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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Sept 23, 2018 8:39:55 GMT
If you haven't already, here are some great dino-related books you might like to read:
How To Keep Dinosaurs by Robert Mash The Chronicles of Krangor series by Michael Pryor Dinotopia series by James Gurney Walking with Dinosaurs by Tim Haines Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker (my personal favourite dinosaur novel) Graveyard School: Revenge of the Dinosaurs by Tom B. Stone Dinosaur Knights by Michael Gerard Bauer
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Post by bricabrach on Sept 26, 2018 1:28:27 GMT
How to Keep Dinosaurs must be fun, I'll have to look for it. One more to add to your list:
The World of Dinosaurs -- a North American Selection, written by paleontologists Michael Brett-Surman, Ph.D. and Dr. Thomas Holtz, Jr., with an introduction by none other than Jack Horner. And chock full of fine illustrations by James Gurney!
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Feb 24, 2019 9:20:41 GMT
Guess what mum gave me for my birthday this year....Michael Crichton's "The Lost World".
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Post by bricabrach on Mar 12, 2019 15:24:24 GMT
As is often the case, The Lost World the book is better than the movie. Raptor Red is quite the story and about as realistic as such scientific speculation could be. Sometimes too realistic -- that sauropod died gruesomely.
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Post by HRH Queen Talira on Mar 13, 2019 7:15:40 GMT
Raptor Red depicts Dromaeosaurs as being very sociable and family-orientated. Unfortunately, there's not much fossil evidence to support this depiction. It also depicts them as being animals that mated for life. While some modern animals will stay with the same partner for their entire lives, there's no evidence to suggest that dinosaurs did.
Have you seen the Dinotopia movie? If only Dinotopia was a real place, I'd be packing my bags and moving to Waterfall City asap.
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Post by bricabrach on Mar 13, 2019 22:17:43 GMT
Raptor Red depicts Dromaeosaurs as being very sociable and family-orientated. Unfortunately, there's not much fossil evidence to support this depiction. It also depicts them as being animals that mated for life. While some modern animals will stay with the same partner for their entire lives, there's no evidence to suggest that dinosaurs did. As you know, evidence of prehistoric behavior is hard to find -- no humans being around to see it. I've consumed nearly every bit of Dinotopia media there is -- the four picture books, all but one of the (15) YA novels, the three-part miniseries, the TV series which followed, and the two audio adventures. There's Dinotopia prints and posters on my walls. I even have a Dinotopia Visitor's Pass signed by Mr. Gurney himself. Too bad I have no idea how to redeem it! Like you I'd be riding the next dolphin there. So what occupation would you want to do once you got there? A Skybax rider? Convoy driver? Farmer? Or a librarian / scientist like Arthur Dennison? I'm afraid that work I know -- electrical engineering -- would be rather useless there, but I'm sure they could me something to do. I just hope not to end up disgruntled like Lee Crabb.
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