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Thoughts on Prehistoric Park?
Topic Started: Sep 1 2008, 03:30 PM (1,804 Views)
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They'd probably retain some plumage for display.



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Well, Darren Naish has opposed to that view of featherless therizinosaurs:


http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2007/02/therizinosauroids_and_altanger.php

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While people generally imagine the Mesozoic world to have been a thermally stable hothouse where big insulated animals would have faced meltdown, we're actually not sure that this was true and in fact some studies indicate otherwise. Particularly intriguing is that Cretaceous continental interiors such as those of Mongolia may not have been that warm, and apparently subjected to cold winters with strong winds (Barron & Washington 1982, Sloan & Barron 1990, Sellwood et al. 1994).

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I noticed, but in the desert, cold or not, the sun still shines veeery brightly.
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And? Its not like camels or gemsbooks die from sun light
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I'm sure the Cretaceous had areas in it with varying temperatures. Australia also had cold winters with possible precipitation in the form of snow. It's possible that the northern most tips of Eurasia and North America may have been cooler as well (though I'm not too sure) This may have also meant ornithopods such as Protoceratops may have had some plumage covering their bodies as well.



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Well, ceratopsidians perhaps, but not ornithopods. Probably hadrosaurs were migratory
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I enjoyed the program very much. Found it a bit hard to believe they went back after T-rex without some sizable firearms, though.
Wouldn't have made good viewing for the kiddies, I suspect.

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I don't like seeing dinosaurs with feathers. It just feels... wrong.

The series was Ok (it was ages ago here in Britland) but there are so many amazing prehistoric creatures, the series would be hard pressed to show them all. Personally, i prefer Gigantosaurus (i'm really annoyed about Spinosaurus being the biggest land predator ever, with such a close margin) and Lipleurodon (even though Many mosasaurs, the sperm whale and basilosaurus were apparently bigger.).
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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Well, thanks to Tianiyulong its now generally accepted all dinosaurs had some integrumentary structure of sorts, except perhaps the titanosaurs. It is very obvious though that all maniraptors were feathered.

Spinosaurus was like a giant heron, being mostly a psicivore, so Giganotosaurus or some other carcharodontosaurid still holds the title of the biggest superpredator on land.
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:rolleyes: Whew. :rolleyes:
Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea.

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I don't like seeing dinosaurs with feathers. It just feels... wrong.
Our perception of dinosaurs should not be opinionated. All of the evidence we are gathering is bringing us closer the the conclusion that dinosaurs generally had fine documentary structures. It must be noted though that there may be a few exceptions to the feather rule, like in ceratosaurs of Theropoda.

But as for Spinosaurus, it probably didn't take on larger prey due to its hollow teeth better suited for fish and smaller dinosaurs. The thicker jaws of Giganotosaurus seem better adapted for biting into larger prey.
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There were mosasaurs bigger then ole' lippy-don?
Didn't know that.
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I quite liked it but would have liked to have seen a touch taken from primel with some kind of future anamile.
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This was made before Primeval, and frankly why the hell would they bring a future animal if this is PREHISTORIC Park!? Seriously, that comment was retarded
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