Also, this thread seriously lacks pick up lines related directly to dinosaurs.

Your turn, guys.

Girl, if you don't come home with me you're going to turn me into one of these.

that's all I got

>>19041
I forgot file names don't show here. Normally lurk other chans not the future except /k/.

It's called a rapetosaurus for those who don't recognize it.

>>19042

thanks for specifying. Looked like a pretty generic sauropod to me, but thats what I get for preferring theropods

bump

>>17767 and00

>>18926

How... Just... Wow.

im dino'd to fuck

im going to go pass out ive been on the dino all day

o

>>17802
go fuck yourself

>>17831
you trip

I fucking made this thread, almost a year ago!

>>19205
Then why the fuck are you bumping it?

Aaaaand bump

>>18098
They are not.
They share a common ancestor, but they are not dinosaurs, or birds, or trees or whatever.
Humans are not monkeys although we share a common ancestor and so on...

as a physyotherapist i wonder how can they support such a heavy weigth on those limbs

amazing creatures indeed

>>19267
Reptiles have a very high muscle density, so they have less trouble supporting their weight and moving around in such an awkward position. Their joints are also built differently, it's not like a human doing pushups, even though it looks similar from the outside.

It's still not the most effective form of locomotion. There's a reason why mammals and dinosaurs/avians independently evolved a more upright posture (with digitigrade stance in species with a more highly specialized locomotive aparatus).
Alternatively, you can go the opposite way and go down. Note how snakes and various lizards with vestigial or entirely reduced legs have independently evolved as slitherers/crawlers. That's a very stealthy, inconspicious, energy-conserving way of moving about that easily follows from the swaying way other reptiles move, so it makes sense that we get to see it in several unrelated instances throughout evolutionary history.

For crocodiles, it just doesn't matter. Recent species are all mostly aquatic anyway, and they are perfectly adapted to their niche. They can run very fast if necessary, and it doesn't matter that it costs them a lot of energy to do so because there's rarely a need for it and they are mostly very energy-efficient organisms.
The armor plates on their back have lots of tiny capilaries that help with thermoregulation, for example.
They have some really intriguing adaptations to aquatic life as well. For example, they have a muscle that allows them to pull back some of their internal organs to regulate buoyancy without the need for a vulnerable swim bladder.
It's no surprise they have remained largely unchanged for millions of years, there's not much to improve about them. They're built in a perfect way for an animal that spends most of the day either floating, basking or swimming.

>>19268
Crocodilians and other archosaurs have some adaptations in their legs which allow them a more upright stance than other reptiles such as lizards. They are not as advanced as dinosaurs, obviously, but they do show the beginnings of the adaptations that would modify further to allow dinosaurs to walk fully upright.

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>>20320

he's probs trolling

if not here are some wiki articles 4 u

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Velociraptor#Description

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilophosaurus#Description

this seems relevant to OP's interests
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFwHELWXtB0

I used to hate it too, but late reptiles/dinos started evolving their claws/scales into feathers.

>>20324

>>20355

>velociraptor were 6 ft tall
>posts picture of utahraptor

k

What is Jimmy Walker's favorite dinosaur?

DEI-NO-NYCHUS

>>20349

>mfw that joke

>>20023
Do you think he saw us?

how many dinosaurs does it take to eat a dead baby?
none. humans didn't exist back then

>>20353
you forget dead baby dinosaurs

>>19478
Yo, step the fuck back
the raptor is back to attack
this whole fuckin forum is whack
why am I rappin back when I could be out in the back smokin this whole fat sac

You boys be wakin up the raptor crew
we comin at you from both sides like Dr.Grant say we do
You wanna step up? you gonna get clawed, stoned, and cut
Get back to the bong, finish this song, and put and end to you.

*bump tsa, bu-bump-bump tsa*

Zu-up, Zu-up.
"Raptor" what is up?!
Watch out this around because you're gonna get B-dup.

If ya don't know my name, ya got yourself to blame
and when I'm finished with you won't you ever be the same.

I am RAP-tore Rip, 'cause I Rip ya throat.
You all other raptors are fresh of Noahs boat
I'm a lizard with more tales and heads than you combined,
so here's a little tip compressed to a ZIP-file.

