Turkeysaurus Rex!

Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share
1

At least that’s what I think they should call it!

How’d you like to have to cook up one of those for Thanksgiving Dinner?

2

I reckon that would have us for Thanksgiving dinner. Raw.

3

In Triassic Soviet Union, Thanksgiving Dinner eats you!

4

I’ve often wondered how they can tell it that it was brightly colored. Is this pure speculation, or are there principles involved that I’m not aware of?

5

Kinda like this, I guess:

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/images/00000014.jpg
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/images/00000015.jpg
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/images/00000016.jpg
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/images/00000017.jpg
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/images/00000018.jpg
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/images/00000019.jpg

Although the creature from Harryhausen’s Mysterious Island is actually supposed to be a Phororacus, a long-known prehistoric flightless bird. (They never actually explain this in the movie – the “prehistoric animal” subplot was suppressed in the film as released , and people took it for a giant chicken.)

6

None of these links work. :dubious:
< Insert Devastating Sarcastic Remark Here >

7

They work on my machine.
Try this:

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterio4.html

or this:

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/new-myst.html

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And here’s the ultimate fate of the beast:

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterious/posters/myst7lc.jpg

http://lavender.fortunecity.com/judidench/584/mysterio.html

9

So is that article bad science writing, or what?

I refer to this passage:

So from this article one concludes that this is a large raptor, 7 feet at the head; large raptors are previously unknown in Utah; and specifically that this one is twice the size of previously discovered ones.

Fine and dandy.

Except, of course, for Utahraptor.

Utahraptor is famous, it’s a large raptor found in…uh…Utah…and it’s 8 feet tall at the head. Its large size was always noted in the articles I have seen about it.

Given that Utahraptor is commonly known to dinosaur fans, much less doctoral students, I have no clue why Ms. Zanno would say what she’s quoted as saying. And frankly I’d expect a science writer to do a tiny bit of fact checking. Googling “large raptor utah” gave me a first link about a plant-eating relative and then the rest of the first page of links seemed to be about Utahraptor…focusing on its large size, raptor classification, and Utah origin.

Geez.

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