Did you like dinosaurs as a kid?

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Yes, infact the descriptions of the obsession with dinosaurs as children here are eerily familiar.

Really? Granted that I went to elementary school years before JP was released, but I was the only dino fan in my class. Nor did I know any other kid elsewhere who even remotely shared the interest.

Yup, and I actually stayed with it for several years until I got into middle school and switched over to being interested in Meteorology. The best moment during my dinosaur phase was when I got to meet the Paleontologist that Dr. Grant from Jurassic Park was based off of.

Dimetrodon was not a dinosaur! Dimetrodons preceded dinosaurs by a couple eons and had a lizard-like semi-erect stance.

My vote goes to Dracorex.

I was not allowed to bring books to pre-school because I kept correcting the... "teachers?" about the pronouncation of dinosaur names.

yeah, I was into them.

Troodon has always been one of my favorites. so many "if the meteor didn't hit..." possibilities for the brainy beast of the northwest coast.

my website:

the_dinosauria.tripod.com

outdated tho ;]

fave dino: "Rinchenia" (="Oviraptor") mongoliensis :]
all oviraptorosaurs in fact

still unnamed as far as i know. things take time!


tensu: if dromaeosaurians (and their relatives) survived they woulda evolved into birds

Last edited by ZEGH8578 on 07 Feb 2010, 6:59 pm, edited 2 times in total.

Same. My very first obsession in life. Grandmother still reminds me how I tried to teach her dino names when she used to visit me. The Land Before Time is still my favorite American animated film to this day. Went crazy when a family friend lend us a copy of Jurassic Park. It was on Laserdisc and I would watch it almost everyday, until eventually my clumsy little hands ruined the massive disc. The shame... It's still a mystery why I never aspired to be a paleontologist tho, nor did I ever had a fav dino - probably couldn't make up my mind on that one!

i aspired for paleontology even when my grades were at a devastating rock bottom. i finally shook it off me, and was left with an absolute zero prospect for life

and here i am, years later, unemployed welfare bum

Your post was both sad and encouraging. Cheers.

Oh! oh! me! me!

Dinosaurs are awesome. I had tons of these folders where you would get 3 dino pages in the mail each month and then collect them, they had facts and pictures and even 3D sections that you had these neat paper goggles for. I had wooden puzzles that you built a 3D dino from and I as well ran around the house on my toes bent low forward held my arms in tightly and jumped on the furniture while letting out deafening shrieks. I was a Velociraptor.
After I saw Jurassic Park I went ape s**t.

Good old times.

One of my obsessions when I was a kid was prehistoric animals so dinosaurs are in that category, although I was more interested in the first land mammals.

Troodons where particularly smart even by dromaeosaurian standards. I know that's not saying much, but I can dream leave me alone!

why would they evolve into birds? if the meteor didn't hit, evolving into a bird would mean moving down on the food chain to be outcompeted by pterodactyls. and if they did evolve into birds, something was wiring the troodons for brains in a time when it seemed brawn was all that mattered. There's still the possibility that they would have kept getting smarter... I mean it takes more brainpower to understand flight, and some of the birds today are pretty freaking smart... who's to say that they wouldn't have evolved into a race of intelligent birds or dinosaur-birds that used their wings for locomotion and their feet as we use are hands? that would be bad-***, and the most bad-*** answer in any sci-fi question is the correct one, right?

um, this "dino-humanoid" idea is long since debunket after we realized:
birds did indeed evolve from dinosaurs
any pterosaurian competitor to birds dissapeared during the late jurassic, leaving mostly only giant pterosaurs filling a different niche. sure no birds evolved from troodon per se, since birds and troodon allready lived side by side, but birds evolved from dinosaurs _very_ similar to troodon. by that logic, troodon is much more likely to have gone for a birdy evolution than a people-evolution, since people come from simians :]
hey, you had to argue!

I may be in the minority here, but dinosaurs we're never an obsession of mine.

Well I guess that answers your question (I made them when I was young):




And my favorite movie as a kid was "The Land Before Time".

I loved that movie as well. In fact, I watched it last night!