When people thought of dangerous carnivorous dinosaurs, up until the early 1990s it was always the titans. Huge beasts with massive heads and enormous bodies, like Allosaurus, Saurophaganax, Torvosaurus, and the iconic Tyrannosaurus. We all know the iconic image associated with the mold breaker.

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A short animated film about the dinosaurs, done to celebrate the 200th anniversary of paleontology?

Featuring animation of the Victorian era imaginings of the "terrible lizards" like Megalosaurus, Iguanodon, and so on?

This has my curiosity piqued, for sure.

As someone who's always been fascinated by those old-school imaginings of dinosaurs and other prehistoric life... wow. This is amazing to watch in motion.

Almost makes me think of a Victorian-era counterpart to "The Rite of Spring" from Fantasia in some ways.

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The largest flying animal known to man.

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Introduction: I'm currently working on an evolutionary cladogram relating the natural history of the fictitious archosaurs which populate the My Little Pony universe. The most obvious of these are of course Dragons, but there are clearly related groups, such as River Serpents. This is something I might normally do in a few days, but I'm sure this will take longer, as no one is paying me to devise natural histories for fictitious beings, while someone is paying me for

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Still working on the next chapter as I work through proofing works for friends and graduate school work (helping teach classes and working in the lab), but doesn't mean I can't vent in one of the best ways I know how. Writing a fight scene. And who doesn't love a good fight?

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11 Structures Made With Bones

People have been building various things from bones for centuries. Here are just a few structures that were made with the leftover remains of the dead.

Structure One: The Skull Tower of Nis

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This will be the upcoming history exam, so make sure that you read over this material and study it closely.

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