, as we have 1 livyatan specimen that isn't teeth

[stable sun]

it's the only one we have we can't say if it's average or not

[bitter quest]

For all we know that specimen could be a juvenile

[fluid inlet]

It’s average I was around for them

[stiff osprey]

population sizes have a normal distribution, meaning that if you grab 1 random individual you are much more likely to get an average sized one than the largest ever or smallest ever

so yes we can't actually calculate average size, but it is disingenuous to compare the 1 Livyatan to the biggest megalodon ever

[rancid dove]

this game need megalodon i thinks xd

[short talon]

So what WAS the megalodon?

Did it even actually exist? And what did it like DO?

How would a shark of that size function in an ecosystem?

Like what would it hunt?

[bitter quest]

Also I had posted otodus cannibalism/ signs of aggression earlier not sure anyone saw

[fluid inlet]

Without human interference, do animals in the wild ever have dwarfism happen or is it extremely rare

[bitter quest]

We do it's a clam

[short talon]

I assume it’s POSSIBLE

[tranquil quartz]

I mean does Insular dwarfism count?

[short talon]

Megalodon hunted clams?

[rancid dove]

maybe he killed the young meg he met, for his that there were very few

[bitter quest]

No the megalodon you speak is a clam

[short talon]

What?

[short talon]

Oh

I meant the giant shark thing obviously

[rancid dove]

ooh the name is otodus now?

[bitter quest]

Yep, otodus megalodon

[short talon]

Like what exactly WOULD a giant shark hunt?

[tranquil quartz]

Yes it got reassigned to a different genus

[bitter quest]

Whales or each other

[short talon]

I’m sorry WHAT

As in like blue whale sized whales or like humpback?

[tranquil quartz]

Iirc Blue Whales appeared after O. megalodon disappeared

[short talon]

Like how big are we talking?

[stiff osprey]

A better Livyatan vs Otodus comparison would be something like this

[rancid dove]

Whales, young sharks for a snack, maybe it competes with other aquatic

[winter marsh]

that aint Ceratosaurus that's Saurus

[short talon]

OK STOP IT WAS NOT THAT BIG

[stiff osprey]

? I didn't change Livyatan's size at all

[short talon]

You’re telling me those goofy ass megalodon movies had the size right?

[bitter quest]

Agreed this seems more reasonable in my eyes

[stiff osprey]

meg is obscenely large yes

[outer tusk]

haters just mad, megalodon is actually large

[winter marsh]

shrink the shark when

[bitter quest]

It did kinda, in weight for more length

[fluid inlet]

Now do Ichthyotitan

[stiff osprey]

even an average one would probably beat Livyatan, but it wouldn't be able to swallow it whole like the other comparison

[short talon]

It’s flipper is three whole people

HOW

How can something like that exist?!

[rancid dove]

yea is big

[bitter quest]

Otodus m. lost weight for a slimmer yet longer build

[outer tusk]

I mean blue whales exist

[tranquil quartz]

Because it had the right conditions

[winter marsh]

because it died

[short talon]

My god are they actually larger?

[rancid dove]

otodus smokes all the orcas, whale and the mosa, bring him whoever you want

[bitter quest]

Nope

[tranquil quartz]

what

[bitter quest]

No prehistoric whale recorded yet has exceeded blue whales yet

[stiff osprey]

blue whales are larger than megalodon is what he meant i think. Which yes, they are

...despite megalodon fans's staunchest efforts to claim otherwise

[short talon]

How accurate is this

[rancid dove]

I would like to see Otodus in the game

[tranquil quartz]

I mean Blue Whales kinda cheated the system they have afk infinite food method

[bitter quest]

Non being worked on activity rn

[stiff osprey]

the largest reliably measured blue whale was 29.9 m, however there are reports of 33+ meter ones, so this is possible

[short talon]

Eating mini organisms is super underrated and the results show as much

[rancid dove]

Too bad, I think we will have to add other potential prey

[bitter quest]

Also technically blue whales are the largest carnivores to ever exist

[short talon]

Damn

It’s hard to really like picture that next to a blue whale would be like next to an actual Kaiju

[hushed fossil]

Sometimes I wonder why there are no whale-sized Paleozoic giants like in the Mesozoic and the Cenozoic

[bitter quest]

But not many people count filter feeding as predation despite it being so

[steady rock]

300 ton megalodon.

[rancid dove]

Oh, really

[warped peak]

There are, just not blue whale

The only reason blue whales exist is because of the Antarctic waters being super hyper efficient for Krill

[short talon]

I mean you hear about the size of its heart and stuff but

Actually seeing that comparison is bonkers

[stiff osprey]

Ichthyotitan is like, the same size as the next largest whale minus the blue

[bitter quest]

Definitely impossible, for a clam and otodus megalodon

[tranquil quartz]

next to 75ft boat

[short talon]

The idea that something even smaller like the Megalodon was so large it’s GILLS were the size of a person is insane

[raven ember]

and blue whales are like 200 tons

[rancid dove]

beautifull whale for otodus❤️

[short talon]

What’s the science behind their growth?

Just that filter feeding is so effective?

