The Brontosaurus never existed?! :(

[bad seed]

This was always my favorite dino:

fun fact: the T-rex lived closer to our current time than it did to Stegosaurus's era.

 

[phunky]

 

[QuitYourCrying]

That's actually an excellent point, although I would argue that marine life allows larger creatures than what normally is found in land animals

Yeah, I read that it would be physically impossible for any land creature to be as heavy as a blue whale. Whales are able to get so big because the water helps to support their weight.

So the dinosaurs were as just about as big as anything roaming the earth will ever be.

 

[DIABOLUS]

fun fact: the T-rex lived closer to our current time than it did to Stegosaurus's era.

Yup. T-Rex's herbivorous rival was the Triceratops during the Cretaceous period. Stegosaurus and Apatosaurus both lived during the late Jurassic period that preceded it.

 

[chubbman]

my life is a lie

 

[SMillard]

My whole childhood is a fucking lie then. I feel cheated. My dad got me a blow up T. rex and brontosaurus from the states when I was 4.

your dad used to watch you blow dinosaurs????? I find that almost as disturbing and TS's topic.

 

[DIABOLUS]

Don't forget the shoe billed stork!

and the marabou stork

Damn Nature, you scary.

 

[DoomPatrol]

Yeah, I read that it would be physically impossible for any land creature to be as heavy as a blue whale. Whales are able to get so big because the water helps to support their weight.

So the dinosaurs were as just about as big as anything roaming the earth will ever be.

Yeah it's the square/cube law. As it get's larger, the volume grows too much for it to handle. I've briefly read that atmospheric conditions at the time were a little different, like higher oxygen levels, which allowed for the enormous animals. In our world today, a creature like that wouldn't be able to stand up.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

mulders hair did you draw those yourself?

haha no I googled "sad brontosaurus" and found them lol

Giraffes are still real though, right?

I'm not so sure anymore.

. Learning that they were most likely covered in feathers was something that changed everything I knew as a child.

do what now?

 

[DoomPatrol]

do what now?

You know, dinosaurs were covered in feathers. When I was in school they taught them as reptiles. Now they say most of them had feathers and probably weren't even cold blooded. I admittedly don't keep up to date with it though.

 

[Agent Mulder's Hair]

You know, dinosaurs were covered in feathers. When I was in school they taught them as reptiles. Now they say most of them had feathers and probably weren't even cold blooded. I admittedly don't keep up to date with it though.

I did not know that. Feathers. hmm.

 

[MC Paul Barman]

Isn't this like one of those "a rose by any other name" situations?

Okay, so there isn't something that someone decided to name a Brontosaurus... but there is an Apatosaurus that looks pretty much exactly like what a Brontosaurus looks like.

 

[dildos]

your dad used to watch you blow dinosaurs????? I find that almost as disturbing and TS's topic.

do you have basic reading problems? if not, that was the worst attempt to be funny.

 

[specter1001]

I second the feathery dinosaurs talk. Read an article a while back stating that the T. rex and velociraptors probably more closely resembled the chicken in the way that they move and behave than any reptile.

 

[Deleted member 196663]

lol. Amazing.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

I'm still amazed by the fact that dinosaurs used to roam this planet. Just looking at the size of those creatures is mind boggling. There were like 60 meter long snakes, sharks that could swallow great whites whole, land animals that made elephants look tiny. I just wish we knew what they really looked like. Learning that they were most likely covered in feathers was something that changed everything I knew as a child.

I get the feeling aliens came to this planet one time and were like "holy shit it's covered in monsters" then they left, and fired a meteor at the planet.

(When they return they'll say the same thing.)

EDIT

HOLY SHIT

When I see that bird and look in it's eye I hear the Terminator 2 music playing

 

[MassDistortion]

It's still real to me, damnit

holy shit haha I didn't read this thread before posting. You beat me to it!

 

[Law Talkin’ Guy]

BS. The dino in JP is specifically (and correctly) called a Brachiosaurus.

Was going to post this. As far as Land Before Time is concerned, I always considered Little Foot a brontosaurus, but luckily the movie only referred to his kind as "Long Necks" so it's proofed itself from changes in the nomenclature and taxidermy.

 

[Aegon Spengler]

holy shit haha I didn't read this thread before posting. You beat me to it!

By like a half a second lol

Spoiler

HAH bet you thought it was the "it's still real to me" gif

 

[TigerUpperKut]

I just found this shit online and it made me sad sherbros

I like brontosauruses





"Next to, say, the almighty Tyrannasaurus Rex, the Brontosaurus is easily one of the most commonly depicted beasts of the Jurassic age. It was the first and most mind-blowingly enormous dinosaur featured in the movie, Jurassic Park. The adorable protagonist of The Land Before Time, Littlefoot, was a Brontosaurus. The drive-in restaurant in the Flintstones even served Brontosaurus ribs. So it has to be a real thing, right?

Wrong.

The Brontosaurus is actually the result of an error made by a prominent paleontologist, O.C. Marsh, during such a contentious time in the field it was dubbed The Bone wars. During the Bone Wars period, Marsh was so caught up in the race to discover more bones than his rival, Edward Drinker Cope, that he carelessly misidentified an already discovered dinosaur as something new. The skeleton in question belonged to the Apatosaurus, but before it could be corrected the name Brontosaurus had already spread enough to create years of misinformation."

I am also saddened by this news

but i was delighted to recently learn that there was such a dinosaur called the Nigersaurus