Keyser wrote:Dinosaur colours and Mark Witton's latest book.
That looks like a sparrow caught in the rain.
Stop trying to make dinosaurs lame.
You're ruining our childhoods
Keyser wrote:Dinosaur colours and Mark Witton's latest book.
Ray of Sunshine wrote:Keyser wrote:Dinosaur colours and Mark Witton's latest book.
That looks like a sparrow caught in the rain.
Stop trying to make dinosaurs lame.
You're ruining our childhoods
Keyser wrote:One of the nicest reconstructions of the super-lizard Mosasaurus hoffmani that I have seen.
Compare it to the Jurassic World tosh.
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/im ... 1508451404
LordRaven wrote:Keyser wrote:One of the nicest reconstructions of the super-lizard Mosasaurus hoffmani that I have seen.
Compare it to the Jurassic World tosh.
https://cdna.artstation.com/p/assets/im ... 1508451404
I'm a great fan of the Walking With Dinosaurs series but they apparently really messed up on the size they were quoting for Liopluerodon
How big was Liopleurodon?
Debate still continues over the maximum size of this Pliosaur
Ever since Liopleurodon featured in episode 3 of the ground-breaking BBC series “Walking with..” this short-necked Plesiosaur, more commonly referred to as a Pliosaur has been regarded as a truly huge predator. The programme showed Liopleurodon snatching an unwary Eustreptospondylus from rocks and chomping female Ophthalmosaurs in half before finally coming to a sad end stranded on a Jurassic beach.
At the time the writers and researchers for the TV series estimated that an adult male Liopleurodon could reach lengths in excess of 25 metres and weigh more than 150 tonnes. If this were indeed the case then Liopleurodon with its 18 inch long teeth could lay claim to being the biggest carnivorous animal ever.
However, the existing fossil evidence does not back up the BBC’s claims. There are four species of Liopleurodon known, the first and the holotype for the Liopleurodon genus (L. ferox) was named and described by the French palaeontologist, H. E. Sauvage in 1873. Sauvage was working with very poor material, basing his scientific description on some smooth-sided teeth found in France. This is how Liopleurodon got its name (means smooth-sided tooth). These remains are dated to the Callovian stage of the Jurassic, other Callovian remains ascribed to Liopleurodon have been found in France and England, over the years much more evidence has been unearthed but reconstructions, if correct only put L. ferox at about 10 metres long.
The Oxford museum has a partial mandible believed to be from another Liopleurodon (L. macromerus). This measures over 2.8 metres in length, but the mandible is not complete. Estimates of over 3 metres have been given for the full length of the jaws, this could indicate that this individual was considerably bigger than L. ferox. Liopleurodon macromerus is also known from Jurassic deposits close to the river Volga in Russia.
https://blog.everythingdinosaur.co.uk/b ... 17977.html
LordRaven wrote:Shastasaurus was a bit of beast too but the Megalodon was the biggest baddest of the lot.
I simply must go the cinema for this one...
Keyser wrote:LordRaven wrote:Shastasaurus was a bit of beast too but the Megalodon was the biggest baddest of the lot.
I simply must go the cinema for this one...
Looks a lot of fun!
The article below actually underestimates the maximum size of Megalodon which could reach over 20 metres long and weigh more than 100 tons.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/articles ... 180969860/
LordRaven wrote:I am convinced by fossil evidence alone that the Megalodon had a very nasty nip
https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=me ... ORM=HDRSC2
I would hate being a dentist for one of these chaps
charlie wrote:That's very interesting!!
Ray of Sunshine wrote:You should never go to the cinema for Jason Statham films!
Wait until they're on their natural home of Blu-Ray/ DVD/ downloaded off the internet.
I think they could actually remake Jaws, would be a lot scarier with modern special effects, plus they left a load of stuff out of the novel they could put in the new one.
Ray of Sunshine wrote:You should never go to the cinema for Jason Statham films!
Wait until they're on their natural home of Blu-Ray/ DVD/ downloaded off the internet.
I think they could actually remake Jaws, would be a lot scarier with modern special effects, plus they left a load of stuff out of the novel they could put in the new one.
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