Dinos are baby

22 , they/them , autistic, jp/jw, prehistoric park, walking with... , primeval and dinos in general although my heart belongs to the carboniferous.

[theblogthattimeforgot]

Love these lil babies so much.

I need a leaellynasaura plush.

[theblogthattimeforgot]

I only have 2 wishes for Jurassic park survival :

Herrerasaurus

Muldoon being found alive

[iknowdino]

If the non-avian #dinosaurs somehow came back into our world, would you be:

A) Excited

or

B) Terrified

(bonus if you tell us in the comments why)

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[theblogthattimeforgot]

Excited.

I would 100% try to train some hadrosaurs and smaller carnivores.

Troodons would be enlisted into my pest control team if they reappeared.

[theultimatenaturelover]

Dilophosaurus wetherilli, the "two-crested lizard". The crests were probably used for individual recognition in a pack or sexual attraction to females, which means that they were probably brightly colored on males. Thanks to the Jurassic Park's representation of dilophosaurus, it's one of the most misunderstood dinosaurs. The neck frills and poison were merely fiction.

Despite loving feathered and fluffy dinosaurs, I decided to make this one more lizard-like (only to regret it later). The colors were based on a variety of hornbill species. I believe that dilophosaurs had sexual dimorphism and females were just black/brown. Also, my motivation to draw came back and I already made a new drawing I'll post in a few days :3

[samkuchingdraws]

Evening Surf

Thalassophonea Thalassophobia Thalassophilia

Art Print | RedBubble Shop

Also, anyone remember this dude from 'Walking With Dinosaurs'?

(and I just realised this was probably from after one of the most traumatic TV moments I have seen in my life)

[ba1laur]

i tried to understand lokiceratops and then very quickly gave up

[paleo-cafnir]

The Wolf

[earnedmagic]

pelagic barnacles feeding

[bogleech]

Since these are washed ashore they are not successfully finding plankton :(

But it's been a while since I said this so reminder that barnacles are crustaceans like crabs, not mollusks like oysters. Knowledge I took for granted until it seemingly shocked most of Tumblr last year.

[fuckthisbjrdplease]

barnacles are great becasue no other organism has created so much hatred in the people studying them.

darwin fucking despised these bastards.

[bogleech]

If anyone's wondering, it's because he discovered an undescribed and very strange tiny barnacle, which he nicknamed "Mister Arthrobalanus." (Now formally known as Cryptophialis minutus, and actually belongs in a sister group to true barnacles) He thought he'd try mapping out Mr Arthrobalanus's anatomical similarities to other barnacles and put together a family tree for his discovery.

In a letter to a friend he expected the project to take up to one month.

Instead he found that barnacles were such an understudied rabbit hole, the project consumed his life for ten years of dissecting stinky specimens in a dank basement while his health went to shit and his relationships deteriorated. He barely slept or ate or spoke to his own family while he analyzed barnacles mailed to him from colleagues all over the world, day and night. In the end he wrote multiple entire volumes on barnacles that remain the most detailed writing ever publicized about any single animal group.

After this he never studied or even hardly spoke of barnacles ever again except to say that he hated Mister Arthrobalanus more than any man could have ever hated a barnacle in all the world.

[paleoart]

Wardens of the Clouds

Ornithocheirus/Pteranodon (Geosternbergia)

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[samkuchingdraws]

Warmed Plates

A Stego at sunset~ (Finally back from a short break -- had meself a quick vacation, and also was a little sick. Am quite recovered now so yay!)

Also shoutout to @cosmicclairea / @cosmiccrusader / @voidoutbt (your fave dino, hun! XP)

[theblogthattimeforgot]

Hear me out.

Jurassic Park survival NEEDS herrerasaurus in it.

According to the ingen list, there were 4 herrerasaurus' on isla nublar prior to the sabotage, but they were found dead in the 1994 cleanup.

And since the game is set a day after the events of the film, they should be alive and we better see them istg.

[cenospire]

A storm rolls over Late Cretaceous Hateg island, nourishing the land and drenching the local wildlife. Featuring: Tethyshadros, Hatzegopteryx, Paludititan, Balaur bondoc, an Enantiornithine, Sabresuchus, and many other critters.

[paleoart]

As above, so below

Mamenchisaurus, Jiangjunosaurus, Sericipterus.

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[amnhnyc]

Have you ever heard of the “luck of the Irish?” ☘️ Well, this deer didn’t have it. Meet the Irish Elk, Megaloceros giganteus. It was originally discovered in bog deposits in Ireland. Once ranging from western Europe to China, this animal went extinct during the Pleistocene some 10,000 years ago. It was one of the largest known species of deer, weighing up to 1,500 pounds (680 kg). Its antlers, which could reach an incredible 13-foot- (4-m-) spread, were used in ritualized combat between males.

Photo: M. Pelczar © AMNH #paleontology #fossils #history #naturalhistory #museum #amnh https://www.instagram.com/p/Cp5Kk0PL_7Y/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[theblogthattimeforgot]

It's also the mount of the elvenking thranduil in the hobbit films.

[jewish-kulindadromeus]

The stories we find in fossils are the tales of our ancestors. Not just direct, but environmental. We are the product of everything that came before. Saying those stories we find aren't true is the epitome of disrespect.

YEC is disrespect and ignorance. It is tantamount to denying recorded history. It cannot be tolerated.

[radstarsaur]

A mess of Trilobites! Can you name them all?

[mixotrophics]

lepidodendron fossils (root impressions,, the holes are vertical roots and the long shallow textured trough is a horizontal root)

There are lots of lycopods nearby, many herbariums have lycopod samples that go back centuries, with DNA that can be used in next gen sequencing …

I like to think the lycopods and the fossils are sitting there together like when you go to a graveyard and wonder if anyone there is a distant distant ancestor of yours

Basalt of an old volcano chamber and the conduit extending out of it. Similar to columnar basalt hexagon time but radial due to the round chamber !

Rough timeline:

Volcano is probably Devonian, most igneous rock here is,

Equatorial swamp in Carboniferous -> lepidodendron and extensive coal veins. Cool sedimentary rock too, with visible effects of tidal deposition,

From then on drift to higher latitudes. And other new places.