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Deleted Posts: 0	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:01:46 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Deleted on Jan 19, 2021 18:01:46 GMT Calm down ladies, dinosaur brains were incredibly small and the same could be said of their genitalia probably.

Toril Full Member Posts: 17,277 Mood: Iguana	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:14:48 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Toril on Jan 19, 2021 18:14:48 GMT No wonder they died out if they’re only just sorting out their genitalia. 😳

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Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:20:28 GMT

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I assume that more than one scientist, or whoever does that kind of work, is doing the reconstruction. 😉 And if their genitals were as small as Mr.M suggested then their dying out was only to be expected 😉, barring the real reason they were wiped out.

Liv Full Member Posts: 15,345	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:24:46 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Jan 19, 2021 18:24:46 GMT

Liv Full Member Posts: 15,345	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:30:31 GMT Toril likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Jan 19, 2021 18:30:31 GMT I've just been back to the article - they mated like crocodiles and they are still going. And -and this is the important bit- that part of their anatomy was multi functional. Don't ask!

Toril Full Member Posts: 17,277 Mood: Iguana	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:30:52 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Toril on Jan 19, 2021 18:30:52 GMT I’m obviously confusing you, liv. It must be my English sense of humour. 😉

Liv Full Member Posts: 15,345	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 18:33:38 GMT Toril likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Liv on Jan 19, 2021 18:33:38 GMT Maybe. I wasn't sure if the dinosaurs died out because they’re only just sorting out their genitalia

Toril Full Member Posts: 17,277 Mood: Iguana	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 20:44:32 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Toril on Jan 19, 2021 20:44:32 GMT Jan 19, 2021 18:33:38 GMT Liv said: Maybe. I wasn't sure if the dinosaurs died out because they’re only just sorting out their genitalia I think they’ve left it a bit late.

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Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 21:20:54 GMT

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Jan 19, 2021 20:44:32 GMT Toril said:

Jan 19, 2021 18:33:38 GMT Liv said:

Maybe. I wasn't sure if the dinosaurs died out because

I think they’ve left it a bit late.

You've lost me totally now Toril, O_o

Just for clarity, the palaeoartist was not suggesting their extinction was due to ... certain habits or anatomy. Quite the opposite in fact. Therefore, neither was I having read the article.

Toril Full Member Posts: 17,277 Mood: Iguana	Tal's dino blog Jan 19, 2021 22:16:06 GMT Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by Toril on Jan 19, 2021 22:16:06 GMT Don’t worry, liv, because I’m renowned for getting lost so it was inevitable that it would affect others. 😉
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Tal's dino blog Jan 20, 2021 9:08:44 GMT

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"Dino of the Day!": Astrodon

Pronunciation: As-tro-don
Meaning of name: "Star tooth".
Species: A. johnstoni
Size: Estimated to have measured between 15 and 18 metres long, 9 metres tall and weighing around 20 metric tonnes.
Family: Uncertain.
Diet: Herbivore. Likely fed on both high and low-growing vegetation.
First fossils found: Known only from a few bones and some teeth. First discovered in the Arundel Formation of Maryland, USA, in 1858. Named by American palaeontologist, Joseph Mellick Leidy, in 1865.
Lived: 112 million years ago during the Albian stage of the Early Cretaceous in what is now the Mid-Atlantic region of the southern United States.

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Tal's dino blog Jan 21, 2021 9:15:35 GMT

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Today's entry is a marine reptile from the southern United States: Clidastes

Pronunciation: Klee-das-teez
Meaning of name: "Locked vertebrae".
Species: C. propython, C. iguanavus.
Size: Average length of between 2 and 4 metres. Largest-known specimen measures 6.2 metres. Weight uncertain.
Family: Mosasauridae
Diet: Carnivore/piscivore.
First fossils found: Known from several specimens, the first of which were discovered by American palaeontologist, Edward Drinker Cope, in Alabama in 1869. C. propython and C. iguanavus named by Mr. Cope in the same year.
Lived: Depending on species, lived from 89.8 to 72.1 during the Coniacian, Santonian and Campanian stages of the Late Cretaceous in the warm oceans that covered what is now the southern United States.

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Tal's dino blog Jan 22, 2021 9:13:26 GMT

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Today's entry: Pannoniasaurus

Pronunciation: Pan-no-ne-ah-sore-us
Meaning of name: "Hungarian lizard".
Species: P. inexpectatus
Size: 6 metres long and weighed between 2 and 5 metric tonnes.
Family: Tethysaurinae (a sub-family of Mosasauridae)
Diet: Carnivore/piscivore.
First fossils found: Known from a single, almost-complete skeleton discovered in the Csehbánya Formation of western Hungary in 1999. Named by L. Makádi, M. W. Caldwell and A. Osi in 2012. Unlike other mosasaurs, which were marine predators, Pannoniasaurus lived in freshwater.
Lived: 86.3 to 83.6 million years ago during the Santonian stage of the Late Cretaceous in what is now western Hungary.

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