[warped peak]

Parahelicoprion is still around the size of an average whale back in the Paleozoic and the Mesozoic has Ichthyotitan

Cenozoic has whatever Perucetus was doing

[bitter quest]

Perucetus was just being a blimp

[hushed fossil]

I mean terrestrial too, with the sauropods. The largest ones. Or at least Paraceratherium sized

[fluid inlet]

https://x.com/emilyjswaby/status/1874762523918151754?s=46

Dr Emily Swaby (@EmilyJSwaby) on X

I’m thrilled to have played a small role in the excavation of the UK's biggest ever dinosaur trackway site at Dewars Farm Quarry, Oxfordshire, in June 2024!

The excavation uncovered over 200 footprints, including those of 𝘔𝘦𝘨𝘢𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 and 𝘊𝘦𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘴𝘢𝘶𝘳𝘶𝘴 🦕

Twitter · Jan 2, 2025, 10:19 AM

[quasi token]

bit late as well but the 12.5m livy is almost certainly an underestimate as well, livy has a proportionally shorter skull compared to other physeteroids and scaling it with head:body length ratios ends up with an absurdly fat livy (in the pics 15m and 12.5m livy compared to a modern sperm whale at the same length, excuse the poor editing)

[steady rock]

whats bigger,average sperm whale or average livy?

[short talon]

Like how does something grow THAT big?

How do you evolve to just grow THAT insanely large

[thorn grove]

kind of and whale milk has super high fat content

iirc blue whales at some point in their growth put on 90 kg a day

[bitter quest]

Nice megalosaurus/ cetiosaurus news

[quasi token]

modern sperm whale, at least the bulls- females are a lot smaller

[hushed fossil]

But in that case is more reasonable. Air sacs and all

[short talon]

Oh neat

I assumed it most have been in some part their total average energy intake

[thorn grove]

I think blue whales eat like 4 million krill a day when they're down in the antarctic

[steady rock]

funfact, did you know, ocasionally, polar bears prey on beluga whales?

[tranquil quartz]

They also super invulnerable to predation i think only Orcas very rarely have been known to attack fully grown individuals

[quasi token]

at any rate i do find it odd how large livyatan is compared to the other raptorial physeteroids, considering that both brygmophyseter and zygophyseter seem to be a bit under 6m compared to the 14-15m livy

[tranquil quartz]

Did you also know Orcas prey on Moose

Its only been documented twice however

[steady rock]

yes actually! i saw a comic of it actually

[bitter quest]

Basically the mods RN that planned are based on the old look of otodus m. rather than the new look

[rancid dove]

It looks like a tiger shark?

[thorn grove]

Attacks on adults are somewhat common off the coast of south Africa but I believe those are "pygmy" blue whales, and attacks are much rarer on Northern blue whales which are sort of in the middle of their average size

I'm not sure about attack rates on the larger South Pacific population, but I believe it's very low, if it happens at all

[bitter quest]

Well mako shark in body plan

[quasi token]

actually more curious about how the hell 6.5-7m zygo estimates came to be in the first place, considering they're the main cause of the absurdly large livy estimates as well (16-17.5m)

[rancid dove]

so he had to be very fast

[bitter quest]

Not really it's still a ambusher

They just used what it more likely looked like to its closest living relative

[quasi token]

the megalodon denticles that were found a while back seem to indicate it's not a super fast shark from what i remember

[bitter quest]

Plus a shark at that size isn't gonna be fast at all

[steady rock]

how old do you think meg could get?

[quasi token]

probably many decades for a big and succesful one

[steady rock]

ik sleeper sharks can live like, multiple centuries

[rancid dove]

basically it's like a trex but in the water

[quasi token]

not that long though, sleeper sharks have VERY slow metabolisms

[bitter quest]

Even then if you live at that time a baby isn't gonna likely live it's a small chance of it growing to full adult

[fluid inlet]

Tired of seeing all your depictions of megalodon just looking like big great white shark too

[bitter quest]

Definitely this, literally one of the reasons they live that long. Also right whales being hundreds of years old apparently but we don't know about them yet

[tranquil quartz]

Theres also this recorded case in 2019

https://edition.cnn.com/2022/02/06/australia/orcas-hunt-kill-adult-blue-whale-intl-scli/index.html

[bitter quest]

Yeah the media not gonna do that unless it's a documentary

[quasi token]

yeah, just once you get to adult theres nothing that can really threaten you besides maybe other adult megs and livys
as long as it doesnt get sick or become unable to hunt should prohably be good to go for many decades

[rancid dove]

If he looks like a giant mako shark, he must have had skills in my opinion

[keen forum]

meg was squashed to 15m

[bitter quest]

To be fair it's more than likely it's true size if they find more megalodon impressions. We now know it was a slim and long shark

[rancid dove]

basically a big shark lives a long time

[keen forum]

given what we have that is more like its average atm but it could more than likely get bigger than that

[bitter quest]

Possible but is it highly likely? Unsure

[thorn grove]

Sleeper sharks live that long because of their incredibly slow metabolism. Size tends to slow metabolism, but living in cold environments does as well.

For example Bowhead whales live like twice as long as blue whales despite being like half the size.

[stiff osprey]

it likely reached up to 20m, any higher is speculative

which mind you a 20m meg is still the third or fourth heaviest animal ever

[bitter quest]

If it's size is correct otherwise it'll probably be top 10 heaviest

[rancid dove]

interesting🤔

[pliant cedar]

banned

[rancid dove]

what do you think of this one

[low raven]

They also gotta stop portraying Dire wolves as wolves

[fluid inlet]

I think only people who are casuals do that, everyone here and most people who draw prehistoric creatures draw it in its true form now.

