#DINOSAURS HAD FEATHERS!!
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you know that although the word dinosaur means 'terrible lizard', the name is a bit misleading, since dinosaurs are not lizards, haha weird.
#spencer reid#DINOSAURS HAD FEATHERS!!#museum#they are not lizards#criminal minds#spencer reid moodboard#mgg#spencer reid criminal minds#spencer reid fluff#spencer reid x reader#spencer reid x you#criminal minds imagine#criminal minds moodboard#criminal minds x reader#criminal minds fluff#criminal minds fanfic#spencer reid smut#doctor spencer reid#dr spencer reid#spencer reid aesthetic#spencer reid fanfic#spencer reid fanfiction#spencer reid fic#spencer reid gif#spencer reid gifs#spencer reid headcanon#spencer reid imagine#spencer reid icon#mgg fluff#mgg pics
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welcome to the cenozoic fucko
#i've had this idea for like#months#archaeopteryx#archaeopteryx lithographica#avialae#dinosaur#dinosaurs#theropod dinosaur#feathered dinosaur#feathered dinosaurs#paleontology#paleoblr#paleoart#prehistoric animals#shitpost#shitpost tag#my art
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Sinosauropteryx (the feathered compsognathid with a striped tail) versus hubris (featuring a special appearance by a chonky rat)
#i am obsessed with these funky fellas i just had to make this#sinosauropteryx#dinosaur#paleoart#animation#feathered dinosaurs#fat rat#no its not vore
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Don't know why my fool ass thought I'd be able to peacefully enjoy a bowl of cereal
#i should know better by now#pictures taken moments before disaster#live laugh leghorn#fastest I've ever had to inhale partial liquids before#my feather babies#chickens#tiny fluffy dinosaurs#the BEST animals#chickenblr#birdblr
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Errors, “Errors,” and Sci Fi
@strawberry-crocodile
tvtropes calls stuff like the wolf example "science matches on" which I think is a pretty fair shake
This. This is what’s got me thinking so much about errors. There’s a certain danger, here. A certain way that this particular effect — delicious dramatic irony — tempts the mind when reading old stories, even true ones.
What do you know about R.M.S. Titanic? I ask my class every year, and the first hand rises. “It was unsinkable,” the student inevitably says, and everyone is nodding, “or so they thought.” I write the word UNSINKABLE on the board, underneath my crude drawing of a ship with four smokestacks. It will be crossed out before the end of the hour, but not for the reason they expect.
“I find no evidence,” Walter Lord, preeminent biographer of the ship’s survivors, wrote, “that Titanic was ever advertised as unsinkable. This detail seems to have entered the collective mind so as to create a more perfect irony.” Indeed, historians’ examinations of White Star Line documents show the shipbuilders themselves worried it would be so large as to risk collision; they stocked several more lifeboats than 1910s regulations required.
The War to End All Wars (deep breath, satisfied exhale), also known as World War ONE. Chuckle. Shake of the head. What if I told you that this phrase, used primarily in American newspapers after the fact, wasn’t meant to be literal? Nowadays we’d say The Mother of All Wars, or One Hell of a Fucking War, but we wouldn’t mean literal motherhood, literal intercourse. What if I said the armistice and the Lost Generation and the Roaring 20s were all braced for another outbreak of European conflict, and yet we still failed to prevent it?
Did you know they were so confident in the safety of the S.S. Challenger that they put a civilian schoolteacher onboard? I do, because I’ve heard that one repeated many times. Only, see, it’s got the cause and effect reversed. Challenger launched on a day the shuttle’s engineers knew to be dangerously cold, because the first civilian in space was on board. And NASA knew its shuttle project would be cancelled entirely, if they couldn’t get that civilian’s much-delayed entry into space in the next two weeks. So they launched on a cold day, and killed her instead.
These are all what cognitive science calls Hindsight Bias on the personal level, what sociology calls Presentism on the cultural level. Social psychology’s a little of both, is primarily interested in why you’re sitting on your couch in a Colonize Mars shirt watching PBS and chuckling at the fools who believed in El Dorado. It wants to know why the mind flees straight from “marijuana will kill you” to “marijuana will cure cancer” without so much as a pause on the middle ground of its real benefits and drawbacks, its real (mild) risks and rewards.
