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I watched Jurassic World: Rebirth the other day (it's alright). It's such an odd franchise - one that seems to have lost faith in its own premise. There's this meta assumption that audiences are bored with dinosaurs (I'm not), and that the solution to this imagined problem is to mutate them (it really isn't, it's invariably just silly).
I also don't care that dinos couldn't really survive in the modern climate - that's what the whole 'suspension of disbelief' thing is for.
Wtf? They couldn't survive? The fukken Nanuqsaurus was a tyrannosaurid living in boreal Alaska. Dinosaurs lived in extremely cold climates and thrived there.
Seeing "Sue" the tyrannasaur's skeleton at the Chicago Field Museum is pretty impressive. Last time I was there, she was still in the main hall. You walk in and this thing is towering over you, making you just a little glad you didn't exist 67 million years ago because you are a perfectly sized snack for a 12 meter long T-Rex.
I used to walk by a replica every day on my way to work, yeah it's pretty impressive. One of these days I've got to take a weekend trip out to Chicago to see the real one.
I saw the T Rex or similar dinosaur animatronic in the British Natural history museum and TBH, it was long, but not as tall as I thought it would be. I pictured them being several stories tall, but it's like... a bit taller than a large box truck to double decker bus?
You want to know why I find it boring? Where are there ding dongs!?!? You expect me to watch/read about these things and never see their ding dongs? NEVER!!!!
What about dinotiddies?
Edit: I just realized how dumb that statement was lol.
The internet has something for everyone 
Sigh (unzips).
It seemed pretty fitting for someone with your username tbh.
"bUt EaRtH iS oNlY sIx ThOuSaNd YeArS oLd!1!"
Ughh have you ever tried going on a date with a dinosaur. Can barely hold a conversation and only interested in talking about how they ruled the world and I should be glad they aren't accidentally stepping on mammals like me. Like God get a grip dude .
were they lizards or birds?! Idk anymore. Everyday they say something different
You're really going to let the flat earthers redefine dinosaurs.
They even tried to make Pluto not a planet. Pfftt
Have you heard about Pluto? that's messed up
Why not both?
Wait! Lizards that can fly lile birds?!! Dragons?!!!
Does a dinosaur taste like a chicken or a lizard/fish?
I know at least one dinosaur that tastes like chicken: a chicken.
Did you just assume all dinosaurs tasted the same? Or are you asking about a specific dinosaur species?
Yes
Like Dino chicken nuggets
Yes
i'd imagine ostrich is the closest comparison, maybe alligator for the slow moving ones
The problem with Ur is that it collapsed as a city 4000 years ago.
I blame Ea-nasir.
Fuckin'*
Akshually dinos were colorful feathered beasts and I will not accept any slander.
Those jurassic world movies are the problem
my biggest problem is that for animals that still existed artists could not get them right.
So scientist/artist getting anything right about stone-bone chicken-asaurus seems highly unlikely to me.
you do realize these are
- in a very specific artstyle, people back then were perfectly capable of drawing realistic stuff if they wanted
- drawn based on like, maybe fourth-hand accounts, they obviously managed to draw things they saw in day to day life without issue
right?
like, how would you manage if i gave someone a vague description of an animal that sounds made up, and then they told you what to draw?
Never understood the dino fascination of some people
most people are into something that most people find boring
True
they were giant bird lizards that got murdered by space, what's your fucking problem
And I never understood sports fascination of some people
Another unsolved mystery
I think what makes them interesting to a lot of people is 1. they dominated the world back then and 2. there's a lot of room for imagination because we know comparatively little about them. How they lived, how exactly they evolved, what they looked like, sounded like. It's anyone's guess and some consider that kind of guessing fun. The lack of definitive answers also means there's always a chance of groundbreaking new discoveries. A fossil with intact pigments for example is to the paleontologist scene what getting ones rocks off while high on crack is to the layman. And then 3. the Jurassic Park franchise got a lot of people hooked.
Thanks for writing this ! This makes it more understandable to me