MetaFilter posts tagged with dinosaurs

Dodgson, Dodgson, we've got Dodgson here!

roomthreeseventeen — Fri, 29 Mar 2013 12:25:11 -0800

In anticipation of next week's 20th anniversary release of Jurassic Park 3D, Vulture rates the Jurassic Park dinosaurs, from worst to first.

Roy Chapman Andrews, adventurer.

ersatz — Sun, 17 Feb 2013 04:18:30 -0800

[Roy Chapman] Andrews is best remembered for the series of dramatic expeditions he led to the Gobi of Mongolia (shorter films: 1, 2) from 1922 to 1930. Andrews took a team of scientists into previously unexplored parts of the desert using some of the region’s first automobiles with extra supplies transported by camel caravan. Andrews – for whom adventure and narrow escapes from death were a staple of exploring – is said to have served as inspiration for the Hollywood character “Indiana Jones.” Andrews’s expeditions to the Gobi remain significant for, among other discoveries, their finds of the first nests of dinosaur eggs, new species of dinosaurs, and the fossils of early mammals that co-existed with dinosaurs. Ha was on the cover of Time when it used to cost fifteen cents and he wrote 23 books including All about dinosaurs.

We're not scientists, we just love dinos.

brundlefly — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 18:11:38 -0800

Fuck Yeah, Dinosaur Art!

When Dinosaurigami Ruled the Earth

brundlefly — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 15:50:54 -0800

Dinosaurigami!
More Dinosaurigami!
Further Adventures in Dinosaurigami!
Deeper into Dinosaurigami!
We'll have fun, fun, fun, until daddy takes the dinosaurigami away!
Return to the Valley of Dinosaurigami!

Remind me to thank John for a lovely weekend

roomthreeseventeen — Fri, 18 Jan 2013 08:31:26 -0800

Erth's Dinosaur Petting Zoo has arrived in New York One child's review of the zoo from Ann Arbor

"dawn of the deed"

flex — Tue, 30 Oct 2012 08:19:03 -0800

Secrets of T-Rex sex! An interview with John Long, author of The Dawn of the Deed: The Prehistoric Origins of Sex. Long's four-part series on Evolution: This View of Life - 1) Down and Dirty in the Devonian; 2) Palaeozoic Paternity Problems; 3) From Bones to Behavior; 4) From Clasper to Penis. Also a Scientific American video ("Long discusses a fossil central to this new view of the origin of copulation and live birth: a 375-million-year-old expectant mother fish dubbed Materpiscis attenboroughi").

Mountain of Dinosaurs

brundlefly — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 10:59:11 -0800

"Mountain of Dinosaurs" (1967) A Russian cartoon, directed by Rasa Strautmane. WARNING: things don't end well for the Dinosaurs. [via]

An Adventure 65 Million Dominoes In The Making

brundlefly — Tue, 02 Oct 2012 16:36:14 -0800

The Fall of the Dinosaurs (in Dominoes) [via]

PALEO: the comic that is harder to kill than the actual dinosaurs themselves

brundlefly — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 12:34:53 -0800

Paleo by Jim Lawson was a comic book series set during the Late Cretaceous and featuring dinosaurs as protagonists. It was in print between 2001 and 2004, but is now being "reprinted" as a webcomic. So far, the entirety of the first issue and a portion of the second have been posted. Two new pages are posted every week. Read more about dinosaurs in comics in "Paleo-Path" [previously], adapted from the introduction to a print collection of Paleo. Via Dinosaur Tracking.

Vampiric pterosaurs that bit dinosaurs

themadthinker — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 09:04:34 -0800

Why the world has to ignore ReptileEvolution.com

It's Liz.

Atreides — Sat, 23 Jun 2012 14:27:32 -0800

Liz Climo's mostly animal cartoon tumblr, Hi, I'm Liz.

The Dino-Tomato connection

Renoroc — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 10:20:44 -0800

Why are tomatoes red? The answer will amaze you...

