#dinosaur Revolution

[bestfictionaldinosaur]

Best Fictional Dinosaur Tournament: Megatheropod Bracket; Round 1C, Poll 6/8

[mediasaurs]

TRM Round 1: Dinosaur Revolution (Junior) vs Dinosaur Island (2014/2015)

Dinosaur Revolution (Junior) – This juvenile T. rex has a string of good luck for a while. He’s the sole survivor of his clutch of eggs, withstands an Ankylosaurus injury, and even manages to get through the initial asteroid impact by hiding in a cave. Sadly, that’s where his luck ends as he falls to his death chasing a mammal and things somehow get sadder from there. Man, Dinosaur Revolution can be depressing.

Dinosaur Island (2014/2015) – Like just about any story set in a lost world of living non-avian dinosaurs, this film features a Tyrannosaurus chasing the human leads. What distinguishes this T. rex, however, is that it is the first time the species is depicted in a feature film with feathers, which is just neat.

[troodontid]

staying true to my url, here's an edit of the troodontid couple from dinosaur revolution

[skeleysstuff]

A little piece for pride month

Just a poly couple of dinosaurs who are waiting out a rather gloomy summer day by snugggling and keeping their clutch protected from chilly winds

These designs were based of the cryolophosaurs in dinosaur revolution

(Forgot to add the pride tags whoops)

[tyrannus55]

"Why Dinosaurs?" A tribute that goes way far beyond any tribute.

[slogokonnor99]

Well... so I have a new idea to not be posting weekly here (since I am getting the least attention here): monthly recaps

So now, instead of posting 1 a week, I'll be posting 4 once a month

That doesn't mean that I won't do more, just expect it less frequently here

Anyway, here's the drawings of the month

- Twig stalks a flock of Styginetta

- A flock of Ornithomimus almost tramples Frida and David

- Hilda finds a Sinornithosaurus at night

- Alfur is spotted by a parent and baby Eoraptor (normal + close shot)

[godzilla-and-aang-monsters]

Pykretorvos

Altura: 165 metros

Longitud: 495 metros

Peso: 70,000 toneladas

Primer Avistamiento: Lisboa [Tierra: Teratoverso]

Guarida: Lisboa [Tierra: Teratoverso] Desierto Iakahoma [Avatarverso]

Controles: Fuego Control [Bolas de Fuego, Rafaga Incendiaria, Tornado Inflamable] Energia Control [Rayo de Energía] Agua Control [Nado, Remolino hirviente]

Aspecto: Torvosaurus (Dino Rey) + Torvosaurus (Dinosaur Revolution)

Aliados:

Humanos: Aang, Katara, Soka, Iroh, Zuko

Kaijus y otras bestias: Anguirus, Godzilla, Mothra, Rodan, Gorosaurus y Baragon

Enemigos:

Humanos: Ozai y Azula

Kaijus y otras bestias: King Ghidorah, Acecornus, Ariaf Rexus

[vickysaurus]

Dinosaur Revolution was ahead of its time with stoner Shunosaurus.

Tell me a shroom fact please

a recently-found amber fossil (dating to ~100 million years ago) suggests that dinosaurs ingested psychotropic fungi !!

in this fossil, we see some of the earliest recorded evidence of grass. atop the grass? a fungal parasite. in comparison with our fungi today, this fungus is most similar to ergot - fungi that grow on rye & produce alkaloids. ergot has been used as a medicine, a poison & a hallucinogen by humans for thousand of years.

"there’s no doubt in my mind that it would have been eaten by sauropod dinosaurs, although we can’t know what exact effect it had on them." - george poinar jr, of the oregon state university's college of science.

the small chance that dinosaurs tripped on psychedelics keeps me going, tbh.

[combeferres-mothematics]

Joly and kittens

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

Discovery Doc includes When Dinosaurs Roamed America, Dinosaur Planet, and Dinosaur Revolution (including deleted scenes from DR, for reasons.)

[bestfictionaldinosaur]

Greymon [Digimon] vs. Broken Jaw [Dinosaur Revolution]

[vickysaurus]

Bringing this back with some recommendations of other media!

