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From Wikipedia:
Carnotaurus /ˌkɑrnɵˈtɔrəs/ is a genus of large theropod dinosaur that lived in South America during the Late Cretaceous period, between about 72 and 69.9 million years ago. The only species is Carnotaurus sastrei. Known from a single well-preserved skeleton, it is one of the best-understood theropods from the Southern Hemisphere. The skeleton, found in 1984, was uncovered in the Chubut Province of Argentina from rocks of the La Colonia Formation. Derived from the Latin carno [carnis] ("flesh") and taurus ("bull"), the name Carnotaurus means "meat-eating bull", alluding to its bull-like horns. Carnotaurus is a derived member of the Abelisauridae, a group of large theropods that occupied the large predatorial niche in the southern Landmasses of Gondwana during the late Cretaceous. The phylogenetic relations of Carnotaurus are uncertain; it may have been closer to either Majungasaurus or Aucasaurus.
Carnotaurus was a lightly built, bipedal predator, measuring 8 to 9 m (26 to 30 ft) in length and weighing at least 1.35 metric tons (1.33 long tons; 1.49 short tons). As a theropod, Carnotaurus was highly specialized and distinctive. It had thick horns above the eyes, a feature unseen in all other carnivorous dinosaurs, and a very deep skull sitting on a muscular neck. Carnotaurus was further characterized by small, vestigial forelimbs and long and slender hindlimbs. The skeleton is preserved with extensive skin impressions, showing a mosaic of small, non-overlapping scales measuring approximately 5 mm in diameter. The mosaic was interrupted by large bumps that lined the sides of the animal, and there are no hints of feathers.
The distinctive horns and the muscular neck may have been used in fighting conspecifics. According to separate studies, rivaling individuals may have combated each other with quick head blows, by slow pushes with the upper sides of their skulls, or by ramming each other head-on, using their horns as shock absorbers. The feeding habits of Carnotaurus remain unclear: some studies suggest the animal was able to hunt down very large prey such as sauropods, while other studies find it preyed mainly on relatively small animals. Carnotaurus was well adapted for running and was possibly one of the fastest large theropods.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
And all that is just an excuse to post pics of one of the neatest, weirdest looking predators ever. It looked like a short-nosed tyrannosaur with horns.
I feel like something is missing with those little arms
Like they're really buried bu feathers, like an email or cassowarry or whatnot
No other Dino would even know
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Raijin QuickfootI'm your Huckleberry YOU'RE NO DAISYRegistered User, ClubPAregular
The dreaded email!
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Jurassic Park geneticists always had an eye towards marketing new pets as a potential revenue stream, but they doubted that the powers that be would ever authorize Fluffosaurus Rex, no matter how many colors they could make it in.
What in the actual fuck
I don't remember that bit of hotline miami
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Metzger MeisterIt Gets Worsebefore it gets any better.Registered Userregular
Giant birds are, without exception, terrifying death machines with no fear who will beat the fear-piss out of hardened professional soldiers and unflinchingly charge machine gun placements.
Giant birds are, without exception, terrifying death machines with no fear who will beat the fear-piss out of hardened professional soldiers and unflinchingly charge machine gun placements.
Giant birds are, without exception, terrifying death machines with no fear who will beat the fear-piss out of hardened professional soldiers and unflinchingly charge machine gun placements.
The attempts to curb the population of emus, a large flightless bird indigenous to Australia, employed soldiers armed with Lewis guns—leading the media to adopt the name "Emu War" when referring to the incident.
JedocIn the scupperswith the staggers and jagsRegistered Userregular
When I was a kid, I read about dinosaurs a lot. One of the specimens that really captured my imagination was Deinocheirus merificus.
The full genus and species name translates as "horrible hand, what the fuck." We discovered a gigantic pair of arms in 1965, and that was it. No other part of the skeleton was found for over fifty years. The arms were eight feet long and tipped with 10-inch nightmare Freddy Krueger claws. Fully three times the size of T. Rex's famously stubby arms. My Time-Life book taught me that we couldn't be sure that Deinocheirus was a carnosaur three times the size of T. Rex, but that it would be super badass if it was.
Fast-forward to 2014, when we finally got our hands on a mostly-intact Deinocheirus skeleton. What kind of monster were we about to discover? Who is the new star of the next Jurassic Park movie?
That's...great. You did a good job, Science. Just...just keep it up. Thanks.
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MayabirdPecking at the keyboardRegistered Userregular
People say dinosaurs look silly with feathers, but this is a clear example where feathers are needed to restore some dignity. Look at that goofy head. Wouldn't it look better with feathers, adding some apparent bulk, rounding it out, maybe throwing on a crest or other fancy ornaments?
See? Much better with feathers.
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valhalla13013 Dark Shield Perceives the GodsRegistered Userregular
In case you like cool action figures of dinos, someone is making some great ones. I wish I had more disposable income to waste on these.
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Also I just went and saw Jurassic World and I love it and my secret husband Chris Pratt was very good and also DINASAWRS.
Hey whoa he can't also be your secret husband.
Unless he wants to share, which I'm okay with.
Oh man I thought I hallucinated this show.
I saw like 3 episodes when I was a kid and convinced myself I was misremembering because I could never find it/remember the name.
Like they're really buried bu feathers, like an email or cassowarry or whatnot
No other Dino would even know
I once seen an email chain letter fifty pages long, with spelling errors severe enough to roll your eyes out of your skull!
Man fuck now I'm not going to sleep tonight.
Thanks Obama.
Jurassic Park geneticists always had an eye towards marketing new pets as a potential revenue stream, but they doubted that the powers that be would ever authorize Fluffosaurus Rex, no matter how many colors they could make it in.
I don't remember that bit of hotline miami
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emu_War
Why I fear the ocean.
Satans..... hints.....
(autoplay video)
New dinosaur "looks like 'a fat pony." Probably related to the triceratops as it looks similar, but it doesn't have a nose horn.
I like it.
The full genus and species name translates as "horrible hand, what the fuck." We discovered a gigantic pair of arms in 1965, and that was it. No other part of the skeleton was found for over fifty years. The arms were eight feet long and tipped with 10-inch nightmare Freddy Krueger claws. Fully three times the size of T. Rex's famously stubby arms. My Time-Life book taught me that we couldn't be sure that Deinocheirus was a carnosaur three times the size of T. Rex, but that it would be super badass if it was.
Fast-forward to 2014, when we finally got our hands on a mostly-intact Deinocheirus skeleton. What kind of monster were we about to discover? Who is the new star of the next Jurassic Park movie?
That's...great. You did a good job, Science. Just...just keep it up. Thanks.
See? Much better with feathers.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/creativebeast/beasts-of-the-mesozoic-raptor-series-action-figure
Scientists doing research theorize dinos sounded more like birds than roaring bull elephants and lions.