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Walking With Dinosaur GAF and other prehistoric creatures |OT|
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Cow Mengde
Banned
Got this tattooed on my leg
PICS!
Anton Sugar
Member
Ah, jeeze. Okay, it's actually from a recreation that takes some liberties with the actual remains to provide a more complete image: http://www.bhigr.com/media/zoomslides/FightingDinos_0002-2/
Not done yet. Need to add some more details, like the raptor's other leg, separation of some of the bones (shoulder/arm). He had to compromise on some of the structure, else it will just bleed together into a blob when I'm older. He also made the tail curve, because we were running out of space and he thought it would turn out better like this.
Perspective is a little skewed here, making the raptor look really small...but not much smaller than it actually was!
Not done yet. Need to add some more details, like the raptor's other leg, separation of some of the bones (shoulder/arm). He had to compromise on some of the structure, else it will just bleed together into a blob when I'm older. He also made the tail curve, because we were running out of space and he thought it would turn out better like this.
Perspective is a little skewed here, making the raptor look really small...but not much smaller than it actually was!
Cow Mengde
Banned
That's awesome!
Anton Sugar
Member
Thanks! I considered the archaeopteryx, but that one was always my fav.
Baconsaurus Rex
Member
that's fucking rad
Scientists announce they might have found a missing link in turtle evolution, Pappochelys.
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/06/25/a-transitional-turtle-pappochelys/
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2015/06/25/a-transitional-turtle-pappochelys/
Cow Mengde
Banned
Yo, Dinosaur GAF, a fellow Gaffer needs your help!
I'm sure we're all familiar with our mod Bishoptl. He's doing a kickstarter for a comic book called Savage Empire. We're nearing the end of the kickstarter, but it still needs a little more to succeed! Now Savage Empire is just a comic book, but if this is successful, a game is coming!!! For those that don't know, bishoptl worked on Turok for the 360/PS3. He's been toying with another dinosaur game idea for a while now. We need to get this kickstarter up for the rest to fall in place!
Check this thread for more details!!!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1055849
I'm sure we're all familiar with our mod Bishoptl. He's doing a kickstarter for a comic book called Savage Empire. We're nearing the end of the kickstarter, but it still needs a little more to succeed! Now Savage Empire is just a comic book, but if this is successful, a game is coming!!! For those that don't know, bishoptl worked on Turok for the 360/PS3. He's been toying with another dinosaur game idea for a while now. We need to get this kickstarter up for the rest to fall in place!
Check this thread for more details!!!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1055849
Turok 2Yo, Dinosaur GAF, a fellow Gaffer needs your help!
I'm sure we're all familiar with our mod Bishoptl. He's doing a kickstarter for a comic book called Savage Empire. We're nearing the end of the kickstarter, but it still needs a little more to succeed! Now Savage Empire is just a comic book, but if this is successful, a game is coming!!! For those that don't know, bishoptl worked on Turok for the 360/PS3. He's been toying with another dinosaur game idea for a while now. We need to get this kickstarter up for the rest to fall in place!
Check this thread for more details!!!
http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1055849
Cow Mengde
Banned
Turok 2
If you support it, this will become Turok 2, just without the Turok name.
Cow Mengde
Banned
Update, Savage Empire kickstarter is a success!!!
Oh and largest dinosaur is now an unnamed Titanosaur. It was announced last year. It's exceptionally well preserved with multiple individuals! 66-feet tall and 132-feet long! Argentinosaurus MIGHT be bigger, but it's too incomplete to say for certain. This unnamed giant is well preserved so very little guess work is needed.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/features/2015/06/29/titanosaur-argentina-huge-dinosaur/29454515/
Oh and largest dinosaur is now an unnamed Titanosaur. It was announced last year. It's exceptionally well preserved with multiple individuals! 66-feet tall and 132-feet long! Argentinosaurus MIGHT be bigger, but it's too incomplete to say for certain. This unnamed giant is well preserved so very little guess work is needed.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/features/2015/06/29/titanosaur-argentina-huge-dinosaur/29454515/
Anton Sugar
Member
Wooo! I saw the "69 hours left" update, it was looking promising. Congrats, bish!
Holy God, that's a big dinosaur. Glad to hear this one's so well-preserved.Update, Savage Empire kickstarter is a success!!!
Oh and largest dinosaur is now an unnamed Titanosaur. It was announced last year. It's exceptionally well preserved with multiple individuals! 66-feet tall and 132-feet long! Argentinosaurus MIGHT be bigger, but it's too incomplete to say for certain. This unnamed giant is well preserved so very little guess work is needed.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/features/2015/06/29/titanosaur-argentina-huge-dinosaur/29454515/
chicko1983
Member
I love the turtle/tortoise evolution.
Something like: it was a sea animal, then land, then went back to the sea, then the giant tortoise went back to the land.
Whales "only" went from the sea, to land and then back to live in the sea.
Evolution is amazing!
Update, Savage Empire kickstarter is a success!!!
Oh and largest dinosaur is now an unnamed Titanosaur. It was announced last year. It's exceptionally well preserved with multiple individuals! 66-feet tall and 132-feet long! Argentinosaurus MIGHT be bigger, but it's too incomplete to say for certain. This unnamed giant is well preserved so very little guess work is needed.
http://www.9news.com/story/news/features/2015/06/29/titanosaur-argentina-huge-dinosaur/29454515/
That's awesome.
