Dinosaurs

Not for what they do in the modern world with their resurrected ‘dinosaurs’ that are decades out of date by this point. Featherless Dromaeosaurids? Whatever, it’s dumb, but I can ignore it.

 

Fossils of several new Spinosaurids have been found on the Isle of Wight in England, including one which may be the largest theropod -- the group of carnivorous dinosaurs including T-Rex -- ever discovered.

If you aren't big into paleontology, you may not understand why new evidence that Mussaurus patagonicus -- an early Jurassic Sauropodomorph related to later Sauropods like Diplodocus -- was a herd animal that lived in large social groups that broke themselves up by age is such a big deal.

Many of the creatures we think of as "dinosaurs" are wrong.

We all know I love dinosaurs, so it shouldn't surprise you that I'm about to write one more, because the discovery of and description of Australotitan is a big deal for more than just the behemoth's size.

Okay, if you're into paleontology at all, even just as a nerdy layman like myself, seeing the news that "Stan," one of the most famous Tyrannosaurus specimens in the world, has been sold to a private collector for a big ol' pile of money -- $31.8 million USD to be exact -- will likely cause you to have opinions.

So I watched The Velocipastor last night.

It’s not a good movie, but it is an astonishing watch. It’s a movie that knows just how weird, potentially bad, and completely off the rails it is. Saying it’s funny feels disingenuous — it’s a movie that is very deliberately crackerjack, a film that will present you drug dealing religious zealots from China who are also Ninjas in a battle against a disillusioned Catholic Priest who cuts his hand on a dinosaur tooth and becomes, well, you’ve seen the title of the movie.

Anyway, this is the Queue.

For me it's dinosaurs.

World of Warcraft already has itself quite a few dinosaurs, but a recent news story about a new Spinosaurus tail fossil and what it means for the lifestyle of the dinosaur in question got me thinking.

I live in Alberta.