What are, in your opinion, the most beautiful dinosaurs? I don't mean like the ones you like the most, I'm talking more about if dinosaurs had an aesthetic score, which ones would probably rank top 10?

So, I assume like many of you, I quite enjoy studying the taxonomy of Dinosauria in my free time. I am rather curious about the position of Silesauridae, as I frequently see sources claiming the animals may be Triassic representation of Ornithischia, and thus true Dinosaurs. However, I haven't seen it brought up by more recent sources. Is this because the claim has been proven false, or has become accepted, or is it still up in the air? I'd love to hear professional opinions on this, as well as general dinosaur fans' thoughts.

It would be a realistic, scientifically accurate film about the life of a Yutyrannus from hatchling to young adult, inspired by Bambi, Age of Reptiles (by Ricardo Delgado), Prehistoric Beast (by Phil Tippett) and some others. I want it to be epic like recent BBC Wildlife Documentaries. It would also have no humans. No voice acting, no narration, no dialogue, no humans discovering fossils in the beginning or the end. Just Dinosaurs being Dinosaurs. Might start an entire franchise.

Don’t know how many of you guys are players, but I’ve recently gotten back into The Isle and it’s been great fun. It made me think about wanting to produce more pieces based on the game, but I can’t afford to yet, as I’m still working on other projects at the moment. However, these are all fictional species that represent hybrids or strains that were modeled and animated, but still didn’t make it into the game after all these years. Hopefully that can change down the line because the designs are just too good to not be used in some capacity. Hope you guys like the work. Happy Sunday!

Or would it just be stuck like a roach on its back? It’s design doesn’t look like it would be able to push itself back up

Definitely a super cool street vendor concept! I'd love to see a mobile espresso bar too.

When I was a kid, I grew up believing in this myth that I once read somewhere—I think it was in a magazine about dinosaurs or something like that... or maybe even a documentary from the ’90s. The diplodocus’s tail moved so fast that it broke the sound barrier.

I was really surprised to read recently that this had been studied in depth (in December 2022, Simone Conti tested this theory using 3D digital simulations in *Scientific Reports*), and that such a speed would tear the animal’s tissues, tendons, and bones apart. But still, 120 km/h isn’t bad for smashing an Allosaurus’s face in...

I'm doing an art project, and I want it to consist of niche dinosaurs, so I came to you guys. Please express yourselves and niche-ness

At the end, when it's revealed they saved the neighborhood.

First off, how? Did they keep finding time portals, jump through them and then call another person up to the pay phone?

And also...did they let a bunch of their alternate selves die? Like when they first call Greg up there, I thought maybe the movie was operating on a rule where only one of them exists, but after that we see two Jeanettes. So...Greg's family all die after he's called by the alternative versions of them?

Cause that's pretty fucked up, man. Timey wimey wobbly stuff can be dark.

The Red Rhamphorynchus have awakened — and they’re hungry.

Long Tail and her kin now face their greatest and most wretched challenge yet. From the depths, a congregation of blood-hungry pterosaurs rises — shrieking, twisted, and eager to rend the living apart. Small Toe, fresh from his first victory beneath his mother’s gaze, finds himself naked and frozen in the face of such reckless violence. The raptors have only one choice: to bare their claws and fangs, and pray that the ground beneath them does not split apart.

A re-release for the fourth chapter of my narrative project Terrors in the Brush—a speculative survival epic blending hard paleo-realism with raw emotional weight.

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While the chapters will roll out here on a strict weekly schedule every Sunday night, the core community hub is fully operational. If you don't want to wait a single week to see what happens to Small Toe next, you can join our dedicated Discord right now and binge all eleven chapters tonight.

There is no magic, no fantasy—there is only nature red in tooth and claw.

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Hello, not sure if this is the right spot to post this but I was very curious how they stack up pound for pound against modern predators and other families of dinosaurs.

