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Let's Talk Dinosaurs
Posted 2024-03-22 11:54:30
#1179105
And other prehistoric and extinct animals!
This topic is for people who love Jurassic park, Disney's Dinosaur, and for folks that love learning about paleontologist's discoveries!~

You can even show off you dino characters and dino furries.  This is for the love of all things dino.

My favorite Dinosaur is the feathery Utahraptor! I'm designing a character based on the utahraptor and I hope to make a fursona adaptation too.
trahana🌈
#10405
Posted 2024-03-22 15:35:26
#1179215
Fun fact: Utahraptor and other "raptor"-type dinosaurs were not social pack hunters, as the movies showed. When the Jurassic Park book was written, it was believed that they were social pack hunters, like wolves. But molecular analysis of fossilized bones told a different story. If raptors really were like wolves, you would expect the babies to be eating the same prey items as the adults, because they would be eating from their kills. But the analysis showed that the youngsters ate completely different prey items than the adults, smaller animals that they could have caught themselves. That suggests that baby raptors grew up more like baby alligators do, hunting for themselves under mom's supervision until they were old enough to leave her. In addition, fossil evidence of prey animals showed that adult raptors mostly hunted alone too. They sometimes teamed up to take down a large animal, but went their separate ways afterwards. Our understanding of raptors has completely changed since the 1990s. Raptors lived, hunted, and raised their babies alone, more like alligators and less like wolves.
spotpc
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Posted 2024-03-22 16:22:54
#1179238
That's awesome, but that makes way more sense then every carnivorous dinosaur having the same basic social dynamic. 

There's a actually a very cool bird of prey, the Harris hawk, that is known for cooperating in hunts!  Several birds will team up and go after the same prey, but unlike wolves who share, who ever catches the meal gets to eat.  I imagine that some raptor dinos had that similar dynamic, not a true pack but more like a temporary alliance! 
I hope to one day watch a Harris hawks in action myself, but from the videos I've watched they seem to have better organization then wolves do.
trahana🌈
#10405
Posted 2024-04-05 18:13:08
#1186229
What's the opinion here on Pachycephalosaurus? I personally love the little buggers, they look so dumb and unhinged lol
Silverscot
#53718
Posted 2024-04-05 18:23:02
#1186238
I haven't done a bunch of reading on Pachys but looking at their skull and skeleton I seriously doubt they worked like rams, like Jurassic park showed them to be.  Have you seen Stygimoloch?  Similar but they have the upgraded spikes! 
I think I remember a theory where Pachy was an adolescent and as they matured the nubs Pachy had would grow to be a Stygimoloch.  I'm not sure about how true it is but it made some sense to me.
trahana🌈
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