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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,635 Views)
babehunter1324
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Still more live like that most Paleoart...
Edited by babehunter1324, Apr 14 2015, 06:18 AM.
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Jannick
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Papua merdeka!

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Some older work from the late '90s by Larry Felder. Not completely accurate anymore, but wonderful to look at.
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Apr 14 2015, 12:28 AM
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Still going strong <3
As scientifically obsolete as they are, I think it's safe to say that Hawkins's Crystal Palace models will never get old. I don't think paleontology would ever have become as much of a public interest if those models had never been introduced to the mainstream population.
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Incinerox
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Exactly why they're a timeless classic.

Also dem Pteranodons doe.
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I like it a lot, but haven't feathers/quills on Concavenator been discredited for a while now?
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

That pic is pretty old, CI...
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Apr 15 2015, 10:13 AM.
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Iben
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!

CyborgIguana
Apr 15 2015, 09:14 AM
I like it a lot, but haven't feathers/quills on Concavenator been discredited for a while now?
Actually, although some paleontologists like Naish have shown slight scepticism , there hasn't been a counter-analysis yet. So there hasn't really been a paper yet that truly discredited it, there simply has been scepticism but from what I've read, this was by people who haven't analysed the remains themselves ( not saying they are right/wrong with that, just stating the current situation.)
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Iben
Apr 15 2015, 10:30 AM
CyborgIguana
Apr 15 2015, 09:14 AM
I like it a lot, but haven't feathers/quills on Concavenator been discredited for a while now?
Actually, although some paleontologists like Naish have shown slight scepticism , there hasn't been a counter-analysis yet. So there hasn't really been a paper yet that truly discredited it, there simply has been scepticism but from what I've read, this was by people who haven't analysed the remains themselves ( not saying they are right/wrong with that, just stating the current situation.)
The majority of paleontologists these days seem to side with the likes of Naish anyway. The "quill knobs" coincide more with known muscle attachments than quill bases, given that they're too high up and too laterally placed on the ulna (as opposed to being more proximal as we've seen in birds and dromaeosaurids). There's a good diagram highlighting it on Mickey Mortimer's blog:
http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.hk/2010/09/concavenator-part-ii-becklespinax.html
The only thing that's stopping the quilled hypothesis being dismissed entirely is indeed the lack of paper. But it doesn't mean we can just ignore outside discussions.

What the original paper doesn't refer to either is the possible stomach contents, so if they re-evaluate certain things eventually, I'd like to hear more on that as well. And there's been all this hype over the possibility of quill knobs that everyone kinda ignored the fact that there's scale/tubercle samples from other parts of the animal, and the implications that has for how we restore allosauroids in general.

But anyway, here's one of my favourites:
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I know it's not a fleshed out restoration and its accuracy has since been put to questioning, but when I saw that skeletal for the first time (a week before Concavenator was announced no less), I gotta tell ya:

THE HYPE WAS REAL.
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Iben
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!

Incinerox
Apr 15 2015, 12:25 PM
Iben
Apr 15 2015, 10:30 AM
CyborgIguana
Apr 15 2015, 09:14 AM
I like it a lot, but haven't feathers/quills on Concavenator been discredited for a while now?
Actually, although some paleontologists like Naish have shown slight scepticism , there hasn't been a counter-analysis yet. So there hasn't really been a paper yet that truly discredited it, there simply has been scepticism but from what I've read, this was by people who haven't analysed the remains themselves ( not saying they are right/wrong with that, just stating the current situation.)
The majority of paleontologists these days seem to side with the likes of Naish anyway. The "quill knobs" coincide more with known muscle attachments than quill bases, given that they're too high up and too laterally placed on the ulna (as opposed to being more proximal as we've seen in birds and dromaeosaurids). There's a good diagram highlighting it on Mickey Mortimer's blog:
http://theropoddatabase.blogspot.hk/2010/09/concavenator-part-ii-becklespinax.html
The only thing that's stopping the quilled hypothesis being dismissed entirely is indeed the lack of paper. But it doesn't mean we can just ignore outside discussions.
True, but without a third party re-analysing the bones completely and writing a refutal paper, we simply can't say "it's discredited". I know what you mean, and I don't say I agree with the hypothesis, but it's a simply not of the table yet, at least not completely.

Don't get me wrong, I want this to be closed for once and for all too, but re-analysis has to be done first before that's possible. Because again, all those opinions were based on pictures and not on the actual bones. I'm not saying that this changes anything, but to me it's quite important if the paleontologist in case actually studied the bones themselves in RL.
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i love the quills
although the leg scales look flat .___.
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

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Sorry. I just had to.
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No apology is necessary.

Though I've always wondered how exactly they pilot those things with those baby arms of theirs! xD
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 15 2015, 08:41 PM.
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how did a t rex fit in the cockpit?

:) classic Calvin & Hobbes
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