itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

https://68.media.tumblr.com/1531d00ab1ae247a5f8fb83dc7ed9956/tumblr_o5bxg5mBxh1rno5r3o1_r1_1280.jpg

https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/797371/212821015/stock-vector-dinosaur-icons-mono-vector-symbols-212821015.jpg

post-alvarez semiotics 101

x-post: the KT meatball extinction event

http://media.istockphoto.com/photos/dinosaurs-doomsday-picture-id97492410

https://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/6872623/preview/stock-footage-dinosaur-in-an-extinction-event.mp4

^^^

https://ak3.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/6872623/preview/stock-footage-dinosaur-in-an-extinction-event.mp4

https://thumb7.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/55599/55599,1325581091,1/stock-photo-dinosaur-doomsday-diceratops-91851533.jpg

^^^stock image title: doomsday diceratops

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/6f51342a910046e0a6aba11a90c9966a/dinosaur-doomsday-eh3e12.jpg

so much unusable stock imagery

http://www.sivatherium.narod.ru/library/Ward/pics/pic_05.jpg

http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/73/07/166420/45690128.jpg

https://67d860664f4b00793cde-967809c7cbb0f14b111df13fc72409e5.ssl.cf3.rackcdn.com/fiona/films/thumb/19ee9b99-81bc-4d1a-8ec3-f81d9e6bc33b.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9b9aoINXzk

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/3f5216a96a224253a51ff73bc8ac76fe/dinosaur-extinction-because-meteorite-explosion-c9758m.jpg

"dinosaur extinction because meteorite explosion"

http://l7.alamy.com/zooms/ed9d01041a444b43bd0485144c6df29f/disney-s-animal-kingdom-dinoland-usa-a80ax2.jpg

http://www.guide-to-disney.com/animal-kingdom/dinoland-usa/photos/triceratops-spin5-big.jpg

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/velociraptors-view-an-asteroid-strike-picture-id123758928?s=170667a

There's something suspiciously specific about insisting that "There's nothing prehistoric about our accommodations"

http://www.sciencephoto.com/image/172603/530wm/E4460295-Titanosaurus_watching_an_approaching_tsunami-SPL.jpg

meteor is behind the tsunami

http://media.gettyimages.com/videos/tsunami-crashes-over-a-shoreline-and-kills-several-dinosaurs-in-a-video-id574240291

http://img01.deviantart.net/16cf/a/large/wallpaper/w3d/tsunami_tidal_wave.jpg

worn out, more anon

http://img05.deviantart.net/8b42/i/2013/018/8/e/death_of_the_dinosaurs_by_magic_gerbil-d5rurg9.jpg

lol jmm i was about to post basically the same thing

This one is great:

http://p7.storage.canalblog.com/73/07/166420/45690128.jpg

You've got the indeterminate species, weirdly human posture, and abstracted impact

https://image.shutterstock.com/z/stock-photo-dinosaur-doomsday-91889522.jpg

lots like stock this googleable via "dinosaur doomsday" or "dino doosmday" -- ^^^this is the LOLest

https://alumni.berkeley.edu/sites/default/files/styles/960x400/public/doomsday_1_rotator.jpg?itok=sy6ynRYo

https://thumb9.shutterstock.com/display_pic_with_logo/55599/582619582/stock-photo-dinosaurs-jurassic-prehistoric-scene-dinosaur-fighting-with-snake-d-rendering-582619582.jpg

off-topic must-see: "dinosaurs jurassic prehistoric scene dinosaur fighting with snake 3d rendering"

https://www.thesun.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/nintchdbpict000278419520.jpg?strip=all&w=960

^^^we probably already had this but i really like the moody composition (wildings, the fancy decor and bookshop in shrewsbury when i was a kid, sold of a lot of prints with this feel, tho not this exact subject matter, which wouldn't go wide for another two decades)

https://thumbs.dreamstime.com/x/tyrannosaurus-shouting-3d-render-29153759.jpg

general shouty TRex angst at sunset (sunset of the species dys)

http://discovermagazine.com/~/media/Images/Issues/2016/October/doomsday.jpg

unusual undersea doomsday angle

http://photoshopcontest.com/images/large/oiz9hzx77xg9s54m1820hiq43zchq7y0fddh.jpg

titled "photoshop contest: win real prizes"

I like that woodblock print-style one

This thread is vintage ILX

to be fair so am i

get the feeling mark is crowdsourcing material for his next anthology

I love this thread but. There were actually comparatively few dinosaurs near enough to see the Chicxulub impact (and even fewer who would have had time to gaze at it haplessly). The vast majority that died out would have done so in the ensuing weeks/months due to associated climate changes. "It's been cold and dark for so long and OMG where is all the food" isn't a dramatic picture, though.

