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Favorite Dinosaur Reconstructions
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 09:05 PM (305,745 Views)
CyborgIguana
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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
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Looks weird. But at the same time... awesome.
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CyborgIguana
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It does look pretty epic, you have to admit. Just improbable.
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Ignacio
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Seems like i'm the only one that doesn't like it. At all.
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CyborgIguana
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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
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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 xD
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CyborgIguana
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I don't imagine that's how Spinosaurus looked either. ;)
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Similis
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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
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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
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Just found this picture. xD

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
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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
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I thought this was really cool
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Also, Isismasshiro's Dinosaur Comics always looked amazingly accurate and funny to me XD
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CyborgIguana
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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
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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. :P
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