Zegh's Dinosaur Thread

zegh8578 said:
This old Tyrannosaurus is by yours truly, a work of brown and gray scale ink pens; notice the mouth, and how the line does not continue to the end of the skull; traditionally the mouth-line is depicted as going all the way past the ear-hole
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but it felt wrong, and so I envisioned more fleshyness to form a semi-cheek, covering up the final quarter/third of that line

I WAS VINDICATED, turns out a whole new muscle attachment zone was identified in all dinosaurs, that would have closed that gap up, and forever do away with the muppet/crocodile gape, for a tighter slightly more "mammalian" mouth

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(https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/joa.14242)

(Also, there's a real Godzillasaurus, in fact called Gojirasaurus, but it is unfortunately a bit of a Nomen dubium, in other words - too fragmentary to definitely determine uniqueness either way, which is a bit sad. If legit, it is a large size Coelophysoid (4-5 metres in length?) or some sort of random Neotheropod (very primitive/early theropod))
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Well done it kinda reminds me of some of the materials done by Scott Hartman and Dan Folkes.
 
Post-War Tribal said:
Well done it kinda reminds me of some of the materials done by Scott Hartman and Dan Folkes.
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nice namedrops! I've been following Scott Hartman around for years, and we were mutuals on DeviantArt, before I nuked my account in political activism

Fun fact, the X-ray style skeletal diagrams were popularized by forever non-professional dino-expert Gregory Paul, author of many truly authoritative books, and a rolemodel to anyone who want to be a serious amateur in the field; he then went a little megalomaniac and tried to "register" that style, threatening lawsuits, but then it was like - he's gonna lawsuit literally millions of kids and teens and other amateurs for adopting his style of skeletons? Dude. Not cool.
But funnier yet, he was Robert Bakker's protege, and that style of X-ray skeleton... originates with Bob Bakker.
:D
 
What do you think of scientists efforts to revive the Woolly Mammoth by 2028? I know it's not a dinosaur but the idea they may have been able to find some intact dna of a Mammoth and are finding a way clone it potentially via IVF sets a high goal post for future endeavors. Maybe they'll find a way to revive dinosaurs but use their closest living relatives (the birds) to do it.
 
Sn1p3r187 said:
What do you think of scientists efforts to revive the Woolly Mammoth by 2028? I know it's not a dinosaur but the idea they may have been able to find some intact dna of a Mammoth and are finding a way clone it potentially via IVF sets a high goal post for future endeavors. Maybe they'll find a way to revive dinosaurs but use their closest living relatives (the birds) to do it.
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It's an interesting idea to explore, I don't really see the point beyond making some sort of "Mammoth Park", and as for forecasts, I have zero trust :D they are usually thrown around as funding-bait, like, isn't the gestation of a regular elephant 2 years? That alone, makes 2028 very unlikely, unless they mean something other than what they're saying.

As for dinosaurs, I reaaally don't know! Take the Jurassic Park premise for example; you extract intact blood from a mosquito; you have NO idea what dinosaur that blood belongs to, even IF you'd be able to revive one; that blood would most likely come from a species we have never known from fossils, since fossils are near-impossibly rare compared to the total lived population, so it's a very blind approach.

And getting it from fossil bones, that are mineralized, and *any* ammount of molecular info is inferred by other minerals, their replacement rate, etc - like, there's no blood there, cus there's no organic matter there. There's probably tons of theoretic near-solutions, but applying them irl is very optimistic, imho.
 
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