Ask the Raptormaniacs

[raptormaniacs]

If you guys were in My Little Maniraptor, what would your cutie marks be?

Or maybe I should have a collections drawer? Hmm…

-Remex

[raptormaniacs]

Thoughts on potoos?

-Albertonykus

It would appear that the artist has hijacked this answer to promote his new paper…

-Skull

[raptormaniacs]

Savape, what would happen if the museum got a second Archaeopteryx?

I suppose I wouldn’t really need it though. I already win every time. Maybe what we need is a second Deinonychus to show Ostrom the ropes!

-Savape

[raptormaniacs]

Have you seen the movie "Night at the Museum"? Can you compare it to the events happening in your museum ?

-(Some of) the Raptormaniacs cast

[raptormaniacs]

What would Skull do if a reasonable paper finds out that Tsaagan is a species of Velociraptor?

Besides, species are just constructs you make up to understand the biosphere.

-Skull

[raptormaniacs]

It appears that this blog is no longer marked as explicit, thank goodness. My appreciation goes out to a reader who let me know about this; Tumblr doesn’t seem to feel the need to actually tell me about these things.

As such, the askbox is now open once more. This is not a guarantee that the questions will be answered immediately, however.

[raptormaniacs]

It appears that this blog was flagged as explicit without my knowledge, rendering it invisible to non-Tumblr users and to those with safe mode on. Tumblr support has so far been completely unhelpful in responding to my appeals to unflag the blog.

Until steps can be taken to undo the damage, I will be putting this blog on hiatus. Raptormaniacs is intended to be accessible to all of my readers, and that cannot be achieved if it is forcibly hidden from some of my audience.

I realize that I haven’t been posting much on here to begin with, but until now I’ve always considered returning to this blog at some point. Unless this issue is resolved, I will be keeping the askbox closed for the time being.

[raptormaniacs]

Are Ostrom and Remex going to get a remake soon since 1. Zhenyuanlong proves ground dwelling dromaeosaurs do not have fan tails and 2. Caudipteryx's color has been revealed.

As for Ostrom, Zhenyuanlong proves nothing of the sort. Zhenyuanlong shows that we shouldn’t assume that all dromaeosaurids had Microraptor-like tail feathering, but that doesn’t make Microraptor-like tail plumage incorrect if applied to other dromaeosaurids. If anything, the lesson of Zhenyuanlong is that tail feathering was variable in dromaeosaurids, and a variety of different tail feathering can be plausibly depicted on taxa for which we currently lack direct evidence of their plumage.

-Remex

[raptormaniacs]

Are you allowed to leave the museum grounds?

We museum exhibits are free to leave after the museum closes, but there is not much point because everywhere else is also closed. That is time much better spent on plotting my next plan to take over the museum.

Besides, moving around takes too much work for me.

-Skull

[raptormaniacs]

Remex, show us the new color scheme worked out for your species!

Hooray for the power of summoning relevant imagery!

Everyone seems to forget about Caudipteryx when talking about paleo-color. For shame.

-Remex

[jurassicsunsets]

Velociraptor mongoliensis or V. Osmolskae?

Tsaagan mangas

[raptormaniacs]

At least @palaeofail always comes through for me. The rest of you need to learn from her example.

-Skull

[inkskinned]

u know what … i changed my mind… all u scientists out there who worked ur butts off just to have your research purposefully ignored by the government… do your science thing and bring back the dinosaurs… catch them ignoring you when a velociraptor is our next president…. like ding dong what’s that? it’s science, it doesn’t care about your silly ignorant opinion… it’s back with a vengeance… and it’s hungry, bitch

[cry-olophosaurus]

And I’ll be here to welcome our new Mesozoic overlords. 

[raptormaniacs]

You guys have had a velociraptorine ready to be your leader all this time, and you choose the one whose response to a global threat is saying gibberish rather than building a death laser? Unbelievable.

-Skull

Hold it right there, Skull. We already established that giving you a ton of power is a terrible idea.

