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Oh! I forgot about when my mom got me a dinosaur book. That REALLY sparked my interest in dinosaurs.

Note: None of the following are my individual figures

My first dinosaur toy!

Second!

Third!

Fourth!

I do believe so. Penguins today can communicate and distinct one another with special calls, who says dinosaurs couldn't do the same? Maybe even more complex...

Thanks for the compliment!

I do believe that dinosaur species could talk to each other and understand it, like us humans. Chimpanzees and dolphins also do.

Nice topic! :)

Ya I think theropodd were verry intellegent. 

Yeah, I see that is how you talk, so its okay, but we can always try to improve! :)

That is another point i forgot to mention in the discussion!!! I will add it. That is also what I think. pneguins are pretty intelligent and theyve been around for a LONG time.

I think they were pretty intelligent. How else could they have stayed the dominate species for so long.

Oh sorry, didn't notice you had one. Do try to put question marks as it makes it more clear you are asking a question.

I'd say the bigger the brain was in propotion to the body, the smarter the dinosaur was. I think allosaurs could have been some of the least intelligent of other theropods.

Generally, as each new family/class of dinosaurs that emerged was generally more intelligent than it's past ancestors and relatives.

You didn't aanswer my question. 

I guess it is how I talk. Not everyone talks the same. But it even sounded weird when I said it. :D

Thanks, I did try to go in depth in all the most plausible stances of dinosaur intelligence.

Excited to see what you think!

I like this, it goes in depth and shows proof and in depth analysis. But how intellegent Do you say carnosaurs, allosaurid and other theropodd compare.

l will go more in depth later. 

The i-rex, nicknamed rex killer for killing three rexes in her time, one full grown one sub adult and one very old specimen
Could be better phrased, lieke this:

The I. rex, who was called Rex Killer for her defeat of three Rexes in her prime time. These rexes was that of a sub adult, a fully grown rex, and a very old Rex.

Can you provide an example of the "weirdly worded" sentence. 

Good fight, though do try to split your fights into paragraphs and try to make the sentences more clear and organized. Was a bit confused by some of the sentences here because they were phrased weirdly. Any ways, good fight.

That's what I meant by "freindship". 

Good fight!!! Try organise the fight into paragraphs, it makes it easier to read. Hopefully the next fight is Rexy vs Destroyer ;)

But..but megalodon does not count as a dinosaur not even as a marine reptile, you trolled us haha. Megalodon would be a great addition to JW though

I always had a high interest and love for all animals but dinosaurs was my special interest. I watched a lot documentaries as a kid about them, I watched Land Before Time in 98' a long time after it's release :P because i was 3 years old. I only played with dino toys though I didnt know anything for JP yet...When i played JP:OG on it's release my father told me that that game was based on a movie and suddenly I got the movie to watch it. From that day I sticked to learn everything about dinos, I loved them and I still do. I want to work with them seriously, I just finished high school and Im in a crossroad of choices with one way leading to Panteology :)

1- I thought that too.

2- They have the same DNA, so I assume because of that the I. rex possibly developed some instinct of the raptors in his genetic code.

3- Blue saved Rexy, they both defeated I. rex, and they just looked at each other and just walked away... Not a relationship, just a mutual respect for one another.

Got a couple others for you:

4. Why did the Indominus Rex enclosure even have a giant door? I-Rex wasn't going anywhere soon. It's been in that cage for all its life and it would have been likely to remain in there for the rest of its life. Why even build a giant opening that would allow it to escape if left open? You can easily get in and out with a human sized door instead with no risk for the dinosaur escaping.

5. Why does this island not have tranquilizer guns eligible to take down large animals? We have darts with long enough needles and strong enough doses to put a rhino down for days. This highly advanced park doesn't have any for its larger dinosaurs?

6. Why the heck are there not any visitor emergency shelters? I-Rex is strong, I'll give it that, but I'm certain it can't get through a concrete wall. If the visitors just had a place to go, there wouldn't really be a problem.

7. This island seriously has only one helicopter?

But #3: I don't think they communicated and/or gained a friendship. Blue was getting ready to bolt, expecting Rexy to attack (she took a step backwards and everything). But, apparently Rexy was too exhausted.

1.movie logic. 

2.they have the same DNA. 

3.mutual friendship after they both fought a common enemy. 

Hmmmm, for me its gotta be when i started looking at an old dino book, i wonder what the heck they were, my mom say and put in Jurassic park, sw the movie, loved it, and dinosaurs have been amazing ever since

I love the remodeled velociraptors! I was wondering how you reshaped them after cutting them up, and what material did you use to fill in the spaces and make the models look so seamless? Thanks in advance!

Oh boy, I have so many, where to start?

Well, when I was 4 or so, my dad took me to see Sue in person, and I remember being scared out of my mind (I had just seen Jurassic Park and was concerned that meeting a T. rex may be a good way to be horribly injured... I was four.) My dad explained to me that the footprints on the floor were just stickers, and showed me the speaker from which the dinosaur roars were coming. I then reluctantly peeked around the curtain and came face to face with Sue's remains.

Another time was when I was at the Denver Museum of Natural History, and was able to name every dinosaur I saw without looking at the name plates.

But most recently, I came face to face with Paul Sereno (the guy who killed spinosaurus :P) after hearing one of his National Geographic sponsored speeches. He had a couple human skeletos in his suitcase too.

I just always played with dinosaur toys (until my aunt gave all of them away without any permission or notice...)

I also watched Jurassic Park a lot when I was 3 or 4. I just grew with dinosaurs.