And they can paralyze the sci-fi writer, if you think too much about them. Jetsons is futurist one decade, retro the next. “There are no bathrooms on the Enterprise,” the creators of Serenity say smugly, as if Gene Roddenberry should’ve simply known that decades later it’d be acceptable to show a man peeing in full view of the camera, nothing but the curve of the actor’s hand to protect his modesty. “No sound in space,” the Fandom Menace says, “No explosions in space,” and “A space station can’t collapse in zero-G.” Only then NASA burns a paper napkin outside of atmosphere, transmits music using only the ghost of nearby planets’ gravities, and logs onto Reddit long enough to point out the Death Star would implode in its own gravity field. And now we’re the ones pointing, the ones laughing, at those earlier point-and-laughers. Self-satisfied, smug in superiority. As if we did the work to find out ourselves, instead of just happening to be born a little later than George Lucas.
#errors#continuity#sci fi#presentism#star wars#titanic#world war i#science marches on#history#started a new post because i got waaaaaay off topic here#if you think the dinosaurs in Jurassic Park (1993) should've had feathers#you're a lot more ignorant about paleontology than the people you're trying to criticize#science was not handed down to us in its perfect complete form circa 1943#stop for a second before you call out someone else's reptilian denonychus#someone else's oxygenated moon#and ask: am i better read#or am i just more recently born?
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Velociraptor Sketch
little sketch of a Velociraptor
#digital art#digital illustration#dinosaur#palaeoart#paleoart#paleontology#sciart#artists on tumblr#digital artwork#velociraptor#dinosaurs had feathers deal with it#i love maniraptoran dinosaurs way too much lol
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Got a pair of little Sinosauropteryx available for $200 each. Never mind they're gone. Thanks!
#for sale#sculpture#feathered dinosaurs#little guys#sinosauropteryx#I actually had these done at the start of the month and forgot them cuz of some commissions#but now they're getting to be a bit in the way
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OJ with a microraptor
#I just like dinosaurs and OJ lol#Fun fact!!#Not only did this dinosaur have 4 wings we know it had black irredescent feathers in life#Its also likely it could fly/glide#I also think its pretty cool that it still has that trademark raptor claw whilst its legs also acts like a second pair of wings#i forgot it... but I think it also has 2 long tail feathers on its tail#inanimate insanity#ii oj#oj ii#myart#neo oj art
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Dinovember Day 10: Masiakasaurus
#coloring is based on the crested coua!#i really like this dino but this was the one i struggled with the most so far#i had like 6 half finished ones ugh#also listen i know most of these guys didnt have feathers or protofeathers but consider:#i think theyre neat#dinovember#dinovember 2024#paleoart#dinosaurs#challenges
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Day 1: On the Road Again Day 2: Greener Pastures Day 3: Break Away from the Herd
#art#traditional art#artists on tumblr#dinosaur#feathered dinosaurs#cowboy#yeehawgust 2024#yeehawgust#on the road again#greener pastures#break away from the herd#1 and 3 had google map photospheres referenced for the background#2 had no background reference
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Archie Archaeopteryx ref I've made in preparation for art fight!!
#toontown#toontown corporate clash#oc art#archie archaeopteryx#dinosaurs#guz art#I made their feathers a little too short on their arms buuut#i had to fit stuff into the drawing somehow#theyre stylized as heck anyway sooo#i mean technically they shouldnt even have . normal hands but EH. its toontown i have to make sacrifices that tune down the accuracy a bit#oc ref
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i think the craziest thing about getting back into dinosaurs after close to 10 years is the fact that science has helped us predict more accurately what they looked like, and they are SO DIFFERENT from when i was a kid
like when i was a kid, compsognathus was my favorite because it was a fast little fucker, and it looked like this:
standard old dino design, right?
but now, one of the most common depictions of compsognathus is THIS:
like ur kidding! my favorite guy turns out to probably have looked like a little lemur?!!!?!! thats insane and so cool!!
