paleontology

[frail robin]

David Peters ahh reconstruction

[warped peak]

You just say that because you shrinkwrap

[obsidian tangle]

Or did teeth alignment vary between individuals perhaps?

[opaque kayak]

https://tenor.com/view/it's-just-so-peak-peak-panda-peak-panda-it's-just-so-peak-gif-10789048890486755182

[tender vapor]

What metri sub species is most Palo accurate? - Anyone can awnser

[warped peak]

The different metri subs are representing different animals

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/PliosaurDork/status/2039276201894903884

PliosaurDork (@PliosaurDork)

Manospondylus gigas vs Arthur morgan Riding the Bravest horse in Red Dead 2.

X · Apr 1, 2026, 9:38 AM

[tender vapor]

What animals

[hardy sentinel]

"Manospondylus gigas" bro just say T.rex 🥀

[coral forge]

Parkeri - Metriacanthosaurus, based on sinraptor
Latronemus - Yuanmouraptor
The other one - Yangchuanosaurus

[outer tusk]

knew it ( for Yunamo)

[balmy oyster]

New reconstruction for Carcharodontosaurus saharicus

[coral forge]

What's it based on

[balmy oyster]

normal

[light osprey]

I believe it’s based on C. saharicus

[coral forge]

the body not the skull

[orchid lynx]

bro skipped legday

[outer tusk]

there's no way, I feel there's a metriacanthosaur-crosscaling going on

[winter marsh]

bro skipped eating day

[tender vapor]

Thank you bro❤️

[runic rover]

i despise yang but the model do be looking rad af

[coral forge]

why hate yang

[runic rover]

because of PoT mod + PE Yang players actually deserving all the hatred in the world

[coral forge]

fair
haven't seen a yang on PE yet but they're insufferable in PoT

[runic rover]

they're insufferable in PE too, used to just break head constantly, so annoying

[outer tusk]

skill issue (as a yang fan)

[fossil ingot]

Enough for this

[sterile trail]

PE is Prior Extinction, right?

[ashen wedge]

Wait a second…. How are its hands bigger than its back limbs…. This doesn’t make any sense

[runic heart]

Bro 😭

[warped peak]

Because it's primarily quadrupedal

[ashen wedge]

You sure?

[warped peak]

Yep. How else could it move

[hardy sentinel]

It slid everywhere

[manic grail]

pretty sure it only used its legs as flippers

[opaque kayak]

Like this?

[manic grail]

something like that

[obsidian tangle]

lol a single arm bone

[ancient crystal]

Welcome to the wonderful world of wild extrapolation that is paleontology

[obsidian tangle]

At least it’s not as bad a troodon

[ancient crystal]

rip

[charred hearth]

Is it true if a animal evolved to loose something they can never evolve to get it back? That's why whales can't evolve to go back onto land?

[frail robin]

It greatly depends on what said animal has lost
For example, birds lost their teeth, yet today we can see plenty of bird species with teeth-like structures on their beaks
Tetrapods lost their swimming adaptations but have re-evolved them several times
Birds lack scales yet their feathers evolved into scale-like structures on their feet

[little mauve]

It's called Dollo's Law of Irreversibility. If homologous precursors are retained things like teeth can be "re-evolved" as demonstrated by genetically modified chicken embryos but in general yes if a complex structure like a limb is lost it cannot be re-evolved, the developmental pathways begin to break down and eventually the necessary genes decay and riddle with mutations becoming nonfunctional

[icy lagoon]

what is considered a "tribe" in classification i've noticed a lot of plants have them but animals dont

[arctic crane]

They found evidence that amarg did have spikes right?
It's been a while so I don't quite remember the details but they found evidence of tendons pushing the long spins forward from the tip that would happen if they had keratin sheath or something like that

[balmy oyster]

No

[arctic crane]

So it did have spikes?
Or we don't know?

[balmy oyster]

It had a double fleshy sail thing going on

[slow shell]

I bet that’s how they get females

[arctic crane]

Ooh ok. Sorry you confused me for a second lol
Thanks

[slow shell]

If they gave amarga a remodel on its tlc

[runic heart]

They still can. Tbh most creatures in game could do with a remodel, or at least retexturing.

The new ones just look so good.

[obsidian tangle]

It’s got me staring, i think your right

[slow shell]

[arctic crane]

Most of the playables that are getting a tlc could use a remodel
Stego, allo, amarg, meg, etc
More up to date dinos will be awesome

[steep atlas]

really excited for allo remodel

[icy lagoon]

^ and stego

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/Springmorb/status/2039730627793113320?s=20 thoughts on the accuracy?

Lesbian Springtrap (#1 Mutadon fan) (C0MM5 open!) (@Springmorb)

@PootisMcNootis These are all the other renders

Utah looks fine as always but dear God the other designs look... Eughh

X · Apr 2, 2026, 3:44 PM

[jagged trellis]

it looks ai generated texture wise bro i can't
they are about right yeah
utah good
rest abit
chugly

[charred hearth]

and the others?

[winter marsh]

why they all wrinkly like elephants

[outer tusk]

Ass, just like the movie

[charred hearth]

is it true ai was used in the creation of the dinosaur designs or is that misinfomation?

[runic rover]

Why do people hate the movie anyway? I thought it was fine!

[winter marsh]

the movie was fine, every post and video I saw said it was fine where the heck is this hate coming from

[outer tusk]

Misinformation? No this is a FULL ON FACT

[outer tusk]

The movie has an actor who is a "Palm Beach Pete" if you know what I mean

And the movie used AI for their concept "art"

[winter marsh]

I mean, they had the budget of a burrito and coke. Also, did they discover the palm beach pete later or before the movie?

[outer tusk]

Okay so here what you do

If you don't have the required budget you want, then don't make the movie or at least try to be a comic accurate

Also before the movie

[winter marsh]

oh welp there goes my second argument. At least the movie was enjoyable

[outer tusk]

Okay actually I couldn't find any backup unfortunately as of now regarding the palm beach Pete, but the movie is still ass

[winter marsh]

https://tenor.com/view/kurt-angle-stare-100-yard-stare-meme-gif-251436459491629941

so we are hating for the hate of the game

[charred hearth]

https://tenor.com/view/toxiqueney-mannequinney-quingifs-stan-twitter-pinkpantheress-gif-17686537358296396668

[obsidian tangle]

Why does the quetz design look so familiar? Is it ripped from the flying monsters doc?

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/TM9380/status/2039786242640875952 apparently its from this?

Taylor McCoy 🦖 (@TM9380)

@JALAKJIRA @ttt44378 PW also lowkey just ripped off this art…

X · Apr 2, 2026, 7:25 PM

[obsidian tangle]

I KNEW IT!

How did they not get copyrighted by universal for the blatant apatosaurus? Did they buy the assets or something?

[tough parcel]

Jeremy Piven had approximately 8 SA claims (charges?) against him before 2020, won’t say more because moderators but use the name

[winter marsh]

welp

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/TomHoltzPaleo/status/2039669091917590836 thoughts?

Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. 🦖💕 (he/him) (@TomHoltzPaleo)

ENHYDROSS: A New Mechanistic Model Supports the Trans‐Oceanic Dispersal Capability of Terrestrial Vertebrates - Pantelides - 2026 - Ecology and Evolution - Wiley Online Library https://t.co/wUuyp6unEs

X · Apr 2, 2026, 11:39 AM

[granite thicket]

It is way more robust so idk
Someone ask julian johnson mortimer on if he worked on this movie or not

[ashen wedge]

I can’t wait for Primitive War 2

[ancient crystal]

What is any of this that's being talked about?

[high dune]

I'm doing a dinosaur slide show!! Anyone want to suggest some I should research?

[wanton mist]

I might have a suggestion: Yingshanosaurus, a species of Jurassic Stegosaur from China.

[high dune]

Aye aye captain!!

[remote mauve]

Allosaurus

[wind prairie]

microraptor and apatosaurus

[hallow spear]

yes, probably

[rain galleon]

Therizinosaurus or either of the northronuchys

[manic grail]

king kong

[wind prairie]

I know it says mostly dinosaurs but are pterosaurs and marine reptiles allowed too?

[high dune]

Yesyess!!

[charred hearth]

someone translate this for me, caveman language https://x.com/AndrejSpiridon4/status/2039675974606868482

Andrej Spiridonov (@AndrejSpiridon4)

Interesting study on the biological mechanisms of geodispersal in dinosaurs:
"...hadrosaurs and titanosaurs could plausibly complete the journey, particularly under favorable conditions such as low sea levels, stepping-stone islands, and higher fat reserves"

X · Apr 2, 2026, 12:07 PM

[wind prairie]

pteranodon, anurognathus, rhamphorhynchus, quetzalcoatlus, temnodontosaurus, tylosaurus, pliosaurus, and styxosaurus
more dinosaur ideas: Hesperornis, muttaburrasaurus, nanotyrannus, centrosaurus, triceratops, psittacosaurus, stegouros, sauropelta, coelophysis, deinocheirus, baryonyx, dilophosaurus, aucasaurus, citipati, amargasaurus, iguanodon, edmontosaurus, concavenator

[balmy oyster]

Dino swim island to island or great swimmer, across water to other big land area

[charred hearth]

fi fih fo fum

[balmy oyster]

Sarcosuchus sells sauroniops skulls at the sauropod shack

[icy lagoon]

are there any better skeletons than this?

[tough parcel]

@hallow spear @stiff osprey please science your comm

[hallow spear]

Nope, not yet, it’s the best available

[stiff osprey]

there are not. the end

[balmy oyster]

Best stegosaur skeletal as of now, by the looks of it ungulatus might be able to get a updated skeletal before stenops

[icy lagoon]

how so?

[charred hearth]

how do dinosaur bones give people autism so they get dug and spoken about? why do they forsaken me in my dreams?

[balmy oyster]

Cus of Apex, which is currently being worked on, as it is believed to be a ungulatus specimen

[hallow spear]

Apex, rally road are both likely cf. ungulatus

[icy lagoon]

what distinguishes the two?

[hallow spear]

We don’t know atm, they are reported on as being ungulatus + the owners of rally road seem to imply it is

[icy lagoon]

how big is apex? has anything been described from it yet?

[hallow spear]

It has a humerus of 637mm but that’s all we know for sure

[icy lagoon]

how big does that scale using this?

[bleak rose]

That's funny

You could even say, humerous

[charred hearth]

https://tenor.com/view/tomato-throwing-tomatoes-tomato-girl-throwing-tomato-tomato-throwing-gif-24424784

[hallow spear]

Apex has differing proportions so what it scales to doesn’t matter tbh (but if it did, it’d be around 6.9-7.5m)

[charred hearth]

what stegosaurid helps us most with the understanding of the family would you say?

