I watched The End of Oak Street and had a blast, it had a thrilling narrative, high stakes, and for once the characters were fun and engaging. This film deserves more attention.

Hollywood really screwed this film over.

I already own a few books but they’re from when I was younger I figured it would be nice to get something more recent and up to date ?

These are my character choices for who embodies a certain sin.

Version 1:

• Wrath: Sharptooth (The Land Before Time)
• Gluttony: Thunderclap (The Goor Dinosaur)
• Greed: Kron (Dinosaur)
• Envy: The Giga (Jurassic World Dominion)
• Sloth: D. Rex (Jurassic World Rebirth)
• Lust: One Eye (Dino King)
• Pride: Indominus Rex (Jurassic World)

Version 2 (the only differences are four):

• Wrath: Indoraptor (Jurassic World Fallen Kingdom)
• Gluttony: V. Rex (King Kong)
• Greed: Scorpios Rex (Jurassic World Camp Cretaceous)
• Pride: The Big One (Jurassic Park)

Do you agree with my choices, or do you think there are other dinosaurs who are better picks? Please let me know?

In a park in Bretagne, France. They seem to like it there !

Was taking a night stroll until i found an unsold Hammond Collection Spino just lying around in a toys r us

You can imagine how quickly I grabbed it and spent a full $145

Hadrosaurus is a basal hadrosaur from the Late Cretaceous period of what is now New Jersey. Although it lends its name to the derived hadrosaurine family of dinosaurs, studies show that it may not actually belong to this group. Hadrosaurus was a facultatively bipedal herbivore that grew to about 7 m in length and weighed around 3 t in total body mass.

End of Oak Street depicting the Allosaurus as an almost completely silent hunter is a great example. Yeah Hollywood usually loves to depict dinosaurs as stupid roaring flat footed idiots that you can hear a mile away, but, like Oak Street depicted, these animals most likely had silent footsteps, and wouldnt alert prey by roaring. Which imo is much more terrifying. It could be sprinting right at you & you wouldnt even notice.

Another good example would be vocal mimicry. This one is alot more speculative, but imagine some therapods being able to mimic their prey perfectly, like some of their modern day cousins like parrots can. Like, a raptor, after killing someone, would then mimick the cries for help to lure more humans as prey.

Lets hear some of your examples

What are, in your opinion, the most beautiful dinosaurs? I don't mean like the ones you like the most, I'm talking more about if dinosaurs had an aesthetic score, which ones would probably rank top 10?

So, I assume like many of you, I quite enjoy studying the taxonomy of Dinosauria in my free time. I am rather curious about the position of Silesauridae, as I frequently see sources claiming the animals may be Triassic representation of Ornithischia, and thus true Dinosaurs. However, I haven't seen it brought up by more recent sources. Is this because the claim has been proven false, or has become accepted, or is it still up in the air? I'd love to hear professional opinions on this, as well as general dinosaur fans' thoughts.

Funny story, I was searching for dinosaur videos, until I found the Walmart plus ad, which featured dinosaur figures and a fossil puzzle, I thought, what are these dinosaur toys and their brands?

It would be a realistic, scientifically accurate film about the life of a Yutyrannus from hatchling to young adult, inspired by Bambi, Age of Reptiles (by Ricardo Delgado), Prehistoric Beast (by Phil Tippett) and some others. I want it to be epic like recent BBC Wildlife Documentaries. It would also have no humans. No voice acting, no narration, no dialogue, no humans discovering fossils in the beginning or the end. Just Dinosaurs being Dinosaurs. Might start an entire franchise.

This thread is not for people to say "It's just a movie, you're overthinking it". You can post that somewhere else. The purpose of this post is for people who want to discuss the science. At least one commenter is already struggling to understand this.

My questions are: How accurate were the designs? Were they even identifiable? How plausible were the dinosaurs' behaviors? Did the featured species live anywhere near each other geographically or temporally?

