Posts treating: "large dinosaurs"
Friday, 10 June 2016
markwitton.com blog [2016-06-10 12:37:00]
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(762 visits) Triassic; LV,US,PL,GB,CA,CN,MN,CH
Three Sinornithoides youngi, one standing, one sitting, one sunbathing. But would these animals really have adopted resting poses like those of modern birds, as shown here, or would they have relaxed in completely different postures?A recurrent topic of conversation among palaeoartists concerns how non-avialan dinosaurs rested. Specifically, were they constrained to crouching down and lying on their bellies like modern birds (above), or could they lounge on their sides, rest with limbs beneath [...]
ART Evolved: Life's Time Capsule [2014-07-28 00:09:00]
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(147 visits) NZ,US,TR,IN
This post was inspired by the Nostalgia Critic's "Top 10 Films Doug Hates But Everyone Else Loves" ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XG9ZQyExe4 ). It's nothing formal, just a list of what I (as a non-expert dino fan) think are the most annoyingly-popular (I.e. More popular than they should be, given the evidence) dino hypotheses in recent years (I.e. Post-2000) & why. Even still, I hope that at least some of you will get something out of it. As for why "Top 4", to quote Santa Claus ( [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2014-01-28 22:42:00]
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(88 visits) Mesozoic; GB
The admirable effort of a single writer/illustrator, The Amazing World of Dinosaurs comes to us from the amazing world of 1981. It was a primitive age, when Donkey Kong was the cutting edge in video game entertainment, Bruce Dickinson had only just joined Iron Maiden, and popular palaeoart stood at an intriguing juncture. On the one hand, artists' work still owed much to the classic depictions of 'great fossil lizards', but there was nevertheless a conscious move towards more recognisably [...]
Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2012-12-06 15:00:00]
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(108 visits) Jurassic
Firstly, apologies for the lateness of this one - I missed the Monday deadline and then the other guys posted some material, and I thought it better that content be spread out over the week. Hopefully this book will be worth the wait - as nostalgia for some, and for everyone else as an interesting entry in the canon of one of the most well-known and respected palaeoartists. For my part, I had no idea it existed until very recently, and was instantly excited when I found it - pop-up Sibbick!The [...]
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As many of Dinosaur Home’s regulars know, I’ve recently been discussing the possibility that crocodiles are the descendants of dinosaurs (specifically Spinosauridae) with a guest. I’ve always taken the side of “dinosaurs aren’t the ancestors of crocodiles”, as I figured that a lot of the spinosaurs were warm-blooded.
This theory was based on