[icy lagoon]

so 7 meters is likely real? what is this cooldown

[hallow spear]

Apex will probably end up being around 6.6-7.2m from what I’ve measured

[icy lagoon]

I hope they describe it quick so pot can reference it for their tlc 🙁

is apex still a box? I know Sophie had crushed hips but the rib cage still seems pretty wide

[bleak rose]

Indeed

[hallow spear]

@stiff osprey would probably agree with me on this but they are all fricking azz and don’t help jack sht

[stiff osprey]

the dacentrurines are cool. otherwise huayangosauridae mogs

[charred hearth]

damn, so stegosaurids are the bums of the family that do nothing but are the famous ones?

[hallow spear]

Dacentrurine are abominations, huayangosaurids are little freaks

[stiff osprey]

and by huayangosauridae i mean huayangosaurus on its own mogs every non dacentrurine stegosaurid

[hallow spear]

Random can you scale Baiyinosaurus and see if the pinhead is real? Slrhvwk scaled it as such

[charred hearth]

does it out mog gigantospinosaurus

[balmy oyster]

ik there’s another stegosaur with a big shoulder spike that has a cool curved big plate, but I forgot the name

[stiff osprey]

i'm skeptical of baiyin's dentary being complete but in terms of the preserved bones it is scaled right

[hallow spear]

Loricatosaurus, Yingshanosaurus, Kentrosaurus, Gigantspinosaurus all have shoulder spikes, I assume you mean Lori

[bleak rose]

Hey folks, i have a random question: Yesterday i was reading a bit about cephalopod evolution and the like; and i discovered that there was this extinct species of palaeoctopodid octopus, Keuppia levante which has a very cool and distinct fossil:

[bleak rose]

What made my jaw drop is how this thing ain't some hard shell, like how it happens with ammonites or other nautiloids. This thing is a full-on body impression and i didn't know that was possible for an animal such as a cephalopod, an organism formed almost entirely by soft tissue.

So, do you guys know how can this happen? Because before this i thought soft tissue dissintegrated before being able to form a fossil, but it seems it ain't.

[stiff osprey]

I believe if the organism dies in an anoxic environment where no microorganisms are able to decompose it, and where currents are not strong enough to transport it, mineral deposition will happen faster than the soft tissues disappear, leaving these impressions

We also have dozens of examples of soft tissue found in animals with hard parts (dinosaurs, mammals, ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, etc)

[bleak rose]

This is coolios

Thank you Rand 👍

[hallow spear]

Indeed rand

[charred hearth]

stego, is there a alternate universe where you liked ceratopsids more then stegosaurids and was called trike?

https://x.com/CorporalRex/status/2039925009754579002/photo/1 also, did ceratopsians anatomy allow them to loaf?

Colonel Hammer🦍🦖 (@CorporalRex)

We need more Ceratopsian loafing, art from Dinosaur Sanctuary

X · Apr 3, 2026, 4:36 AM

[bleak rose]

That's a good question 🤔

Well, can any analogous big, quadrupedal, horned animals loaf?

Perhaps that could give us some insight even if their anatomies still differ in many things.

Maybe something like rhinos, with legs on the side and sometimes the front legs crossed.

[stiff osprey]

yeah folding the wrists under the body like that is...not going to happen but the rhino pose seems more plausible

[bleak rose]

Pseudo loaf?

[hallow spear]

Ironically I’m not called this because of my love for stego it’s because a very old profile pic I had was a stego rolling around another stego and people always called it derpy

[charred hearth]

oh.

[river plinth]

I just found out today that kamodo dragons use to be hunted by tiny humans

[river plinth]

Most ceratopians and ornithopods had a surprisingly good range of motion on there limbs I can see ether pulling this off

[river plinth]

Also this is extremely funny to me

[spice latch]

I approve

[ashen wedge]

Loaf?

[spice latch]

Yea what’s up

[ancient crystal]

This is usually something you see in low oxygen environments. Full body shark fossils are possible from what would've been anoxic sediments when the animal had been alive.

[obsidian tangle]

Ptycodus is a good example

[ashen wedge]

I don’t know what was meant by the term loaf for the ceratopsians

[ancient crystal]

To sit in a way where the legs are covered by the animal's torso, appearing as a loaf of bread might

[runic heart]

Also orodus. And there’s teeth to suggest these guys could grow massive.

[spice latch]

It’s when a cat tucks in its paws under them

[ashen wedge]

Oh, got it

[obsidian tangle]

Why the heck is orodus reconstructed like that here? Like why is the fin all the way up there?

[runic heart]

Full body fossil!!!

[obsidian tangle]

Ohh wierd

[opaque kayak]

Largest estimates for these are scary

[quasi token]

just curious but what's the maximum estimate based on?

[runic heart]

Teeth, but we have a full body fossil of it so it’s not as bad.

[ancient crystal]

Teeth can generally be used to estimate body length in sharks, at least more reliably so than similarly small structures in other animals can

A lot of my current research is on this topic

[quasi token]

just a lil surprised given how much bigger that thing is compared to essentially every other paleozoic animal

[bleak rose]

Wooow

[tender dove]

Don't worry, Megalodon wasn't like a great white shark because at its size, a body like that wouldn't be possible

[ancient crystal]

Megalodon wasn't even mentioned

[tender dove]

Megalodon is a species of Otodus

[spice latch]

It was a bull shark right…?

[outer tusk]

I don't think this is a bull shark

[spice latch]

I just can’t remember what shark it was related to, so what is it

[tulip dove]

They mentioned Orodus instead of Otodus

[quasi token]

modern lamanids (great whites, makos, etc)

[outer tusk]

O. megalodon is a lamniod/otodontid in the lamniformes order

[ancient crystal]

There's additionally no good reason to fully rule out some resemblance to white sharks considering their ecology and placement within lamniformes, but yeah, they weren't a 1:1

[manic grail]

its a shark

[ancient crystal]

Is a very reductive statement that I resent

Sharks can't be shoved into one broad definition of what they look like

[warped peak]

even friggin Parahelicoprion is dwarved

[opaque kayak]

jesus christ

Orodus is unreal

[runic heart]

Had no idea what it was either until a few months ago.

[warped peak]

It's also worth remembering Makima is small and makes it look extra big LMAO

[runic heart]

Still huge for a Carboniferous animal nonetheless

[orchid lynx]

does pentaceratops have 5 horns?

[manic grail]

no

[obsidian tangle]

Was orodus getting fat off of ammonites?

[balmy oyster]

If ptychodus was, then why not

[obsidian tangle]

I luv the big crumch sharks

[plucky harbor]

isn't megalodon related to mako sharks

[outer tusk]

no

[plucky harbor]

so what would be the closest modern relative

[outer tusk]

lamniformes as a whole

[sudden wind]

Epic

[sudden wind]

why the hell are the claspers so huge

[manic grail]

Mitsukurina owstoni

[frail robin]

@deft sigil animal gore

[deft sigil]

Thank you

@sudden wind Please do not post any photos of graphic, gore, or dead animals even if they are related to current paleo conversations and topics. Refer to our #rules and pinned channel guidelines

[obsidian tangle]

Because claspers need to huge in order to ensure the female is impregnated… no other reason

[sudden wind]

But they are not a lot of the time in many sharks.

[outer tusk]

https://tenor.com/view/hamster-grabbed-grab-hand-dark-gif-9326241848929200928

[manic grail]

arent fossils technically dead animals too🤓

[coral forge]

fossils are (usually) animal shaped rocks

[manic grail]

dead animal shaped rocks

[charred hearth]

now, goats are known to be able to survive headbutting much lager animals then themselves, such as cows, if a goat and a pachycephlo squared up to have a headbutting contest, who would likely walk away with less brain dmg?

[rain galleon]

is it just me or is the weakness of therizinosaurus claw great exaggerated?

[manic grail]

fossil evidence shows that if the wind was just slightly stronger than usual their claws would break instantly. it isnt exaggerated

it would be exaggerating if someone says they break when the wind is normal

[stiff osprey]

so true

[runic heart]

Why have claws that weak?

Or, fragile I guess.

[warped peak]

The Pachycephalo because its double the size

If they are the same size, the goat probably has an advantage. Relatively speaking, Pachycephalosaurs are not particularly well adapted for headbutting, head-on

[charred hearth]

arents cows double the size of goats?

[warped peak]

Cows aren't really built for headbutting tho, they're built for tussling

[light osprey]

Pachycephalosaurs are well adapted for headbutting

[charred hearth]

so are they or are they not

[warped peak]

When compared to other headbutters, they are NOT good at taking head to head collisions

They are worse than almost every Dinocephalian synapsid, with the exception of the least adapted Dinocephalian, when compared to the most adapted Pachycephalosaur

[charred hearth]

what are animals you considered headbutters? would deer and animals who use horns/antlers to spar count as headbutters?

[full lagoon]

So is the fossil evidence of the cranial damage thought to be from side-swiping?

[stiff osprey]

maybe the cranial damage came from a head on collision because they are bad at it

[full lagoon]

I mean if they did it that often then i'd think it would suggest otherwise

[warped peak]

Honestly, I would consider deer and moose more of "tusslers" than headbutters, because they're not straight up skull bashing

Ibex and rams? Yeah those are headbutting, even with horns.

[charred hearth]

https://tenor.com/view/briga-de-bode-cabra-capricórnio-gif-27172522

[ancient crystal]

My genuine reaction to one of the aquarium sandbars part of my study

[light osprey]

Worse in what way, these all have highly pachyostotic bone in the frontoparietal region

[warped peak]

Worse as in they can't physically withstand headbutting nearly as much as many other animals

I can dig up the paper from.last year for you addressing this

[light osprey]

Are you talking about woodruff and ackermans paper

[warped peak]

shrug I don't remember much on it

[light osprey]

Well to say they aren’t particularly well adapted to headbutting on its own is a very unfounded statement, they show the osteological convergence with other animals known to headbutt, they have the predictive pathologies and osteological trauma associated, their post crania show indications of derivation in order to suit headbutting.

[warped peak]

Hence me specifying "relatively speaking" for a specific type of headbutting behavior instead of generalizing that they were bad and not suited for headbutting at all

[light osprey]

It doesn’t make all that much sense, relatively to Caprines, they are convergent in some features that are associated with the headbutting. they would be described as showing many “particular” features associated with adapting to headbutting, so why would one describe them as not being particularly well adapted to headbutting.

[warped peak]

You missed the specification of head-on headbutting.

[balmy oyster]

Butthead

[charred hearth]

and

[light osprey]

Shifted vascular canal and drifting osteons in Pachycephalosaur domes show the mechanical load is concentrated at the dorsal apex of the dome, this also where post-traumatic lesions are found in the histologic section. I don’t see anything to indicate they weren’t smashing head on

[warped peak]

I'm not either, but many animals butt heads

Compared to the more extreme headbutters like rams and Dinocephalians, they've got a ways to go

[balmy oyster]

Swimming rodent.