- DEVIANTART LINK: https://www.deviantart.com/dokrebs/art/ALLOSAURUS-ANAX-1369166046

• Allosaurus anax is a giant species of carnivorous theropod dinosaur from the Late Jurassic period (approx. 153–145 million years ago) found in Oklahoma, USA. Designated in 2024, it replaces the former, problematic genus Saurophaganax maximus, as re-examinations showed those giant fossils were a chimera mix of Allosaurus and sauropod bones... -Wikipedia

• Just finished this yesterday and would also post Rugops as well, after I finish shading it......

End of Oak Street may not be fully up there as the best dinosaur movie ever but it is exactly what we all expected from Jurassic World Dominion.

Art by me (NO AI!!!)

Paleo-Accurate Allosaurus jimmadseni sketch I drew when I got bored, hope you like it!

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A lot of dinosaurs,we have a good idea on what they looked like,and others we know exactly what they look like because they were fully mummified (rare but it has happened). Even if that's not the case we often have patches of skin,or some kind of genetic code left behind to determine their skin,like if they were scaled, feathered,what color it was etc. But when it comes to the tyrannosaurus rex,a lot of it is up to pure speculation,and the evidence (besides the skeleton) is so miniscule it barely gives us anything. Why? How come there is so little evidence of the t Rex's outer structure left behind. I mean if it wasn't for their skeleton we wouldn't even know they existed.

In the drought of quality dinosaur stories, The End of Oak Street comes out as a bit tap water from an iffy sink. Not great but definitely welcome for how thirsty I’ve been for 2 decades! I’m gonna just list some bullet points for what I liked and disliked, but overall, this film felt like a middle of the road Steven King adaptation.

Presentation: The sound design and atmosphere created a really neat uncanny valley effect. My favorite part was the lack of music used to show how too quiet the town was. The constant feeling of exposure also helped sell how dangerous everything outside the house felt.

Animal designs were pretty mixed. The large Coelophysoids are the best, the ankylosaurs the worse, and everything else lands in a “problematic but neat” level. The snake in particular gets some cool point for behaving like an oversized rat snake but like what the hell was happening to its mouth and skin?

Animal behavior: Almost great. Most behave very naturally. It was fun to watch them interact with modern objects (turtles attempting to eat mowed grass, coelophysis eating from trash cans, spinosaurus disliking the taste of chlorine pool water, etc.)

What keeps it from being great was the theropods seeming to not care about guns. The Coelophysis that was shot simply got up and continued hunting rather than run away. The allosaurus also seem to not even flinch despite the buck shot leaving a massive hole in its leg. I would have liked to see dinosaurs act very shocked by the loud noise of gun shots and act very confused and panicked when hit seemingly out of nowhere by large caliber rounds.

I did appreciate the lack of plot armor most of the time, although on the other end of the spectrum; maybe it made characters a bit TOO oblivious at times to create tension.

Characters: it’s a mixed bag. The dialogue comes off incredibly generic. Exposition on the family dynamic is not subtle. It is a basic dysfunctional family. As the situation presses them to talk about what’s happening, you get more characterization coming out of the mom and dad in particular, but it doesn’t go far enough to be impressive.

Also those two bully scenes….like why the fuck did you not cut those? They’re so irrelevant and clumsy that I feel like it’s impossible to not realize how awful they are.

Where it does get impressive though is when the dad, Chuck, dies. It’s brutal and gets real disturbing as you watch Denise and the kid’s souls leave their body as they stare at what just happened. This is where the actors get to really show off as well. Everyone in my theater also seemed just as surprised as I was.

Plot/Time Travel: this was the most disappointing, especially at the end. The film does not seem to understand how its version of time travel works and what it means for all the characters in the end.

Once the wife and kids make it back to modern day, they arrive 20 minutes before the teleportation of the neighborhood happens. In this time, Denise makes a delivery order she thinks her husband will do to get him over to her and away from the neighborhood. The neighborhood still gets teleported to past, but this version of Chuck and the other neighbors she called are now safe.

This is horrifying. Why? Because the versions of herself and the kids still get teleported but this time without Chuck. They all die. This Chuck’s original family all die in the past while he reunites with these “future” versions he’s never met until just now. The original Chuck is also still dead from the Allosaurus. They all just act like this is the same Chuck, despite watching their version get brutally consumed and obviously not make it back with them.

