#Irwen Allen

[majingojira]

SLURPASAURS!

I've watched a LOT of dinosaur movies. I'd say "All" of them but I avoid creationist dreck and some dinosaur movies are just plain lost. But otherwise, I've seen the vast majority of them. And I've seen a lot of photographically enlarged reptiles, some in makeup, masquerading as Dinosaurs.

I've seen photographically enlarged Argentine Tegus, Nile Monitors, Caimans, Alligators, Leopard Geckos, Tokay Geckos, Anoles, Rhinoceros Iguanas, Green Iguanas, several snakes, and a Box Turtle.

I've also seen Armadillos with Rubber Horns, Elephants in Fur Coats, Cows with added fuzz, and a photographically enlarged Coati. I've been trying to catalog prehistoric species for about four years now off and on. Sometimes, these movies identify what the animal is supposed to be. The 1960's The Lost World calls its dinosaurs as Iguanodon, Tyrannosaurus, Brontosaurus, and Allosaurus. In The Land Unknown, the trailer calls its Nile Monitors "Stegosaurs". But most of the time, they aren't named at all. But my question is, for catalog purposes, how should they be identified? If it has a given name, I'm going with that (even though I'm tempted to call The Lost World's "Iguanadon" Shringasaurus because, well, it is), but should I just call the rest "Slurpasaurs" or should each "Slurpasaur" have its own name, or should I go with the nearest analog in prehistory?

[mana-junkie]

Two American scientists are lost in the swirling maze of past and future ages, during the first experiments on America's greatest and most secret project, the Time Tunnel. Tony Newman and Doug Phillips now tumble helplessly toward a new fantastic adventure, somewhere along the infinite corridors of time.

Narrator, The Time Tunnel (1967)