Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered

[Catholic_Lady]

My favorite as a kid were the long necks lol. Can't remember what they are officially called.

[Edwardo Piet]

It's used for many different types of long necked dinosaurs in the movie.

But primarily it's used for Apatosaurus (which was previously known as Brontosaurus)... that's the species of 'long neck' that Little Foot and his mom were supposed to be.

ETA: I keep forgetting that relatively recently (in 2015) Brontosaurus was reclassified as related, but distinct from Apatosaurus, species in its own right... apparently not all scientists agree with the re-classification however.

I'm not sure if they're modelled on the original defunct Brontosaurus or Apatosaurus. It's one or the other. In cartoon form they probably look the same anyways.

[Athene]

My favorite as a kid were the long necks lol. Can't remember what they are officially called.

You're probably thinking ofThroatisoreus.

[Amarok]

Or we could just refer to them as general Sauropoda


My favorite would probably be the Ceratopsidae the tri horned dinosaurs love the crests

[Gawdzilla Sama]

My favorite as a kid were the long necks lol. Can't remember what they are officially called.

You're probably thinking ofThroatisoreus.

Boooo. 

The sauropods included the long-necked dinos.

[Minimalist]

How old were you when the original 1 Million Years B.C. came out though? (it came out in 1966).

16-ish.  Racquel was numero primo jerkoff material.

[Fireball]

Oh I never read Jurassic Park.

I just saw the original movie as a small kid.

I was into dinosaurs wayyyyyyyy before then though.

That was when I was like 6 or 7 that I first saw Jurrassic Park.

... but my 3rd earliest memory ever was being 4 years old and watching really old dinosaur movies. Those super inaccurate ones... (not that Jurrassic Park is accurate lol. It isn't)... the ones with cavemen mixed with dinosaurs.

Still... my dinosaur obsession started right then when I was 4.

JP was the 4th dinosaur movie I saw. The 3rd one was 1 Million Years B.C. I can't remember what the first two were called. I just remember what they looked like.

It's funny because... of course my mental cognition and most basic brain functions developed wayyyyyyyyy before I learned about dinosaurs... but my earliest memories really do involve dinosaurs... so I wonder if that has anything to do with the fact that when I try to think a really random impulsive thought the word "dinosaur" pops out. Like... I wonder if the subconscious is strongly connected to the brain's earliest memories as much as it's connected to streams of consciousness writing or attempts at random thought. But enough on that this is a dinosaur thread not a psychology thread lol.

I'm old enough that the only noteworthy part of the movie 1 Million Years B.C. is Raquel Welch in a skimpy outfit.

[Thumpalumpacus]

I'm old enough that the only noteworthy part of the movie 1 Million Years B.C. is Raquel Welch in a skimpy outfit.

... and you're too old to enjoy it!

[Whateverist]

Before being assembled into something recognizable at a museum, most dinosaur fossils look to the casual observer like nothing more than common rocks. No one, however, would confuse the over 110 million-year-old nodosaur fossil for a stone.

The fossil, being unveiled today in Canada’s Royal Tyrrell Museum of Paleontology, is so well preserved it looks like a statue.

Even more surprising might be its accidental discovery, as unveiled in the June issue of National Geographic magazine.

On March 21, 2011, Shawn Funk was digging in Alberta’s Millennium Mine with a mechanical backhoe, when he hit “something much harder than the surrounding rock.” A closer look revealed something that looked like no rock Funk had ever seen, just “row after row of sandy brown disks, each ringed in gunmetal gray stone.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morn...e6e91b099f

Just amazing. What really surprises me is how it hardly differs from the artist's impressions I'd see in books as a kid.

I thought NG was a creationist vehicle now.  Did it happen to say what use people made of this critter back in the day?

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How old were you when the original 1 Million Years B.C. came out though? (it came out in 1966).

16-ish.  Racquel was numero primo jerkoff material.

Yeah until that came out all we had were the photos of models wearing foundation garments in the Sears catalog.  Of course some of them were pretty hot...

[Fireball]

I'm old enough that the only noteworthy part of the movie 1 Million Years B.C. is Raquel Welch in a skimpy outfit.

... and you're too old to enjoy it!

Pfff. Bring her on, if she's willing. I still got it going on. Of course, my wife would object.