itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

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)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BvJJmn0CQAAJ1z6.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/512N5XSVQ9L._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/61fkyUtL-dL._SX258_BO1,204,203,200_.jpg

"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

And the idea that all the horns and frills were just pointless, last-gasp mutations, or weird aberrant growths

Ahhh - this one. Didn't know it was Louis Figuier

http://lhldigital.lindahall.org/utils/ajaxhelper/?CISOROOT=dino&CISOPTR=464&action=2&DMSCALE=35&DMWIDTH=512&DMHEIGHT=512&DMX=0&DMY=0&DMTEXT=&DMROTATE=0

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!