i could never take this one experiment seriously, like obviously the wider peace of plastic is gonna create more propulsion, its essentially a flipper, also just a silhouette wont account for factors like flexibility and other things like muscles, thickness etc, any flat piece of plastic is gonna create thrust and is obviously gonna be grater the wider it becomes. Then u have to assume Spinosaurus's tail could even undulate this way.
Then there is the Coelophysis, why even include it, they had stiff tails, any data u got from this is useless cuz they could not physically move their tail like this afik they had stiff tails.
Using this as evidence makes no sense, "moving the tail from side to side produces thrust" no dip sherlock, idk why u need cutouts to figure this out. what do yall think? am i alone in this? isn't it flawed? or am i missing something?

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I'm new here, and I've seen quite a few posts about pterosaurs. However, if I'm not mistaken, the first rule of this subreddit is "dinos only". Does this allow other archosaurs (like pterosaurs) or other prehistoric animals that lived among non-avian dinosaurs? Or have pterosaurs been so commonly associated with non-avian dinosaurs that it doesn't really matter?

Deinonychus's? Deinonychi? Something else? I feel weird writing "Deinonychus"

Could someone tell me what other inaccuracies there are in this depiction? Also, is there actually a dinosaur that looks like this? Or is this just a dragon?

Hey there. Just curious what the novel Carnosaur reads. I know it’s horror, I know it verges even on a little of the British dark satirical/bloody, and I’m totally cool with it.

I’m actually a little more interested in what the dinosaurs are like. What do they look like, how do they act?

I’ve been shifting back to dinosaurs in my own writing and it turns out while I own most of the classics, I don’t own this one! Just curious to see if it’s worth picking up.

How do you think its nose was utilized?

I don't know why, but I've been having weird nightmares about a raptor from jurassic Park with mixed with human DNA, but at the time when they were making the copies, they actually had too much human DNA to one of the Raptors so the Raptors were kinda like a mutant raptor looking human like I had the eyes of a human, but I had like the body and like the facial structure of her after and I had like five fingers possible thumbs and stuff like that so I acted like a human but like with a raptor body and every single time right before I wake up by the end of the dream I was sent to one of the islands from Jurassic Park to go to see what what's happening with all the dinosaurs after like the parks were like I guess abandoned and we found this raptor in the power place thing where you run all the power stuff and the power went out and we had to go there and it's usually always me and one other friend like in my dream and then my friend goes in first and I have to stay out to make sure no one's coming in or out of the door to make sure we're not being hunted in this human raptor looking dinosaurknocks on the glass and staring at me down and then I wake up. Does anybody else have something like this as a dream or a nightmare if so, please let me know.

Proud to announce that my short story collection, Prehistoric Wild: Life in the Mesozoic, has been updated with its 35th entry. Called "Hunchback's Offering," this one takes place in the La Huérguina Formation of Early Cretaceous Spain, 130 million years ago. In it, a Concavenator named Diego competes with other males in a hunt against a flock of Pelecanimimus before using his prize as part of a mating ritual. This is one I've been eager to write for a while. Not only is it one of the first ideas I ever had for Prehistoric Wild, but I also took heavy inspiration from birds of paradise for one particular aspect of this tale. Can't wait to hear what y'all end up thinking of it. https://www.wattpad.com/1497014862-prehistoric-wild-life-in-the-mesozoic-hunchback%27s

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Imagine scrolling through a subreddit dedicated to one of your favorite topics and you see this... thing. A shameless, low effort post existing for the sole reason to BEG you for engagement. Annoying, isn't it?

Oh wait... you don't need to imagine it. It's already a thing.
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Some of you probably know exactly what I'm referring to. I'm not gonna directly reference any posts or users, witch-hunting isn't the point of this post. My goal is simple - an addition to the rules which puts a big, juicy ban on content with the same amount of effort put into it as those low-quality Facebook posts with Jesus Christ telling you to like and share or burn in hell for all eternity.

What's that? Such a rule already exists? Why, yes indeed, rule #3 is right there! Personally, I'd add a point to it that specifically references engagement farms but the fact remains that this rule exists.

Then what is the point of my post? Am I secretly trying to cash in and farm some of those precious fake internet points for myself?
Truth be told, I've got nothing better to do this evening. I was casually scrolling this sub when my eyes beheld that shameless post I alluded to earlier, and since I've already established I have nothing better to do I obviously had no choice but to be utterly appalled at such disgrace, I just had to make a statement about it!

Obviously, I'm being slightly overdramatic, but I still want to call this community to action. Yes, the rules state posts of this nature are prohibited. That doesn't mean we can still post them and hope the mods don't notice. It's in the rules for a reason, and that reason is because engagement farms like this are pretty damn annoying. My point is, we should be better than this, we need to have higher standards.

"Dude, it's just a stupid subreddit about dinosaurs, who cares?" some of you may be thinking. Yes, it's a stupid dinosaur subreddit; yet here you are, in the stupid dino sub. We're all here because we like dinosaurs, and I think that's more than enough reason to try and help the moderators keep this place nice and cozy.

Now gimme my upvotes!!1!

What’s saying dinosaurs didn’t go extinct, but evolved into the animals we have now? You ever see a giraffe and a brachiosaurus? Same legs and neck build, or a rhino and a triceratops? Same big horn and such… maybe they are still alive but evolved into those animals we know, that we labeled as a complete different species. we have discovered fossilized skulls of the original homosapiens but we aren’t extinct, maybe the fossils we discover are the old dinosaurs, and they evolved, into the modern day animals, like a chicken and a rhino are similar to pterodactyls and triceratops.

Hi i am makeing a dinosaur/dragon city in minecraft and thought i would ask in the dinosaur community what would be the best road for a dinosaur to walk on that would hypothetically keep them comfortable for long walks

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Credits go to u/Sensitive_Range_2196 whose post gave me the idea for this one.

Well, I got crazy and decided to do a mezosoic "Yellowstone" in JWE2, as there's no Montana there, I did it in the closest state, Washington state, I also don't know what dinos that lived there are in JWE2, so I I put some that seemed to be from there or that adapted or I put because they are cool, so far they are:

Deinocherus Gigantoraptor Concavenator Australovenator Ankylosaurus Parasaurolophus Brachy (or bronto, is a sauropod) Albertosaurus Yutiranos If you want to add any Dino just let me know

I know there are lots of studies being released that give us knew size estimates about the weight of this animal. But can someone tell me what the current estimate is right now before it undoubtedly changes again?

One of my friends said cat but idk

Mine is this menace from Primal.

I can't really explain why but the Night Feeder is such a terrifying and purely depraved villain that I cannot help but name it as my favourite. It is also pretty unique imo as he is not a classic raptor or T.rex, but something entirely different yet still a theropod.

My personal headcanon is that the Night Feeder was some Megaraptorid, more specifically Maip macrothorax