#might try to find a prehistoric fish for Rex instead

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

see, this is why I engaged

you clearly don't know like.......... anything? lol. let's take a journey into how neat dinosaurs and prehistoric life actually are

here are some lovely long armed dinosaurs

and as for what you could watch, just picking some scenes from literally one dinosaur documentary, nevermind the countless others that have been made:

a group of triceratops diving into caves to find a clay that is an antidote for plant toxins

two azdarchids getting their Flirt On

countless baby sauropods traveling across a lava field to get to safety

hadrosaurs calling to each other with intricate sounds and music to get from point a to b (and using the stars to navigate!)

sneaky male barbaridactylus Cheating the System

zalmoxes making it onto a raft with a mate, off to start their own population on a new island, maybe a new species!

millions of baby ammonites pushing each other together to Freedom and Safety

a giant frog playing the first ever game of frogger with sauropods instead of cars

baby therizinosaurus learning that bees sting, but honey is tasty

a t rex and two quetzalcoatlus fighting over a carcass, and the t rex loses

tarchia twins being a dick to an elderly citizen

a baby olorotitan has succumbed to the millions of mosquitos draining it dry.... except it survived! holy crap! family reunion!

the ornithomimus are making their nests. one male refuses to get his own plants, so he steals from his neighbors. hilarity ensues.

velociraptors using their wings and agility to get to high places and hunt whatever the damn heck they want

mosasaurs swimming at ridiculous speeds to literally ram into a plesiosaur, breach with it out of the water, and kill it instantaneously

the beauty of bioluminscent fungi

plesiosaurs lifting their necks out of the water to display to one another

an early mammal gathering her brood to bring them to a new nest

a snake just appearing out of nowhere to eat a wholeass dinosaur

a blind majungasaurus fighting with a small, vegetarian, pug-like crocodile. the majungasaurus loses.

pachycephalosaurus males square off to see who shall lead the herd. it is glorious.

baby pterosaurs are trying to make it to safety. they fly over extensive water. crocs jump from the water to grab them. one pterosaur falls into the water! they manage to just make it to the shore! they skitter away from the croc and - victory!

a giant fish eats a protobird. that fish could eat you, if you're not careful.

azhdarchids. just. azhdarchids.

this is all from one doc series (Prehistoric Planet), which takes place in one specific time frame

the history of life is 4-ish billion years of pageantry and glory. so many different creatures have evolved and died out in a drama we cannot hope to replicate with our petty human concerns. many people are obsessed with nature documentaries, and that's only current life - if you expand up to the entire pageant of our planet, suddenly, you have more stories than you can watch in a lifetime

anthropocentrism isn't just harmful for the planet, it's boring

we are heirs to a planet that has produced some of the most amazing things ever. and you care about... some hairless apes pushing each other around? okay, sure jan. like, like what you want and everything, but you definitely are missing out on a lot. the fact that you picked the jurassic, which might be the most boring of the nonavian dinosaur options tbh, says it all. you're missing out on the greatest story ever told. the history of us. all of us.

feel free to learn more about paleontology and prehistory before you jump to conclusions next time.

you have everything you need to survive and you will get through the trip and come home safely

for the purposes of "polls can only have ten things", your options are limited to land ecosystems

[whispered-pear]

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