[fluid inlet]

Meg however everyone be like yeah just huge great white shark

[candid magnet]

I blame game of thrones

[tough parcel]

I blame decades of being called "dire wolf" 💀

[candid magnet]

Fair point. It's too often people make prehistoric animals look like their modern counterpart

[rancid dove]

replace wolf to dire dog wild

[fluid inlet]

Yep, to me it’s just lazy.

[candid magnet]

To be honest any playable animals in this game are often played as a modern thing becausehow they look. Alot of people who play meg basically play a komodo dragon, smilodon played as type of big cat, the modded shark reminds me of a tiger or bull shark, and are modded mammoth is copy paste elephant

[low raven]

Yeah it’s definitely for lack of creativity on how they could be different to their modern counterparts

[tough parcel]

It's really not because Smilodon is a big cat, the modded shark is probably based on modern sharks due to fossil sharks being hard to come by, and the mammoth isn't a woolly mammoth (it's p good for the species it's meant to be) and Megalania is literally just a fat K. dragon

[steady rock]

anything inaccurate with the divine beasts ampelosaurus?

[frigid delta]

kinda late for this Meg thingies but whatever
anyway @short talon
#paleontology message

[bitter quest]

Old look otodus meg

[fluid inlet]

Ew

[frigid delta]

i will not tolerate ur Meg hate

[bitter quest]

Also I think an average otodus meg weight is 50 tons while the largest could be 80 tons

Since the largest recorded whale shark was 61 feet iirc and weighed like 34 tons

[fossil ingot]

Tmk Largest Meg atm are oike 100+ tons

[bitter quest]

That's just my opinion though. No one knows how much it weighs. I was basing it on the largest living shark

[fluid inlet]

In your opinion how big is perucetus

[bitter quest]

Uhhh, yes big blimp whale

[fossil ingot]

And tbf
Meg also seems bulkier than a Shark Whale even when using Long Meg

[bitter quest]

That's why I based it around 50+ tons

I still think it's heavier than whale shark obviously

[fluid inlet]

That’s not a estimation 🤨

[bitter quest]

I haven't studied it that's why lol. Only know a little about it

[fossil ingot]

Big ah Chunk Shark

[bitter quest]

Long shark

[fossil ingot]

Taking in count a New Species is probable to arrive then yeah

[fluid inlet]

Dinosaurs love their crest huh?

[fossil ingot]

Better Recon of Alongated Meg

[bitter quest]

Got big eye brows

[frigid delta]

Cassowaries would like to introduce themself

[sly viper]

Spinosaurus has no bones guys

[fluid inlet]

Well yeah, I think we all know what they really want to say tho. Material.

[sly viper]

https://youtu.be/wPk6EwTfiQg?si=Zd17jLx3zZt3F-P_ what's the accuracy of this video gamers

[halcyon cobalt]

somebody compare the upper estimates of megalodon to the Vatican City

[fossil ingot]

The Chunk

[stable sun]

Largest specimens are closer to 150 t

we have specimens indicating 24 m and I don't see how that would be only 80 t

[fossil ingot]

Tmk
24m Meg is using the skinnier but longer meg

20m is using the chunkier but shorter meg

[frigid delta]

we have Secretary Bird as the DIVA of avian theropod
who is the non avian theropod DIVA? 💜

[scenic flame]

it's modeled after older recons and generally looks more like a brachiosaur especially in the skull (first 2 images are modern recons, last is older)

[obsidian tulip]

amazing resolution

[tranquil quartz]

Gigantoraptor

[tulip stream]

You cheated

You can’t do avian theropods twice

Wait nvm

[fluid inlet]

https://x.com/dinoh555/status/1874950572983619803?s=46 Rhamp is undersized in path of titans

Dactylioceras🇵🇸 (@Dinoh555) on X

We open 2025 with...A giant specimen of Rhamphorhynchus muensteri and comments on the ontogeny of rhamphorhynchines
https://t.co/8jX6LMqkyE

Twitter · Jan 2, 2025, 10:47 PM

[warped peak]

Please do research before making statements like this. Ramph is far from undersized in PoT

It sits at about the same size as the largest Ramph specimen found, which is over 3m in wingspan

[fluid inlet]

It’s a joke 💀

[warped peak]

Good point

Like Bruhathkay

[tulip stream]

Wait oviraptors are non avian dinosaurs?

I can feel my world view changing because of this information

[warped peak]

Non-avian dinosaur just means it's not a crown group true Bird

[fluid inlet]

Perhaps the most noticeable feature of the NHM giant is their teeth. Rhamphorhynchys teeth are described as being spikes or cones, with a circular cross-section, but the ones here are notably very flat and look more like fat and unserrated theropod teeth.

Interesting

[tulip stream]

So microrator is a non avian dinosaur or.....?

[warped peak]

Yes

All "Raptors" are non-avian dinosaurs, but they are about as close to Avians as Dinosaur phylogeny gets. Basically, the branch split into the group with Raptors, and the group with Birds.

Raptors and similar dinos

[keen forum]

Giganotosaurus carolinii
13.5m 10.1tons

Meraxes gigas
13.1m* 8.7tons*

Carcharodontosaurus saharicus
12.4m 8.2tons

Mapusaurus roseae
12.7m 7.9tons

Sauroniops pachytholus*
11.9m* 7.3tons*

Tyrannotitan chubutensis
11.6m 6.7tons

Taurovenator violantei
11.8m 6.2tons

Acrocanthosaurus atokensis
11.5m 5.7tons

Chilantaisaurus tashuikouensis
11.4m 5.3+ tons*

Siats meekerorum
11.3m 5.3tons

a chart of sharks

[bitter quest]

Since when meraxes get upsized?

