#ask palaeoblr

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hello! i do not know a lot about dinosaurs personally, but one of my little cousins loves them and i want to be able to have conversations with him about them that aren't just "yes, t-rex cool." do you have any recommendations for where a beginner might learn some basic stuff? or even somewhere it would be better to ask, if here's not okay. anything would be much appreciated!

Starting out, I'd recommend Dinopedia by Darren Naish, Dinosaurs: New Visions of a Lost World by Michael Benton, Dinosaurs: 10 Things You Should Know by Dean Lomax, The Future of Dinosaurs by David Hone, Dinosaur World by Evan Johnson-Ransom, and Dinosaurs: How They Lived and Evolved by Darren Naish and Paul Barrett.

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I recently found out that Diplodocus longus is considered to be dubious. Since it's the type species, would that mean D. carnegii and D. hallorum would need a new genus name? Could we perhaps see the return of Seismosaurus?

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Was livyatan bigger than megalodon?

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Question for the blog owner(s): what's the animal in your pfp?

Tianyulong!

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Can anyone tell be anything about the environment and fauna of the Xianshuihe formation, apart from that Chalicotherium is known from there?

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