Which is the best dinosaur?

http://www.dinosaurcollector.150m.com/News_files/coelo.jpg

Then I vote Keith Richards, too

http://www.dinosauria.com/gallery/chris/thumbs/velociraptor.jpg
The Velociraggett says: "*flounce*"

i always dug archaeopteryx.

http://www.enchantedlearning.com/ugifs/Ultrasaurosbig2_bw.GIF

Naturellement.

Question
Why is ``Brontosaurus'' now called Apatosaurus?

Answer
Brontosaurus excelsus was named in 1879 by Marsh, based on a rather good specimen. Unfortunately, two years earlier he'd named some much scrappier remains with the rather less resonant name Apatosaurus ajax.

In 1903, Elmer Riggs' re-examination of Marsh's specimens led him to conclude that they represented the same genus (although see below), meaning that the names were synonyms. In such cases, the ICZN (International Commission on Zoological Nomenclature, see www.iczn.org) mandates that the oldest name has priority - which means that the rather dull Apatosaurus (``deceptive lizard'') wins out over the much more resonant ``Brontosaurus'' (``thunder lizard'').

So why does the world still talk about ``Brontosaurus'' all the time? The paper in which Riggs established the synonymy was published in the Geological Series of the Field Columbian Museum - a relatively obscure journal, so the findings were not as widely known as they should have been. Also, the sexier invalid name received a lot of public exposure from non-scientific sources: for example, the Sinclair oil company used a ``Brontosaurus'' as its logo for many years. (Rather inappropriately, as it turns out, since oil is formed from plant matter, not animals. Never mind.)

So the world continued and continues to use ``Brontosaurus''; but Apatosaurus should be used in all serious writing.

I said that Riggs established that Apatosaurus and ``Brontosaurus'' were from the same genus. But the two Marsh specimens are still considered to represent separate species: the older specimen is Apatosaurus ajax and the newer Apatosaurus (nee ``Brontosaurus'') excelsus. However, since it's always a judgement call whether any species belong in the same genus (see ``When is a new dinosaur erected as a new species or genus?'' ), there are palaeontologists - notably Robert Bakker - who feel that the two species are sufficiently distinct that excelsus merits a separate genus. Under this scheme, the old genus name is still perfectly good, so Bakker still uses the formal name Brontosaurus excelsus (but never Brontosaurus ajax.)

[Then he explains why Dimetrodon shd really be referred to be its older, better, unpoiled name: viz "Detroit Techno"]

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I always kinda had a positive inclination toward the Iguanodon probably because it was a new find in the natural history museum when I was about 7, they only had it's big hitch hiking thumb at the time.

Brontosauraus is still a favourite though, and the Dinobots.

Here is my only dinosaur painting:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/dinosaur.jpg

I was always partial to the Triceratops myself.

that painting looks like the best dinosaur

ANKLYOSAURUS MOTHERFUCKERS

I have a new favorite dinosaur...EPIDENDROSAURUS!

newly discovered millions of years old snapshots:

http://www.dinosaurus.net/pics/scansoriopteryx_boom.jpg

...so that's not the best illustration. This month's National Geographic makes it look absolutely terrifying, with jagged teeth and strange man arms, all at about the size of a sparrow. Picture that thing snapping at the back of your ankles.

Check this link out, and click on the 4th image from the right. I'd link to it here but it's Flash.

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/44252000/gif/_44252282_scorpion203x333.gif

http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/Animated_GIF/Dinosaur/Tyrannosaurusrex-Dino-animated.gif

http://www.animalpicturesarchive.com/animal/Animated_GIF/Dinosaur/Tyranosaurus2.gif

http://www.arts-letters.com/dino/images/animated_jaw.gif

Deinonychus

A: the one i'm riding

gotta give it up for Predator X, who has the best dinosaur name and it also fucking massive

technically a pliosaur (marine reptile) not a dino but still pretty badass

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6544701.ece

I think Times' encouragement of the 'thinosaur' ideal killed them all with mass body-dimorphism issues.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/49209000/gif/_49209044_dino.gif

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11390944

Haircut and eyebrows = A+

Larry King is a pretty cool dinosaur.

I thought about dinosaur sex the other day and I was like woah, I can't believe I never thought of dinosaur sex before. It's gotta look funny for the quadrapeds

Every new generation acts like it invented dinosaur sex.

but the old generation never told me about it!
wait, we are the same age abbbottt (unless you aren't abbott)

That new dinosaur is excellent. It reminds me of Milhouse.

P.S. the answer is stegosaurus.

I've checked this out, and apparently the best dinosaur is the triceratops

the best dinosaur is all the dinosaurs

Tyrannosaurus Rex, the Eater Of Cars.

cars weren't invented until the egyptians u oaf honestly

Who's the guy who looks kind of like an armadillo but with a huge fuck-off spiky tail?