[ionic linden]

bevis

[balmy oyster]

nutria

[azure girder]

Do yall think birds will evolve to have teeth again. Been kind of sitting on this thought for a min

[balmy oyster]

No

[charred hearth]

how about ceratopsians?

[ancient crystal]

Yes (I've only said this to be a contrarian to fishy)

[charred hearth]

their both gonna be the same size in this theroretical race

who would be faster?

a ostritch
or
a struthiomimus

[manic grail]

that one is faster

[warped peak]

Most are more tussle than headbutt. Large horns and frills prevent most forehead bashing

[charred hearth]

imma assume pachyrhino and achelo are headbutters?

[stark spade]

who evolved first
an ostrich or an animal that mimics ostriches?

[charred hearth]

struthi

[warped peak]

Probably? They seem somewhere in between

[true juniper]

I think ostriches because They are better adapted for speed due to the fact that they basically have no arms and no tails (compared to the struthiomimus) which Lightens their weight, and i think ostriches are more cursorial when comparing their CLP (cursorial lower limb proportion) scores to struthiomimus
But im definitely not an expert so take my word with maybe 2 grains of salt

Oh also i dont think the Lack of arms and tails in ostriches will really in this due to the fact that you said theyre gonna be the same size

[frigid delta]

thoughts?

[sudden wind]

Lmfao

[runic heart]

Is carcharodontosaurus’s skull rather short in height compared to other carchs? Or is that kinda just a trope that came from earlier skull reconstructions?

[spice latch]

https://tenor.com/view/jurassic-park-jurassic-park-3-roar-dinosaur-dino-gif-12569930466311195315

[outer tusk]

I don't think it was ever "short in height" at all from either recon

[ionic crescent]

Could be display as well, like a big casque

[runic heart]

I meant like with the skull being longer, and the nasal area tapering off more abruptly.

[outer tusk]

yeah kind of

[runic heart]

Interesting

[fossil ingot]

Peak Skull still tbh

And then there is this refered material of another specimen

[spice latch]

His chin so square

[icy island]

yea

[outer tusk]

yep

[manic grail]

thanks to its flexible tongue it kept its tongue on the roof of its mouth. A side effect of that is that it gave birth to the effect of mewing

[lofty furnace]

Is it possible that some dinosaurs that lived in snowy places like Yutyrannus sheded into a whiter coat at winter like some artic Animals (birds included) do today?

[full lagoon]

Scientifically confirmed behavior ✅

[bronze storm]

Is that like a megamouth shark what is that

[ancient crystal]

Not a shark at all actually, but a relative to helicoprion

[coral forge]

Is helicoprion not a shark?

[runic heart]

No

[scenic flame]

iirc it's a ratfish or closer to ratfish

[warped peak]

This is correct

[bronze storm]

Does it have a strange jaw like heli or is it akin to like a leed/filter feeder

[orchid lynx]

https://nltimes.nl/2026/04/02/worlds-first-lab-grown-t-rex-leather-handbag-unveiled-amsterdam-fetch-eu575000 100% t rex leather?

[normal fable]

They also made some magic beans

[warped peak]

More akin to Ptychodus, if that means anything to you

Shell crusher

[bronze storm]

God damn a crusher? What does it need to be that big for, what was it crushing to maintain damn near Kaiju size

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/KingFreak2002/status/2040322313787183393/photo/1 thoughts?

King Freak (@KingFreak2002)

Never forget your camera in the hotel when you go to the Congo.

Art belongs to Carlost1205
#cryptids #cryptozoology #emelantouka

X · Apr 4, 2026, 6:55 AM

[sudden wind]

Real

[manic grail]

no because dinosaurs are extinct

[charred hearth]

not in the congo

[manic grail]

oh right. the asteroid didnt hit congo thats right. the image looks real too. maybe if someone here is congonian they can help us out

[severe yew]

is being sold, shoul i for $5 k, or na ?

[manic grail]

buy a real car instead

[ancient crystal]

Not many good cars you can buy nowadays for 5k, but that amount of money for a diorama is also pretty unjustifiable

[manic grail]

ye true i meant save up some more and then

[spice latch]

YES YOU SHOULD.

-# I am heavily biased tho

[jagged trellis]

ima be 8 real
just get the lego one and swap out the rex for a nanmu rex
MAYBE buy an extra fence lining
same quality
vastly cheaper

that'd be like
under 350 bucks vs over 5k
for the same quality

[hardy sentinel]

As someone from Congo I can confirm that's just my dog

[sharp jackal]

hello

[severe yew]

ye, u right

[rain galleon]

you have a dinosaurus in for profile pic dude birds are dinosaurus

[manic grail]

i learned about the dinosaurs in congo so its no problem

[rain galleon]

other then birds?

[manic grail]

yes did u not see the picture

[manic grail]

@rain galleon look here

[rain galleon]

no i did not and sorry

[manic grail]

nothing to apologize i was just genuinely asking

[charred hearth]

thoughts?

[full lagoon]

As in physically keeping them inside? Very likely.

[icy lagoon]

trike loaf!

[vernal fable]

I love the Alan Grant on the side sm it's so cute 😭

[lavish frigate]

Yeah it’d work fine

[frosty cedar]

He is just like me fr.

[obsidian tangle]

Who’s a good boy? Who’s a good boy?

[full lagoon]

Bro I want to rub their belly

[charred hearth]

how large were sauropods herds? would they be comparable to that zebra herds? or would they be much smaller like elephant herds?

[frosty cedar]

I would say elephant herds. Doubt there were thousands of members in them.

[charred hearth]

im gonna assume hadrosaurs and ceratopsians were the ones with thousands of them?

[coral forge]

iirc the biggest ceratopsian bonebed was like 300 individuals, but hadrosaurs were definitely in the thousands

[charred hearth]

also, heres heres my own personally terms

hadrosaurs, ceratopsians, Thyreophora sauropods - herd
Therizinosauroidea, Ornithomimosauria - flock

https://x.com/Dexerto/status/2040764651349152152 thoughts?

Dexerto (@Dexerto)

Scientists say they've created a “T-Rex leather” handbag with a $660,000 starting price

The material was created using lab-grown collagen built from reconstructed T-Rex protein fragments

X · Apr 5, 2026, 12:13 PM

[runic heart]

We already know this is fake

[charred hearth]

so its just a scam?

[outer tusk]

is it not obivous?

[charred hearth]

you really think people would just lie for money?

[craggy trench]

That has to be rage bait cause yes people do that all the time lol

[coral forge]

yes.
some people would pay to lie

[spice latch]

https://tenor.com/view/principal-skinner-yes-seymour-skinner-the-simpsons-enthusiastic-yes-gif-15806751

[little mauve]

Interesting question that got me researching a bit. In many mammal groups EQ correlates with group size, though there are exceptions. This is the basis of the social brain theory. Larger groups = more complex relationships = more complex and larger brains. It holds true in primates at least. However research on birds found a negative correlation between EQ and group size, possibly owing to the higher cooperation in foraging reduced the individual cognitive load. The latter might be a better model for sauropods, ceratopsids, and thyreophoran sociality. It's possible ornithopods had more complex systems and larger herds as well.

[bleak rose]

That's fascinating!

Though i'm still kind of pensative. At least with sauropods, they were some of the biggest (if not the biggest) land animals that have walked on Earth. Given the size, a single one would probably require a lot of food to remain alive; now imagine several of them in a single forested area 🤔

That's a lot of mouths to feed a lot of stuff. So i'm not fully sure how they would, yk, eat without fully depleting their enviroment.

[little mauve]

Very true, perhaps their sociality changed with ontogeny and at their most massive sizes they were more solitary. Primary productivity was a good deal higher in many representative mesozoic faunas, that would help with larger herbivores. There's no doubt in many formations the sauropods are both the most diverse and the most numerous large animals, suggesting to me a fairly unique ecological dynamic

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC6099296/

[charred hearth]

how capable were the hell creek herbivores of eating the newly evolved grass that was in their formation?

[little mauve]

they would have had no problem feeding on and processing grass, it's kind of what grass is all about really

[rich vessel]

Huh, I thought just grass in general

[charred hearth]

what browsing level was every herbi in hell creek at? were edmonto's the high browsers or were they more low browsers?

[light osprey]

Their C13 and O18 isotope ratios are more similar to Sauropods so they likely are at the mid-high browse.

[charred hearth]

im gonna assume the ceratopsians + anky and denver were lower browsers?

[light osprey]

Yes

[charred hearth]

struthi, pachy and lepto were also low broswers?

[glass cypress]

does Someone has a list of the most important/notable rock-formations Eurhinosaurus was found in?

[steep atlas]

Their different jaw and mouth setups probably let them feed on different things

[jaunty hollow]

Hai

Can we play this game

[spice latch]

You just lost the game

[dreamy lance]

Hey @icy lagoon

Please note that we do not allow requesting or advertising commissions in this server.

We ask you to please direct your request to the artist's DMs.

[icy lagoon]

can you dm the message you deleted?

[balmy oyster]

Alternatively you could prob dm randomdinos

[icy lagoon]

it was a big message, I forgot what i said

[light osprey]

It will be forever lost to time

[balmy oyster]

Well you were requesting random a commission if he could do a silhouette for all the stegosaur subspecies

[orchid lynx]

what is the dinosaur in the "end of the oak street" movie trailer?

[balmy oyster]

Edgysaurus deathicus

[steep atlas]

Some theropod. Can't get a good look at it

[orchid lynx]

looks like giga for me from the head/mouth/teeth proportions ^^

[steep atlas]

Probably some allosauroid, yeah. Going off memory here

[orchid lynx]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L6Y08ZaFeQQ at 1:10 it could be a spino too lol

[steep atlas]

Eh to me it looks like that wedge shaped head we'd expect from stuff like allosaurus and giganotosaurus

[orchid lynx]

big allo maybe allo anax

[coral forge]

that is NOT spinosaurus
my guess is either "Edmarka" or some big ahh allosaurid

[orchid lynx]

is edmarka allosaurus anax?

[coral forge]

it has quite a megalosaurid looking snout imo

[orchid lynx]

truee! megalosaurus is related to giga or? ops it was mapusaurus

[coral forge]

sort of but not very close

[tough parcel]

It's Allosaurus, specifically the one from Battle at Big Rock

[coral forge]

Yeah, It does look a lot like the JW allosaurus
Was that confirmed?

[tough parcel]

It's the same VFX company lol + pretty sure the roster leak had Allo on it so

[balmy oyster]

Spino

[coral forge]

Fair
the shadow around the eye makes it look like it probably has some form of crest too

[coral forge]

Ehh
I think it looks more like the dominion one

[tough parcel]

They're literally the same one with different colors

[coral forge]

actually that screenshot makes it look like a giant Monolophosaurus lmao

[tough parcel]

What Monolophosaurus are you lookin at

[coral forge]

the one from battle at big rock has a much deeper skull

[runic heart]

I love how many people are justifying this and the Netflix allosaurus. It’s basically a stock design atp.

