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RE: Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered
May 12, 2017 at 7:56 pm
My favorite as a kid were the long necks lol. Can't remember what they are officially called.
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RE: Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered
May 12, 2017 at 8:08 pm
(This post was last modified: May 12, 2017 at 8:17 pm by 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.
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RE: Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered
May 12, 2017 at 8:33 pm
Or we could just refer to them as general Sauropoda
My favorite would probably be the Ceratopsidae the tri horned dinosaurs love the crests
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RE: Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered
May 12, 2017 at 10:28 pm
(May 12, 2017 at 6:44 pm)Alasdair Ham Wrote: 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.
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RE: Statuesque dinosaur fossil discovered
May 12, 2017 at 11:24 pm
(May 12, 2017 at 10:34 pm)Thumpalumpacus Wrote: (May 12, 2017 at 10:28 pm)Fireball Wrote: 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.
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(it came out in 1966).