-Remex

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Rather than acknowledge any current events that might be happening today, let’s get a thread going

Reblog this post and add a picture of a dinosaur. Any dinosaur will do. Is it a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon? Then great! Add it to the post. Birds, raptors, ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, even titanosaurs - just add a dinosaur. A good, friendly terrible lizard (because truly, they are terrible at being lizards. Good at being birds, though.) 

I’ll start

The plot is Pleasant with new Pheasants (by @ryuukibart)

[north-wyrm]

The littlest auk, smaller than the puffin.

[raptormaniacs]

Hmm yes, I approve of this indulgence. Here is a throwback to our latest big adventure. There were lasers and cannons and visitors from another dimension (as pictured below); it was all quite exciting.

We were shocked by the fact that Skull had built a giant mech in his own image and secretly stashed it away in the museum, but in retrospect it was exactly the kind of thing he would do.

Anyhow, Skull went a little power-crazy but everything was okay in the end.

-Remex

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Here we have it. The Non-Neornithean Theropod Quadrant. Everything but the last two were determined by the most number of votes for that category; the last two were two of some of the other largely-voted-for theropods that were significantly different from the others that were placed in the Quadrant. 

The Sauropodomorph Survey will go up on Sunday. 

Herrerasaurus by Smnt2000; Majungasaurus by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 2.5); Spinosaurus by @ad-0rca-ble; Carcharodontosaurus by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 2.5); Compsognathus by Durbed (CC BY-SA 3.0); Yutyrannus by me; Gallimimus by John Conway; Mononykus by Andrey Atuchin (taking from the NHM Site); Nothronychus by @palaeoplushies; Anzu by @artisticthingem; Dakotaraptor by @ewilloughby (CC BY-SA 4.0); Balaur by @ewilloughby (CC BY-SA 4.0); Avisaurus by Green-Mamba; Hesperornis by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 3.0); Cryolophosaurus by @ahseeru; Confuciusornis by @ryuukibart

[raptormaniacs]

Or whatever your fancy new name is. Palaeoblr, is it? In any case, if you were hoping that I’ve already forgotten what happened last year: I haven’t.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bothered to join you all, really…

-Skull

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

I was rooting for you, Skull, I really was

[yutyrannusrex-blog]

I voted for Tsaagan too, don’t worry, you’ll get there someday!

[raptormaniacs]

Sometimes it takes your darkest hour for one to realize who their allies are.

-Skull

You darkest hour? Aren’t you being a little melodramatic? I thought going mad with power and trying to blast the museum to pieces was your darkest hour.

-Dinky

What the hell, Dinky. When did you learn to edit posts on a Tumblr account?

-Skull

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Here we have it. The Non-Neornithean Theropod Quadrant. Everything but the last two were determined by the most number of votes for that category; the last two were two of some of the other largely-voted-for theropods that were significantly different from the others that were placed in the Quadrant. 

The Sauropodomorph Survey will go up on Sunday. 

Herrerasaurus by Smnt2000; Majungasaurus by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 2.5); Spinosaurus by @ad-0rca-ble; Carcharodontosaurus by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 2.5); Compsognathus by Durbed (CC BY-SA 3.0); Yutyrannus by me; Gallimimus by John Conway; Mononykus by Andrey Atuchin (taking from the NHM Site); Nothronychus by @palaeoplushies; Anzu by @artisticthingem; Dakotaraptor by @ewilloughby (CC BY-SA 4.0); Balaur by @ewilloughby (CC BY-SA 4.0); Avisaurus by Green-Mamba; Hesperornis by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 3.0); Cryolophosaurus by @ahseeru; Confuciusornis by @ryuukibart

[raptormaniacs]

Or whatever your fancy new name is. Palaeoblr, is it? In any case, if you were hoping that I’ve already forgotten what happened last year: I haven’t.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bothered to join you all, really...

-Skull

[raptormaniacs]

Where does Remex's name come from?

A remex is a long wing feather. The plural of remex is remiges. In fact, I used to be called Remige until the artist realized that that was grammatically incorrect!

-Remex

[raptormaniacs]

Coming soon on the main blog.