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  1. Movies serve as a form of entertainment and are not always accurate representations of reality. A notable example of this is evident in the film "Jurassic Park," which, while captivating audiences with its thrilling narrative, takes creative liberties with certain aspects of dinosaur biology and behavior. An insightful article on msn.com highlights 14 specific dinosaur-related facts that the film inaccurately portrays. 14 Dinosaur Facts 'Jurassic Park' Got All Wrong (msn.com) Search Results for: Dinosaur | Cracked.com
  2. Just wanted to share with the group, a long-term dream I have had, which has finally come to reality. Like most of us here, I've always been in love with everything about dinosaurs and fossils. Since I was about 12 or 13 I have loved Jeeps too. I bought my first car at 15, a 73 Jeep CJ-5. And, when my son was about to turn 16, he wanted a Jeep too. So we found him one. A 1992 Jeep Wrangler YJ. It was cheap, it ran, was rust-free, had solid bumpers, and the paint sucked so I didnt have to worry about dings or scratches. This is the day we bought it. The first thing I did wa to begin researching 1992 wrangler to see if there any issues or problems I needed to look out for. One of the top results for 1992 Jeep Wrangler was Jurassic Park. I threw the idea out and everyone loved the concept of converting it a movie car reproduction. But, I wasnt going to do it while my son was still learning to drive, and driving to school. But we did slowly make upgrades. It got a new lift kit, Then a new soft top. Then new carpet and new seats inside. Making sure to pick the top and carpet that were as correct as possible to the original movie Jeep specs. I still cant afford a set the correct seats! And that was the last upgrade for a while. We hauled it out to Colorado to go 4-wheeling. We took it to the Hell Creek area of South Dakota to go fossil digging. About a year after my son graduated from school, he was ready for a better vehicle. Something with an automatic transmission and AC! So I swapped him my pickup for the Jeep, and began planning the final stages of transformation! I didnt have to equipment, the space, or the skill to paint a vehicle and make it look good, so I found a local body shop. Then it was time to strip it. Everything came off the body. lights, antenna, fenders, door handles, locks, latches, etc, etc. Loaded it on a trailer and hauled it in. The shop time took a lot longer than expected, but they did great work and I couldnt argue with the price! Sanding, priming, paint, taping, striping, wheels, lightbar, new windshield... lots of work. But eventually I got to bring it home. In the rain. Which sucked, but I was just glad to have it back in my own garage so I could begin building it back up. Lot of crack, split, faded and dirty dash items needed to be refurbed or replaced. It wasnt fun. but was worth the effort. All the parts I had previous taken off, I had refurbed. Many bits just had to be replaced, so there have been a steady stream of boxes from just about every company that sells Jeep parts. New bumper, new fog lights, new movie correct (and special edition) winch, and movie correct tow eyes. But, drum roll please..... She is finally complete! I even added in a few fun little "Easter eggs" as they call them on the new model Jeeps. Such the message in the mirror. So, thats my tale. Its been a long road, but I think all the time, effort and $$$$$$$$ have been worth it.
  3. Heyhey! It's that good time of the year, Christmas! And boy, have Universal granted us an almighty gift! It's a sneak peek into the new Jurassic World film: JWorld Dominion ! I won't spoil anything so you can watch it yourself, but it looks pretty cool... Now, I'm assuming you all know the basis of this film, and if you don't, well, it's already been announced by them, and explained in the last Jurassic World, but, still, out of courtesy, I will hide this behind a white text wall! Highlight the text below if you already know, or want to. Don't worry if you don't, it's honestly not a spoiler, I just know people like to go into it not knowing a thing! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- So, in the previous film Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom, the deeno dinos get released towards the end, and we see them begin to settle in to the USA. The basis of Dominion is quite simply that they are living among us, which, seems pretty cool of a concept!!! ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- And, here's what I gathered from the trailer. First of all, the sound effects were fricking awesome! Those pterosaurs sounded absolutely gorgeous, and the CGI was quite something. However, there was one thing. ONE THING... Y'all remember this thread? Oh, when will it end!? The new prologue features a very pretty looking Oviraptor, who is pictured... I can barely bring myself to say it, but here we go. HUNTING EGGS!!! Oh dear, poor little beastie. Film looks super good though, can't wait to watch it! June 2022 is going to be amazing.
