itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

there was also the secret society of dinosaurs that would congregate in an underground cave, nicknamed 45/113, after its longitudinal and latitudinal location. it was initially excavated by oryctodromeus dinos but were later helped by styrakkies and stegies, no less. i think it was in the 1800s that paleontologists first posited the theory that stegies actually ate oryctos but about ten years ago, i believe, a group of archaeologists found more fossils in the US that indicated something else was at play

anyway, they surmised that stegies were not hunting oryctos but were, as it were, playing a primitive game, for lack of a better word. they brought in a team of anthropologists who had researched indigenous tribes of north america and some of their "oral histories" revealed a bit of a pandora's box. these folk tales, originally stories, are more like some of the first observational analysis of what dinos did as a group on what would be their leisure time. to put it bluntly, some of these tribes observed a game of hide and seek that both oryctos and stegies played. but this was no innocent game. oryctos had tricked the stegies into running into dense dirt walls to later use as shelter and this is how the first cave was formed

as the caves became deeper and longer, hundreds of dinos, based on survival instincts, would seek refuge underground during extreme weather. oryctos, it's now known, were highly sophisticated creatures that had their own way of communicating with stones. these dinos were exceptionally susceptible to earth vibrations, think dogs and cats nowadays, so felt the first tremors that caused one of the first devastating earthquakes in pre-historic times. they learnt from this and had it's estimated about 5 minutes before the comet hit earth to essentially "duck and cover." these creatures were actually very fast, and went underground where they had planned how to defeat the bigger dinos, notably t-rexes, because these were eating up plants that were growing scarce day by day. the oryctos are believed to have formed some type of "societal" hierarchy and roamed in wolf-pack style groups. there were attempts at takedowns of famous t-rexes by these wolf packs, but they were just too small. in large part, and this could be seen as darwinism at play, they became smarter and more conscious of their surroundings, often seen gazing at each other by river streams and made a "cough, cough" sound that indigenous tribes identified as a "snickering laugh." obviously there was some type of communication going on that was far superior to what other dinos were capable of

i don't know if you guys are familiar with the "first great plot." it's in reference to an actual plot of land above the first cave excavated by them, but it is also in reference to the plot to destroy t-rexes and overthrow the kingdom of dinos.

i need to get back to work so i must cut it short, but i wanted to share this as it is something not discussed often and something worth looking into

^^^very much the kind of direction i was hoping aliens movies would move in

The recent BBC2 programme THE DAY THE DINOSAURS DIED explains how the rest of the Earth was covered in a dust cloud which killed them off. I couldn't actually make sense of this or see how the cloud would be so extensive.

re: animals that survived, an interesting one is the crocodile / alligator - I believe it is one of the oldest animals? - escaped into the oceans and hence endured?

Otherwise all the mammals at the time were very small, is that correct?

here you go, pinefox: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Impact_winter

the closest thing in (relatively) recent recorded history would be the eruption of Krakatoa:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krakatoa

Average global temperatures fell by as much as 1.2 degrees Celsius in the year following the eruption. Weather patterns continued to be chaotic for years and temperatures did not return to normal until 1888.

now, imagine an event a whole lot bigger than that

I remember Mt. St. Helens putting ash miles up into atmosphere - enough so that was present (albeit in trace amounts) clear across the continent. I have no trouble believing that Chicxulub debris could have _severely_ inconvenienced land creatures everywhere.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/e7/2c/a6/e72ca6f2a602c8c344c5821e936639a8.jpg

So you know the big sea reptiles, Predator X and all them? Anyone know anything about the process by which the meteor kill them off? Was it like: dust blocks sunlight to ocean plants, thus knocking out the bottom of the food chain they were on top of?

http://i65.tinypic.com/98c8s6.png

the meteor split into billions of pieces that each struck the dino i the face!

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/19/e6/3e/19e63e88948065095ae82f5401968460.jpg

https://s3.amazonaws.com/netgalley-covers/cover115030-large.png

http://www.poorlydrawnlines.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/concerned.png

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/18952685_1941707042522053_1735837215554110337_n.jpg?oh=dea9e4809973426d2edb3d1e4e3846d9&oe=59A0D8B4

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DCNIpQPUQAAmaDU.jpg

bcz i don't make the rules

is "ISIS" cheering the right-wing meteors?