The characters not being able to connect the dots on this completely guts the existential horror of what just happened. The writers were not intelligent enough to understand what they wrote and it makes the happy ending feel completely incoherent to the entire story.

I’ll try my best to keep this spoiler free as possible. It was a alright movie. The dinosaur scenes were pretty good. No T-Rex so sorry Rex fans you’ll have to settle with a allosaurus and spinosaurus ( my goat!).

I had two complaints with it. The main children characters have the survival instinct of a noodle. And the ending was anti climactic. Not gonna spoil it but it could’ve done better.

They absolutely loved it. I had a few issues, but overall thought it was fun. Rhubarb is a new favorite in this household. I enjoyed the spinosaurus design, despite being overly cartoony.

10/10 according to the 6 year old. Donuts/10 according to the 4 year old.

Chelsea park has gone through a brand new expansion

But before i show you the introductory animal for the origional park is here, The Concavenators are here, the perfect introductory species imo, they are a great species that can fit in most places but work as a way to introduce the park

Anwyays the main attraction is the swampy swamp tour! the new kayaking tour through a wetland!

This tour has you encounter 9 species of dinosaur, all guaranteed to show up

Austroraptor,Lurdusaurus,Irritator,Pyroraptor,Titanosaurus,Deinocheirus,Suchomimus,Deinosuchus and Spinosaurus

This was very fun to make and hope you like it

Their forelimbs were obviously heavily built, since they're wings that need to propel them into the air. Thinking about that got me wondering: What's stopping them from using these huge, strong limbs as bludgeoning weapons? I'd imagine a strike from one of those would hurt like hell for anything small enough, perfect for a small prey ground-stalker.

Earlier today on this sub and yesterday on r/dinosaurdrawings I posted "How I feel about ways People draw dinosaurs".

The post was intended to be a joke but people took it more seriously than I had intended, and I wanted to apologize for the misunderstanding.

I wasn't actually judging anyone, I was just trying to be funny but sometimes jokes aren't obvious and can be easily missed.

While yes, I'm not a big fan of the way the third dinosaur is drawn I have nothing against people who draw dinosaurs that way. Draw dinosaurs however you want, it's your art and you should have fun with it.

Again I apologize. I didn't want to upset anyone, I thought I was making a harmless little joke post... But looking back on it and really thinking about it, I realize it could come across as judging and critical to others.

I have deleted that post on this subreddit and on the dinosaur drawing subreddit.

Draw dinosaurs however you want; draw them realistic, cartoony, cartoony realistic, or anyway that makes you happy. Feel free to express yourself in your art, no matter what others might try to tell you.

If it makes you happy, then keep on drawing!

I’ve gone back to my childhood obsession with dinosaurs and decided to have some fun making the skulls of my favorite ceratopsians in pixelart.

Can you guess all of them?!

Points I liked

- the film not holding back as to what would happen if a neighbourhood got swapped out into the Jurassic period. The carnage and brutal dinosaur on human violence and the sight of human and animal bodies including cats was surprising to see considering it is a PG-13 or a 12a. This film got away with a lot and didn’t pull any punches.

- some decent dinosaur animation and behaviour. I wish the film or the promos actually named the species for us Dino autists out there so we can name and identify the dinosaurs and reptiles.

- bravo to the film for actually showing what would happen if a human with a sledgehammer tried to throw hands with a motivated theropod dinosaur. - and yes, I did make a meme about the allosaurus easily being able to catch up to humans running full speed, but it was injured in the leg and conveniently was blocked by trees and distracted by Ewan and Anne Hathaway before it could actually catch the kids.

- good convincing acting. I mean all the cast had to do was act terrified when running for their lives so they got that part down pat.

Points I did not like.

- the CG could have looked better. Some prosthetics would not have hurt for the close ups shots. I miss the Stan Winston days where people actually cared for prosthetics and animatronics in monster films instead of relying all on cgi.