*bump tsa, bu-bump-bump tsa*

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hey yo im a fuckin beast
yallready know my species, still aint extinct
ill straight call all you lizards weak
and you wont do shit, cause you cant evolve enough to speak
i fuck them longneck hoes who eat leaves off trees
my dick so big leave imprints for scientists to see
you think my fuckin species got killed off by a dead star?
HELL NAW NIGGA IM FUCKIN HUGE IN THIS BITCH LIKE REPTAR
you best devolve, before i catch you out of your prime
soft as amphibians, ill send you back to the land before time

>>20347
Please, giant lizard, do tell us some more.
I want to hear your thoughts while I scamper down the floor,
like a silent shadow, a shadow of death,
for when you finally see me you'll take your last breath.

The pressure of fear inside you all the time,
wishing you never claimed I was never in full prime.
So paranoid you start to wear shiny tinfoil,
the pressure's so big you soon piss out oil,

Only way you kill me is if you squished me with your butt,
but I always stay clear of your ass no matter what.

Sure Barney, you're a little bigger in size,

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I thoroughly enjoyed this thread.

>>20301
*chief dinosaur. you can tell by the little beret

I was seeing dinosaurs in birds before that was even a commonly known thing as a kid because my family had a fuck ton of birds. Something like 100+ counting finches. I even had some gouldian finches that died super quick because one broke its neck and its mate said fuck this and killed itself too like the beautiful little loving dinosaur with wings that it was. Only bird we had after I was like 7 was a maroon bellied conure that was/is super chill and ate chicken when we gave it to her. I think she is like 18 now.

All of these images are gonna be sweet references to draw. Thanks

CARACARA DINOSAURIN, U MIRIN??

I have cats, they smell bad/\.\;
'/

A lot of Biologists almost would go as far as to classify birds as reptiles these days, but they don't. But it's generally known that birds definitely evolved from reptilian ancestors. they both lay eggs and have other similar properties

> RAWR

>>19451
Was it that retarded comic where raptors manage to kill tyrannosaurs by piling onto them?

Great art, great story writing, but there's no way some silly chicken shit could take down tyrannosaurs. ESPECIALLY NOT when the writer and artist took a leap of faith and have tyrannosaurs be social. If tyrannosaurs were social that would automatically mean that nothing could kill a tyrannosaur except another tyrannosaur.

Just my inner child having a dinosaur fact autism attack. You know what it feels like.

Well it was a FICTIONAL book.

>>19451
hat one legit drawing. Almost Oriental style linework

>>19451
Awesome pic

dinos R birds, not reptiles.

>>19000
This. What is your favourite sea dinosaur mate?

TYRANNOSAURS IN F-14S ON LSD

WATER DINOS.

THERE WAS BITCHING CREATURES MORE DEEEP AND DARKER... WITH TENTACLES & SPINES
THERE WERE SOME INVERTEBRATA THERE TRYING TO JUST...TO JUST RAPE YOU.

I would have to agree with everyone else that the prehistoric seas were pretty scary. Even today I think the sea is a pretty scary place. This is probably because since those of us vertebrates who left the biological battlefield that was the ocean we have lost our ability to outswim anything in there.

I don't know about you guys, but I expect huge shit to eat me when I go in the ocean NOW. There is STILL huge shit in the ocean that will eat you RIGHT NOW. However, if this were the cretaceous, we would all have to have three inch thick steel houses because at any moment, we could be run down by a fucking Utah Raptor or eaten in one goddamned bite by a Spinosaur.

At least you could avoid the aquatic ones by staying the fuck out of/away from the water.

WOW WOW I CAN'T BELIEVE YOU WENT THERE DUDE

BUT WHAT ABOUT ALL THE SMALLER VARIANTS THAT WERE NEVER FOUND BECAUSE THEIR BONES WERE TOO SMALL TO MAKE GOOD FOSSILS. GODDAMNIT WHY WOULD THEY HAVE TO SUFFER FROM THE COLD BLOODNESS DISEASE JUST BECAUSE SOME BIG ASS ASSHOLE DINO WANTS TO. FUCK.