[tough parcel]

Idk but also that's a really bad screenshot from BaBR so maybe they modified it more than BaBR-Dominion

[orchid lynx]

what is that trike??

[tough parcel]

Nasutoceratops

[coral forge]

I think it resembles the dominion model

[outer tusk]

we need ONE more allosaurus to seal the deal, trust

[tough parcel]

Well maybe for the Therizinosaurus pee scene, we'll get a better model than JW:Dominion Theri

I hope!

[coral forge]

what 💔
if you wanna give them a good theri model, mabye you should make that bald theri you promised months ago

[tough parcel]

Some promo material for the movie had a Spinosaurus breaking through a house and a Theri peeing on one

I can only assume it's gonna be "I'm marking my territory, protagonists disturb me, I chase them" type of scene but 🥀

Also I could but that's effort !!!

[coral forge]

istg if we get another hyper aggressive therizinosaurus

[orchid lynx]

his skull looks completely different from the picture^^ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasutoceratops

[coral forge]

Not really
It just has longer horns and is slightly longer, which is a normal amount of stylisation for jurassic world

[steep atlas]

Jurassic World has never hit the mark for anatomy

[balmy oyster]

This is because Jurassic World is terrible with dinosaur anatomy

[fossil ingot]

Dominion Allo and BABR Allo are the same female individual

[frosty cedar]

Damn, I didn't think they would straight up use JP/JW models lol.

Then again Meg did that with the flashback, but this movie shouldn't be a good example.

[fossil ingot]

Only difference is that the BABR is kinda "starving"
While Dominion is Healthy

[fossil ingot]

Skull didn't change

The End if Oak Street Allo looks like a slightly Modified BABR/JWD Allo(same Exact Allo and same Model btw)

[obsidian tangle]

Or they don’t care about what species it’s supposed to be and just made up a generic theropod to terrorize the humans

[crisp matrix]

Posidonienschiefer Formation and Jurensismergel Formation. I don't know if the localities in England have official formation names... everyone just refers to the area.

[obsidian tangle]

Whats a moschops?

[charred hearth]

what colors were dinosaurs able to see? would it be more similar to reptiles or birds?

[runic heart]

How much moss must a moschops chop if a moschops must chop moss?

[hazy basalt]

Both birds and crocodiles have full color vision and with dinosaurs being archosaurs as well there is good reason to believe they had full color vision too.

[compact leaf]

reptiles as a whole have pretty excellent color vision

[manic grail]

non avian dinosaurs dont see colours

[charred hearth]

oh

[tough parcel]

This is because they’re dead

[charred hearth]

revive them then

[spice latch]

They still wouldn’t see color because they’d just be walking skeletons

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/euyartoa21/status/2040864209852825703

Kelenkenfan32 (@euyartoa21)

What do you prefer for macrauchenia? Moose like prehensile lip or tapir like proboscis

X · Apr 5, 2026, 6:48 PM

[tender dove]

I prefer what I saw in Walking With Beasts

[wind prairie]

not really about what you "prefer" the moose lip is more accurate

[ancient crystal]

No silly, accuracy is subjective and all paleontologists do is make baseless guesses, everyone knows this

[sudden wind]

Even more chondrichthyes paleontologists, they only have teeth to work with!

[ancient crystal]

How dare you turn my joke around on me

[obsidian tangle]

Has anyone noticed the similarities between the overhanging upper lip of a moose and edmontosaurus’s overhanging upper beak? Perhaps they occupied similar niches?

[steep atlas]

Similar how?

[obsidian tangle]

Oh, shoot I guess they’re not that similar at all nvm

[steep atlas]

A rigid beak would have been used differently than a flexible lip. The beak itself would be used to crop vegetation whereas a moose's lip could be used to manipulate and grip vegetation

[steep atlas]

Its rhamphotheca would overhang the bottom jaw and had ridges. Good for cropping vegetation

[obsidian tangle]

Ohhhh that’s the one, not edmontosaurus

It’s cool to imagine a lone bull edmontosaurus or shantungosaurus though, all the tyrannosaurus are scared to hunt him

[steep atlas]

This is Edmontosaurus. Just most skulls don't preserve the rhamphotheca, being keratinous tissue

[steep atlas]

To be totally honest, I don't think adult large tyrannosaurids would struggle to hunt them. He'd be pretty vulnerable alone

[obsidian tangle]

That’s true but still fun to think about

[ancient crystal]

https://tenor.com/view/peter-griffin-gif-17217568857505825610

[steep atlas]

Mild overreaction

[polar lagoon]

Aren't JP and JW dinos over exaggerated?

[ancient crystal]

In what manner?

[steep atlas]

Well they tend to undersell the abilities of herbivores and of T rex. T rex is basically the Jurassic series Worf

[obsidian tangle]

They’re stuck decades behind in depiction

[polar lagoon]

So not accurate. Cause im pretty sure the Raptors are Utahs ir Dakotas

[steep atlas]

Yep. They seem to have given T rex a pretty weak bite, should be breaking necks a lot more often.

[steep atlas]

The raptors are based on Deinonychus but the design simply took creative liberties esp for the skull shape.

[polar lagoon]

How big was Deinonycus?

[tough parcel]

It's a lil annoying that the JP Raptors were ret-conned by the fans into being Utahraptor or "Dakotaraptor" when Utahraptor was described a year or so after Jurassic Park released

So unless the writers/designers were clairvoyant, they're Deinonychus

[steep atlas]

They're notably smaller than Utahraptor too

[steep atlas]

Pretty big

[polar lagoon]

Little did they know Velociraptor was the size of your average turkey

[polar lagoon]

So if they were alive I could keep one?

[steep atlas]

I mean, if you can keep a mountain lion sure

[obsidian tangle]

Perhaps? If you can keep a desert fox?

[tough parcel]

I think a desert fox is a little smaller than a Deinon

[steep atlas]

I think deinonychus is more dangerous than any fox lol

[polar lagoon]

I mean they are birds. Bird imprint on thier owners like snakes not like dogs or cats

[obsidian tangle]

Oh I thought he was talking about velociraptor lol

[polar lagoon]

Velo is just a turkey. Enough to feed a family on Thanksgiving

[steep atlas]

Maybe so. Still a very large, powerful animal with a lot of weapons on it. Only takes one incident to kill you

[tough parcel]

What if I deploy the Velociraptor on your face

[polar lagoon]

I'll risk it. If it knows me then good. Now a Rex would be impossible to keep. Even an Allo or Acro

[obsidian tangle]

I read everything you type with the mauler twins voice

[steep atlas]

Maybe they were actually solitary so they couldn't bond with you. Hard to say

[polar lagoon]

Didn't a Rex hunt in packs? Like Allosaurus?

[obsidian tangle]

Does a grizzly hunt in packs?

[steep atlas]

Also yeah once we get much past a few hundred lbs, they quickly become impossible to keep for something short of a zoo

[polar lagoon]

Unless she's feeding her Cubs

[steep atlas]

No evidence for it. Only limited evidence that Allosaurus would have grouped in any way, much less a pack

[obsidian tangle]

I think Rex was a solitary hunter

[polar lagoon]

So a modern day JP or JW won't work like ever.

[obsidian tangle]

Oh heck no

[steep atlas]

It could work if you had the funds to build a zoo-grade enclosure. I meant privately owned as pets

[polar lagoon]

Ok now I know if ur gonna keep a dino as a pet if its a Carnivore then a Velo and Deinon are the best options. But herbivores? Cause imagine someone having a Diplo

[obsidian tangle]

Psittaco could work nicely and there’s even smaller herbivorous Dino’s that would make good pets I’m sure

[steep atlas]

Probably a small ornithischian would be fine. Honestly Deinonychus is too dangerous, would be like keeping a big cat. Something like compsognathus would be better

[tulip dove]

If you were to keep a herbivorous dinosaur as a pet you'd prob want something that doesn't need hundreds of kilos worth of food every day, one that can't maul you or destroy stuff by just moving around

[steep atlas]

Aquilops, nanosaurus, heterodontosaurus, small pachycephalosaurs like stegoceras

[polar lagoon]

Well a Velo is kinda reasonable. A Carno or Dilo is asking for death on it's owner

[obsidian tangle]

This little guy would make a good pet

[steep atlas]

Velo would even be pretty dangerous. Like a coyote

[tulip dove]

Anything that is pushing 100+ kilograms and more is a really bad idea
Even animals that weight half as much would still be a high risk

[polar lagoon]

A Coyote is close to a dog if u train it and domesticate it right.

[steep atlas]

For predatory dinosaurs, even 50 lbs is pushing it

[obsidian tangle]

I’m starting to worry about your pet decisions

[coral forge]

there are dogs that almost reach that size, and people can have pets ranging in the hundreds of kilos like horses, so a 100kg pet wouldnt really be an issue for most people

[steep atlas]

Herbivores of a few hundred kg would likely be doable if you have land

[polar lagoon]

Dog food is like 44 to 50 lbs so a carnivore that wont ask for food, but will do it daily will work. A Herra isn't close. Compy would be like a Chihuahua

[undone rapids]

Size isn't all that matters, a big dog sized cat like say a serval or a lynx isn't gonna be a great pet. Same could be the case for carni dinos.

[steep atlas]

Most likely. I cannot imagine most of them would be very friendly or trainable

[tough parcel]

I think what's also a big unknown is the sociality of these carnivorous dinosaurs

As Doctor said, there's a chance that some of these may have been solitary or otherwise less sociable than dogs, something that poses a problem when keeping abnormally large cats

[coral forge]

Depends on the person. Some people can care for panthers and 60kg+ dogs no problem, but others can't

[steep atlas]

And dogs can hurt you pretty bad anyway. Theropods would be worse with their claws and razorblade teeth. Plus probably a nasty attitude like many birds and reptiles

[polar lagoon]

Just keep an Oviraptor. It ate eggs

[undone rapids]

That's still taming an animal, not domesticating it which would occur over many generations. And is very very hard

[tulip dove]

Still not really recommended if you don't have the space or experience in keeping said animals

[undone rapids]

Abelisaurs would be very friendly ofcourse, Drmeosaurs were very stinky credible sources have told me

[steep atlas]

Velociraptor would probably be the max size most people could handle

[polar lagoon]

Not me saying as I keep a Edmontosaurus heavy cow in my back yard

[tough parcel]

I don't think anyone's keeping a 5 ton cow

[undone rapids]

The Elephant in the room disagrees

[steep atlas]

Basically like having a pet elephant lol

[polar lagoon]

And the latenivenatrix is to big. Like Utah or Dakota

[steep atlas]

Yeah it would straight up kill you. Like Deinonychus

[tough parcel]

Ignoring the self plug but

Just as an FYI, the TMP specimen is what Laten was named with but it was later lumped into Stenon

[polar lagoon]

Thats a handful to spell.