[steady rock]

do you think deinosuchus was one of the apex's of the west interior sea way?

[keen forum]

possible 15% larger meraxes from new specimen

[bitter quest]

[keen forum]

depends if it had over lap with tylo, or the pilosaurs or not, if it didn't then yeah it would be the apex if so then tylo may have been the apex in open waters

[fluid inlet]

Random ass buff

[quasi token]

yes, it's about as large as the bigger mosasaurs out there, so its reasonable to call it an apex predator in the ecosystem along with said mosasaurs

[quasi token]

deino only shows up after pliosaur extinction so it would be co-existing with larger mosasaurs

[tranquil quartz]

A non avian dinosaur is a dinosaur that isn’t a bird

[tulip stream]

thanks it should have been obvious for me before

[keen forum]

the issue with that is that Megacephalosaurus and Brachauchenius and possibly another are around during the WIS after the big death of most of the pliosaurs. ( all 3 were about 7 - 9m animals )

Deino would get large possible 12m at the biggest but if it over lapped with tylo, tylo would be a bit larger at 15m+

[light osprey]

Yeah crown group birds would exclude everything except Neornithes which is only comprised of all the extant clades

[west coral]

why are chilantai and siats carcharodontosaurs

[quasi token]

tmk even the later pliosaurs are still cenomanian and turonian at best, while deino is campanian only, so no overlap

tylosaurus only got to around 14m~ with bunker from what i know but it's fairly similiar in weight to large gators

[tulip stream]

yeah the way I thought of avian dinosaurs was Birds, drameosaurs, troodontids, ornithomimids, oviraptorids

but Coelurosaurs fits more since thats what birds and those dinosaurs I listed are basically

[keen forum]

bunker can go from 14-15m and iirc they are a few larger specimens floating around as well that get larger but gotta wait on that one, and iirc a 12m deino is about 8-9tons a 14m tylo is about 10tons given the density that is used for the volume calc

[keen forum]

just current placement of them puts them around the neos

[fluid inlet]

Where does perucetus fit into all of this

[keen forum]

we ignore him

[quasi token]

weird early chonk whale

funny how the 2 giant basilosaurids are basically opposites of each other

[keen forum]

ones a noodle ones a damn orb

[light osprey]

Thus the neovenator must be a Megaraptor 🔥

[keen forum]

no, stop bad!!

[compact leaf]

apex predator is a term we kind of avoid in ecology, it isn’t actually useful as a descriptor of something’s niche and leaves out a lot of nuance

‘top order carnivore’ is more popular because apex implies that there’s a single carnivore sitting at the top, which can be the case but isn’t necessarily

[tough parcel]

I am the apex predator of the Cretaceous, but nice try though!

[compact leaf]

I’ve been had

[quasi token]

the mighty sachicasaurus: finally, a worthy opponent, our battle will be legendary! /j

[hardy sentinel]

Someone name a dinosaur group and I'll make fun of it

[fluid inlet]

Tyrannosaurids

[hardy sentinel]

Tyrannosaurids or Tyrannosauroids

[mellow prism]

...

[hardy sentinel]

What?

[fluid inlet]

All of em

[mellow prism]

... v2

[hardy sentinel]

I'm trying to find an image of Taylor swift to use as my answer. But the way I'm making fun of them is that they are overrated af

[fluid inlet]

Kanye west

[fossil ingot]

12m Deino is 8 ton yeah

[velvet burrow]

Elasmaria

[light osprey]

Tyrant lizard Mac Donald?

[tough parcel]

Proof that the McDonalds could kill T. rex??

[frigid delta]

what
no
wth
Rex is larger than Mcraeensis
how
why

[vapid lotus]

me when dentary

[tough parcel]

Me when average size

[vapid lotus]

yes, because dentary size in tyrannosaurus is very consistent

[sullen cairn]

Sadly at least half of skeletaly mature rexes are at least sue-sized larger (this is by far the most parsimonious conclusion)

[indigo cradle]

As much as rex annoys me, he's king for a reason

[fluid inlet]

def king of his time , other dinosaurs have reigned longer in their own generation.

[tough parcel]

I mean tbf

Bro was kinda hit with a meteor

[fluid inlet]

yeah still doesn't change the fact tho

[outer tusk]

hey guys.... nah

[sharp knot]

anyone know how long Pot rex is in comparison to actual rex?

[halcyon cobalt]

Doesn’t mcraensis have a sample size of 1

[warped peak]

With the power of the DevKit, I can confidently say I signed an NDA and thus cannot answer this question

[stiff osprey]

why are they embargoing the lengths of fictional game dinosaurs now 😭 get real

[sharp knot]

😒

[warped peak]

I think some of the values are on the KTO size sheet

[stiff osprey]

that rex looks about 13.5 m

[fluid inlet]

That’s a average size Rex in path of titans.

[sharp knot]

LMAO i knew pot rex was huge but damn

[fluid inlet]

Wait, Theres a Tarbosaurus mod out there?