I wonder why dinosaurs in this region got so big. Argentinosaurus, Giganotosaurus and now this.
Anton Sugar
Member
Seriously.
I'm sure there are numerous papers on this, but is there any good, definitive research on this type of "giganticism"? Is there anything else to it, other than "big dinosaurs are hard to kill"?
Cow Mengde
Banned
Don't know, but there's more to dinosaur biology that'll take time to figure out. There's a Sauropodamorph that's 70+ feet as far back as the Triassic. These guys got insanely big early in their evolution. I wonder if that meant there might be a 36 feet Triassic theropod that we don't know about.
Oh, here's what someone from facebook is saying about this.
I'm struggling to think of theropods from the Triassic. Maybe Herrerasaurus.
EDIT: Holy shit @ that edit. That's seriously amazing.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
"Surrounding plants"? Not just scraps of leaves and bark? Neat if so!
Green Mamba
Member
My first reaction was that it looked a lot like Kosmoceratops, but they're not as similar as I first thought.
Has anyone ever tought about collecting pictures of feathered dinosaur art pre-1995?
I have this idea from time to time because I still remember dinosaur depctions from back then that were feathered (excluding Archeopterix). Gotta see if I still have issues of Dinosaurs! that contained some of them.
I have this idea from time to time because I still remember dinosaur depctions from back then that were feathered (excluding Archeopterix). Gotta see if I still have issues of Dinosaurs! that contained some of them.
rhophiehalul78
Member
Nice to see that kickstarter getting supported. Anything dinosaur-related are awesome!
Cow Mengde
Banned
That's what I thought too.
I think only Greg Paul did dinosaur art with feathers before the 90s.
Also there's this.
Green Mamba
Member
Most everyone depicted Syntarsus with feathers back when due to it being the first dinosaur ever depicted with feathers, but I can't find the original art. I do have this gross one from one of my eighties era books though:
Avimimus is another one that you'd be hard pressed to find depicted without feathers in any era. Here's Sibbick's from the eighties.
It's, uh, not terribly accurate otherwise.
Concerning "Syntarsus" or Megapnosaurus or whatever, it's always bugged me that it gets lumped now into Coelophysis in this era of splitting everything from everything.
Avimimus is another one that you'd be hard pressed to find depicted without feathers in any era. Here's Sibbick's from the eighties.
It's, uh, not terribly accurate otherwise.
Concerning "Syntarsus" or Megapnosaurus or whatever, it's always bugged me that it gets lumped now into Coelophysis in this era of splitting everything from everything.
Septimus Prime
Member
I think Indricotherium is now called Paraceratherium.That's what I thought too.
I think only Greg Paul did dinosaur art with feathers before the 90s.
Also there's this.
I'm not familiar with that mammoth.
Cow Mengde
Banned
It is, not sure why that picture used the outdated name. There was a different picture with the correct name.
I always wanted to see ancient sea monsters. I stumbled upon a BBC series that presents that. It's from the makers of Walking with Dinosaurs. It is fun and gives a demonstration of how terrifying the seas were in the past.
Here's the complete series on youtube (three episodes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXCiaoaXB8&list=PLE410240DC9703BBD
Fun and educational watch.
Here's the complete series on youtube (three episodes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfXCiaoaXB8&list=PLE410240DC9703BBD
Fun and educational watch.
SatelliteOfLove
Member
MisterGrey3000
Member
Guys, when are pterosaur depictions in the mainstream media going to stop looking like they came from the 1950s/Fantasia??
Pterosaurs really need their equivalent of JP1 so we can finally move away from dull colored naked scaly bird necked bat-like lizard things that snatch things out of the sky and perch on branches. It'll probably never happen...but I can dream.
:<
Pterosaurs really need their equivalent of JP1 so we can finally move away from dull colored naked scaly bird necked bat-like lizard things that snatch things out of the sky and perch on branches. It'll probably never happen...but I can dream.
:<
Anton Sugar
Member
Nope. Deep water phobia won't let me.
Green Mamba
Member
You mean start looking like the came from Fantasia, right? The Right of Spring at least understood that pterosaurs pick things up with their mouths, not with their feet.
Pretty much, JP3 and JW's monster-bat pteranodons are beyond travesty.
Hollywood will start depicting pterosaurs correctly around the same time it does something so bold as to show a raptor with more than a few token feather stubs on its head and tail.
MisterGrey3000
Member
You're right!
I mean, despite stuff like upside down roosting, dropping take-offs, and noodle bird necks the portrayal in the Rite of Spring segment is somewhat decent considering the research they had to work with.
However, that makes it even more depressing considering that fantasia was released in the 1940s and we have access to google and stuff like pterosaur.net...
It was honestly as ridiculous as seeing twisted monstrous versions of fish eating seabirds and chickens attacking people on screen.
They just didn't care lol
T.T
Cow Mengde
Banned
Green Mamba
Member
Jurassic World had a technical adviser?
Why?
Why?
Blue Submarine No. 6
Member
Version 3.0
Member
Probably because Jurassic Park did. Just one more box to check while making a soul-less copy of the original.
Anton Sugar
Member
Nice! That's actually an interesting concept. Have there been any paleo-art projects that directly reference some of the diversity in modern nature and apply it to prehistoric animals? Other than something like All Yesterdays, that is.
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