Science is my mistress...

[T.J.]

Much more of a space nut though. There's no word descriptive enough to describe it, awe-inspiring, amazing... these terms are worthless compared to the beauty that is the universe.

Me too. I could never stop referring to the dinosaurs as their names from Land Before Time.

[Mystical]

Lets see.. Big foot and Sarah, Peetree and Sharp Tooth!

Yep. Still got it.




Also, Owl, you could dump that dusty old science, and let me be your Mistress instead

[T.J.]

I mostly meant long neck, three horns, etc. Things where I didn't have to try to pronounce their real classifications.

[Sejanus]

The long-necked dinosaurs were Sauropods, from memory. Three-horns are known as Triceratops, I think.

[max-greece]

Do not get me started on dinosaurs - really.

The one in the OP is Argentinasaurus which is the largest of the Sauropod dinos yet found. The thing is there was a dino that ate it - Giganotosaurus which was a bit bigger than T-Rex but probably not quite as big as Spinosaurus. Giganotosaurus had an African relative called Charcarodontosaurus which may have been slightly smaller (we only have one partial skull so its hard to tell). Giga and Chara are almost indistinguishable.

Argentinasaurus was the also the last of the Sauropod dinosaurs dating from about 90 million years ago whilst across the globe the rest seem to have died out about 120 million years ago.

See what I mean? - Keep me off this subject. I can bore you all to tears.

[Mystical]

Dimetrodon



This. This is my new favorite
If they would've shown me this single picture in highschool, I woulda been like, "Evolution"

[Angrboda]

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[Anomalocaris]

Dimetrodon



This. This is my new favorite
If they would've shown me this single picture in highschool, I woulda been like, "Evolution"

Dimetrodon isn't a dinosaur. Get with the game!

Dinosaurs got me interested in biology when I was in the 2nd grade. Both my parents were professors specializing in neuroscience and neuromuscular-pharmocology. While I was in elementary and junior high I had zero interest in what they were doing. I more or less developed my own interests starting from stamp collecting about dinosaurs, to stamp collecting about different animal life from Cambrian onwards, including dimetrodon, to a interest in their physiology, to an interest in their evolutionary development down to the cellular level. I gradually came to an appreciation of my parents study, entirely on my own and independently of their attempts to impress me while I was young.

Yeah, astronomy and aerospace science were the other two interests while growing up.

[Mystical]

yep. they were just long necks and sharp teeth to me

Dimetrodon's not a dinosaur, what!? *sad face. Is it the ancestor of the TREX at least?

Also, I have a tOn of stamps in mint condition that my grandparents collected.. Do u know how to assess their worth?

[Anomalocaris]

Dimetrodon is a synapsids, which means it belong to a group directly ancestral to all living mammals like you and me. Dinosaurs is an entirely different lineage, and belong to a group that is ancestral to birds. They are on separate lineages and neither is an ancestor to the other. Last common ancestor of both synapsids and dinosaurs probably lived 50 million years before dimetrodon and 100 million years before the first dinosaurs.

As to stamps, I know there are professional stamp appraisers. The charge a fee and advise you on how much you collection is worth and where and how to sell it.