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Monday, 09 May 2016

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Vintage Dinosaur Art: Animals of the Past Stamps - Part 2 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2016-05-09 21:42:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (211 visits) info

 Cretaceous,Jurassic; US
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Having had a look at the dinosaurs in Animals of the Past Stamps (1954), I asked our lovely readers if they'd be at all interested in seeing some of the stinkin' Cenozoic mammals. A handful of people were, so here we are. Unfortunately, I don't know half as much about prehistoric mammals as I do dinosaurs (in spite of being a descendant of some of them), so you'll have to forgive me when I fail to spot the bleedin' obvious. I mean, more so than usual. In any case, let's start at the Palaeogene [...]

TYRANNOSAURUS: Warrior Or Wimp? 

Dinosaur Home - Blogs [2015-03-01 00:24:20]  recommend  recommend this post  (654 visits) info
The imagination has captured our mind,a 7 ton predator.Is this always correct?this is a argument that should of been over 25 years ago. Jack Horner at The Museum of The Rockies suggests that T.rex was an all time scavenger after looking at T.rex,s 1 meter long arms.He said:”T.rex,with its tiny arms could not do anything with

Doing the T. rex Stretch 

Dinosaur Tracking [2012-10-10 16:50:35]  recommend  recommend this post  (19 visits) info
Did T. rex use its tiny arms to do

He Was The Mightiest Of All! 

Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs [2012-09-04 19:00:00]  recommend  recommend this post  (61 visits) info
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This is The World That Was. Volcanoes belch gobbets of lava into the permanent twilight, their Olympian fires raging above the steaming jungles, and amidst the shadowed tree trunks shamble a swarm of horrors. Strange cries echo through the twisting undergrowth, a deafening cacophony out of the deepest antediluvian hell. Every thing that lives, everything that breathes, hums with the same primal madness. Red skies above. Red blood below. Red, red, red, in bone [...]

Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrannosaurus Asks ‘Paper or Plastic?’ 

Dinosaur Tracking [2009-10-23 16:26:45]  recommend  recommend this post  (8 visits) info
Today’s Dinosaur Sighting comes to us from reader Cameron, who snapped this photo of a Tyrannosaurus popping out of an IGA grocery store wall in Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. The dinosaur may look mean, but I’m sure he’s just enthusiastic about helping shoppers take bags to their cars. Too bad he’s got such tiny arms…. Have you
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