[warped peak]

There's multiple planned

[outer tusk]

carcharodontosauria indet 👆 peak

[warped peak]

Beautiful

[fluid inlet]

Like a Rex on steroids

[lavish frigate]

I refuse to accept the validity of T. Mcraeensis until I get my beautiful baby boy bataar in the genus

[frigid delta]

how come this got called carcharodontosauria indet dawg
bro's a nothing but a single vertebrae

[halcyon cobalt]

because they can tell it’s a carcharodontosaurid but it’s not enough to determine its species?

I’m really confused by your question. do you want them to just call it “disembodied vertebrae” or something?

[tough parcel]

Call it trash and put it with the rest!!!

[frigid delta]

ahh yes

a single vertebrae
"let's classify this as a carcharodontosaur"

[halcyon cobalt]

a single vertebrae that resembles carcharodontosaur vertebrae
yeah man that looks like it would belong to a carcharodontosaur

[frigid delta]

i'm not mentioning to be rude, just confused
but what's it's difference between it and other theropod vertebrae???

[stiff osprey]

it could also be a megaraptoran vertebra

however as a megaraptoran it would be 10 times the size of other megaraptorans so we assume that this is not the case

[frigid delta]

ty for ur statement the creator of this carcharodontosaur indet skeletal

[honest cobalt]

In palaeontology, that’s all you need

[fluid inlet]

cook big bro

[halcyon cobalt]

I’m in the thick of it

[frigid delta]

i love paleontology

[steady rock]

what were the top 3 biggest creatures of the interior sea way?

[tulip stream]

Also I got a question about spinosaurus is there any new fossil data on it?

[wind prairie]

everybody knows

[steady rock]

how accurate is this?

[fluid inlet]

when will we getting a paper on this fella, i need to ready the 20 pages of information for this big guy.

[stable sun]

That particular specimen is 23 m using the shorter and chunkier Megalodon anyway

[stable sun]

Yeah Microraptor isn't an avialan

[stable sun]

Because they literally are Carcharodontosaurids

[stable sun]

No. No. No. Nononono.

[stable sun]

It's valid.

[fluid inlet]

Path of titans is about to change this

[stable sun]

i'm sure you could find far more unknown taxa

[round hedge]

Beeg saurolophus

[stable sun]

That's Barsboldia not Saurolophus

[round hedge]

Ik, but it looks like a bigger saurolophus, i mean, look at the speculative crest

I can read y'know

[round hedge]

Most images online show bars without a crest, but who knows, If anything it had a small bone crest like that of edmontosaurus regalis at most, but not a saurolophus-like crest

Further research is necessary

[short talon]

So is paleontology an actual like career for any of you?

Like does anyone here have an actual DEGREE?

Because that would be sick

I assume it’s a hobby/hyperfixation for most people

But I’m curious to know how many LICENSED paleontologists we have

[round hedge]

It would kinda confuse me as to how or why a paleontologist would enter an official server of a dinosaur video game

I mean, If someone tells them that it has a paleontology channel then they might enter the server, but still...

But there might be an actual paleontologist in here, we'll just probably never know

[outer tusk]

I mean there's nothing stoping from being in here since they can just inform us on topics that are widely public to most people

[sly viper]

Dinosaurs used their legs

[frosty cedar]

Mapu deserves more recognition tho fr.

[round hedge]

Many people think that giga hunted argentinosaurus in loose mobbing, but the actual dinosaur that hunted argentinosaurus was mapusaurus, at least planet dinosaur got it right

[frosty cedar]

Another reason mapu is peak.

[outer tusk]

Well to credit where credit is due, mapusaurus wasn't officially named until 2006 and then & now some lumped it with giganotosaurus due to the similarities

[sly viper]

What do you guys think dinosaurs tasted like?

[round hedge]

T.rex tastes like dry-aged chicken

[sly viper]

Allosaurus sandwich

[outer tusk]

I love how vague that question

Given that dinosaurs come in all shape in sizes

Some like smaller ones would probably taste good with larger one taste like straight ass

[round hedge]

Let's do the Impossible argentinosaurus Burger challange 💀

[sly viper]

"Bro they under cooked my argentinosaurus" - some mapusaurus

[round hedge]

NAAAAWH, bro's onto something

[frosty cedar]

I think triceratops tasted like overcooked, stiff beef.

[frosty cedar]

Medium rare argentinosaurus.

[sly viper]

"Its raw!" Gorgosaurus Ramsay I think

[frigid delta]

OH COME ON I JUST WANNA TYPE THAT SHI

[sly viper]

Hell creeks kitchen

[frigid delta]

starring Chef T. Rex
Baker Anky
Judge Trike
and last but not least
Griller Edmonto

[sly viper]

The other judges?

[frigid delta]

ur choice

[sly viper]

Well obviously one is gorgosaurus Ramsay

[frosty cedar]

WHO ARE YOU???
I'm an idiot sandwich.
SAY THAT AGAIN!!
I'm an idiot sandwich.

[frosty cedar]

Lmao.

[sly viper]

James acheroraptor and Michelle trilobite

[opaque kayak]

Why is meg so thick?

That thing looks way thicker then the previous size comp

[fossil ingot]

Tmk no
Weight remained almost the same, sure small changes but nothing significant, still like 100+t

[fossil ingot]

Shark

[fossil ingot]

Even if you wanna use the Longer Meg.
He is still quite chunk

[fossil ingot]

The one I posted is a better reference for the longer meg

[fossil ingot]

The 24m Lad here is still like, 100t+ iirc
Same specimen as the 100+ ton at 20m

[stable sun]

also there was a 60-65 t titanosaur that existed alongside Giganotosaurus

[frosty cedar]

120 tons maybe?

