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Post by Moose on Feb 1, 2019 3:31:09 GMT
As I've recently purchased a set of dinosaur Top Trump cards I thought that it would be nice if we all learned a bit about dinosaurs *gives righteous 'education is a Good Thing nod*. So I will get you all going with a name of a dinosaur and a couple of facts about it and you can all give me a couple more facts - yay! Think of the prizes to might win in pub quizzes to come!
Anyway today's dinosaur is *picks card at random*
An Oviraptor!
Oviraptors were about half the size of a modern day man and had a beak. This was largely used for cracking shells.
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Post by JoeP on Feb 1, 2019 8:05:28 GMT
From the Latin ovum meaning egg, and raptor meaning being taken up to heaven in the twinkling of an eye which is how all the dinosaurs disappeared.
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Post by Moose on Feb 1, 2019 21:17:43 GMT
Really is that what raptor means??
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 1, 2019 23:49:00 GMT
How do the scientists know that the beak was for cracking eggs? I assume from the name they mean eggs rather than, say, nut shells.
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 1, 2019 23:54:04 GMT
Raptor is from the Latin rapere, 'to seize'. It is most often used to refer to birds of prey.
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Post by Moose on Feb 3, 2019 23:25:26 GMT
Did many dinosaurs eat nuts?
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 4, 2019 13:59:22 GMT
Was there a SQRLsaurus?
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 4, 2019 15:01:06 GMT
This parrot-beaked dinosaur, named Psittacosaurus gobiensis, had its fossils only discovered recently in the Gobi Desert. It is thought by scientists to have been a nut-eating specialist. That's a picture of its fossil skull, next to the skull of a modern parrot for comparison. The parrot skull is a little confusing - both skulls are facing to the left. Article on Futurity
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 5, 2019 0:31:22 GMT
Parrots with molars!
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Post by JoeP on Feb 5, 2019 12:33:03 GMT
Introducing a new series - Dinosaur of the Day! When you started this thread I assumed you meant you would be posting a dinosaur a day. I see that is not the case. Clearly what you had in mind was an occasional (very occasional) series where you pick a dinosaur and call it dinosaur of the day, although being a long-suffering overworked dinosaur it has to last for weeks.
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Post by Moose on Feb 7, 2019 5:27:29 GMT
Well a lot of the problem is that I can't actually read the dinosaur cards without my glasses
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Post by JoeP on Feb 7, 2019 8:53:46 GMT
Maybe you could get a new pair of glasses on Amazon?
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 7, 2019 11:16:46 GMT
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Post by Moose on Feb 12, 2019 4:34:46 GMT
That is a jolly good idea. And who thought white text on green was a good idea anyway?
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 12, 2019 15:34:11 GMT
Yes...Jolly good. I saw that and my immediate response was....Wow, that'd be great for a modeler like myself.
Is particularly impressed with the option of the clip-on base.
***Files away cept's great idea for later.***
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Post by whollygoats on Feb 12, 2019 16:27:53 GMT
That is a jolly good idea. And who thought white text on green was a good idea anyway? Uh...Evidently, almost every state highway department in the United States. All directional signs are green with white text. All our city street signs here are now white on green. They used to be white on navy.
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Post by Moose on Feb 13, 2019 4:50:53 GMT
Black on white really is best for me these days
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Post by ceptimus on Feb 21, 2019 16:44:22 GMT
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Post by Moose on Feb 22, 2019 7:16:30 GMT
I know I replied to this but my reply is not there.
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Post by JoeP on Feb 22, 2019 9:29:03 GMT
The Teeny rex ate your reply.
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Post by Moose on Feb 24, 2019 3:41:10 GMT
Bad rex. Bad.
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Post by Yuki on Feb 24, 2019 16:46:12 GMT
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Post by ceptimus on Mar 11, 2019 14:11:44 GMT
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Post by Moose on Mar 12, 2019 3:15:46 GMT
Are those ones to the left shagging or just having a domestic?
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Post by Alvamiga on Mar 12, 2019 23:14:24 GMT
Looks like dental surgery to me!
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Post by ceptimus on May 8, 2019 17:46:19 GMT
Another smallish ancestor of T Rex discovered! This time in New Mexico and predating T Rex by about twenty million years. It stood about one metre tall at the hip, and the whole animal was about as long as just the skull of T Rex. It's been named Suskityrannus hazelae. BBC article
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Post by JoeP on May 8, 2019 18:34:17 GMT
What's the score now - ceptimus 4 moose 1?
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Post by Moose on May 10, 2019 5:40:24 GMT
Hey! Now I have my new reading glasses I can totally read the cards, even if they are lurid colours on more lurid colours. So, you all buy yourselves some and we will play online?
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Post by ceptimus on May 10, 2019 10:53:53 GMT
More new dinosaurs being found in China! They are examples of the so-called 'bat winged dinosaurs' that have wings partly made of a membrane (like the pterosaurs) and partly clothed in feathers (like archaeopteryx).
The latest one has been named Ambopteryx longibrachium. Here's a CGI video of it flying.
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Post by Moose on May 11, 2019 3:46:11 GMT
It's looking good for its age.
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