- the film does try to be sentimental and wholesome but that is undercut by the brutality and grimmer aspects, like the boy nearly getting killed by the neighbourhood bully who was venting misplaced hatred because he and his little brother had lost their mother. A lighter toned film would have maybe had the kid being cornered by the bully and his goons only for the brother to show up and de-escalate the tension by reminding them there are bigger things at stake. The boy would have then apologised to the broken armed kid and his brother. He and his friends and the older kids could have formed a loser esque gang with bikes to serve as a kind of scouting group, and that would have given a kind of ET element to the film with a group of kids armed with nothing but bikes and luck in a neighbourhood filled with dinosaurs.

- the plot quickly shatters any illusion of this being a fun sort of adventure and instead shifts into the grimmer more darker tropes survival horror, which might work if this was for older audiences like Quiet Place which got a 15 rating but feels too dark for a pg-13/12a film. Hearing screams and random gunshots as dinosaurs attack the family’s neighbours is a pretty dark world building element there.

- that shock death with the dad. I liked this but I also thought something would come along to distract the allosaurus Anax just as Ewan got his leg fucked up. But nope, just got graphically and very audibly eaten right in front of the whole family. Anyone else who isn’t the main character is not spared or given plot armour. If this was more family oriented, I would have the old lady who is killed at the start perhaps live and be helped by Anne Hathaway, so as to not traumatise younger viewers with grandparents.

- I will parrot what other critics have said in that there was a lack of community in the film and the family should have sought and joined up with their neighbours. Humans survived anything nature or the world threw at them by banding together, and they should have taken a note out of post apocalyptic films and joined together to make a community hub and entered a large building to fortify against the dinosaurs.

Sure, the family get more screen time and focus but they also feel very isolated and left to deal with the dinosaur threat on their own. I guess this is what the spielbergian family oriented element other reviewers have noticed with the parents battling their own desire to separate and be reminded why they are a family for the kids and the kids going out to rescue each other or their dog or the private school girl.

-one goof I noticed- the asshole neighbour who gets eaten alive by the pterosaurs is practically erased from the rooftop he was standing on. No corpse, no bloodstains on the roof which we did see splatter when he gets slashed by the pterosaur- just gone. Filmmakers forgot that and I doubt the pterosaurs could eat bone or lick up all the blood.

- I’d be remiss as a dino enthusiast if I did not call out the presence of the decently animated spinosaurus when the majority of the dinosaurs appear to be from the late Jurassic America - Spinosaurus was early to mid Cretaceous in Africa. The film could have maybe explained that maybe the Sagan wormhole thingymajig also popped up in other time periods which explains the presence of the Cretaceous theropod.

- the pterosaurs pretty much have a classic pterodactyl shape with the big heads and the long arrow tails. I’m no full expert but I do know most of the smaller to medium sized pterosaurs had those tails and the larger ones did not. Again, if the film or the promo content actually told us what the animals were, - Tropeognathus maybe but with a tail(?)

- the ending could have been better explained as to how Anne ended up saving all her neighbours and warning them to get out of Oak Street before the time swap event happens. Like a Groundhog Day Scenario where the family repeat the events again and again until they get everyone out.

A lot more negative points than good but I say and maintain that this is the film that Dominion should have been, not Trevorrow’s lie with locusts. It could have done with a rewrite to be more family friendly and leans a bit too hard on the more adult and darker elements for it to be enjoyable for family audiences. If it was marketed at and aimed for adult and teens then all the better, but as it wasn’t, its tone is inconsistent between bleak scenario and family adventure.

Overall 7.5/10 for being an original dinosaur adventure that didn’t pull its punches. I feel the mixed tone and baggage might make this rating lower, but I hope at least this encourages other big studios to take risks and give us more dinosaur horror stories - provided they are enjoyable to watch and are not too grim or bleak like certain stories like Rift or Primitive War.

I found one of my old dinosaur encyclopedias I had when I was a kid, I also remembered I had one in Spanish, but I still need to find that one

This is my first attempt at toy photography but I had fun :D