Dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures

[DoomRulz]

It was always the T Rex, big powerful and f^cking vicious

And now it's (possibly) the chicken; the animal archetype of cowards everywhere. (But we had mentioned this before...)

Don't ruin things for me please

He hasn't ruined anything. A chicken may be its direct descendant, but a T.Rex is still a T.Rex.

[maledoro]

Don't ruin things for me please

Agreed.

Yeah, learning just takes the fun out of things.

[maledoro]

Don't ruin things for me please

Agreed.

Yeah, learning just takes the fun out of things.

He hasn't ruined anything. A chicken may be its direct descendant, but a T.Rex is still a T.Rex.

When someone asks what you had to eat at KFC, you can tell them you got yourself some T.Rex. That'll put hair on your asses.

[chupacabras acheronsis]

Excuse ME sir, Body hair is no joke.

[maledoro]

Excuse ME sir, Body hair is no joke.

Of course not! I've grown some serious body hair.

[Ghost Rider]

Don't ruin things for me please

Agreed.

Yeah, learning just takes the fun out of things.

He hasn't ruined anything. A chicken may be its direct descendant, but a T.Rex is still a T.Rex.

When someone asks what you had to eat at KFC, you can tell them you got yourself some T.Rex. That'll put hair on your asses.

I really don't know what to say.

[OmegaZilla]

(But we had mentioned this before...)

Yes, and I already mentioned that the stuff in the famous 'B-Rex' specimen (and other ones) may be nothing more than Bacterial Biofilm. Argument's very disputed.

Probably didn't need them as it grew older. They may have been a type of defense mechanism.

That suddenly becomes useless in adult age...?

[DoomRulz]

Well what's your theory then?

[OmegaZilla]

...They're not really the same species, if you ask me. Same with the Torosaurus/Triceratops thing.

[Ghost Rider]

...They're not really the same species, if you ask me. Same with the Torosaurus/Triceratops thing.

I see what you mean, but try to convince Jack Horner.

[DoomRulz]

...They're not really the same species, if you ask me. Same with the Torosaurus/Triceratops thing.

I think there's some truth to what the man says. I attended a lecture on this very topic that he hosted and he really made me think about the fact that (in the above example) we have plenty of old Triceratops fossils, yet no young Torosaurus.

[Ghost Rider]

...They're not really the same species, if you ask me. Same with the Torosaurus/Triceratops thing.

I think there's some truth to what the man says. I attended a lecture on this very topic that he hosted and he really made me think about the fact that (in the above example) we have plenty of old Triceratops fossils, yet no young Torosaurus.

How long ago was it? I'm just trying to remember when this theory was announced.

[OmegaZilla]

we have plenty of old Triceratops fossils, yet no young Torosaurus.

What if in 300 million years, Humanity is extinct and the only fossils the Cthulhu Spawn (or insert civilization here) will find, are of a child's, and then they find only adult Gorillas' skeletons? Will they think that the human babies' skeletons are the young of the Gorillas' skeletons?
We've got a f**kload of species that did not fossilize. And the ones that did fossilize are very, very rare. Fact that we've found only adults of the Triceratops specimen doesn't demonstrate a lot.
It's for this very reason that I doubt the 'T.Rex max. life span = 30 years' thing as well.

[DoomRulz]

...They're not really the same species, if you ask me. Same with the Torosaurus/Triceratops thing.

I think there's some truth to what the man says. I attended a lecture on this very topic that he hosted and he really made me think about the fact that (in the above example) we have plenty of old Triceratops fossils, yet no young Torosaurus.

How long ago was it? I'm just trying to remember when this theory was announced.

Last summer.

we have plenty of old Triceratops fossils, yet no young Torosaurus.

What if in 300 million years, Humanity is extinct and the only fossils the Cthulhu Spawn (or insert civilization here) will find, are of a child's, and then they find only adult Gorillas' skeletons? Will they think that the human babies' skeletons are the young of the Gorillas' skeletons?
We've got a f**kload of species that did not fossilize. And the ones that did fossilize are very, very rare. Fact that we've found only adults of the Triceratops specimen doesn't demonstrate a lot.
It's for this very reason that I doubt the 'T.Rex max. life span = 30 years' thing as well.

The difference between a human and a gorilla skeleton are pretty striking...

[Sharp Sticks]

What if in 300 million years, Humanity is extinct and the only fossils the Cthulhu Spawn (or insert civilization here) will find, are of a child's, and then they find only adult Gorillas' skeletons? Will they think that the human babies' skeletons are the young of the Gorillas' skeletons?
We've got a f**kload of species that did not fossilize. And the ones that did fossilize are very, very rare. Fact that we've found only adults of the Triceratops specimen doesn't demonstrate a lot.
It's for this very reason that I doubt the 'T.Rex max. life span = 30 years' thing as well.

The difference between a human and a gorilla skeleton are pretty striking...

In Omega's defense, it's harder to tell when you've got compound eyes and navigate via antennae.

Plesiosaurus had a short head and a long tail once upon a time.