Down at the creek, Coop discovers a controversial new reconstruction of spinosaurus is correct.
Down at the creek, Coop discovers a controversial new reconstruction of spinosaurus is correct.
This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make...
Originally shared by Curt Thompson This is an interesting theory, but I notice the author has to omit one of the most important Heinlein novels to make it work. Time Enough For Love was written in the very early 70s and was a straight (heh) extrapolation of the chaotic and frenetic zeitgeist of that era. http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2012/11/the-joke-is-on-us-the-two-careers-of-robert-a-heinlein/
Awesome!
ReplyDeleteI still don't understand why the idea of it looking a lot like Baryonyx is controversial.
Do local laws prevent you from feeding the dinosaurs? Like geese that are hand fed bread crumbs, I bet that could get of hand pretty quickly.
ReplyDeletePaul V. there are three blog posts at http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/ that talk about it. Basically, it seems the back legs are too small and there's some dispute about spinosaurus arms being strong enough to support it as a quadrapedal walker.
ReplyDeleteBut I thought this new reconstruction looked really cool from a D&D point of view. Like some kind of river dragon.
Oh, all right then. I thought people were just mad that it didn't look like the old-school "carnosaur with a Dimetrodon fin" look.
ReplyDeleteThe guys on the Tet Zoo podcast were wondering if it maybe walked like a pangolin, with it's hands just above the ground.
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