  4. Jurassic Park - the film we all know and love. The film that featured heavily in my childhood, and, I'm sure many of yours' too. Starring Sam Neill as the dry-humoured, child-hating Alan Grant; Jeff Goldblum as Ian Malcolm, the chaos-theory 'rockstar'; Laura Dern as the strong, independent Ellie Sattler; and the late Richard Attenborough as John Hammond, owner of the park. Not to mention the host of other important characters, such as Wu, Dennis, Mr Arnold, and Robert Muldoon, the raptor man - played by Bob Peck, who sadly also passed away. Need I say the synopsis of the film? Hammond builds a theme park for dinosaurs, and invites Ellie, Alan and Ian to the park, to get their input. They meet Muldoon, who talks to them about how smart the raptors are, and a tropical storm comes in, destroying the circuits. Dennis then shuts down some of the park, to steal some embryos to sell. Alan and Ian, along with Lex and Tim, the children, are in an electric ride taking them around the park, when the car shuts down, in front of the t-rex exhibit. The t-rex breaks out, Ian doesn't die, but remains unconscious, Lex, Tim and Alan get thrown into the exhibit. Ellie tries to restart the electronics with Arnold, Muldoon and Hammond, from the main staff area of the park. Muldoon states that in order to restart the power, they will have to let the raptors out... Dun dun dunnnn! Etc etc etc, as you can tell, I've seen it many times, and some of you will have, as well. Ooh, not to mention the absolute glorious special effects work! 1993, and they have absolute beautiful animatronics - Rexy Animatronics - YouTube - and sound effects - Rexy Roar - YouTube. Anyways anyways, before I turn back into a child, and watch it for the billionth time, let's go onto the real topic here. Jurassic Park: help or hindrance? The original title was going to be "Jurassic Park - good or evil?", but God forbid I call this masterpiece evil, and, I don't want to sound like modern news stories... We all know how they 'interpret' palaeontological news... Hindrance: You've probably seen lots of things floating around in the world, about how the film has indeed, 'tarnished' the dinosaur media, flooding it with fantastical ideas and creatures. Take Rexy, for example. My signature even says this quote: "Don't move! He can't see us if we don't move!". Rexy is a girl, but, if you were being attacked by a dinosaur, I don't think you'd necessarily remember that, you'd be more terrified! I digress... This implies that Tyrannosaurus rex's vision was incredibly poor, when, in reality, rex is known (as much as you can be certain of in a prehistoric beast!) to have eyesight up to 10 times better than that of an eagle's - with an eagle having 8 times better than hours... 80 times better than ours! Either we have really really poor eyesight, or Jurassic Park is just plain wrong there. However, Rexy's height is correct: 17 feet to the actual 12 - 20 feet. Now, onto the velociraptors, the main antagonist of Jurassic Park... In the film, they're incredibly intelligent. While this isn't entirely wrong, as Dromaeosaurids were among the smartest of dinosaurs), they were likely no smarter than rabbits - more stupid than dogs. Now, I don't know if you guys have ever seen a Labrador, but mine is as thick as a brick! It's good he's so lovely, otherwise he'd have not much going for him! (disclaimer: I love him more than anything, so I'm going to stop slandering him now!) Goodness, I digress, again! Unlike Rexy, their size is, well... Fanciful. In reality, Velociraptor reached 1.8 metres (nearly 6 foot) long, whereas, uhm... In the film? They're 6 foot tall, not long... That's 5 metres long (16.4 foot), vs 1.8 metres (6 foot)... Accurate! Velociraptor Comparison - just gonna slide this link in here - it's quite entertaining how much they differ. And, now, arguably the biggest point out of the whole hindrance case: scales vs feathers... So, I'm not sure how up to speed everyone reading this is with dinos, but, therapods are now known to have feathered skin, not completely scaly like a crocodylomorph has. And I know there are many eager croc fans out there, who might claim that they're better than snakes (which they are), and dinosaurs (which they're not)... 3rd digression, goodness me! Where was I? Ah yes, therapods didn't have completely feathered skin though, tails and legs were often scaled. About 4 years ago, I don't know if any of you remember, the media absolutely sung the praises of Jurassic Park, after a few tiny chunks of featherless T-rex skin came to light, with titles like "Jurassic Park was right all along", or "Scaly T-rex it is", or "Endless debate finally over". Yeah... No. Feathered therapods are here to stay - albeit in the fossil record! Help: This feels kind of like a court case now - got to have a balanced opinion! You may be, and probably are, wondering what on earth could go here. Well, I certainly, as well as many others, were drawn to palaeontology through dinosaurs, especially in the media like this. Learning anything scientific about them, obviously, shocked me, as to how the films could be so wrong. This might drive others away, but not me. So, if you count me as a benefit, then Jurassic Park is good! Joking, joking. One can't help but imagine the amount of people Jurassic Park lured into palaeontology. Conclusion: Woooo, you reached the conclusion, good job! Am I saying that to me, or to you? Who knows! In conclusion, Jurassic Park has undoubtedly caused a lot of damage to mainstream ideas about palaeontology - for example, excavation only being chipping away at rock in the Nevada desert, or the depiction of dinosaurs, however, it has also raised awareness (for want of a better phrase) for this branch of science, and brought countless people into our communities. Also, it's just entertained millions and millions of people, and, by my count, a smile is a win. So, help, or hindrance? That's really for you to decide. On a species-per-species basis, way more damage than good, but on a generalised view? That's more balanced, and harder to decide. Cheers for reading, hoped you enjoyed!
  5. Ramon