[undone rapids]

What if instead of dinos, we all keep small notosuchians. Pakasuchus!!!

[polar lagoon]

So then a Celo, Compy, Velo would be the only reasonable carnivores?

[steep atlas]

Other guys in that size range too. Microraptor would be cool

[polar lagoon]

Herbivores the biggest you can do is like a cow or a horse. Like anky. I forgot microraptor to

[coral forge]

lambeosaurs were cute, cuddly and social like their name suggests

[undone rapids]

There's other small carnivores too, Noasaurs, Ornithis, etc

[steep atlas]

Anky is huge. Stick to smaller mid sized dudes

[polar lagoon]

Give me a Galli

[tough parcel]

I could see Anky being one of those things that rich farmers buy cause they got billions of acres of land and money

[undone rapids]

Small Alverasaurs might be interesting.

[steep atlas]

Galli is huge, bigger than an ostrich

[coral forge]

"Biggest you can do is like a cow or a horse"
proceeds to use an elephant sized animal as an example

[polar lagoon]

Ok then a small ceratopsid. Not one of the big ones

[coral forge]

Like Turanoceratops or smth?

[undone rapids]

The european ceratopsians so far are quite small iirc

[polar lagoon]

That works

[steep atlas]

Protoceratops, leptoceratops, etc would be fine. I bet they could take a finger off with the bite though

[spice latch]

I’ve got a lil question…

I’ve only ever seen feathered theropods, but is it possible for others to have feathers? Such as ceratopsians, sauropods, stuff like that

[coral forge]

I feel like a finger is an understatement ngl

[steep atlas]

Very early members of each branch likely did. It appears the sauropod and ornithichian lines lost the fuzz early on

[coral forge]

Some small ceratopsians had quills, but not full on feathers, and Pachyrhinosaurus perotorum was proposed to be fluffy but idk how accurate that is now
Also that new ornithischian

[polar lagoon]

Theropods did

[undone rapids]

Don't think we have evidence of such but its possible, recently there was a small hadrosaur from yutyrannus' formation with very unique quil like structures

[spice latch]

I’m talking mainly about ANY dinosaur that isn’t walking around on 2 legs

[steep atlas]

Yeah lol, probably a hand.

Y'all, remember Kulindadromeus had featherlike down. It's most parsimonious to assume they are related to theropod feathers

[tough parcel]

It was never proposed to be fuzzy in any professional capacity TMK

It was just "Psittacosaurus had quills and it lived in a relatively cold environment so obviously it had feathers" logic from people like you and me

[coral forge]

Haolong might be quadrapedal? I can't fully remember
But then again the stuff on Haolong wasnt proper feathers iirc

[steep atlas]

Haolong's spines are structurally unrelated to feathers

[coral forge]

yeah, but theyre still a feather-like structure aren't they
Like something covering the body that isnt scales

[spice latch]

It’s also on 2 legs so not quite what I’m looking for ;-;

[steep atlas]

Not really. They appear to be a totally unique structure unrelated to feathers

[coral forge]

I'm not saying theyre related to feathers

[tough parcel]

Don't think there's any quadrupedal dinosaur w/ evidence of feathers

Probably because the quadrupeds tend to be over 5 tons or in warm climates

[steep atlas]

Well they are not very similar to feathers superficially either

[spice latch]

Medic tf2 arguing with a lambeosaurus… interesting

@tough parcel oh ;-;

[coral forge]

Feathered lognkosaurs, trust

[steep atlas]

By the time the 2 clades got to be quadrupeds, it's likely they already lost the ancestral feathery coats. Could be proven wrong one day though

[tough parcel]

We also have scale impressions from Pachyrhino specifically indicating no feather coverage or, if there was any, it'd be sparse

[undone rapids]

This means all Giant Therizinosaurs and Deinocherius must be stripped of their feathered privilages

If you put more than 5 quils on a ceratopsian, the world will end

[spice latch]

…how many quills could I put on a ceratopsian

[tough parcel]

4.9

[spice latch]

Let’s say I did smthn like a porcupine, would that work?

[coral forge]

That's way too conservative. I'd go with 4.10

[tough parcel]

One day soon, I might finish my naked Theri drawing but Deinocheirus will be mostly feathered cause good God, are those arms tiny

[spice latch]

-# wdym tiny

[polar lagoon]

Dinos were birds so they had fur or feathers of some sort

[coral forge]

Make Deinocheirus bald except for having a peacock level tail fan because obviously it had a pygostyle meaning its tail was fully coated in thick feathering

[undone rapids]

Theri is just a different beast, arm wise

[undone rapids]

With the Sole Exception of Abelisaurs, they were so peak they didn't need such flimsy integument

[steep atlas]

Fur is mammals only. Feathers appear to be ancestral to dinosaurs but the herbivorous groups quickly lost them. Also, birds are dinosaurs, not the other way around

[coral forge]

I wanna remake my nemegt formation size chart again ngl
I feel like the last 2 were too clustered

[tough parcel]

The muscle attachments in the upper arm area were kinda rinky dinky

[night carbon]

hi

[polar lagoon]

Rex had feathers

[undone rapids]

Probably

[steep atlas]

I like the hypothesis they were for raking and scooping aquatic vegetation

[coral forge]

deinocheirus had skinny arms?

[steep atlas]

Might have, but they were likely thin and sparse on adults

[tough parcel]

Sorta, obviously they'd probably cleave a human in half but from an eyeball and memory standpoint, the arms aren't as robust as similarly sized theropods such as the Theri you see there

Thankfully all we have of Theri is the arms so I can make that comparison!

[coral forge]

So no epic arm wrestling match between Deinocheirus and Spinosaurus?

[tough parcel]

I mean I don't see why not but it'd be unfair as the Spinus had no arms (none are preserved so it was armless in life)

[spice latch]

Yes I know what this fella looks like I’m just asking about speculation

[polar lagoon]

Either way we eat them now

[ashen wedge]

Guys, what’s the status of Raptor Rex?

[polar lagoon]

The carno would lose in arm wrestling easily. Not even a chance to win.

[steep atlas]

Hard to eat something that died 66 million years ago. If you like rocks though I won't judge

[ashen wedge]

What if it was against another Carno?

[spice latch]

I’m like a sauropod I need them to help digest

[polar lagoon]

They're birds now is what im saying. And Carno vs Carno? They'll but heads

[steep atlas]

Nah, T rex did not evolve into birds. Birds were just another type of dinosaur alongside them that happened to survive

[steep atlas]

Maybe you should see a doctor about that!

[polar lagoon]

Giga vs Mega arm wrestling match. Giga wins

[coral forge]

mega what

[spice latch]

-# I want you to look at both our names rq… I’ll be fine trust

[polar lagoon]

Megalosaurus

We should name our top 5 favorite Carnivores and same with Herbivores. We don't and won't judge

[coral forge]

Herbivores:

• Lambeosaurus lambei
• Lambeosaurus magnicristatus
• Lambeosaurus clavinitialis
• "Lambeosaurus laticaudus"
• "Lambeosaurus" paucidens
  Carnivores:
• "Hadrosaurus" tripos
• Nanotyrannus lethaeus
  uhh idk what else

[steep atlas]

Well you can't see yourself, that's against the rules

[spice latch]

Oh yea good point-

[steep atlas]

Tyrannosaurus
Daspletosaurus
Deinonychus
Acrocanthosaurus
Ceratosaurus

Triceratops
Styracosaurus
Deinocheirus
Iguanodon
Alamosaurus

[steep atlas]

Average lambeosaurus fan

[polar lagoon]

Carnivores

1. Tyrannosaurs Rex
2. Allosaurus
3. Deinonycus
4. Carnotarus
5. Dilophosaurus

Herbivores

1. Triceratops
2. Diplodocus
3. Edmontosaurus
4. Parasaurolophus
5. Iguanadon

[coral forge]

Me? Like Lambeosaurus? Never

bro has like 27 favourites

[polar lagoon]

Lambeosaurus was a snack to my Rex

[steep atlas]

It's hard to choose man

[coral forge]

Lambeosaurus laughed at the taxonomic messes that are Allosaurus and Triceratops

[steep atlas]

Do I have to choose only 1 for each slot..?

[frigid drum]

How accurate is deinon ingame? The tail looks abit skinny and the pubis bone is very pronounced imo

[polar lagoon]

It's a bit smaller well thats cause im playing it on my phone i mainly play as Deinonycus

[frigid drum]

That didnt really answer my question

[steep atlas]

It is too small I think

[frigid drum]

So the model itself is perfectly accurate, but its size is alittle small?

[polar lagoon]

Like its accurate for the way it looks but the size is small compared to Lat

[frigid drum]

Ohh yh I get it

[polar lagoon]

It should be like almost the size of Lat just a tad smaller but yeah almost should be the side of Lat. Utah and Dakota were higher then Lat. A velo should be smaller then Deinonycus

[frigid drum]

I think matt showed deinon's size comparison to a human, And it looked abt right. but yea I agree that it looks puny compared to laten

[polar lagoon]

Yeah cause thats how it was game doesn't do it justice. But it is faster and accurate in speed compared to Lat

[warped peak]

Which is funny because Laten is built to be the faster one

[polar lagoon]

Right

[still prairie]

Deinon and laten would more accurately be like a wolverine and a cheetah comparitively but hey it is what it is

[polar lagoon]

And Velo would be the honey badger.

And Rapors now arw the closest to Raptors of old. Makes me wanna make a Hawk or Falcon my pet now

[glass cypress]

I wanna play too!
Carnivores:
Neovenator
Dracovenator
Giganotosaurus
Gorgosaurus
Dromaeosaurus

Herbivores:
Einiosaurus
Iguanodon
chungkingosaurus
Plateosaurus
Stegoceras

[fossil ingot]

Herbi

1. Torosaurus
2. Tarchia
3. Parasaurolophus
4. Kentrosaurus
5. Styracosaurus

Carni

1. Spinosaurus
2. Gorgosaurus
3. Tarbosaurus
4. Allosaurus
5. Tyrannotitan

[runic heart]

Literally don’t have any favorites. They are all cool.

[polar lagoon]

It doesn't have to be from game

[steep atlas]

Tarbosaurus mentioned 🗣️

[polar lagoon]

God how Tarbo roared in JWE 2 and 3 i muted it

[steep atlas]

Never heard it in those games lol

[still prairie]

Carnivores

• Maip
• Allosaurus(Fragilis specifically)
• Dracovenator
• Suchomimus
• Monolophosaurus

Herbivores

• Nothronychus
• Augustynolophus
• Diabloceratops
• Kentrosaurus
• Massospondylus

[warped peak]

Carnivores

• Pseudocyon
• Paraentelodon
• Prionosuchus
• Pontolis
• Proborhyaena

Herbivores

• Paleoparadoxia
• Zygolophodon
• Eobasileus
• Megalara
• Alierasaurus

[tough parcel]

Judges you

[warped peak]

You dare judge Alierasaurus

Alierasaurus is the most holy being of all prehistory

[glass cypress]

i am not big on mamals, but from what i recognize its alot of good choices

[warped peak]

It's okay, you're allowed to be wrong ❤️
there's much more to prehistory than dinosaurs

[craggy trench]

mammals? in my paleontology channel
its more likely than you think

[warped peak]

Alierasaurus takes no prisoners

[craggy trench]

fat

[warped peak]

fat.

