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vintage dinosaur appreciation
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#1 Posted: 22:09:32 06/10/2019 | Topic Creator
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I love the smell of retrosaurs in the morning. Those terrible, horrible lizards. They're just the worst.
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#2 Posted: 22:39:28 06/10/2019
The ORIGINAL Horrible Goose
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#3 Posted: 22:39:55 06/10/2019 | Topic Creator
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He's giving you a thumbs up, cheering you on. What a guy.
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#4 Posted: 01:34:52 07/10/2019
reminds me of a dinosaur puzzle I had as a kid

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#5 Posted: 11:57:00 07/10/2019
Ngl, I love vintage Dinosaur art. There's such a charm to them. There almost always great.
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#6 Posted: 12:50:39 07/10/2019 | Topic Creator
They are very charming. It’s funny that some D&D monsters were inspired by cheap plastic definitely-not-a-dinosaur dinosaurs: https://diterlizzi.com/essay/o...bulettes-oh-my/

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big chunky lizards

They used to think these boys were too big to be on land and could only survive in the water, or else their weight would surely crush them. At least one person still promotes this idea and believes all dinosaurs were aquatic; they’ve even made a book about it. It’s of course totally incorrect, but it’s interesting pseudoscience.
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#7 Posted: 15:21:41 07/10/2019
Funnily enough I was gonna post a similar image when I got home, lol. What a fascinating idea but doesn't seem at all logical now.


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#8 Posted: 16:13:13 07/10/2019 | Topic Creator
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I like to point to Ducky from the Land Before Time as an example of the outdated aquatic dinosaur theory. It was believed that “duck-billed” dinosaurs lived a similar lifestyle, only without the whole horribly dying because they’re too dang beefy part.

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There are quite a few bizarre depictions of dinosaurs out there, from gliding stegosaurs to hadrosaurs that breathe fire. The one above is known as McLoughlin’s Triceratops; he theorized that ceratopsian frills were actually buried beneath thick musculature. I think the most infamous of these ideas would have to be the Dinosauroid.

Also these are nice, love that there’s a Beast Wars Megatron. They also have retro stegosaurs.

If you’re into retrosaurs and goofy monsters in general, check out Primal Rage. It’s like Mortal Kombat, gore and all, but there’s a stop motion raptor that does backflips.
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#9 Posted: 19:54:59 07/10/2019
Mcloughlin is full of.....out of the box ideas, isn't he?
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#10 Posted: 20:47:08 07/10/2019 | Topic Creator
There’s wacky ideas everywhere in paleontology’s history. I still don’t know how the dinosauroid got published in a scientific journal. Very anthropocentric. Some spec-evo artists have made more convincing versions, I recommend looking at those.

Time for some non-dinosaurs.

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Old restorations of marine lizards look like map monsters. They made the sclerotic rings visible on ichthyosaurs, which I always thought was odd.
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#11 Posted: 21:00:32 07/10/2019
The first one is one of my absolute FAVORITES. I have it saved to my laptop.
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#12 Posted: 22:36:40 07/10/2019 | Topic Creator
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Get her! Bite her head! Go for the jugular—the jugular!
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#13 Posted: 22:53:56 08/10/2019 | Topic Creator
Close, Wolf! Those are Proavis, hypothetical early birds. They didn't actually exist, so unfortunately there weren't any brutal cage matches like that. I think it's interesting feathers popped up much earlier in paleoart history than one would expect. Artwork of these theorized animals date back to the 1900s.

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Vintage Spinosaurus, courtesy of Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs, a blog that collects outdated images of these terrible lizards.

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Legs for days. https://horrible-lizards.tumblr.com/
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#14 Posted: 21:56:48 09/10/2019 | Topic Creator
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I wanted to post this fella


Ah, the Crystal Palace Megalosaurus! Always a pleasure to see.

Megalosaurus and Iguanodon are both very important dinosaurs; they were among the first to be named. I wish I could find the original for Louis Dollo's Iguanodon. He misunderstood a hole in the fossil's jaw to be an opening for a long anteater-esque tongue. These will do fine instead, because there's even more interesting factoids and nice art here: http://erickowalick.com/ruin_1.html
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#15 Posted: 22:44:18 09/10/2019
I had about about the Crystal Palace Dinosaurs. Absolutley fascinating story.


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#16 Posted: 22:56:21 09/10/2019 | Topic Creator
Yep, most of the models are still there too. A few have been vandalized or destroyed.

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look a mammoth
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#17 Posted: 23:04:07 09/10/2019
That were they on back in the day?
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#18 Posted: 23:31:12 09/10/2019 | Topic Creator
I don't know, but it must've been some good stuff. He thought a mammoth actually a really big boar. Hypothesis aside, I'm not sure how he messed up a boar that much. Even some of the vintage dinosaurs up here look at least superficially like their real life counterpart. Looks like he took lessons from bestiary artists.

You've heard of when pigs fly. Well, get ready for when pterosaurs swim! One guy suggested they were swimming animals with flippers. I didn't find any old art of this, so I settled for a mammalian pterosaur!

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I mean, it’s got fuzz, so kudos.
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