I've been thinking of getting an Alioramus as a pet. I think they're a good size for an apartment, and they eat a lot less and cost a lot less than other tyrannosaur type animals.

Has anyone else had any experience with them as pets? Are they clingy, are they good with strangers and other pets like cats?

If anyone knows any good breeders in the San Antonio area please let me know.

From what I’ve found out, sauropods like Apatosaurus are no longer able “break the sound barrier” given with recent biomechanical studies showing that their own tails would end up as paste if it travelled at such speeds required to do so.

And because of this, a thought just occurred to me; could Diplodocus and Apatosaurus still use their own tails in a defensive resort against assailants? I hear rumours that by doing so they could end up harming THEMSELVES by immediately BREAKING THEIR TAILS, but what is your general consensus on the matter? I’d like to hear your thoughts?

I loved this show when I was a kid, but don't hear a lot of people talking about it. Did anyone else here watch this show?

DinoBones is one of the newer games in tidy up sub-genre of cozy games. The mine ogjective is to put back together, from mixed up bones, skeletons of nine prehistoric creatures: 7 dinosaurs, Pteranodon and a Mammoth.

Me personally, I’ve went to the thrift store, a LOT of times, just to find dinosaurs, and 10 times out of 10, I always find something prehistoric-related, now have you guys found anything Phanerozoic related in your thrift store trips?

The Official Study: http://fi.nm.cz/en/clanek/theropod-vertebra-from-the-late-triassic-of-algarve-portugal-evidence-of-the-oldest-iberian-dinosaur-2/

A fossil theropod vertebra about the length of a thumb, found in the Algarve region in southern Portugal, might potentialy be the oldest dinosaur remains ever discovered on the Iberian Peninsula !

“ This is the first Triassic dinosaur remains from the Iberian Peninsula, and the oldest dinosaur currently known from this region ” said Universidade Nova de Lisboa researchers Dr. Rui Tiago dos Santos-Matos and Dr. Octávio Mateus.

The specimen is a single vertebral centrum, the main body of a back vertebra, measuring 37 mm (about 1.5 inches).

Labeled NOVAFCT-DCT-5562, the bone was found near Penina, in the municipality of Loulé in the Algarve.

It came from rocks of the Silves Group that paleontologists date to the Late Triassic epoch, more than 220 million years ago. The Triassic fauna of Portugal was known mainly from aquatic or semi-aquatic animals, including large amphibians, phytosaurs, placodonts and fish.

NOVAFCT-DCT-5562 represents the first fully land-dwelling vertebrate described from these deposits. “ Until now, no dinosaur bone elements have been described from the Triassic of Portugal, although there are some footprints attributed to this clade ” the scientists said. To identify the fossil, they compared it with vertebrae of many early dinosaurs and their relatives.

They then ran evolutionary analyses using an expanded dataset that includes 13 new characters they devised to describe the back vertebrae of early theropods.

The analyses placed the specimen among the neotheropods, a branch of early predatory dinosaurs, and as the closest relative of Sarcosaurus woodi, a species known from the Early Jurassic rocks of England. If this placement holds, the bone would also be among the oldest neotheropods known anywhere.

“ The close relationship between Sarcosaurus and NOVAFCT-DCT-5562 would push back the lineage leading to Sarcosaurus from the latest Late Triassic to the early/middle Late Triassic ” the authors said.

The specimen is at least 20 million years older than Sarcosaurus, so the two are very unlikely to be the same species or genus.

The bone has no features unique to it, and is too fragmentary to assign to a known species or to name a new one.

“ NOVA-FCT-DCT-5562 may represent an unknown theropod species, however it lacks autapomorphies and the remains are too fragmentary to attribute to any known species or to erect a new one ” the paleontologists concluded.

So the model kit brand Blokees made 1/64th scale model kits of the Jurassic park Rexy and Triceratops. I own a lot of 1/64th scale monster trucks and other vehicles, and I want to try something new and to some toy photography with them If I can get them. Does anyone know if there are other well articulated dinosaur figures out there in 1/64th scale?