.....

bowser?

ankylosaur xp

what failure artist depictions
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elasmosaurus

I kjust watched Dinosaur Island on streaming Netflix - wow - USA UP all night!

not suitable for that other thread because there are no meteors, but I like Charles R. Knight's dinosaur pictures. his dinosaurs always look very good-natured and friendly. some of them seem vaguely coquettish

http://afflictor.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/both-the-styracosaurus-right-charles-r-knight.jpg

https://usercontent1.hubstatic.com/12252160_f1024.jpg

http://www.charlesrknight.com/Gallery/Knight/Prehistoric/AMNH/Leaping_Laelops.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-QhwdVl5NzxA/UUPk2DFOOcI/AAAAAAAAI-o/TASuT89_9KI/s640/agathaumas.jpg

Ah yeah these ones

lol that i also started this thread

are those t-rexes or whatever having a ticklefight

contrarian take: every dinosaur on this thread is a t-rex

and don't go citing science or whatever to try to take me down, unless you're willing to admit that scientists take money and lie in order for power and influence

The idea of the carboniferous era giant insects and the giganto scorpion-like eurypterids have always scared the shit out of me. I wasn't scared of a T Rex until adulthood when some tv presenter said "try to imagine the T Rex as a giant chicken, it would have moved in a similar manner" or words to that effect!

Yeah, turning their heads quizzically from side to side like birds do with crumbs except we're the crumbs

http://www.1art1.de/images/imagexl/d/d84520.jpg

does anyone know what that two-horned grey thing on the bottom right is? is it a legit dinosaur or just something that the artist has made up?

<3 the haughty Triceratops

I don't think it'd a dinosaur, it's a prehistoric rhino, like a Paraceratherium or something

https://www.earthtouchnews.com/natural-world/evolution/heres-a-line-up-of-prehistoric-beasts-from-the-rhino-family-tree/

hmm, perhaps it's meant to be an Arsinoiterium?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/1/11/Arsinoitherium_hharder.png

https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/415063/415063,1264689123,9/stock-photo-madagascar-circa-a-stamp-printed-in-madagascar-shows-animal-arsinoitherium-circa-45466750.jpg

not strictly speaking dinosaurs i believe but all pix of the jules verne-inspired forever war between ichthyosaurs and plesiosaurs are a joy obv:

http://c8.alamy.com/comp/DTGCA2/ichthyosaurus-plesiosaurus-DTGCA2.jpg

https://img1.etsystatic.com/005/0/6751020/il_570xN.401505595_h91q.jpg

https://3.bp.blogspot.com/-IKi3w09ybl8/UTy6QU-WOyI/AAAAAAAACl0/BR1vTx5EyQI/s1600/SAM_3593.JPG

https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LPM8oSzRwo0/UbY5clqS8VI/AAAAAAAACzM/QGy1_BA_5vg/s1600/Marine.jpg

http://www.verniana.org/volumes/04/images/Jones/EnlargedImages/jv22.jpg

http://68.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l0f093Brwd1qac76ro1_1280.jpg

https://c1.staticflickr.com/2/1426/653916381_43602fb5d8_b.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/56/ac/d7/56acd798c5d01b20c5f897777b0eccf3.jpg

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/eb/Duria_Antiquior_Scharf.jpg

in this one they have set aside their differences to snack on some other nearby species

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/00824d9c3ad341a1bbc2aeee61484d6e/ichthyosaurus-pterodactylus-plesiosaurus-dtgbm3.jpg

There's something special about them two - something about the eyes imo. And the way that for a while the popular image seems to have been all about the sea with monsters in it?

I wasn't scared of a T Rex until adulthood when some tv presenter said "try to imagine the T Rex as a giant chicken, it would have moved in a similar manner" or words to that effect!

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https://daphnecaruanagalizia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/Dinosaur-Cock.jpg

In my house the best-loved dinosaur _books_ are the Jane Yolen / Mark Teague "How Do Dinosaurs..." series.

The art is quite charming, they always tell you somewhere what species is being depicted, and they're usually lesser-known species with vibrant colors and/or feathers. But their true glory is in the _very_ proper meter and rhyme of the text, which is rare in children's picture books.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_u3erwrZ9yp0/TD9vGUGm0-I/AAAAAAAAAjA/jrqhzw2ePFY/s1600/spred_getwell.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LbC8BGnRKCQ/hqdefault.jpg

The Bestasaurus

wonderfully bizarre old Voice piece I think about much too often: "Favorite Dinosaurs of the Mets" pic.twitter.com/x1rZlAon4T

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It was discovered in the 24th century that a population of hadrosaur had survived the extinction event by living on an isolated continent, which was later destroyed by geological processes. Over the centuries, they evolved into a sentient space-faring saurian species, the Voth, and departed Earth for the Delta Quadrant.

I have an excellent new candidate, found by an 11-year-old.

this is a good story but i am suspicious abt the authenticity of the 11-yr-old's closing quote

Said 11 year old is now a 15 year old, you ageist.

Evidence of massive dinosaur mating ritual uncovered in Colorado
https://www.science.org/content/article/evidence-massive-dinosaur-mating-ritual-uncovered-colorado

(really though, a dinosaur astronomer spotted the incoming asteroid and after a time of disbelief once the realization settled in they just got down to it)

i don't even want to know how many online fics have "lekking" as a content tag

The Joy of Leks

Dimetredon is the first dinosaur i ever learned about due to a tessellated card that came free in a box of cereal when I was four years old.

Years later, I find out dimetredon wasn't even an actual dinosaur, but a mammal-like precursor to the dinosaurs. Like, how is that possible?

Murph. obveesly.
though Spencer Dryden and John Cipollina had their moments but were better in their heyday.