Support NeoGAF

[nkarafo]

With teef?

The horror...

Yeah. Even their tongue has teeth.

 

[akira28]

With teef?

The horror...

geese have teeth. why do you think people avoid them?
https://youtu.be/-GmRp9RMIvQ

 

[MudoSkills]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwHELWXtB0

 

[Nirolak]

With teef?

The horror...

Many birds have adorable and lovable mouths.

 

[docbon]

Yeah. Even their tongue has teeth.

Damn

That's so metal

 

[Exokell]

Many birds have adorable and lovable mouths.

Wtf dude

 

[DedValve]

Damn

That's so metal

Ducks have corkscrw penises designed for raping. I think it has thorns too.

 

[ThoughtsOfSpeaking]

I'm confused how anyone thought differently. No animal I can think of walks around with bared teeth, even when it's mouth is closed.

Edit: forgot about crocodiles. Never mind.

 

[DragonGirl]

Odd that this is being talked about now as T-rex lips was sort of assumed 15 years ago. The pits in the skull around the mouth that would anchor fleshy lips to them was pointed out quite a long time ago.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Birds are scary

 

[MMarston]

Ducks have corkscrw penises designed for raping. I think it has thorns too.

RIP Daisy Duck.

 

[Milly Osworth]

Their bones don't exist anymore, just their fossils, which aren't really their bones, and thus don't contain their DNA.

Right. Isnt there any dna left?

 

[jiggle]

Welp my plan to get a pet bird is now dead

 

[Safros]

This is already true. I've read things over the years about how they're slower than we thought and that they just ate already dead animals. Just a big slow softie (with poisonously bad breath).

But T-rex being only being a scavenger wasn't really ever a thing.

 

[Zetta]

Yeah. Even their tongue has teeth.

I'm going to be honest right now, I would take a spider thread over this abomination any day of the week. Holy hell this is straight out of a nightmare.

 

[Toxi]

It's funny seeing people realize waterfowl have fucking creepy mouths for the first time.

Right. Isnt there any dna left?

No. DNA degrades extremely quickly. While we are finding more and more preserved soft tissue in dinosaurs, DNA is completely out of the question.

 

[besada]

Scientists discover that T-Rex carried a briefcase to work and listened to a KD Tunstall disc it bought from Starbucks, while picking up its morning Mochaccino with tiny, stubby arms.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Remember when we all said that we hate the idea of feathers because birds arent scary?

 

[Toxi]

Scientists discover that T-Rex carried a briefcase to work and listened to a KD Tunstall disc it bought from Starbucks, while picking up its morning Mochaccino with tiny, stubby arms.

It also drove a Prius.

 

[styl3s]

I refuse to consider this dinosaur canon.

I'm glad Jurassic Park was made in 1993 instead of now

Don't worry, Park will be rebooted by 2020-2024

 

[Toa TAK]

Remember when we all said that we hate the idea of feathers because birds arent scary?

No.

YOU ALL said that.

 

[Toxi]

Love All Yesterdays. Any dino fan should read it so they can realize 99.99% of what they think dinosaurs looked like is very likely false.

John Conway, one of the artists, illustrated one of my favorite Tyrannosaurus pictures ever.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

If the realization that dinosaurs were animals and not monsters, (and looked as such in life), is enough to ruin someone's childhood, then I'm sorry, but it probably wasn't all that great to begin with. Not that anyone's was, really. Between getting high, having sex and, (much later of course), bombing down the left lane at 80+ mph, life is more fun now than it ever was as a kid. Fuck childhood.

Odd that this is being talked about now as T-rex lips was sort of assumed 15 years ago. The pits in the skull around the mouth that would anchor fleshy lips to them was pointed out quite a long time ago.

Yeah, even a cursory glance at the skull is pretty telling. The nutrient foramina on the dentary are lower down from the jaw margin, presumably so that the lips could accommodate the larger maxillary teeth when the jaws were closed:

John Conway, one of the artists, illustrated one of my favorite Tyrannosaurus pictures ever.

*high five*

 

[Oersted]

DeviantArt is going to have a field day with this

 

[GAMEPROFF]

John Conway, one of the artists, illustrated one of my favorite Tyrannosaurus pictures ever.

Childhood further ruined

Imagine at some point we can time travel, so we go back to see dinosaurs and they all look shitty and not like we imagined...

 

[Ecotic]

Raw skeletons always seem far more intimidating in our imaginations. Would you ever swim with this prehistoric murder machine?

It's actually just a common dolphin. Having soft tissue encasing crushing power doesn't make an animal less fierce by any means though. Jaguars still pack a powerful bite even if you can't see its teeth constantly.

