Sakib

Dinosaur

TRIASSIC TYRANNOSAUROIDS!!!!!!!!

Then doesn't that mean we get 6m Tyrannosauroids in the Jurassic?  (Oct 31, 2009 | post #18)

Dinosaur

TRIASSIC TYRANNOSAUROIDS!!!!!!!!

You're right, I know very little of advanced phylogeny. I haven't read the paper written by Barret, seeing as I'm not closely acquainted with the palaeontological community. Nonetheless, I'd like to know what the features which set Eshanosaurus apart from prosauropods. Also, you are correct that Triassic deposits are quite rare, but nonetheless, with that big of a gap in the fossil record, between these earlier placed clades and that of the ones we currently place in their period of time (e.g. tyrannosauroidea in the early cretaceous as opposed to whatever you said) I am not convinced. Also, if there were indeed such a diversity of clades in the early Jurassic, then there should be evidence of this in the Middle Jurassic, Late jurassic, Early Cretaceous and Late cretaceous. In fact, what was stopping these already diverse clades from forming new ones? Why didn't Tyrannosauroidea branch off again and again, in the late Jurassic instead of the early Cretaceous? I'm guessing your answer will be more, slowly evolving ghost lineages, and my reply will be to wait and see. After I've actually researched phylogeny and built up an extremely basic knowledge of it, my POV is that: I dunno. I'm going to wait and see if more fossils can solve this mystery. Here's a good website I found which helped me understand this topic, and what I based my POV on. http://dinogoss.bl ogspot.com/2009/03 /coelurosaur-ghost s.html  (Oct 31, 2009 | post #17)

Dinosaur

TRIASSIC TYRANNOSAUROIDS!!!!!!!!

Well, firstly, you'd be wrong in assuming a Triassic tyrannosaurid. Just because oviraptorids are related to therizinosaurids, does not mean that they both evolved at the same time. The same applies for tyrannosaurids. As the fossil record indicates, they came into being in the early cretaceous, nowehere near the Triassic. Also, if you read the article, it states that it was found below Lufengosaurus and its kin, indicating that it was indeed a prosauropod. Note also that these animals bear a resemblance to therizinosaurids. Also, I think your cladogram is incorrect in its conjectures. If indeed these dinosaurs were already this diverse at the beginning of the current dinosaur age, then we would notice that in the fossil record. According to your beloved Wikipedia, the majority of dinosaurs found in the Triassic layers of rock are quite limited in their infraorder diversity to sauropoda, prosauropoda, herrerasauria and so on. More diversity would reveal tetanurae and the other more advanced groups of dinosaurs.  (Oct 16, 2009 | post #10)

Dinosaur

There should be a remake of Jurassic Park

You've forgotten the Soviet onslaught from the East. If anyone was going to be crowned winners of Berlin, it was them.  (Oct 16, 2009 | post #65)

Dinosaur

Real Dragons

Leopold Bloom functions as a sort of Everyman—a bourgeois Odysseus for the twentieth century. At the same time, the novel’s depiction of his personality is one of the most detailed in all literature. Bloom is a thirty-eight-year-old advertising canvasser. His father was a Hungarian Jew, and Joyce exploits the irony of this fact—that Dublin’s latter-day Odysseus is really a Jew with Hungarian origins—to such an extent that readers often forget Bloom’s Irish mother and multiple baptisms. Bloom’s status as an outsider, combined with his own ability to envision an inclusive state, make him a figure who both suffers from and exposes the insularity of Ireland and Irishness in 1904. Yet the social exclusion of Bloom is not simply one-sided. Bloom is clear-sighted and mostly unsentimental when it comes to his male peers. He does not like to drink often or to gossip, and though he is always friendly, he is not sorry to be excluded from their circles.  (Oct 16, 2009 | post #133)

Dinosaur

Giganotosaurus is acually the largest meat-eating dinosaur

That link doesn't actually have any theories as to HOW Spinosaurus got to be that long, it just claims it.  (Oct 16, 2009 | post #71)

Dinosaur

Giganotosaurus is acually the largest meat-eating dinosaur

Yeah, show me proof Celeste existed first.  (Oct 16, 2009 | post #70)

Hartford, CT

Hamas Offer Is A Deadly Trap For Israel

Why are you ignorant? You're like a Zionist. I have said before that I was wrong, but like the classical zionist example, you refuse to accept that.  (Oct 7, 2009 | post #724)

Hartford, CT

Hamas Offer Is A Deadly Trap For Israel

No, I heard of it from someone else. You don't play a large part in my life, so I'm more inclined to listen to someone else who does.  (Oct 7, 2009 | post #723)

Dinosaur

giganotosaurus,argentinasaurus,t.rex,.wiche one wold win if in fight?

I suppose it is, albeit a minor part of the larger battle.  (Sep 22, 2009 | post #16)

Dinosaur

Giganotosaurus vs. T. rex

I don't know what delusional paradise you came from, but NO animal at T. rex's or giganotosaurus's size could run 25 mph. 19 for rex, I'm not sure how many for giganotosaurus. You disregard size altogether. You mention a heavily muscled T. rex, but nothing of the huge size advantage giganotosaurus has.  (Sep 22, 2009 | post #2156)

Dinosaur

Giganotosaurus vs. T. rex

Im talking about speed when turning, not running.  (Sep 22, 2009 | post #2155)

Dinosaur

Giganotosaurus vs. T. rex

But is it as speedy as you think? Its body doesn't say so.  (Sep 3, 2009 | post #2121)