Ben Garrison go on chapo

why does the ISIS dinosaur look so happy?

He's got back scales made of scimitars and an AR-15. You'd be happy, too.

also, he is the only one that gets to wear cool shoes

The ISIS dinosaur looks happy because they're trying to create the conditions they believe will trigger the apocalypse. It's maybe the only accurate thing Ben Garrison had ever drawn

The news orgs will be made extinct by this oncoming barrage of meteors and also a coffee mug.

i mean i literally don't care so don't tell me who they are but are those faces all well known and recognisable?

JP is a transphobe from Canada, and Infowars is the Infowars guy. I don't know the others.

http://i.imgur.com/tFyWwdz.jpg

xps Ya basic sympathy of american far-right for Isis showing thru a bit here

Um, there are people online who recreate the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event using Bernard Matthews Turkey Dinosaurs and it's amazing. pic.twitter.com/18Mobs4983

— Fergus Butler-Gallie (@_F_B_G_) July 23, 2017

https://scontent-dft4-3.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/20994286_10214029028830423_4697947309006296355_n.jpg?oh=9a43194e71009ff5f4b3c559e8fb455b&oe=5A21B114

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DHxkLSbUAAAfhG-.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJY7EC8WAAAMXtt.jpg

damn, rip dinosaurs exposed to the inky vastness of space

I imagine they've set up shop on some other planet they landed on

i for one welcome the return of our hyper-evolved dinosaur overlords

https://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/dinosaucers/images/7/72/Allo-family.png

yessssss

what if the dinosaurs

are us

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n04/francis-gooding/feathered-furred-or-coloured

good thread eh

(did the now-vanished ben garrison cartoon include the first mention of j0rdan p3t3rson on ilx?)

pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor = cultural marxist propaganda pushed by lib professors

https://jackchick.files.wordpress.com/2009/12/dinosaur41.jpg?w=470

http://l7.alamy.com/comp/X565HB/artwork-showing-dinosaurs-caught-in-the-aftermath-of-an-asteroid-impact-the-dinosaurs-were-wiped-out-65-million-years-ago-an-event-provoked-by-the-impact-of-a-large-asteroid-or-comet-with-the-earth-the-impact-of-such-an-object-some-10km-across-threw-up-an-enormous-amount-of-debris-blocking-out-the-sun-for-months-or-years-in-this-depiction-a-blast-wave-moving-outwards-from-the-impact-site-incinerates-everything-in-its-path-carrying-with-it-superheated-and-charred-debris-these-ankylosaurid-dinosaurs-euoplocephalus-weighing-several-tons-each-do-not-stand-a-chance-against-this-X565HB.jpg

kinda pushing the definition of 'photo' there, alamy

nah it's a photo of a picture

omg that url

actually, that is originally my image and you're all under arrest

https://i.imgur.com/2AFIchU.jpg

lol

shit, he's got us dead to rights

did you choose that name for the jpg file as well

artwork-showing-dinosaurs-caught-in-the-aftermath-of-an-asteroid-impact-the-dinosaurs-were-wiped-out-65-million-years-ago-an-event-provoked-by-the-impact-of-a-large-asteroid-or-comet-with-the-earth-the-impact-of-such-an-object-some-10km-across-threw-up-an-enormous-amount-of-debris-blocking-out-the-sun-for-months-or-years-in-this-depiction-a-blast-wave-moving-outwards-from-the-impact-site-incinerates-everything-in-its-path-carrying-with-it-superheated-and-charred-debris-these-ankylosaurid-dinosaurs-euoplocephalus-weighing-several-tons-each-do-not-stand-a-chance-against-this-X565HB.jpg

ha! i didn't see that until now. it's a good name!

as someone who has suffered through the tortuous process of uploading images to sell on alamy, i def recognise the tortured syntax that comes from trying to squeeze as many keywords as possible into a caption

Next Fiona Apple album title?