Dinosaurs!

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Jealous! I would have loved to have learned about dinosaurs in school as part of the official curriculum.

What species of dino toys do you have then?

My Parasaurolophus collection is slowly but surely expanding!

My persona that I use on the internet is a Dilophosaur. It's my identity as an electronic musician/ pianist and it is my fursona as a furry. It originated as a doodle I did in my last year of high school and grew into a costume I made by piecing together random stuff from my house and capping that with an old Jurassic Park mask.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dd4xd5dv_yQ&feature=channel_video_title[/youtube]

Beyond that, I'm not interested in dinosaurs terribly much. I was always more interested in marine reptiles(Icthyosaurs!! !! !! !!), fish(LEEDSICHTYES!! ! AGNATHANSSSS!! !! !!EUGENEODONTIFORMES!! !! !!), and invertebrates(Opabinia is the most adorable thing ever to grace the Earth) as far as paleontology goes. But I do have an on-and-off obsession with the studies of paleontology and evolutionary biology.

Is that your own music ShenLong? I like it, it reminds me a lot of SEGA Megadrive.

Back on the subject of dinosaurs: Is anyone else going to watch Planet Dinosaur on the 14th September?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/14343366

Hmm, I'll give it a go.
It depends on how well I cope with the unnecessarily portentous voice-over and Dr. Who-style thundering orchestra. Both extremely irritating.

Not in England ;___________________;

I love dinasaurs I maybe 38 but I have a love for dinasaurs my favourite dinasaur is the T- Rex. I also love Raptors. Has anyone seen the BBC series walking with Dinasaurs I loved it.

I watched that when it came out, along with Walking with Beasts. I loved both series.

I also bought the complete Walking with Dinosaurs on video when it came out, I still have it somewhere. I must dig it out!

I too have quite an interest in Raptors and Dromeosaurids in general, especially the fact that if it wasn't for them, the Dinosaurian bloodline wouldn't have kept going until the present day with birds. I also greatly admire their speed, agility and intelligence.

I don't mind all that. I'm just easily pleased to see dinoseseses!

Oh well. Maybe I'll try it with the audio muted.

The first two episodes of Planet Dinosaur have so far been very good and informative.

Haven't caught up with the second one yet, but the first was a curious mix of some pretty shabby CGI and incredible detail. Mostly, the incredible detail won.
I'll see how the second one goes, but it was a relief to have John Hurt narrating instead of some overblown Shakespearean wannabe.

I must admit I think the CGI on Walking with Dinosaurs was far better. But I do like all the latest evidence that's popping up, and the little factfile type snippets on the programme.

I also like the fact that the researchers got the Spinosaurus' crest in the right place, a singular one running centered down the snout, not two either side, as in Jurassic Park 3. I've seen way too many models with that anatomical inprecision.

And despite what some people think, John Hurt sounds nothing like Richard Dawkins.

He sounds like a good choice, straight to the point.

Interesting fact: dinosaurs are not extinct. Birds are considered real dinosaurs.

KFC: Kentucky Fried Coelurosaurs!

Yup, they are a subgroup of the Therapods, which include Coelurosaurs, Dromeosaurs, Carnosaurs and Tyranosaurs etc.

They are members of the Maniraptora.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniraptoriformes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maniraptora