Dinosaur Sanctuary (2022-)

An absolutely wonderful ongoing manga about a dinosaur zoo! The dinosaurs are beautiful and very cute and are treated as animals, not monsters. The zookeepers deal with issues like enrichment, outreach, medical care, and animal safety. They try to help a rejected and adorable Troodon chick connect with its family. The T. rex is old and sleepy and in her chapter the big tension is about whether she'll be coming out of her nest on her birthday or disappoint a young T. rex obsessed guest. There is a single escape in its backstory, which is treated upsettingly realistic, causing a single zookeeper death, one injured, the death of the Allosaurus involved, and a lot of trauma. Overall wonderful for the way it treats both the dinosaurs and zookeeping.

Minecraft: Prehistoric Nature mod (2020-)

Link

If you are now inspired to build your own paleozoo, or go and look at all the extinct creatures just doing their thing in beautiful past landscapes, this Minecraft mod does just that. It adds the ability to build portals to geological periods, and each of them has an incredible amount of biomes and creatures in it. What you do with them is, as usual in Minecraft, up to you. I've had a lot of fun building a house on the edge of a gorgeous Carboniferous canyon with local materials and getting a small edaphosaur going 'baaaah!' wandering in. There's a Palaeopedia item that essentially works as a pokédex, giving you information about creatures when you observe them, and I've been trying to complete it lately. Which is a tall order, considering the many hundreds of animals there are, spread across loads and loads of biomes in, currently, eight periods. The plan is to eventually add all the periods of the Phanerozoic plus the Precambrian plus the Pleistocene as worlds you can visit. Right now, the periods up to the Triassic are accessible, with the Jurassic being worked on and expected to be added soon. That still gives you the entire Paleozoic and more to explore. The Triassic dinosaurs that are in so far are very cool, colourful and detailed even in the voxely style, and make really interesting and odd noises.

Raptor Red (1995)

A great novel about the life of a Utahraptor, the eponymous Raptor Red. She searches for a mate, helps her sister raise her kids, encounters strange creatures and phenomena, and deals with many a hardship. It strikes a good balance in making its characters distinct and memorable while also portraying them as animals and not making them too smart or anthropomorphic. It's a bit outdated, but easy enough to imagine red feathers when red scales are mentioned. Searching for an image of the cover annoyed me because like half of them call it an adventure in the Jurassic age, which it very much is not.

Dinosaurs of Antarctica (2020)

Another documentary to add to the list! I saw this one in imax format last year and had a great time with it. Despite the name, it actually has a much broader scope than just dinosaurs, dealing with Permian, Triassic, and early Jurassic Antarctica. It spends about half of its runtime on showing off the past of the continent in these periods, and the other half cutting to a modern scientific expedition searching for fossils on Antarctica. The juxtaposition of the ancient forests with the vast icy desert landscape is very striking. It actually deals with the Great Dying! Do NOT under any circumstances watch the Dutch dub, it is absolute ass and sounds like it came through google translate.

Sea Monsters (2003)

I found this one because of replies to this very post. Nigel Marven and his time machine are back, and in this one he visits seven different eras to go bother their marine wildlife. Nigel believes every zoo is a petting zoo. You get to see some stuff rarely explored on screen, my favourite segment being the Ordovician, which really goes to lengths to show off what an alien world the Earth was that far back.

If you’ve finished watching Prehistoric Planet, caught the dino bug, and want to watch more, well, I’ve got recommendations for some fantastic older Mesozoic documentaries and shows! I’m only gonna list my faves, but if you have good ones to add, feel free to do so!

Walking With Dinosaurs (1999)

The classic, the one I grew up with. A six episode miniseries that spans the entire Mesozoic, from the Triassic to the Cretaceous. Each episode focuses on a specific location and usually has one specific animal that’s more or less the main character, while also showing off others as they are encountered. The science and effects are 23 years old by now, so don’t expect much fluff or great CGI, but they used what they had very well. It helps a lot that the close-up shots are done using incredibly charming animatronics rather than CGI. The gorgeous music and Kenneth Branagh’s narration add a ton more personality to everything. You will cry about an Ornithocheirus at the end of his journey. There were three special bonus episodes released over the next few years that have Nigel Marven (more on him later) time travelling to see the dinosaurs in person. There are also two sequel series: Walking With Beasts and Walking With Monsters. WWM explores the Paleozoic but went through it too fast and suffers from some ‘Awesomebro-yness’ in my opinion but there’s not much else to turn to if you wanna see the Paleozoic unfortunately. WWB explores the Cenozoic and is every bit as good as WWD. When I had my recovery day after my third covid vaccine I put on all three in chronological order and just marathoned them and the various little aches didn’t bother me all day as I watched the history of the Earth from the Cambrian to the Quaternary.