And in MarioKart I always choose Dry Bones...

Same here TK, same here.

i always choose bowser too.

i have a confession......i used to be a t.rex fanboy before i joined thse forums. long story short, t.rex has and always will be my favorite dinosaur.

TBH, to this day, whenever I play Mariokart, I ALWAYS use Bowser or Bowser Jr. Always been a sucker for a villain.

LORD VADER - Aww! That is so CUTE! I like your story! :)

Dunno for me. Let's say when I first got started into dinosaurs. Long story short, I was playing Super Mario 64 and my dad told me Bowser was a T-Rex (I was 3). Anyway, 13 years later, I know differently, and Bowser has become my second favourite Nintendo character (was my first until I discovered Bowser Jr.).

X_PADEN_X- Now this is a fun topic! I would have to say my favorite dinosaur memory stems directly from watching the older dinosaur documentaries that arose in the mid to late 80's. The ones that boasted stop-motion animation and were narrated by actors such as Christopher Reeves! There was something haunting and compelling about the way in which the animals were presented - something I carry with me to this day! My second favorite memory with regards to dinosaurs is the moment in which I first saw Jurassic Park. It was incredible! :)

I have to say it all started when i was 3 or 4 and first watched the Land Before Time with my parents some 23 years ago.

As for favourite scene, it has to be when rexy roars at Dr grant after he lights up the flair.
Really gave me that "holy crap" feeling. haha!

To be honest, I don't really have one.

I do remember my local convience store/pharmacy sold 1985 dinosaur models, and my parents got me (in order) the Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Brachiosaurus, and Styracosaurus. That Christmas, I got the Allosaurus, Apatosaurus, and Tyrannosaurus. I still have all of them in my laundry basket full of dinosaur/Animal Planet toys.

"Dinosaur flicks." -Sums it up.

Which I can agree, the movies contain some sense and element of dinosaurs but, still are monsters, just built to be like dinosaurs = which means they're considered dinosaurs but they're genetically modified/mutated = which results as monsters = but still "dinosaurs", cause of their imagery based upon old theories and imagination of dinosaurs (*MAJOR DIFFERENCE between this film and most monster films)...get what I'm saying? So yes it's a monster film, but possess a small fraction of scientific reality of dinosaurs. Which makes me like the Jurassic Park franchise, it sounds more realistic than a flame dragon or a gigantic ape the size of a T-rex. A very nice disguise for a monster movie, which proves to be fun, entertaining, and special in a sense of used nature.  

Ah, sparking an old debate. 

Casts of forelimb elements of the Cretaceous theropod dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus atokensis were manually manipulated to determine range of motion and infer function. It was found that the humerus can swing posteriorly into a horizontal position but can neither swing laterally to glenoid height nor anteriorly much beyond the glenoid. The forearm can approach but not achieve full extension and right-angle flexion. Pronation and supination are precluded by immobility of the radius relative to the ulna. Motion also seems to be restricted at the wrist. The palm faces medially, and digital movement is subtransverse. All three digits are capable of extreme hyper-extension. Digits I and II converge during flexion. Only digit III can be abducted or adducted. The limited anterior range of brachial motion infers that Acrocanthosaurus first apprehended prey orally, using the forelimb afterwards to secure its grip or deliver fatal blows. Acrocanthosaurus could only manually grasp prey that was beneath its chest, towards which it may have used its mouth to move prey. Struggling prey would have impaled itself further upon the permanently and strongly flexed first ungual. The range of motion in the forelimb of Acrocanthosaurus resembles that of Herrerasaurus and Dilophosaurus, and exceeds that of Tyrannosaurus. Acrocanthosaurus exhibits a greater manual range of motion than ornithomimid and deinonychosaurian coelurosaurs, but less at the shoulder and elbow. Coelurosaurian theropods exhibit reduced digital flexion and hyper-extension, which suggests a change in the use of the manus in coelurosaurs.

so it's almost certain that carnosaurs such as acrocanthosaurus used its for more powerful arms for more then tyrannosaurids such as tyrannosaurus. 

The dinosaur is a megalodon, a giant prehistoric shark that is bigger than the Mosasaurus, but on Nublar, Blue has bred more raptors and they are being shipped to the park to fight the raptors on the island already and a Spinosaurus from Sorna is being shipped.

I would say the real Dilo would win, even thinking about it maybe the JP Dilo would be too scared to challenge a predator larger than its size.

But all monster movies, especially giants, have psuedo-science applied as backstories to their origins. The over-the-top theroies in Jurassic World are no more plausible in a fictional world than others. And while characters in these movies may regard them as animals, the movies frame them as characters. In the original movie, the Velociraptors, and the way the camera shot their scenes, the way John Williams underscored them and the way they were treated by the film's director (Spielberg), were villains-- Antagonists we were rooting for the main characters to overcome.

The same can be said for the Indominus Rex. The creature has even more anthropomorphic characteristics and monster-movie qualities than the original Raptors. "Killing for sport," tricking its captors into thinking it's already escaped, clawing out its implant, etc. Owen claims this thing, "isn't a dinosaur." And he's right. The movie basically reached out and said it's not a dinosaur. It's a movie monster. And this movie monster is defeated by the film's movie monster "heroes" in the end: T-Rex and the Raptor framed as heroes, not as animals.

As much as fans can try to spin it, Jurassic World has less to do with logic, science and even dinosaurs and more to do with having fun with movie monsters. It's a Godzilla/King Kong movie in disguise.