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Thoughts on Prehistoric Park?
Topic Started: Sep 1 2008, 03:30 PM (1,802 Views)
Knnoar
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So what are your thoughts on the Prehistoric Park series. I liked it, and had a club based on it in 5th grade, i've also thought about writing a fanfic about it.
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Needs more feathers! :D
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If the sereis where to have been longer what animals would you have liked to be in the park?
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I would have liked to see some prehistoric primates, like Gigantopithecus. I would also like to see one of those mammal-like reptiles, cynodonts.
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I would have liked to have seen a Dimetrodon exhibit, and an aquatic area of the park. For the fanfic i was thinking of it being that something happened on the park so they closed it before it started and then years later a group of people find the documents on a computer screen in the lab where they intern, and go to the island where the Park is located they find all the equipment and fix the problem, and thus they re-start Pre-Historic Park, how about that?
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I like it... except that they left out pterosaurs!
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Well they would be very hard to keep without them flying away.
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Not really. If you have a strong domed building, you could hold them. Just like what they did with the Microraptors.

By the way, has anyone noticed how easy it would be for an animal to break out of any of those exhibits? They were not build very well at all. For examble, the exhibits of the Triceratops and the T-Rex were just made of wood. The giant insect house was just made out of brick filled with a high oxygen content (the air would escape).

As for any animals I would want in the park, I want a Megatherium (giant ground sloth), a Gorgonopsid, and some kind of Hadrosaur.
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I couldn't stand it personally. The acting just made me cringe so badly... you know when you're watching something so embarassing you have to switch the channel? That's why I never saw the whole series.

There was just something so rediculous about people pretending to interact with computer generated animals. Maybe if it were done less like a documentary it might have been better. Also, I never liked the idea of bringing back animals from the past. Don't know why, it just seems so very wrong.

All personal opinions there, not real criticism. I guess it wasn't a bad series, I just really didn't like it.

Oh, and that actor... what's his name... in a few series where he pretends to interact with computer generated animals... can't stand him when he's doing that. It's very annoying.
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Yes, specially considering the animals he's talking too are often scientifically inaccurate (likem the featherless Therizinosaurus in "Giant Claw")
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I remember that. Didn't therizinosaurs have big muckle obvious feather quils on its forearms?

It's just funny the way he's all in "awe" and I can't help but imagine in real life he's gawking at thin air...
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obvious feather quils on its forearms


Nobody knows, since skin impressions of therizinosaurus itself weren't found yet; however, there's three reasons to think it had feathers:

-Its relative, Beipiosaurus, was feathered
-It was member of clade maniraptora, which is know to have had feathers; every single family has at least on specie with feather impressions
-Mongolia was a cold desert in the late Cretaceous
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obvious feather quils on its forearms


Nobody knows, since skin impressions of therizinosaurus itself weren't found yet; however, there's three reasons to think it had feathers:

-Its relative, Beipiosaurus, was feathered
-It was member of clade maniraptora, which is know to have had feathers; every single family has at least on specie with feather impressions
-Mongolia was a cold desert in the late Cretaceous
Thanks for the correction.

I was pretty sure I had seen a fossil of one of the bones in the forearm, and it has quills attached to these knobbly bits on the bone, but it might have been another species. I thought it was this one but maybe I was wrong.
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There was a Velociraptor fossil with marks of feathers in its forearms...
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Therizinosaurus would probably die from overheating with feathers. Being bigger than every carnosaur, it is pretty much a walking solar panel, mucho surface area. Maybe as a youngster but with age and size they would become impractical.
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