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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,745 Views) | |
| CyborgIguana | Dec 28 2013, 02:33 PM Post #196 |
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Still, sauropsids don't generally have features such as trunks. More of a mammalian thing AFAIK. |
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| Captain Phasma | Dec 28 2013, 02:41 PM Post #197 |
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Looks weird. But at the same time... awesome. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 28 2013, 02:59 PM Post #198 |
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It does look pretty epic, you have to admit. Just improbable. |
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| Ignacio | Dec 28 2013, 03:01 PM Post #199 |
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Seems like i'm the only one that doesn't like it. At all. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 28 2013, 03:08 PM Post #200 |
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Just remember that dinosaurs might not have looked exactly how we like to imagine them. All we have are their fossils, which can only tell us so much. |
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| Ignacio | Dec 28 2013, 03:14 PM Post #201 |
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Yes i know. And i have no problems with most of the things i see in the reconstructions ( and i have no problem in accepting new theories or evidence that change our perception of this animals). I even don't have a problem with the spino having a hump anymore ( although i have to admit i didn't liked it at first). But that reconstruction (while creative) is not something i like nor how i think the spinosaurus looked like
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 28 2013, 03:31 PM Post #202 |
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I don't imagine that's how Spinosaurus looked either.
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| Similis | Dec 28 2013, 03:37 PM Post #203 |
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I dislike the trunk too, but it's just an interesting concept. I remember the shock when I learned that Spinosaurus wasn't a semiquadrupedal allosaur-like animal with a fish fin on its' back as it was portrayed previously. The hump was just a minor step further. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 28 2013, 03:46 PM Post #204 |
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I think it's interesting and thought-provoking, I just don't consider it very likely. Spinosaurus is probably the dinosaur of which my perception has changed the most, when I think about it. When I was around 6 or 7 I thought it was a terrestrial bipedal predator with a megalosaur-like skull and a Dimetrodon-like sail on its back that was smaller than T. rex (as most old-school dinosaur books depict it), then after seeing JP3 when I was 8 or 9 my perception changed to a nightmarish semi-quadrupedal superpredator, twice as big and powerful as T. rex, with a crocodile-like skull. Then by the time I was around 11 or 12 it changed once again to my current perception: that of an enormous bipedal piscivore with a hump instead of a sail. Pity most JP fanboys are still stuck to the perception I abandoned as a child.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Dec 28 2013, 03:48 PM.
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| Mathius Tyra | Dec 29 2013, 01:13 AM Post #205 |
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![]() Just found this picture. ![]() It used to be in a book I owned when I was very young as well.(but I have lost it.) Because of this picture and also the fact sheet in that book. I became Allosaurus's lover since, which then developed into Saurophaganax nowaday. |
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| Verdant Gregor | Dec 29 2013, 01:19 AM Post #206 |
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I still love many of the classical depictions of dinosaurs, outdated as they may be. They were what got me interested in the creatures in the first place, so I can never truly abandon them. Of course, I wouldn't portray a Tyrannosaurus as a baldo dragging its tail, but it can be nice to reminisce sometimes. |
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| ROOKIEz00S | Dec 29 2013, 01:38 AM Post #207 |
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I thought this was really cool![]() Also, Isismasshiro's Dinosaur Comics always looked amazingly accurate and funny to me XD |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 29 2013, 01:43 AM Post #208 |
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Aside from the fact that the three main characters were of feathered species in real life, and yet are illustrated as bald.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Dec 29 2013, 09:19 AM.
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| Similis | Jan 2 2014, 03:36 AM Post #209 |
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http://yoult.deviantart.com/art/Archaeopteryx-literalis-422925452 Not most-lifelike-restoration favourite, but this thing is simply GORGEOUS. I think it represents how some people imagine many dinosaur clades to be in possession of filamentous structures on their bodies.
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| Swimming Spaghetti Monster | Jan 4 2014, 12:17 PM Post #210 |
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