Question of the Day - Friday, August 30th, 2024

[tripletfeb]

Fun fact .Velociraptors in the fossil record are actually about the size of a peacock with a full trane.

The movie version more closely resembles Deinonychus (which is also what Crichton based his raptors in in the books)

Nor did they spit venom

 

[tripletfeb]

Ankylosaurus. Man, this question is right up my alley

 

[azurbanclucker]

Nor did they spit venom

Well those were the Dilophasaurs, but you are correct. There's zero evidence they spit venom or acid. Llamas do regurgitate stomach contents (including gastric acids) when they get really angry or stressed, so it's theoretically possible, but no evidence exists to prove it.

 

[HorseGirlAbby]

The cute little plant eating ones.

 

[tripletfeb]

Well those were the Dilophasaurs, but you are correct. There's zero evidence they spit venom or acid. Llamas do regurgitate stomach contents (including gastric acids) when they get really angry or stressed, so it's theoretically possible, but no evidence exists to prove it.

I saw your other post and read dilopho instead of dein. Duh

 

[azurbanclucker]

pterodactyl

 

[tripletfeb]

It's George. Let him have it

 

[Evadig]

This one

I don't know the names of any real dinosaurs except for T Rex, which is not my favorite.

 

[fowltemptress]

T-rex, which I know isn't a particularly unique or interesting answer, but it is, so there you go. They've always reminded me of birds, and I'm very much a bird person over all other things. I was young . . . 10 or something? When I got into an argument with my teacher about the shortness of their arms. I was adamant that their arms were not short, and that the people who put the skeleton together were wrong about the arm placement - they should be aligned the same way a chicken's is, so that the T-rex can fold his wings against his sides and not have them dangling out in front of him. I was so angry about it that it's become a core memory.

 

[azurbanclucker]

It's George. Let him have it

Indeed!