 

[TaterTots]

Their bones don't exist anymore, just their fossils, which aren't really their bones, and thus don't contain their DNA.

As a expert of all things SCIENCE I have to say there is still a way.

 

[Khaz]

As a expert of all things SCIENCE I have to say there is still a way.

Time to dig up amber mosquitoes.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

Here's a great one from DeviantArt. Lips, feathers, the works :

 

[SneakyStephan]

Just going to post this picture of Feathered T Rex because it's hilarious.

Lmao

Who knew T rex was just a giant budgie

 

[Toxi]

*high five*

I have a print of Conway's Sinovenator changii (Based on a painting of an owl) framed on my wall.

Childhood further ruined

Imagine at some point we can time travel, so we go back to see dinosaurs and they all look shitty and not like we imagined...

Is this more your style?

The point of those crazy looking Sauropod illustrations, by the way, is to muse over the possibility of unpreserved soft tissue that would radically change the appearance of an animal.

 

[TheRealTalker]

scrolling through this thread

fuck birds

 

[Jorok Goldblade]

It's funny seeing people realize waterfowl have fucking creepy mouths for the first time.

No. DNA degrades extremely quickly. While we are finding more and more preserved soft tissue in dinosaurs, DNA is completely out of the question.

There was a thread on this a while ago. Basically, there is no possible way for dinosaur DNA to survive until now. Megafauna from the ice age are the oldest animals we could go Jurassic Park on.

 

[Spaceman Spiff]

I have a print of Conway's Sinovenator changii (Based on a painting of an owl) framed on my wall.

Great choice!

I'd put John Conway in the same league as Doug Henderson, (the GOAT), and Charles Knight as one of the relatively few artists to achieve a truly believable and naturalistic portrayal of dinosaurs, (and other extinct beasties), based on the best knowledge available at the time. Emily Willoughby will soon be in the conversation, too.

 

[GAMEPROFF]

Is there an good and interesting blog about dinosaurs that isnt to much for archeologists (=a ordinary person understands what is written)?

 

[Nerrel]

Handsome devil.

 

[Mobius 1]

John Conway, one of the artists, illustrated one of my favorite Tyrannosaurus pictures ever.

Amazing work.

 

[efyu_lemonardo]

scrolling through this thread

fuck birds

Spoiler

http://i2.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IMG_9167.jpg

 

[astroturfing]

it's so freaky that these monsters actually existed, for millions and millions of years. they were as real as you and i, breathing the same air and drinking the same water..

trips me out whenever i think about it. we live in a weird fucking corner of the universe.

 

[TheChewyWaffles]

Just going to post this picture of Feathered T Rex because it's hilarious.

Thanks for ruining Jurassic Park for me forever.

 

[W-00]

What THE FUCK is this?!

It looks like some sort of toucan that's gotten a mouthful of marshmallows.

This is already true. I've read things over the years about how they're slower than we thought and that they just ate already dead animals. Just a big slow softie (with poisonously bad breath).

The whole "just a scavenger" thing has been conclusively debunked. Paleontologists have found a T. rex tooth embedded in a hadrosaur tail bone that showed signs of healing. Only way that could have happened was if the hadrosaur survived the encounter.

 

[HungOverOnATues]

We're gonna find out next that T-Rex's were actually hella nice animals and are just misunderstood. They don't wanna eat you they just wanna give you a hug.

They may be big and scary but they're really pretty nice.

 

[DedValve]

It also drove a Prius.

Oh god dont tell me they got all high and mighty that they were saving the earth.

 

[DedValve]

Spoiler

http://i2.wp.com/listverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/IMG_9167.jpg

Holy fuck drudigon just got a lot scarier in context.

Edit:crap double post.

 

[Cuburt]

Just going to post this picture of Feathered T Rex because it's hilarious.

Chicken lips

 

[SomedayTheFire]

Did people not realise birds were hardcore as fuck?

 

[Cuburt]

Childhood further ruined

Imagine at some point we can time travel, so we go back to see dinosaurs and they all look shitty and not like we imagined...

A real life Jurassic Park was probably already created and then scrapped because the dinosaurs came out looking stupid and not scary enough.

 

[HP_Wuvcraft]

If the realization that dinosaurs were animals and not monsters, (and looked as such in life), is enough to ruin someone's childhood, then I'm sorry, but it probably wasn't all that great to begin with

It's really weird how we attribute societal gender stereotypes on to giant reptiles that lived millions of years ago.

"T-REX DIDN'T HAVE FEATHERS! HE WASN'T A PUSSY!"

 

[Hypron]

Wouldn't that be even more terrifying? Like, it's getting close to you and starts opening its mouth, slowly revealing its enormous teeth. It'd make you shit your pants.