[craggy trench]

wide load even
built like a hamburger

[coral forge]

Back to front is Patagotitan, Shonisaurus, Giraffatitan, Sachicasaurus, Alierasaurus

[warped peak]

Can we take a moment to appreciate a terrestrial animal as fat as Sachi of all things

[coral forge]

Bros like 1.5 meters at the highest point but is the same weight as an elephant

[kindred night]

I can't tell if they royally added too much to the neck or if the shoulder girdle is way too far forward and angled wrong.

[warped peak]

Got any suggestions for fixing it? It's not mine but I'd love to know the issues

[ionic crescent]

Probably this he means, is missing some neck (I could be wrong)

[kindred night]

I'd even scoot the shoulder girdle back from that one based on how it's in articulation with Gordodon and the AMNH Coty

[ionic crescent]

A tad more from the sent diagram (the one I sent I mean), even? Just taking notes

[polar lagoon]

Bro y is it fat

[jagged trellis]

to c o n s u m e all the better

[warped peak]

then why head so smol

It's a neckless sauropod

[polar lagoon]

Thats the Kirby of the dino world

[jagged trellis]

because he didn't go to the library

[split frigate]

28.7 Metric Tons or 31.636 Us Tons yeah this dude's a beast if they add a Pliosaur based on this guy,Tylo Players will be having serious competition.

[tough parcel]

Cool, very nice

Now let's see the paper and material

[runic heart]

In terms of gameplay, what would be a good aquatic to add aside from the current roster?

[split frigate]

The material is VERY fragmentary but it's still massive,Using low ends it's still 13.4 Metric Tons

[tough parcel]

Honestly should've stopped at "The material is VERY fragmentary"

So let's see the measurements and material then, I think the only time a fragmentary animal has retained its size upon public scrutiny is T. rex

[split frigate]

K lemme find em

[balmy oyster]

How fragmentery are we talking….

[sudden wind]

I dare because it was an easy joke!

[tough parcel]

It says "four exceptionally large, near-platycoelous cervical vertebrae" but considering the track record of allegedly large marine reptiles, I have little to no hope

[sudden wind]

Carnivores:

• killer whales
• slender snouted crocodile
• perentie lizard
• great grey shrike
• mako shark

Herbivores :

• orangutan
• dugong
• parrot fish
• pigeons
• treehoppers

[coral forge]

how skinny would a 14.4 meter Pliosaurus have to be to weigh less than 40 tons

[tough parcel]

I think the real question is does the material actually corroborate such an animal

[coral forge]

I highly doubt it

[tough parcel]

Considering the almost 30 minute silence...

Though I also thought it was longer than that so

[coral forge]

Place your bets! Is it gonna be based on:

1. Scalebars
2. Nothing
3. Actual measurements but grossly misscaled

[polar lagoon]

https://tenor.com/view/velociraptor-deinonychus-prehistoric-planet-raptor-gif-25448075

[coral forge]

ok its real, but they just used the absolute largest size possible

They are noteworthy for their size, with a maximum width of 269 mm, maximum height of 222 mm and maximum length of 103 mm. Simple scaling and comparisons with cervical vertebrae of Mid Jurassic pliosaurs Peloneustes and Liopleurodon, and the Early Cretaceous Stenorhynchosaurus and Sachicasaurus suggest a total body length of between ~ 9.8 m and 14.4 m for the Abingdon Kimmeridge Clay pliosaur. Likely the true length was towards the higher end of this range.

[tough parcel]

Where is this from?

[coral forge]

Abstract from a 2023 paper
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pgeola.2023.04.005
Can't read the whole thing rn

Literally the only paper mentioning the specimen

[tough parcel]

Yea like, it's objectively a large animal but comparing the measurements to Sachicasaurus shows it's not some sort of god-killer

Hell, I'd say it's within the size range of Sachica which is still big but TMK, not pushing 30 tons

[coral forge]

Too lazy to scale myself, but using the lengths given in the abstract, it would range from 13.3t scaled to a 9.8m Pliosaurus, to 44.4t scaled to a 14.4m Sachicasaurus lmao

[stiff osprey]

Oh look it's that specimen i already scaled (top)

[balmy oyster]

I mean a 20 ton animal is still really huge

[coral forge]

Well it's definitely not a 29-44 ton animal

[polar lagoon]

I just want a Magical Leoplurodon

[runic heart]

Speaking of liopleurodon, were the teeth of the WWD one based on anything from actual pliosaurs?

[manic grail]

ark reference

[warped peak]

Unicorn reference

[spice latch]

…this makes me sad

[manic grail]

why u sad

[warped peak]

(Because it is not an ARK reference)

[spice latch]

Mhm

[charred hearth]

centrosaurine son or chasmosaurine daughter

[steep atlas]

chasmosaurinae solos

[charred hearth]

Is it true that in reptiles, the female is usually larger while in birds the male is usually larger? If so, which way do you guys think dinosaurs leaned?

[outer tusk]

uh no

[charred hearth]

Damn

[spice latch]

why was I pinged-

[crisp matrix]

In some birds, the female is larger. The most obvious example is birds of prey

So it could really go either way for dinosaurs

[steep atlas]

a lot of lizards have females with larger abdomens and males with larger heads

[winter marsh]

it could be if you twist it enough. Only thing is that Ark's version is extremely rare and extremely dogwater so yeah the land blobber with actual magic powers is arguably better

[little mauve]

Crocodylians all have larger males, birds it's more diverse but fairly evenly split between males being larger, females being larger, and monomorphism wherein there is no size difference

[winter marsh]

both, my bet is bigger females for saurischians and bigger males for ornithischians

[steep atlas]

i could imagine a lot of the big bite-oriented theropods doing the lizard things where females have bigger torsos and males have proportionally large heads

[little mauve]

If dinosaurs, particularly ornithiscians, were mutually sexually selecting which seems likely their size difference may be greatly reduced

A sauropod lineage with little to no male-male combat could develop larger females to support larger clutch sizes and resist injury during mating

[manic grail]

in jurassic park rexy is very big so females are bigger

[gray coyote]

How come crocodiles who have a narrow jaw/snout are able to hunt very large prey but when it comes to spinosaurids almost people say they werent able to hunt larger prey but only fish? I dont really know enough to understand it

[little mauve]

You're correct in the observation that snout size doesn't stop crocs from taking larger prey, it's just they use a unique strategy of clamping down and drowning the animal that isn't applicable to spinosaurs anatomically. Either way they could take larger prey than fish certainly, and the fish they were eating was quite large in and of themselves

[warped peak]

Crocodiles with particularly narrow snouts don't really hunt proportionally large prey, honestly speaking

Same would go with Spinosaurus. But at 8+ tons, a lot of animals are not proportionally large because you're colossal. Spino also lived with some of the largest freshwater fish in history

[runic heart]

Dave the filter feeding Cretaceous shark. Does this species have a name?

[native kindle]

regina

[balmy oyster]

Yes but I forgot

[warped peak]

Appears to still lack a species

[balmy oyster]

Fr?

[warped peak]

Yes

As does Don

[spice latch]

dave ofc

[opaque kayak]

Bro's head looks flipped

[balmy oyster]

Man’s head evolved another jaw

[charred hearth]

how does the word get misused so much?

[stiff osprey]

lots of people think any unusually large scale on a dinosaur is an osteoderm

[thorn grove]

this is because osteo means 'big' of course

[lavish frigate]

“Osteo” meaning big and “derm” meaning scale

It’s simple Latin fr

[ionic linden]

awesome

[granite thicket]

So easy fr fr

[runic heart]

Ah

What was the old skull based on?

[bleak rose]

Excuse me but, what in the flippity flippity flip is this.

This looks like what i would remember from a fever dream about the ocean.

[bleak rose]

Wait, osteo is "big"? I thought osteo was bone

And osteoderm would mean something like "bone skin".

[steep atlas]

He's being sarcastic

[bleak rose]

Ah, sorry

[runic heart]

Huh?

[true juniper]

Guys what if Juliasaurus turns out to be marshosaurus

[spice latch]

https://tenor.com/view/solid-snake-solid-snake-not-metal-gear-solid-gif-14480942659066849172

[tough parcel]

The problem with private specimens like "Juliasaurus" is that it can very easily be a known species that was altered to be more sellable or it could be a new species altered to be more sellable

So yea, it's very possible it's Marshosaurus or Allo or a new one or smth else

[outer tusk]

Put this in PE and make it 3,000 robux

[true juniper]

Yeah, I've heard it's 75% complete and I don't know which part is known so it could be a different Species but they reconstructed the skull in a way which makes it allosaurus like or Vice versa

[tough parcel]

I don't think anyone we can easily talk to knows the material

[spice latch]

Solid snake or marshosaurus ._.

[true juniper]

It's similar in size to marshosaurus too (6 meters I think) so its very possible (though Big Al was small too but that was due to it being immature and I don't know whether juliasaurus is fully grown even)

[tough parcel]

Allosaurus has an insane size variation though that could be due to over-lumping

[true juniper]

Are the estimates of allosaurus getting up to 12+ meters long any true? I've even heard it could get to 14 meters (maybe I'm confusing it with the saurophaganax Upper size estimates)

[stiff osprey]

"Epanterias" is an Allosaurus (of unknown species) and reaches 11.8 meters long so basically 12

[outer tusk]

Solid Snake

[true juniper]

An animal with the Body proportions of allosaurus Being that big is freaky

[outer tusk]

14 meter allosaur 😭

In the big, modern 2026

Yeah, just take me out

[stiff osprey]

Most Allosaurus are around 8 meters, but most Allosaurus are not fully grown

[tough parcel]

What have you done

[outer tusk]

Let's use Ballad Of Big Al for all current Allosaurus scaling

[stiff osprey]

Don't worry he only appears if you say something negative about the animal

[outer tusk]

What is he Z boomer 2? minus the drama

[true juniper]

By the way how robust was allosaurus compared to other theropods? It almost looks barrel chested in some museum mounts I've seen online

[stiff osprey]

Like with Tyrannosaurus, some specimens are more robust than others, but there isn't as good ribcage data on allosaurus

All i can say is that a 12 meter Allosaurus weighs several tons less than a 12 meter Tyrannosaurus, but more than a 12 meter spinosaurid

[spice latch]

STEGOOOO I FOUND A THING

[stiff osprey]

Oh hi me

[spice latch]

Hello

[spice latch]

Did you make the stego stuff?