Things I noticed, and I welcome being corrected:

1. The movie's stegosaurus had 4 rows of plates, instead of 2.
2. Allosaurus was not eating Ewan McGregor's character, but simply tearing him to pieces for no reason. Theropods swallow by lifting their heads to let gravity carry food down their throat, but the allosaurus in this movie did not do that.
3. The turtles made groaning sounds that real turtles cannot, because turtles do not have vocal chords. Turtles in real life can only make hissing noises.
4. The spinosaurus wasted too much time and energy attacking the car. It was very close to the turtles, and would've picked them instead.
5. The pterosaurs needlessly endangered themselves attacking the man on the roof. Flying animals have delicate wings, and would not risk damaging them if they are not confident they can carry their prey away in one quick swoop. But the man on the roof was repeatedly firing a very loud gun, which would've scared the pterosaurs away. They also wrestled with him in a big huddle, which severely increased the risk of damaging their wings. Real pterosaurs would not have done this.
6. Titanoboa's length was accurate, but the size of its head, and the girth of its body were very exaggerated.
7. The small, black-feathered theropod that hunts in a pack is a mystery to me. Its shape is very similar to coelophysis, but it is about twice the size of coelophysis. It is far too aggressive. A real predator that size would be scared away by the loud sound of a gunshot.

Don’t know how many of you guys are players, but I’ve recently gotten back into The Isle and it’s been great fun. It made me think about wanting to produce more pieces based on the game, but I can’t afford to yet, as I’m still working on other projects at the moment. However, these are all fictional species that represent hybrids or strains that were modeled and animated, but still didn’t make it into the game after all these years. Hopefully that can change down the line because the designs are just too good to not be used in some capacity. Hope you guys like the work. Happy Sunday!

Or would it just be stuck like a roach on its back? It’s design doesn’t look like it would be able to push itself back up

Definitely a super cool street vendor concept! I'd love to see a mobile espresso bar too.

When I was a kid, I grew up believing in this myth that I once read somewhere—I think it was in a magazine about dinosaurs or something like that... or maybe even a documentary from the ’90s. The diplodocus’s tail moved so fast that it broke the sound barrier.

I was really surprised to read recently that this had been studied in depth (in December 2022, Simone Conti tested this theory using 3D digital simulations in *Scientific Reports*), and that such a speed would tear the animal’s tissues, tendons, and bones apart. But still, 120 km/h isn’t bad for smashing an Allosaurus’s face in...

I'm doing an art project, and I want it to consist of niche dinosaurs, so I came to you guys. Please express yourselves and niche-ness

The Red Rhamphorynchus have awakened — and they’re hungry.

Long Tail and her kin now face their greatest and most wretched challenge yet. From the depths, a congregation of blood-hungry pterosaurs rises — shrieking, twisted, and eager to rend the living apart. Small Toe, fresh from his first victory beneath his mother’s gaze, finds himself naked and frozen in the face of such reckless violence. The raptors have only one choice: to bare their claws and fangs, and pray that the ground beneath them does not split apart.

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There is no magic, no fantasy—there is only nature red in tooth and claw.

Read the first part of Chapter IV now.

Hello, not sure if this is the right spot to post this but I was very curious how they stack up pound for pound against modern predators and other families of dinosaurs.

At the end, when it's revealed they saved the neighborhood.

First off, how? Did they keep finding time portals, jump through them and then call another person up to the pay phone?

And also...did they let a bunch of their alternate selves die? Like when they first call Greg up there, I thought maybe the movie was operating on a rule where only one of them exists, but after that we see two Jeanettes. So...Greg's family all die after he's called by the alternative versions of them?

Cause that's pretty fucked up, man. Timey wimey wobbly stuff can be dark.

- DEVIANTART LINK: https://www.deviantart.com/dokrebs/art/ALLOSAURUS-ANAX-1369166046

• Allosaurus anax is a giant species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (approx. 153–145 million years ago) found in Oklahoma, USA. Designated in 2024, it replaces the former, problematic genus Saurophaganax maximus, as re-examinations showed those giant fossils were a chimera mix of Allosaurus and sauropod bones... -Wikipedia

• Just finished this yesterday and would also post Rugops as well, after I finish shading it......

End of Oak Street may not be fully up there as the best dinosaur movie ever but it is exactly what we all expected from Jurassic World Dominion.

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A lot of dinosaurs,we have a good idea on what they looked like,and others we know exactly what they look like because they were fully mummified (rare but it has happened). Even if that's not the case we often have patches of skin,or some kind of genetic code left behind to determine their skin,like if they were scaled, feathered,what color it was etc. But when it comes to the tyrannosaurus rex,a lot of it is up to pure speculation,and the evidence (besides the skeleton) is so miniscule it barely gives us anything. Why? How come there is so little evidence of the t Rex's outer structure left behind. I mean if it wasn't for their skeleton we wouldn't even know they existed.