[fossil ingot]

Forgot the exact amount, thing is weight wise remained about the same for most specimens
Simply got longer
Ofc now a 20m Meg won't be as Heavy as a old 20m Meg but said Old 20m specimen is now 24m lol

[pliant cedar]

chatgpt tried

[stable sun]

no, 24 m is a different specimen based on a centrum

long Megalodon is only 0.5 m longer than short Megalodon, 16.4 m vs 15.9 m

[opaque kayak]

IIRC it's like 141 tons at 23 meters

[outer tusk]

it is

[opaque kayak]

Technically 24 meter one here is just a elongated GHC 6

[stable sun]

Then it's too long I'm pretty sure

24 m Megalodon specimen is based on a 23 cm wide centrum

[opaque kayak]

It is, evoin just stretched it out I have heard

So that one would be, like 28 meters if based on that 23 cm wide centrum

[stable sun]

lmao

[frosty cedar]

Meg bigger than blue whale when??

[pliant cedar]

meg is insane

[stable sun]

it was in fact bigger than a blue whale before blue whales evolved

[frosty cedar]

Is this physique attainable?

[opaque kayak]

unrealistic body standards

[pliant cedar]

sadly no

[frosty cedar]

Damn, that's unfortunate.

[round hedge]

Are You talking about patagotitan ?

[round hedge]

Peak big back physique, i actually do know somebody who has it

[tulip dove]

An unnamed giant sauropod

[outer tusk]

Patagotitan didn't live with giganotosaurus

[stable sun]

No, Patagotitan coexisted with Tyrannotitan not Giganotosaurus and it wasn't 65 t

[stable sun]

^

[rose thorn]

It’s crested so already it’s better

[keen forum]

i hate how big he is

[outer tusk]

omg it's so beautiful

[keen forum]

the power of brazil is scary

[outer tusk]

the power of brazil is so poweful I can't copy the image

[velvet burrow]

Allegedly because there's still like 15 million years between Patagotitan and Tyrannotitan iirc

[keen forum]

oh thats discord being odd don't worry i couldn't copy it either had to save it and drag it over

[opaque kayak]

We now need Megamapu

[outer tusk]

bro deadass bro discord just being digging in me yk

[keen forum]

discord hates us

[opaque kayak]

PVPH-108.145

[outer tusk]

missing a few letters

[opaque kayak]

Add

[outer tusk]

MCF-PVPH-108.145

[frosty cedar]

I have a feeling all of those exciting years of research are going to culminate in an explosion of controversy.

Well, that's spinosaurus, I can't expect anything less.

[tough parcel]

I feel like you missed the point of the image

[frosty cedar]

I didn't.

[tough parcel]

Then can you explain it to me

[pliant cedar]

spinosaurus was a eusocial animal that lived in colonies
will be a paper this year

if this does not come to pass i will win the lottery

[umbral kite]

do u think dinosaurus where smart enough to do this

[pliant cedar]

i mean
maybe

use of a stick is overkill considering a rex could probably just tip over an anky with its weight

[rancid dove]

How accurate is it in your opinion https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjXDFuSl8Mc

[outer tusk]

flipping is like impossible if isn't more than one rex

[frosty cedar]

It's that Ibrahim said multiple times that "__ year is going to be exciting for spinosaurus" yet nothing really happened or was published during those years.

[pliant cedar]

couldnt rex's bite pierce ankys osteoderms anyway

[frosty cedar]

Unless I missed something.

[outer tusk]

pretty much

[frosty cedar]

But the club tho. One good swing and no more ankles for rex.

[frosty cedar]

Well, doesn't it depend on how big an anky is?

If it's like a 10 ton tank of an ankylosaurus then obviously lol.

[stable sun]

Much less than that but there's still millions of years

[umbral kite]

what if the bite the handle of the tail like not the end but the part between it point and it. Body

[tough parcel]

Sadly, Anky was smallified a few months ago to like...5t max

[potent bobcat]

Has anyone mentioned that this year is going to be the 10 year anniversary of Brontosaurus being reinstated as a genus?

[stable sun]

true

[frosty cedar]

So this is no longer accurate? Damn.

[tough parcel]

Fadeno's skeletals in general have been found to be gigantically oversized

Except Smok which is like perfect?? Despite being an older/one of his first

[frosty cedar]

Is deinosuchus oversized too?

[tough parcel]

Yea lol significantly

[frosty cedar]

Is there the most up to date skeletal of the biggest deino?

Do you know any?

[tough parcel]

No because it's fragmentary as all hell and no-one cares about Deinosuchus enough to fix it yet

[stable sun]

it never was i'm pretty sure

[frosty cedar]

big sad

[frosty cedar]

Alright then.

[outer tusk]

just use anything that isn't big deinosuchus and you'll be sane again

[pliant cedar]

b-b-but its in ark.. 🥺

could utahraptor do a pushup, ignoring the anatomical lack of approrpriate forlimbs

[outer tusk]

ARK is mid, besides Paleo ark

[frosty cedar]

I lost my sanity a long time ago, permanently, I'm a spinosaurus enjoyer, after all.