[stiff osprey]

Kirin commissioned me yeah

[spice latch]

Ahhh oki

[coral forge]

is this for stego tlc?

[spice latch]

You’d have to ask kirin, he didn’t say anything about what it was

[icy lagoon]

I'm hoping martinx uses it to make a stego tlc concept like how they did for thal

the reference pot used made by martinx

[tough parcel]

This STINKS

[outer tusk]

OMFG I NEED THIS

May I ask what are their socials?

[native kindle]

martin is in this discord under that name

[icy lagoon]

@blazing basalt

[charred hearth]

thoughts on camp cretascous sinoceratops accuracy wise?

[ancient crystal]

https://giphy.com/gifs/tacomafd-trutv-tacoma-fd-ta101-9VvrC7IWaLd9XizDaf

[stiff osprey]

Someone looked at the pose on the one on the left and thought yeah, this looks like a dinosaur

[native kindle]

its as far from accurate as you can get vaguely resembling sinoceratops

[stiff osprey]

Ts is worse than how they reconstructed ceratopsians in 1926 💔

[ancient crystal]

I actually like the male sino kinda, not as a ceratopsian reconstruction but just as a creature

[icy lagoon]

"yeah let's take the frog genes literally and make it look like one"

[charred hearth]

why did they design male sino like that?

[ancient crystal]

I fairness, its a still image from the threaten animation. Doesn't make it much better since the pose shouldn't even exist, but this same game has jumping, running, throwing-hadrosaurs-over-its-shoulder tyrannosaurus

[tough parcel]

Ahh stance

[craggy trench]

https://klipy.com/gifs/spinosaurus-vs-corythosaurus-jurassic-world-evolution-2

[lavish frigate]

It’s like if you got a Pachyrhinosaurus, gave it a nasal horn, bred it with a rhino, and then had a wizard curse it

So bad

[craggy trench]

not rex but close enough

[ancient crystal]

The "male sino" is the same model as seen in Fallen Kingdom.

You could say it was retconned into being a male for the larger dimorphic features, but I say that people just held on to the "they're all female" plotline from 4 movies ago for too long.

Anyway, that's besides the point. Sino was supposed to be Pachyrhinosaurus according to early drafts of Fallen Kingdom, in which the holes in the frill are based on Patchi from the Walking with Dinosaurs movie. At some point the concept was changed to Sinoceratops (allegedly to appeal to the Chinese audience) and the hole-d frill remained.

[craggy trench]

the humble sinoceratops
always fun to see the firsts wave of toys in franchises and see what old stuff was too far into production to be changed

[lavish frigate]

It’s like if you gave Pachyrhinosaurus a horn and diagnosed it with depression

[balmy oyster]

????????

[stiff osprey]

lystrosaurs when you lift a permian rock

[craggy trench]

she is coming for you specifically fishy

[ancient crystal]

I explained the pose above

[obsidian tangle]

Where the frick did the one on the left come from?!

[ancient crystal]

Jurassic World Evolution 3

[obsidian tangle]

Looks like it came from the Permian

[ancient crystal]

Again, this isn't the neutral pose for the model

[rich vessel]

My dad and I actually got into an argument about the name of this toy when we got it at a museum

I was right and he was wrong

[runic heart]

Still have this one.

[rich vessel]

I gave mine a repaint a couple of weeks ago

[outer tusk]

I still have mine on my shelf

[runic heart]

Who else has the og Carnotaurus.

[balmy oyster]

Beautiful.

[misty scarab]

which?

[spice latch]

what in the hell happened...

[fleet creek]

do we have like, any information on ammonite soft tissues beyond the shell? or is it just entirely speculation

are they more nautilloid like? do they have suckers? cuttlefish/squidlike tentacles? i cannot find any good resources

[warped peak]

They should have suckers, and they should have 8 arms and 2 tentacles, and a large siphon

Outside of that is unknown

[fleet creek]

thank you 🙂‍↕️

[charred hearth]

is it true its extremely hard to tell sexual dimoprhism in fossils?

https://x.com/Jay72594128/status/2042019902190506441 are you ready for the revision that hadrosaurs had?

The Kinged Of Jays 🍉🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ (@Jay72594128...

You know we always hear about wanting to see parasaurolophus and other hadrosaurids defending themselves in media, but how about Camptosaurus or any other considered defenseless ornithischian defending themselves
(Art by: @ LiterallyMiguel)

X · Apr 8, 2026, 11:20 PM

[scenic flame]

I will not endorse Camptosaurus in musth

[thorn grove]

The bull Camptosaurus in musth would easily vaporize a Ceratosaurus as proven by that one 2 ton specimen apparently

[jagged trellis]

id take chungus campto over edmusthosaurus

[charred hearth]

what do you think would happen in campto gets the edmonto revision treatment?

[scenic flame]

It will be kung fu kicking torvosaurus

[charred hearth]

i wonder, what stopped campto and co from getting that revision? is it just because people view them as fodder and do not like them enough to change that?

how accurate is this leeds depiction? https://x.com/LiterallyMiguel/status/2041979660796367338/photo/1

Literally Miguel 🇻🇪💥🔫 (@LiterallyMiguel)

Leedsichthys problematicus, a whale-sized filterfeedeer pachycormid fish from the late jurassic

I dont know much about non-tetrapod anatomy, so below i'll thank everyone who coached me and helped me make this commission accurate within what we know of it !! ↓↓

X · Apr 8, 2026, 8:41 PM

[tough parcel]

When was the last time you heard someone mention Campto outside of a PoT-related context lol

[woeful falcon]

And out of PoT contexts, I would think they seldom refer to the really big one. Vs hadrosaurs where a good few of them got to be pretty monumental

[woeful falcon]

Camptosaurus, for when on the off occasion you don't want to just use Dryo

Basically

[jagged trellis]

erhm planet dinosaur
otherwise yeah

[frigid delta]

should i believe that Elasmotherium has a short horn or long horn as of 2026???

[obsidian tangle]

It had a bump, not a horn

[orchid lynx]

Give me a time machine il tell you.

[runic heart]

Stays true to the latest skeletal ig

[full lagoon]

Woah peak art

[ionic crescent]

In case someone can aid me, I think I asked a while ago but I didn't get an answer

What is current Smilosuchus gregorii sizing?

I saw that some say 9-12 m long, but I haven't found lectures that confirm such and were just websites saying that

[short river]

Why do I love him

[shut glade]

Need somebody to help me explain this properly: Reptillia is a class, then dinosaurae is a what, and crocodyllia is a what?

[steep atlas]

Linnaean "rankings" don't really reflect evolutionary relationships. There is no equivalence between "classes" for example

Dinosauria and crocodilia are less inclusive taxa than reptilia. Both are branches of reptilia.

[runic heart]

WHAT HAPPENED TO MUTTABURRASAURUS

[velvet burrow]

I hate it
I don't like it
Get it out of here
Get it out of elasmaria
I don't want this thing in elasmaria

[steep atlas]

What am I looking at rn

[runic heart]

New muttaburrasaurus paper and reconstruction 😭

[velvet burrow]

Based on new material
It has premaxillary teeth
Why

[steep atlas]

What the hell did they base this soft tissue on

[steep atlas]

Why does it need to be so wrinkly lol

[runic heart]

Why are the wrinkles the weirdest part to you 😭

[shut glade]

Can I reasonably start fighting things as a sub-adult Sarco?

[spice latch]

Dude…

[ionic linden]

EW WHAT IS THAT THING (no hate to whoever made it, just looks... different)

[trim pond]

he looks like he sits outside of gas stations for suspicious purposes

[manic holly]

Well that looks shrinkwrapped

[steep atlas]

It looks gross

[manic holly]

It looks so disgusting

[still prairie]

That is the skull of all time

He looks gone like not even here anymore

[bleak rose]

I didn't even know what a Mutaburrasaurus was, and now i wanna keep not knowing || I lie ||

My friend looks dehydrated and ready to be stored for several years before consumption.

[manic holly]

What happened to this even?!

[ionic crescent]

Yoshi

[manic holly]

Lemme tell ya, Muttaburasaurus is one of those cool dinos. Prehistoric Kingdom has made the best depiction of it

[tough parcel]

What about it? That's a completely different animal lol

[bleak rose]

That's a cool creature

In what family and clade these guys are?

[little mauve]

they're elasmarian ornithopods

[obsidian tangle]

Turkey

[spice latch]

was*

[orchid lynx]

haha

https://tenor.com/view/homelander-homelander-the-boys-homelander-sad-homelander-its-peak-homelander-peak-gif-14542009839452529163

[manic holly]

Is it???

[tough parcel]

Yea...? That's Choyrodon barsboldi from Mongolia

[manic holly]

Oh

[balmy oyster]

It wouldn’t look as bad if it at least had a different color pallet

[runic heart]

Yeah the color is pretty bad

[orchid lynx]

how big where prehistoric fruitbats?

finally some good posts

[tight kettle]

A general reminder to please keep discussion in this channel related to paleontology. Any Path of Titans-related memes can be posted to our #pot-memes channel, but please refrain from posting them here.

Please review the pinned channel rules, as well as the server #rules.

[fair dome]

ew... just... ew

[ashen wedge]

Looks like something from the Dark Crystal

[full lagoon]

There's no way this is the same animal bruh

[runic heart]

New paper …

[full lagoon]

Does that automatically mean they are right though? (I don't have much context on what was found)

[runic heart]

With new skull material, yes most likely.

[full lagoon]

So, it just has a lump of bone on the front and no gap in between the front of the snout?

[runic heart]

Long thin beak

[full lagoon]

So it's a selective feeder?

[runic heart]

Possibly. I believe there is also something about the nasal bulge being a gland to filter out salt.

[full lagoon]

Was it coastal? I honestly don't know much about this dinosaur despite it being semi popular

[runic heart]

I guess so. Been seeing semi-aquatic depictions now, although idk how plausible this is.

I will say, very unfortunate timing for this to come out after Dead Sound’s “Monsters Down Under” 💀

[full lagoon]

Yeah..

[runic heart]

Oh?

[ionic crescent]

hm weird it has front teeth

[ashen wedge]

So…. What’s the verdict?

[runic heart]

Idk

[stiff osprey]

Nothing ever happens

[ionic crescent]

this is wrong, time happens, otherwise we'd be stuck forever 🗿

[runic heart]

Time is a measurement

[winter marsh]

It looks like it smashed its head in a frickin metal pole while riding a motorcycle

[zealous ravine]

Tbf this one also isn't perfect but its better than most I've seen

[charred hearth]

true OR false?

[balmy oyster]

False thankfully, the paper reconstruction has no reason looking like that.

