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Post by creature386 on Dec 8, 2013 14:28:53 GMT 5
I wouldn't call it completely confirmed either, mass estimate methods get updated all the time.
As for my interest, I'm not sure, it's very likely correlated with documentaries and books in my childhood.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Dec 8, 2013 20:05:03 GMT 5
I've been interested in dinosaurs since my childhood and it stuck with me to this day. And there's good reason to be interested in them too, they were one of the most successful megafauna that ever lived producing a crapload of different forms. Not to mention, they're actually still around despite what many claim. If you don't like them that's fine, but I would certainly understand if one had a great interest in dinosaurs.
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Post by Dakotaraptor on Feb 8, 2014 21:05:56 GMT 5
I was 6 or 7 year old kid. For my curiosity i took book about dinosaurs (i forgot title it was probably borrowed) i was getting to know how awesome dinosaurs were. I still remember my first dinosaurs that i knew were Deinonychus, Allosaurus, Megalosaurus and Tyrannosaurus. Maybe that's why Tetanurae are my favorite dinosaurs, especially large ones. Giant sauropods and ceratopsians were usually in my second place.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 6, 2023 1:11:03 GMT 5
I am fascinated by dinosaurs for a number of reasons. I think the original reason that stuck out to me as a kid was of course size. No living land animal today can compare to many dinosaurs. Also, dinosaurs are very unique and different from even their closest living relatives, birds and crocodilians. Even amongst themselves there is great diversity. Finally, I appreciate the sense of mystery and excitement about discovering new dinosaurs which have been extinct for millions of years.
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Post by creature386 on Jan 14, 2023 17:24:41 GMT 5
When you're a small kid, they're basically real-world dragons who might not be able to breathe fire, but have the size and might to make up for it.
When you grow older, you get to appreciate the sheer diversity and plethora of new things we learn about them each year (with their surprising relationship to modern birds being a stand-out example among many).
They offer something for everyone, in a way.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jan 15, 2023 4:41:03 GMT 5
"Yes, dinosaurs were often big, and many people are awed by them because of their perceived fierceness, size, or vague similarity to mythic archetypes like dragons. But they were also animals, animals, with sleek lines, streamlined, aesthetically interesting faces, bodies decorated with frills, spikes, and other ornaments, with muscular arms sporting meathook-like claws, and great column-like legs. This combination of features makes dinosaurs of many sorts appealing, neat-looking animals, at least as fascinating as big cats, bears, Komodo dragons, giant fishes, or whales (all animals to which humans also have a demonstrable attraction). Here's the base tier of my argument: we like dinosaurs because, frankly, they're neat-looking animals.
Yet dinosaurs go beyond the neat-looking attractive living animals that so often hold our attention. Because, you see, dinosaurs were super animals. You don't have to be a paleontologist, anatomist, or qualified scientist of any sort to look at the skeleton of a sauropod, a Triceratops, or a Tyrannosaurus and realize that this animal is off the charts. The giant, typically long legs of these animals show that they were swift, muscular, and powerful, built something like super-charged giant mammals or great birds yet with a reptilian veneer. The form of the neck and skull demonstrates an active air, acute senses, and a capacity for finding and demolishing food. And the massive size of the body cavity, the size, depth, and width of the shoulder and hip girdles, is surely linked to the presence of a giant metabolic powerhouse for those great jaws, enormous limbs, and muscular tail. Bears, tigers, giant crocodiles, Komodo dragons, elephants, and rhinos are all fantastic, but – I'll say it again – dinosaurs are simply phenomenal, way beyond the most awesome of living animals, way beyond anything we can experience in the modern world. Ok, the great whales might come close, but they – obviously – are animals of the oceanic realm, not the land. This is the second tier of my argument: we like dinosaurs because they're super animals, above and beyond living creatures when it comes to mechanics, power, and abilities."
~Darren Naish (2021)
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