Illustrating the K-T extinction purely by "dinosaurs look up at giant ball of fire in the sky" is a bit like if everyone illustrated the American Revolution with a painting in which people in Lexington perk up their ears at hearing musket fire. Sure, that must have happened, shot heard round the world and all that, but most of the consequential stuff unspooled in different ways.

/buzzkill

http://gb.fotolibra.com/images/previews/1275645-bayeux-tapestry-halleys-comet.jpeg

I really like the Matisse vibe in this one

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/files/2016/03/Chicxulub_ArtistConcept-copy.jpg

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2015/01/22/24F0FBE600000578-2921547-image-a-2_1421926822526.jpg I don't know if this one has appeared yet, it's kinda meh

http://orig10.deviantart.net/a8e3/f/2016/065/1/d/make_a_wish__by_japanesegodzilla1954-d9u4hul.jpg

http://pre07.deviantart.net/7ee0/th/pre/i/2016/029/0/8/end_of_an_era_by_americandreaming-d9lbpfu.jpg

http://pre00.deviantart.net/b15d/th/pre/f/2015/126/2/c/overlook_the_stars_by_agent_ladue-d8seico.png

http://pre03.deviantart.net/980f/th/pre/f/2014/157/6/3/killer_by_julianaroad7-d7la8hm.png

http://img09.deviantart.net/d480/i/2014/271/c/5/we_ll_be_okay__by_hidetheknives-d80xeu0.jpg

http://www.zdnet.com/i/story/61/45/011167/stallracasaur2.jpg

https://offthebroiler.files.wordpress.com/2009/09/zdnet-stallman.jpg

He must have found that p upsetting

http://68.media.tumblr.com/9a6cef25d523d05df7d71c0fa9d74b5d/tumblr_oqbqlsqS1t1qdmmiqo2_500.gif

the alt-theory of dino-demise is of course by water rather than fire: but it comes in various flavours

google: dinosaur deluge -- and you get lots of excellent pix from louis figuier's "the world before the deluge" (1867)
google: dinosaur antidiluvian -- and you get lots of pix from 19th century schollarly works plus cartoons from e.g. punch ("antidiluvian" suggests a belief in the bibilical flood but had actually more or less become a fancy word for "prehistoric", so plenty of ppl used it who probably weren't xtian believers especially)
google: dinosaur flood -- and you get a fvckton of creationist nonsense, treating noah as a historical figure and the old testament simultaneously taken literally and carelessly read

Genesis, King James Bible
1: And the LORD said unto Noah, Come thou and all thy house into the ark; for thee have I seen righteous before me in this generation.
2 Of every clean beast thou shalt take to thee by sevens, the male and his female: and of beasts that are not clean by two, the male and his female.
3 Of fowls also of the air by sevens, the male and the female; to keep seed alive upon the face of all the earth.

"long detailed essay" at link above is good on a similarly problematic element tainting otherwise so-called scientific thought abt dinosaurs and extinction viz the notion of RACIAL SENILITY

the science of this was that dinosaurs had to go because they'd been around way too long and had inevitably become lumbering and clumsy and needed sweeping away: it is alt-right garbage -- and hence anyone who uses the term dinosaur to mean "lumbering and clumsy and needs sweeping away" is as bad as a creationist IMO

dinosaurs were excellent and fit and non-at-all lumbering and they were swept away by an asteroid that wasn't even their fault plus not all of them* were swept away anyway bcz lots of them are still here they are called BIRDS they are pretty

i am a crank abt this yes but if you disagree you are wrong so shut up

*(this is kind of the megatherium-in-the-room of this whole thread tbh: all the species not destroyed in the fireball/earthquake/nuclear winter)