[runic heart]

What’s a better reconstruction then

[charred hearth]

why does the front view look like a pigeon

[fossil ingot]

Dans prob

[outer tusk]

https://bsky.app/profile/lordtrilobite.bsky.social/post/3mj3yzbjejc25the paper but there is work be doing to make it slightly more appealing like Olof's but @zealous ravine can say more on it

[zealous ravine]

False

[zealous ravine]

Tbf the overall shape of the paper recon is pretty good, the soft tissue and color are just meh

I plan on doing some retrodeformation and reconstruction on the scans when I have some free time

[outer tusk]

I love the front view lmao

while Dan's might not be as close as the paper's skull I personally dig that BASAL and more reptiitan like look the head

[zealous ravine]

Its pretty good, but Idk why it doesnt have cheeks and the premax is too short. The beak should also just be on the tip of the premax

[runic heart]

So was the beak fairly thin or not?

[outer tusk]

yes

[runic heart]

This seem about right for the material?

[stiff osprey]

snout is too short, which ironically the left one is better at

[zealous ravine]

No, a lot is wrong

[runic heart]

I’m having trouble understanding the change then.

[stiff osprey]

https://bsky.app/profile/lordtrilobite.bsky.social/post/3mj3yzbjejc25

Olof Moleman (@lordtrilobite.bsky.social)

Made a rough sketch reconstructing the updated skull of Muttaburrasaurus. Repositioned some of the bones that were out of place, like the quadrate, maxilla and jaw.

Bluesky · Apr 9, 2026, 11:54 PM

this is the best one yet (complete with correcting the displaced quadrate)

[runic heart]

So it’s just the usual reconstruction with a thinner beak?

[stiff osprey]

thinner, longer, less downcurved

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/Tupandactyl/status/2042319064018850045

Junseok Choi (Tupan) (@Tupandactyl)

So Muttaburrasaurus has...
-from shallow marine carbonate concretion
-strong jaw for chewing
-(possible) salt gland
...

Welcome back submarinosaur :D
#paleoart #imnotserious

X · Apr 9, 2026, 7:09 PM

[ancient crystal]

I will genuinely give up on paleontology as a hobby if we start seeing bull camptosaurus in musth

[lavish frigate]

I now have a mission

[spice latch]

What’s the mission Mr president

[harsh forge]

camptosaurus used its ornithopod cunning and superior speed to defeat its predators

its common knowledge that herbivores are invulnerable to predation and are only scavenged after dying of other causes

[lavish frigate]

Oh i was joking about the Campto in musth joke

[little mauve]

Interesting that Muttaburrasaurus has the highest olfactory ratio of any dinosaur yet tested, exceeding T. rex

[ancient crystal]

Pah! A herbivore? DYING???

That's not very forward thinking of you.

[thorn grove]

carnivores are a better source of food anyway because more people spawn as them

[wind prairie]

lets make up for it with aquatic mutta

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/PaleonewsFrance/status/2042302666135511245/photo/1

Paléonews (@PaleonewsFrance)

An early #fossilfriday and late #easteregg : The first non-mammalian synapsid embryo from the Triassic of South Africa.

https://t.co/lQ7ltqUrUa

X · Apr 9, 2026, 6:04 PM

[inland kayak]

Welcome back trachodon

[frigid delta]

considering Mutta's newest reconstruction, who would even prey on such... thing like that?

[runic rover]

Australovenator looking at mutta and being like "that's it, I'm going vegan 🤢"

[quick lintel]

weird ass nonexistent spinosaurid I saw in my dreams. chud artistic rendition

I think I dreamt of a really chopped lookin irritator LMAO
Does he seem.. plausible
Or resemble any irl spleenosaurs

[remote mauve]

He so little

[quick lintel]

HE IS!! It flashed before my eyes before I woke up and for some reason my brain specified that he literally wasn't any larger than like. A person
He's barely like 2 people in length too

Visually, it's like a rhamp dilo sucho hybrid with dwarfism

[remote mauve]

There was some neck vertebrae from a Spinosaurid found in Australia that where quite small but it might have been a baby

[quick lintel]

o nawr nawt. the baby 💔💔

[remote mauve]

Lol

[quick lintel]

I don't like it can we go back to misinformation posting for mutta specifically just so we don't have to acknowledge this and can live in blissful ignorance
Idc we need to retcon this design NOOWWWW

[quick lintel]

oh thank God nvm we are saved

[quick lintel]

Wait nvm it's peak
Mutta mod.. pls.. do this NAOO
This is also why I could never. Mod for path because I cannot imagine working on something obscure or with little material, only for like. a couple weeks or months after release for there to be speculation and new material that turns it into like a completely new animal which my mod doesn't resemble at all and so now my mod looks chopped and I have to sit there like Mr boss from smiling friends going "of course, it's genius... why didn't I think of that..."

Friend for lurd :)

[green helm]

if paleontology is ur power what are you without it

[last stump]

I wish the asteroid was delayed for a few seconds so it hit ocean, and humans never been.

[last stump]

They are vermin who allowed famous paleontologists blowing up samples and dinosaur fossils because they didn't want each other to find the samples first

[native kindle]

of all the things to not like certain humans for

[steep atlas]

You can also dislike other people for other reasons

[open vault]

https://www.tiktok.com/t/ZP8gjxady/ muttaburra news!!

[runic rover]

Man Haolong fans must be saltier than the Pacific ocean now that even mutta sparked more interest/discussion than Haolong 🤭

[tough parcel]

It was about the same lol wdym

[runic rover]

Idk I remember Haolong fans seething with Spino stealing the spotlight and now even Muttaburra is gaining more discussion than them

[stiff osprey]

whoooa.... the most famous theropod behind T.rex and Velociraptor has more public interest than an obscure chinese ornithopod... this is unacceptable and a moral failure on the part of humanity

we need to kill all spinosaurus fans and researchers so that glupshittodon can get its deserved attention

[sudden wind]

It's not new skull material: it is redescribed previous skull material (holotype QMF6140)

[sudden wind]

It does have front teeth indeed.

[stiff osprey]

the beak part of the premaxilla is new material (hence all older reconstructions giving it a toothless iguanodont beak)

[runic heart]

Best art I’ve seen of the new recon so far. Seems much more reasonable.

[sudden wind]

Was it discovered on the site or within the collection?

[stiff osprey]

I dunno, but either way it's new to science

[thick oar]

who is this lad

[sudden wind]

Muttaburrasaurus

[quick lintel]

mutta !!

[thick oar]

WHAT MUTTA bro's looking FINEEEE

[quick lintel]

nutter butter. mutta burra !!
ya they revised his dome
it was almost bad but it wasnt now we r cool. there was a false alarm earlier where we feared mutta was chopped

[ionic crescent]

I see, interesting

[outer tusk]

OMG RANDOM YOU'RE SO ME

I BE FEELING THIS WAY TOO

[spice latch]

[true juniper]

Tbh about the mutta new look, as long as it's accurate idc if it's ugly or not

[charred hearth]

I wish it did so I didn't have to to read this stupid message

[charred hearth]

I thought it had decent material before this?

[runic heart]

Same

[tough parcel]

It did, but it was poorly described

This is a redescription of the holotype for M. langdoni, specifically the skull material, postcrania comes later

[charred hearth]

Is there any dinosaurs you hope get a redescription soon ish?

[runic heart]

Mapusaurus.

[coral forge]

CRUZADO-CABALLERO, GIVE US ARENYSAYRUS REDESCRIPTION AND MY LIFE IS YOURS

Charonosaurus would be cool too, but its a bonebed so like

[runic heart]

Sarcosuchus.

[coral forge]

When it comes to being insanely important/popular genera with awful descriptions, always place your bets on Allosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Triceratops

[runic heart]

What dinosaur or other Mesozoic animal has the best material description, outside of hell creek of course?

[coral forge]

Probably Psittacosaurus or smth

[charred hearth]

thats not a dinosaur

[spice latch]

Shh… don’t tell a sarco what it can and can’t be

[charred hearth]

sarco will never be a crocodile

[spice latch]

Poor sarco not gettin any love

[charred hearth]

https://x.com/BGarcN2/status/2042619614979358811 thoughts?

balta 🦕 (@BGarcN2)

just discovered this new dino encyclopedia site and i am absolutely obsessed. all my paleo oomfs need to check it out its sooooooo incredibly well made and complete!!

https://t.co/abj0qAatBN

X · Apr 10, 2026, 3:04 PM

[coral forge]

Sarcosaurus

[static badge]

Or trex/corythosaurus. trex is always described as 6-8 tons and cory is almost always just canonfodder ok i actually might not understand the discussion

[glass thistle]

Anybody know much about fossils?

I just moved to the ocean side, not even a km from a huge ediacaran geo site.
My backyard is littered with treasures but I'm new to this stuff - if anyone has any knowledge and doesn't mind chatting I'd love an @ or DM.

I know this is kinda off topic but figured worth a shot lol

[coral forge]

That's not what a description is. A description is when the material for an animal has pictures taken of it and published along with measurements and stuff

[static badge]

i figured but im done deleting messages so we are all gonna have to live with em

[sullen cairn]

Two coughing babies here and one nuclear bomb

[balmy oyster]

Edmontosaurus shouldn’t be in here. That is because I don’t think it’s even been properly described as a species to begin with.

[sullen cairn]

i mean campione and evans does kinda do that

[hallow spear]

Stegosaurus, Tuojiangosaurus and like every other stegosaur too

[coral forge]

I guess allosaurus and edmontosaurus just need a taxonomic revision more than anything

[undone rapids]

Giga is pretty popular too

[sullen cairn]

yutyrannus really sucks as well

[coral forge]

Ngl I wish Charonosaurus had its postcrania described so we could know if it's truly a Tlatolophus clone

[bold ridge]

I like palaeontology I have been listening to that podcast terrible lizards on Spotify but I don’t know a lot you lot sound smart

[sullen cairn]

i mean it is described even if there's only drawings

[ionic crescent]

if in doubt always remember, everything is a cell-composed system clone

[coral forge]

Is it? Where?

[sullen cairn]

(allosaurus being the hydrogen bomb)
godofreit et al 2001(?)

[coral forge]

Godefroit et al., 2001 only figured the skull material. None of the postcrania was figured

[sullen cairn]

thats godefroit et al 2000

[coral forge]

oh

[bold ridge]

Hello

[coral forge]

They figured more than I thought. I'm too tired to edit all of this onto a skeletal rn 🥀

[bold ridge]

Can you see my messages

Ah ok it’s saying something about activating slow mode whenever I type there’s a cool down

[tawdry lintel]

Is this really the most accurate Rex model to date ? (Eofauna's Sue)

[misty scarab]

I like the patterns

[orchid lynx]

i think the Isles rex or ours if it was more bulky on the neck

[winter marsh]

Probably, although I think that the weird dog-like lips are a speculative aspect