Prehistoric Park (2006)

Time-travelling Nigel Marven returns from the Walking With Dinosaurs specials to bring back extinct animals to the present. As you might guess, it’s a bit more on the fictional side, but all the animals are really well done and scientific, as are the ecosystems they travel back to. The modern day parts are much more about actually properly running a zoo, including things like enrichment, proper animal care, and cranky zookeepers with a heart of gold becoming Ornithomimus parents than Jurassic Park type scenarios. Nigel doesn’t just get dinosaurs; he goes to the Cenozoic several times and even takes a trip to the Carboniferous for its giant arthropods. Recent enough that feathers are starting to appear on some dinosaurs, particularly the adorable Microraptors. Nigel is an absolute menace and I don’t know who gave him access to a time portal but i’m glad they did. The recent game Prehistoric Kingdom was strongly inspired by this one, to the point of having Nigel voice the tutorials and trailers. Features a friendly herd of Titanosaurs with a disregard for fences causing more havoc than any carnivores ever could.

When Dinosaurs Roamed America (2001)

America’s answer to Walking With Dinosaurs. A single two-hour long documentary spanning the whole of Mesozoic America and really focussing on how the dinosaurs developed between its segments. The only time I ever remember seeing the Early Jurassic depicted, and the only one on this list to treat the end-Permian and end-Triassic extinctions and how important they were for dinosaur evolution. Though it does blame asteroids for them. Very good stuff, aside from a scene where Velociraptors continue eating their prey even as a forest fire sets them on fire. It’s very America-centric, but that’s no weakness. John Goodman makes for a surprisingly good narrator and throws in a sneaky Flintstones joke or two.

Dinosaur Revolution (2011)

This is a bit of an odd one, and it might or might not be your jam, but it certainly is mine. It is essentially a mashup between a dinosaur documentary and dinosaur Looney Tunes. Very silly slapstick segments focussing on specific dinosaurs with somewhat anthropomorphic behaviours get intercut with scientists explaining the latest of 2011 paleontology. The animation is a bit naff but the designs are really good and there’s a lot of feathers. It highlights behavioural traits like intelligence and parental care a lot. Two of its episodes cover pretty much the whole Mesozoic in no particular order, two episodes do Walking With Dinosaurs style covering of a single animal’s story in a single ecosystem. Shunosaurus eats mushrooms and has a bad trip. Lots of mammals go flying after getting thrown about. In a true Blackadder Goes Forth type pivot, the final episode of this very silly slapsticky show has the most haunting and tragic depiction of the K-Pg extinction I’ve ever seen.

[macattackz]

Morphix’ Journey of the world in 66 million years

Credit: Del Parson’s “Lost Lamb” directly referenced in this piece

[girderednerve]

all these leftists casually like "we won't have plastic after the revolution" okay i get it & i endorse this set of priorities but just consider how entrenched plastics are in vital industries. i've seen acknowledgment that some medical devices are plastic & will still be needed but what about my squishable realistic packer. what about my dick, guys

[tyrannoninja]

Toussaint versus Napoleon

Toussaint Louverture, champion of the Haitian Revolution, must defend the freedom of his people from the forces of Napoleon Bonaparte! In case it isn’t clear, Toussaint is the dude riding the T. rex and Napoleon is the one on the woolly mammoth.

In real history, although Napoleon never invaded Haiti himself, he did send a punitive force to capture Toussaint and enslave the Haitians all over again. The general leading this force, Charles Leclerc, did succeed in catching Toussaint and deporting him to the French Alps, but Haitian freedom fighters were nonetheless able to drive off the French over the course of a year.