    Beetle

    From the album: Beetle

    A small beetle exquisitely preserved in 99 million year old Burmese amber.
  6. Hello Fossil Forum members. I have recently been expanding my amber collection. I have all sorts of amber from all over the globe, from Chiapas amber to Baltic Amber. But one type of amber in particular has caught my attention recently. Burmese amber, or as some call it “Burmite”. It is from the cenomanian around 99 million years old. It comes from northern Myanmar (Burma). The inclusions within this amber where alive when the dinosaurs roamed the earth. I have recently been obsessed with Burmese amber. I just bought a small piece of Burmese amber from a Chinese dealer online. It is small (about 2 centimeters). But don’t let its size fool you!! Within the small piece is a very significant inclusion (in my opinion). There is a female biting midge. It is engorged with the blood of some unknown vertebrate. Doing my research on blood engorged insects in amber, I came upon this article https://www.csmonitor.com/layout/set/amphtml/Science/2013/1015/46-million-year-old-mosquito-filled-with-blood-is-a-scientific-first It says that the chances of finding a fossilized blood engorged mosquito was unlikely, due to the set of circumstances that would have to occur. A mosquito was found engorged in blood, from the middle Miocene of Montana. About 46 million years ago. Blood engorged insects have only been reported on a handful of occassions. But perphaps the most exciting and interesting thing about the biting midge I bought, was that it might have bitten a dinosaur, since it is from the middle Cretaceous. So could It have DNA? Maybe, small fragments of DNA could be preserved within Amber (theoretically). But not nearly enough to clone a dinosaur. The piece of Burmese amber with the biting midge will arrive in about 2-3 weeks. I am hoping to be able to photograph it better with my microscope, and get a close up look at its blood engorged abdomen. Here are the pictures the seller provided,
  7. Today is my last day off of work which means I have time to do fossil stuff. It is also the last day for a little while that I will be discussing dinosaur fossil very much. We have shark programs starting at the end of this month so my mind has to get back on the sharks. Dinosaurs go on the back burner again for awhile. I will post a bit more of the collection but I also wanted to share a little bit about my experience with Jurassic dinosaur fossils during the early stage of building our collection. Hopefully it provides something useful to another collector. As we started window shopping in preparation for beginning a dinosaur collection, one thing stood out about fossils from the Jurassic era. They are expensive. The prices are so far out of my range that I did not bother to research them beyond the ones we first encountered from various dealers. I would have to sell a kidney to get a hold of anything from that era. I saw sauropod teeth for up to 2500$ and none under 600. Don't get me started on theropods from that era. It all looked just too expensive. Our collection is built on inexpensive fossils from formations (Bull Canyon, Kem Kem, Judith River, Hell Creek) that produce some great bargain stuff. i saw nothing in the way of bargain fossils from the Jurassic beyond bits of bone or bits of bone assigned a species even though I doubt you could assign a species to those bits. They are chunkasaurus not Camarasaurus is my theory lol Anyway, I had little belief that we would add anything Jurassic except for the chunkasaurus bones for kids to handle. It did bother me though that we would have a glaring hole in the program. Kids associate the Jurassic era with dinosaurs and vice versa thanks to the movies Jurassic Park. Even if the dinosaurs from those movies were not Jurassic, the word association is unavoidable. I decided to back track the origins of the super expensive fossils from that era. I have a theory that there has to be a primary source for all of those high priced dealer bones. I think one or two entities probably supply the vast majority of fossils from the Morrison Formation which seems the primary formation for North America fossils out there. I think I was successful in the attempt to find one of the sources of the fossils. I have seen affordable Jurassic fossils for the first time and I would tend to trust the ID's because these folks dug them up. I suspect season collectors will the know the folks I am talking about. I saw a few fossils that were in the price range that we set for ourselves. It is not a lot of money at all but I saw fossils that we CAN get. We can not buy right now. The Judith River Anky and I are in a firmly committed relationship so until that tooth comes home, I am frozen on purchasing for a bit lol I do have a source though and time to start learning about Jurassic dinosaur fossils before I buy any. I know the general profile of what type of dinosaur fossil we will add. It will be a bone, not a tooth, of a sauropod. It will give us a Jurassic dinosaur to fill that blank space in the program plus it would give us some visual flair. Point is...... a little bit of above ground virtual digging can unearth the fossils you want even if they at first seem to expensive to afford. Be patient, be diligent, do your homework, and you can build a pretty awesome dinosaur collection, with out going broke
  8. Ptychodus04

    Jurassic World

    We just got home from seeing the new Jurassic World movie that came out today. Well made and entertaining. It was worth the price of admission.
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