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06 Apr 2007, 5:26 am
*another award*
Okay, lets see (excuse the spelling)... Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus (I think one of the last two was a dud), Certasaurus (I think), Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Compsognathus, Velocoraptor, Deinochus (I always have trouble pronouncing/spelling that one!), Coelophysis, erm... yeah, that's it!
PS: You'd be interested in a BBC TV series called Walking with Dinosuars. You can get it on Video. 
06 Apr 2007, 8:07 am
I love dinosaurs - and have done since I was but a wee slip of a boy.
Okay, lets see (excuse the spelling)... Allosaurus, Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Brontosaurus (I think one of the last two was a dud)
You're right - Brontosaurus does not exist. The scientist who classified it had found a skull and body from two different sauropod dinosaurs, and made an incorrect judgement that they were the same animal.
This is similar to the famous case of Iguanadon, which was classified as a horn-nosed, quadripedal dinosaur until the discovery of an intact skeleton, with bipedal structure and the "horn" in its correct location, as a thumb-spike.
Deinonychus
As for some dinosaurs I know...
Torosaurus, Spinosaurus, Styracosaurus, Utahraptor (which is, in actual fact, far closer to the Jurassic Park version of Velociraptor than Velociraptor itself), Diplodocus, Argentinosaurus, Megaraptor, Megalosaurus, Protoceratops, Giganotosaurus, Iguanadon, Parasauralophus, Hadrosaurus... and that's all I can remember offhand.
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ME!
I was obsessed with dinosaurs when I was little 
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08 Apr 2007, 5:49 am
There are some large-scale models of what the Victorians thought Iguanadon looked like in Crystal Palace in London. They really got it horribly wrong...
Here's a link to some photographs of the hopelessly inaccurate models:
http://www.nyder.com/dinos/dinos1.html
Some of them aren't too visible because of the sunlight (they're all outside, you see), but the overall effect is there. Boy, did they get it wrong...
Having read up on Velociraptor following the movie, I can no longer watch it without gritting my teeth at the inaccuracies presented when dealing with that dinosaur.
This has ruined my enjoyment of the film somewhat, as you can imagine. Stupid nit-picking
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08 Apr 2007, 6:24 am
Having read up on Velociraptor following the movie, I can no longer watch it without gritting my teeth at the inaccuracies presented when dealing with that dinosaur.
This has ruined my enjoyment of the film somewhat, as you can imagine. Stupid nit-picking
What were they? And did they fix them in later films?
08 Apr 2007, 12:02 pm
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09 Apr 2007, 6:21 am
Yeah - even if it's doubtful whether the T-Rex could have run that fast
Speaking of the T-Rex, though... that should have been in a pack as well (groups of albertosaur skeletons have been found together, in what look like family groups). Sure, it probably looks more menacing as a solitary killer, but a pack of them would make you wet yourself, no?
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09 Apr 2007, 6:52 am
Yeah - even if it's doubtful whether the T-Rex could have run that fast
Speaking of the T-Rex, though... that should have been in a pack as well (groups of albertosaur skeletons have been found together, in what look like family groups). Sure, it probably looks more menacing as a solitary killer, but a pack of them would make you wet yourself, no?
Watch the Lost World, although it doesn't happen in the book, two T-rexes take out their research vans! (in the book I think it was just one, but this is from Wikipedia and even then I'm not so sure about what I'm saying!)
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