[outer tusk]

true true

[hallow spear]

His baro is also fine i think, aside from 2 specimens being reclassified

[tough parcel]

Me when I buy you flowers

[tropic moth]

so I remember hearing something a while back (like I think early to mid 2024?) talking about how Microraptor would have actually been capable of powered flight
the study from what I heard looked at almost 350 species of birds and noticed a pattern in the wing feathers birds that can fly vs birds that cant mostly in their primary feathers, they then took this study looked at dinosaurs and found microraptors wings matched those of birds capable of powered flight
do we think this is gonna affect microraptors gameplay when it eventually releases? or is it just gonna get ignored?

I havent heard of any articles challenging the study either

[umbral kite]

guys if u had a baby trex would it try eating u if it was a teen

[fluid inlet]

You should ask the baby T. rex not me

[ripe walrus]

Guys looks like if our favorite megatheropod cant win against other megatheropods by someone opinion its an embarrassment of a megatheropod

[coral quail]

You guys hear about the dinosaur footprints they found in Britain?

[frosty cedar]

Bruh, we don't even know it's behaviour. Any behaviour of an extinct animal is speculative.
Let's just take a widely accepted weight of 7-8 tones for spino (it may weigh more than that, but not important now). 7 ton animal is still a 7 ton animal. It's size alone is a very much important factor.

It's very dubious that in this large area where it lived, filled with carnivores, it never fought back at all. Highly doubt it was a pushover.

[bright sluice]

What are your guyses favorite legend that was possibly inspired extinct by creatures our ancestors lived with?

[polar scroll]

rephrasing this since ppl prob didn´t get it:

What are yall´s fav legend that was possibly inspired by extinct creatures our ancestors lived with?

[tough parcel]

Dilophosaurus

[fluid inlet]

https://x.com/mantonpaleoart/status/1875153757107085482?s=46

Mauricio Anton (@MAntonPaleoart) on X

For #FossilFriday, our new paper on the facial reconstruction of Megantereon with @gemmula and @ManuelSalesa in @AnatRecord . Our analysis of available data suggests the sabres of Megantereon, unlike those of Homotherium, would have been visible in life. https://t.co/Z3MPdSTgjC

Twitter · Jan 3, 2025, 12:14 PM

[warped peak]

As someone who has a cat with long teeth, yeah that sounds about right

[zinc solstice]

Is the hole ontop of cephalaspis and other osteostacans head a second mouth or something else

[zealous ravine]

Some new arrivals, plus the whole X-Mas haul, minus one late arrival! @fluid inlet

[warped peak]

Question; What makes Caniforms so much better at standing bipedal than feliforms?

Bears, Mustelids, Dogs, Raccoons, Red Pandas all can stand upright for more prolonged periods of time than nearly any Feliform, with only Mongoose and relatives really able to stand upright much in the Feliform family

[stiff osprey]

plantigrady is probably the answer for most of those

canids are notably caniforms that are not good at standing bipedally, and they're also digitigrade

like, they're better at it than cats, but not bear level

[warped peak]

I see

Been looking into Amphicyonids and all that, and given how their overall setup and their family, it seems pretty reasonable they'd be able to rear up at least briefly, considering every single Caniform barring Pinnipeds can do that

Nowhere near bear level, but at least to an extent

We also apparently have a bunch of fossil track ways from them

Once again for modding stuff.

I'd love to give it a Threaten emote like an angry Red Panda, and a Looking emote like a Racoon

[west drum]

Hey guys remember that Prehistoric Planet is free on Apple TV this weekend only, so catch up (don’t beat me mods, but it’s the best paleo media you can get)

[fluid inlet]

Good stuff! I’ve seen the megaraptor and was curious about it myself. We got the same majungasaurus. I can’t wait to get the Brachiosaurus from Haolonggood I hope it really delivers.

[zealous ravine]

Noice! Me too, tho I'm not a huge fan of the Megaraptor's paint, and the weird dip in the snout makes it looks like a duck lol, so I may modify it a bit and repaint it.

[fluid inlet]

Haha, you’re more forgiving than me. If it isn’t up to my standards I will not purchase it at all. Reason I didn’t get the Alamosaurus from pnso which is a great model. You should check this out

https://lanatime-shop.com/products/jmy004?variant=44066558411002

[zealous ravine]

I love it, but out of scale for me. I may get this Maip however.

[fluid inlet]

That actually looks good, you do custom paint jobs on some of your dinosaurs ?

[zealous ravine]

Not yet, but I want to

[fluid inlet]

Saurophaganax is a real good model but basic paintwork

[zealous ravine]

I love the paint tbh, Maip is the first one I don't rlly like

[fluid inlet]

It has the same exact paint job as the baryonyx I have, but bary cost like 10$ less

[zealous ravine]

Ngl I don't like the bary. The skull is great, but the body just isn't a baryonyx body, they basically slapped it on a generic tetanuran body lol. I wish it was like the HLG Bary with the PNSO head

[fluid inlet]

The only issue I have is the claws don’t really stick out at all for the name it’s given. PNSO missed the ball with that one. Speaking of PNSO they dropped absolutely nothing for November and December. Like what is going on.

[steady rock]

how big could deinosuchus get?

[frigid delta]

man i think i'll miss ur blue dragon pfp 😔

[zealous ravine]

PNSO does a lot more than just make models, so prolly just busy with other projects

[fluid inlet]

I didn’t know that, what else do they do?

[frigid delta]

#paleontology message

[river plinth]

This thing confuses me

[regal cloak]

Is bruhathkayosaurus still valid? And what size estimates does it have?

