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And to anyone about to say 'those dinosaurs weren't from the Jurassic' neither were many from the movie. It's just branding.
THOSE DINOSAURS?! You mean the birds that went extinct in the 17th and 20th centuries?!
Edit: this comment annoyed me so much that I went and did research. Apparently, dinosaur no longer means reptiles that went extinct 66 million years ago. Not only are the feathery, hollow-boned bitches known as avian theropods considered dinosaurs, but everything that evolved from them also apparently gets to be called a dinosaur. Fuck that. It’s like Pluto all over again. Goddamn it.
Edit 2: You know what? Fuck that. Dinosaur means terrible lizard. If it’s not a lizard, it shouldn’t be a dinosaur. And don’t give me that shit about “it has lizard hips.” I have child-bearing hips, and it doesn’t make me a mother. Fuck you. I want to fight a paleontologist.
Edit 3: Today is my birthday, and this ruined it. We’re enemies now.
If it makes you feel better, I hold that the proper term is Archosaur, which covers Dinosaurs, Crocodilians, and Birds. And cladistically, in terms of common ancestors, birds are and have always been reptiles.
Also, Re: the Pluto thing: what you should really be angry about is that the only reason the Moon doesn't qualify as a planet is because the IAU specifically excludes it. By all the rules, the moon would at least qualify as a binary planet with Earth, because the moon's orbit around the sun never actually crosses itself. It describes an orbit basically the same shape as the earth's, and the barycentre of the binary earth-moon system (if you want to describe it as such) is actually outside of the earth's body. If Pluto, Ceres, and Eris aren't planets, then Luna definitely is, or their rules are not consistent.
Those motherfuckers.
Happy birthday, you old dinosaur!
Not anymore!
You sure seem dangerous though
I know Kung Pao and Jiu Gibberish. I’m wanted in twelve countrIes for crimes against arthropods. They call me… The Clam.
To be fair, none of the dinos in the movie were real dinosaurs. They were genetically engineered monsters. Michael Crichton said that himself.
They were all a mix of things.
e: you’re right, ‘Jurassic’ was branding.
The only thing that film got right was at the beginning, when the kid tells Dr. Grant that the velociraptor looked like a 2mt turkey.
After looking into it only two dinosaurs from that movie were actually from the Jurassic period . The Brachiosaurus and the Dilophosaurus.
And the second one was horribly wrongly portrayed.
Me in the back corner of the bookshop having got engrossed in a book by some unnamed archaeologist about how they learnt oviraptor wasn’t stealing eggs, but was actually a good parent – where are you going with those margaritas?
where are you going with those margaritas?
Its friday isnt it?
it's always friday somewhere
no i don't think so actually
Partypooper
Me perfectly safe at home because I am too paranoid, and reclusive to ever visit a theme park where large congregations of people gather - ...
