itt: pictures of dinosaurs gazing haplessly at the arriving meteor

or imagine being murderer (aka predator animal trying to survive) and it's the end of the world right after you kill the other dino friend. you'd be like "is god punishing the world for what i did? how important am i?"

― Karl Malone, Sunday, 18 November 2018 21:50 (yesterday) Permalink

I think that one is probably more like "Damnit! I was just about to eat!"

the last one is very "For all my powers, I could not save _____": An image thread

:( :(

saddest thing I’ve drawn pic.twitter.com/gm9TVa2dye

— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) November 27, 2018

lol, that's good. very Perry Bible Fellowship.

the whole thread there is good

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ds-38kTXgAAbdwc.jpg:small

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i've been thinking about the atlantic article upthread about the 'bad weekend' theory and the deccan volcanoes and the 72-year-old woman at princeton every day since i read it two weeks ago.

readable (subs only) LRB piece abt the event, complete with nice pictures: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n01/francis-gooding/what-lives-and-what-dies

https://cdn.lrb.co.uk/assets/edillus/good08_4101_04.jpg

feathered microraptor^^^ (or more correctly "chinese dragon") from liaoning fossil beds in north-eastern china

v fancy lad

Was just at the museum of natural history earlier last week and clearly I don’t know much about dinos because I was amazed that some had feathers!

that t-rex was basically a hu-u-uge hen with teeth makes the mother much more scarier imo.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGOQ1Igy6Do

(if you hang a tail of the right weight on a chicken, it walks like a T. rex)

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Man, what kind of art do they have available for dog lovers?

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this Painting features single or multiple panels displaying a beautiful Meteorite falling on the earth at dinosaurs age killing them. Perfect for dinosaur lovers.

That's pretty fucking insensitive IMO. Tone-deaf at best.

Imagine "This Painting of John Wilkes Booth is the perfect gift for Abraham Lincoln fans."

"Japanophiles adore our Mushroom Cloud Lithographs."

"Baby seal lovers are raving about our Bloody Club Replicas."

it's better to burn out than to fade away

I bought one of these the other day, have not consumed yet:
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inevitable and (inevitably) bad:

https://i.redd.it/2kwjhz8odlp11.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfKKsQ4XUAAr2rE.jpg

good morning pic.twitter.com/zAMIRwHMX1

— Nathan W. Pyle (@nathanwpyle) April 1, 2019

big mood tbh

kind of lol, mostly sad

In every artist's depiction of a meteor that caused the extinction of the dinosaurs, there's always one T-Rex looking up at it like "That can’t be good." pic.twitter.com/AoOZYe0hzc

— Jake Vig (@Jake_Vig) March 31, 2019

This recent (great) New Yorker piece made me think of this thread:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2019/04/08/the-day-the-dinosaurs-died

Those opening paragraphs are a real eye-opener.

this thread is better and jake vig can bug-off

https://news.berkeley.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/inundation750.jpg

It's morning in dino-America.

Those opening paragraphs are a real eye-opener.

― ryan

oh boy, the scientific community is very much all aflutter about that guy

xp Triceratops-y-turvy

https://i.imgur.com/aLcrrf8.gif

wow ok

wow, just like that new yorker article

meteor w/o the dinosaurs, world of science having a normal one:

This is what it would look like if the biggest asteroid in the Solar System collided with Earth.

Credit: Discovery Channel pic.twitter.com/Yoy9AxO2Gz

— Wonder of Science (@wonderofscience) May 9, 2019

one in the face for the "meh, it was the Deccan mega-eruptions that took out the dinosaurs" crew. Even though that fucker there was obv much bigger than the chicxulub impact.

rip big man, heaven needed the planet that invented churros

if you really want to experience it like the dinosaurs did, you need the simulated audio track. nice work discovery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bU1QPtOZQZU

http://www.nikkei-science.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/24eb4731f277dd3424e6383e77c8b88d.jpg

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/pCYi96djruY/hqdefault.jpg

http://www.jplnet.com/art/univers/dinosau.jpg

https://www.picclickimg.com/d/l400/pict/264338363605_/INCOMING-ASTEROID-Raw-Folk-Art-Brut-Painting-Outsider.jpg

The video with the Pink Floyd soundtrack is strangely moving and soothing !

https://i.imgur.com/jUBEhes.jpg

https://media.gettyimages.com/illustrations/the-extinction-of-the-dinosaurs-illustration-id737370965

xp disco inferno killed the dinosaurs?

https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2017-09/12/11/asset/buzzfeed-prod-fastlane-01/sub-buzz-13197-1505231830-3.jpg?downsize=700%3A%2A&output-quality=auto&output-format=auto

now it can be told

Teach the Controversy

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https://inquisitivebiologist.wordpress.com/2019/04/12/book-review-the-dinosaurs-rediscovered-how-a-scientific-revolution-is-rewriting-history/

apparently if you want to have a better understanding of all the recent scientific advances in palaeontology then Micheal J. Benton's The Dinosaurs Rediscovered is your book.