#also the whole feathered t-rex#because apparently a lot of dinosaurs are likely feathered#which makes sense!!!#ALSO the idea that we don't account for fat distribution on a lot of dinosaurs is super interesting to me#like penguins have the same kind of neck-length as an elasmosaur#and theyre FAT asf#so maybe elasmosaur or other long-necked dinosaurs had a similar shape to penguins#or maybe dinos had more general fat on their bodies at one point#dinosaurs#dinos#compsognathus#i really want to make a fake taxidermy dinosaur now
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jurassic park is trending (omg no fuckibg way????) and it got me thinkin about my undying love for the franchise, as well as my general love for those 90s universal movies. the ride at hollywood, the merch, and it’s general affect on pop culture.
and I have to say.
The franchise lost the moment it realized it could be a big movie monster franchise.
with a couple of exceptions, there was so much reverence in the way jurassic 1 handled the behavior and the nature of the dinosaurs, treating them as amoral creatures locked in turmoil as the park falls apart, and we are simply caught in the midst of the chaos.
jp2 doesn’t do too much disservice to the way the dinosaurs are treated, still being forces of nature. sure they don’t do much new or give a different perspective on the nature of theropods instead of instantly antagonizing them, but the hatchling plot was cool. also, we got that iconic scene at the end. you know the one.
it starts to get muddled with jp 3, with the entire climax hinging on the big battle between mama rex and the spinosaurus, with added elements of humor that serves to further demystify the dinosaurs, entering campier territory.
then came Jurassic world.
while Jurassic World no doubt reinvigorated interest, it was the nail in the coffin for the opportunity for Jurassic Park truly to come back the way it did. it was almost wwa, the way that dinosaurs were simply setup to showdown at the very end, teaching the audience since the third one that this was what you are to look forward to, along with your classic escape the dinosaurs plot. it truly sealed its fate as a blockbuster, answering genuinely interesting questions (ethics of cloning, whether they really are dinosaurs or simply monsters, etc.) and addressing interesting concepts (indominous, Feathered DINOSAURS DOMINION!!!!!!!) with such a juvenile attitude, merely meant to appeal to a “general majority” who (they assume [wrongly]) that simply want to see dinosaurs on the big screen. if you cater to a supposed audience, all you will be looking at is simply confirmation bias. Movies like Barbie prove that people are still interested in political, social and cultural rhetoric and systems being addressed and talked about in franchised media, and yet…
jurassic park can’t seem to take itself seriously anymore. they don’t even animate the dinosaurs very convincingly anymore.
but hey. atleast the new ride at universal Hollywood is good. little bit of pacing issues but, hey. better than the sorry state it was before
#jurassic park#personal rant#universal#filmgifs#scifi#feathered dinosaurs#michael crichton#ian malcolm#alan grant#steven spielberg#we really had the first fully feathered dinosaur and it kinda just fucking swam in cold ass water and then left ok cool dominion#90s#jurassic world#dinosaurs
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I feel like this one is a given due to Bird but fluffy dragons, feathered dragons, or scaled dragons?
have you considered the three at once maybe. dont you want a fluffy, scaled and feathered dragon. because i do
#feathers are the goat tho you're right#but considering dinosaurs had feathers and scales#feathers and scale would be amazing#but i already designed dragons with the three at once because im crazy#the world is full of wonders and possibilities#askiwi
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Dinos!!! I’ve decided their names are Fluff and Cliff
#made this for a school assignment and figured I’d post it#who doesn’t love some dinosaurs#inspired by the scientific debate on wether certain dinos had feathers or not#dinosaur#dino#dinosaur illustration#dinosaur drawing#dinosaur art#dinosaur character#dinosaurs#dinosaur oc#digital drawing#illustration#digital art#digital illustration#my art
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"...but people's lives don't get preserved like fossils. The best you can hope for is that time will have hardened around someone's memory, preserving a void in their shape"
--Maggie Shipstead, Great Circle
#fuck!! why didn't i write this line? Fuck!#this gets to the heart of what I'm always thinking about#how do you make someone real#to someone who never had a chance to know them?#how do you fight the memory of a legend#when you want the person preserved#who is not an icon or idea#but a fully realized complicated wonderful annoying hero fuckup full of courage and stupidity#or what have you#how do you try and reconstruct a person#and remember how long no one imagined dinosaurs had feathers#your person featherless and ferocious and not the person you loved#remembered but only as an IDEA
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