(Important)

[fluid inlet]

Bruhathkayosaurus is material from a abelisaurid, the material from the sauropod is now nameless but it was indeed a huge sauropod.

[regal cloak]

Ok I was planning to use the sauropod part of it that’s sadly nameless for the whole indom 2.0 thing(don’t steal my idea😡😡😡) and this helps clarify, is it still gigantic?

[fluid inlet]

Yeah, still indeed humongous it’s just people don’t talk about it now because the material that we did have of it deteriorated and it was a while back.

[steady rock]

how did i get to this time period???

[frigid delta]

2023 dawg

[steady rock]

ik im so confused how i got there

[steady rock]

Is there any prehistoric gorillas?

[round hedge]

Jeez, sometimes i forget how big sucho really is

[round hedge]

Idk, i mean, gigantopithecus was closer related to orangutans rather than gorillas

[candid magnet]

I'd definitely use a gigantopithecus as long as I don't have to cross alot of water

[indigo cradle]

Peeps forget how huge sucho is

[halcyon cobalt]

my glorious tarbo sized king

[round hedge]

Some peole forget that it could weigh over 4 tons too
(Or at least i think so, some estimates even put larger specimens at a but over 5 tons)

[halcyon cobalt]

it’s like 5.3 tons iirc

[indigo cradle]

Definitely in the large therapod category

[fluid inlet]

The fact sucho and Sarco from the same era

[steady smelt]

Botm dilo looks soo good

[honest cobalt]

Sauropod names man. The bruh dino

[round hedge]

Fr

[halcyon cobalt]

is it true that marsupials have less developed brains and social tendencies compared to placental mammals?

[stiff osprey]

"Less developed" is a rough way to call it but marsupial brains are on average smaller

[outer tusk]

Kola quite literally are smooth brained

[heavy sage]

https://tenor.com/view/bloodcartier-gif-25860033

[velvet burrow]

How energetically demanding is green coloration?

Actually how demanding is blue and structural colors in general?

[stiff osprey]

Structural colors are not energetically demanding, however green requires both a structural component and a specific pigment (either carotenoid yellow or specific pigments unique to each bird family)

So you could have a giant sauropod that's blue, but not a green one. Unless it's a faded yellow-green like Nile crocodiles

[velvet burrow]

Understandable

[frigid delta]

Rex: Red
Spino: Blue
Giga: Green

[viscid surge]

What

[frigid delta]

a color headcanon for my take on the big three

[short river]

On the subject of colours, what colours could dinosaurs realistically be?

[viscid surge]

Probably a similar kind of colour range we see in modern animals

[stiff osprey]

Look at birds of prey and crocodylians, for various reasons those are the best comparisons for dinosaur color

at least carnivorous dinosaurs

[short river]

I see

Nothing too bright then, in most cases, but some nice combinations.

[frigid delta]

have y'all heard of this on twt?
https://x.com/NizarIbrahimPhD/status/1874204841956041151?t=2jrG3RrP3S1dVFzbqfhJBQ&s=19

Nizar Ibrahim, PhD (@NizarIbrahimPhD) on X

Is 2025 going to be an exciting year for Spinosaurus?
Yes

Twitter · Dec 31, 2024, 9:23 PM

[round hedge]

My favorite dinosaur...........finally a good year for my boi

(Not saying other years haven't been good for spino, but i am just glad that they're probably gonna find more fossils, If they haven't already)

Just hope they don't butcher him

[stiff osprey]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/542776901442338816/1324781856490651709/image.png?ex=677a0f7f&is=6778bdff&hm=ed7bfa0d06b7a1c3ec3179599a06860f8bc4326dab4db36f845db36ce6339848&

[round hedge]

Nah, da boi deserves it

[mellow prism]

spino overhyped

[frigid delta]

spino overrated nerf him more

[fossil ingot]

Nah
Look at thid guy, its interesting

[outer tusk]

no

[fossil ingot]

[indigo cradle]

Suchomimis is more interesting

[short river]

Spino just continously gets scammed. Last I heard it couldn't swim anymore (no, I don't follow paleo news)

[outer tusk]

It can swim

[short river]

Well that's good

[opaque kayak]

That was never suggested

It was about it being able to be semi-aquatic or not, which the authors believed would be difficult

[short river]

I don't read the studies, or I do so very rarely. The last thing I was told about spino was that it couldn't swim, which may have been a misinterpretation on the part of the person who told me

[outer tusk]

I hope they slept with their pillow warmed

[indigo cradle]

Thing with big croc tail couldn't swim 🤥

[round hedge]

You dropped an H that's supposed to replace the 2nd r

[outer tusk]

what

[indigo cradle]

He's claiming one of the most popular dinosaurs is overhated

[mellow prism]

mainstream and overhyped

[round hedge]

*ahem

Tyrannosaurus ?

[outer tusk]

this kid bruh

[indigo cradle]

Absolutely, but spino is a single butt hair behind
Sick and tired of hearing about it

[mellow prism]

and this mythical shroud of mystery lmao

[round hedge]

Kids are peolpe who think spino can beat other megatheropods

Acro can cook him
Tyrannotitan cooks him
Charcar cooks him
Giga cooks him
Tarbo cooks him
Rex cooks him beyond the concept of difficulty 🙏💀

Why do people think all spino fans think that spino is an 18 meter long killing machine ?