"The sale of this next lot will be contingent on a satisfactory resolution of a court proceeding dealing with this matter."

brundlefly — Tue, 22 May 2012 14:15:53 -0800

On May 20th, the fossil remains of a Tarbosaurus (aka, Tyrannosaurus bataar) were sold for $1,052,500. The auction was carried out despite objections from the President of Mongolia and a court order. The problem? The remains may have been poached.

...You just have to be faster than your parents

quin — Fri, 11 May 2012 08:01:55 -0800

A Two Year Old Reacts to Seeing a Scary Dinosaur. [slyt]

Who the hell is ‘Prof. Brian J. Ford’? And did he say this in 1900?

brundlefly — Wed, 04 Apr 2012 08:50:26 -0800

Aquatic dinosaurs? Not so fast!

Imagine a dinosaur in sneakers stomping on Whoopi Goldberg's career... forever.

codacorolla — Mon, 19 Mar 2012 09:43:33 -0800

"A futuristic buddy cop movie costarring Whoopi Goldberg and a dinosaur? How could that possibly go wrong?" Theodore Rex: The Best of the Worst. The uploading user, lucienpsinger, finds, transfers, and uploads the strangest bits of forgotten VHS ephemera. Gary Busey's amazing performance as a western mayor, Cory Feldman's phase as a Jackson-esque pop star, the grocery dance, the most amazing ending sequence ever put to film. Much, much more. _{For a bit of historical context as to why Goldberg is in the film, she tried to back out for reasons unknown, and was sued for $20 million dollars. Goldberg settled, and agreed to star in the movie for an additional 2 million dollars.}

It's the wrong Miliband!

MartinWisse — Sat, 03 Dec 2011 23:27:09 -0800

"John Humphrys and the velociraptor had decided to take the opportunity to play a friendly game of tennis, which had turned competitive very quickly." Simple stories of dinosaurs and the elderly British celebrity men who love them: Jarvis Cocker, Philip Schofield and David Miliband. Clearly a case of Rule 34, but why these men and why dinosaurs only the anonymous writer knows. NSFW obviously.

Pythagasaurus

homunculus — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 15:18:13 -0800

Pythagasaurus is the fabled Tyrannosaurus practiced in the skills of trigonometry and long division. Apparently he knows all eight numbers. [Via]

Dinosaur Feathers in Amber

homunculus — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 17:15:19 -0800

'Dinofuzz' Found in Canadian Amber. Dinosaur Feathers Found in Amber Reinforce Evolution Theories.

KEEP IT DOWN OUT THERE

curious nu — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 21:23:30 -0800

I am TRYING to SLEEP! (SLYT)

Be a kidult! Way togo!

Gator — Sat, 20 Aug 2011 20:58:16 -0800

DINOSOAP archaeological soap lets you easily experience the fun of archaeological work! Body itself as a special soap made of double-modulation soap: scrub in the process each time, easier to dissolve the outer layer of the "loess" will gradually erode, slowly revealing more difficult to dissolve the inner layer buried in the "dinosaur fossil." Just few weeks, a mini ancient dinosaur fossils can be excavated Hello! (Google translation; via.)

The Ghost of Slumber Mountain

brundlefly — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:05:07 -0800

"These giant monsters of the past are seen to breathe, to live again, to move and battle as they did at the dawn of life!" The Ghost of Slumber Mountain (1918), by Willis O'Brien. Previously.

Tiny worlds, tiny bottles, tiny dinosaurs

IvoShandor — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 08:33:49 -0800

Akinobu Izumi puts tiny worlds, and tiny dinosaurs, in tiny bottles.

Evolution & Creation

brundlefly — Wed, 08 Jun 2011 16:48:07 -0800

Some early test shots from legendary filmmaker and animator Ray Harryhausen's unfinished film, Evolution. Harryhausen's mentor, Willis O'Brien, had his own unfinished, dinosaur-themed film. Here's a scene. Previously.

CAUTION OSTRICH BITE

NoraReed — Sat, 04 Jun 2011 14:06:35 -0800

Stewart's Petrified Wood is a shop off of I-40 in Holbrook, Arizona with giant animatronic dinosaurs eating, and sometimes being ridden by, somewhat decrepit mannequins. Also, there's an ostrich farm. Yelp page. Flickr photos. Roadtrip memoirs entry.