Dinosaur Cove

[Night Bear]

It's been a while since I last attempted to maintain a board. Years prior I tried a board called Dinosaur Haven but I lost the link as well as interest in keeping the board up. I'm not comfortable with using Invisionfree to make boards, so this time around I went back to Proboards and, after spending several hours, created a revised version of Dinosaur Haven called Dinosaur Cove.

dinosofentertainment.proboards.com/index.cgi

While dinosaurs are the main theme, it is not entirely focused on that, including more general sections. There is also The Private Section, which is only visible after a certain number of posts.

[EbonyPatriot]

Interesting forum Night Bear. I like the rules and breakdown of member levels (but no troodon? XP er sorry, couldn't resist).

I don't know if I'll be able to join or not though; I don't know how well I'd do with two forums, since I'm not that good at only one forum:(: sometimes I can post everyday, sometimes not for months. Right now with Sprx in training especially, I don't have as much time as I would like to. I'll think about it though.

(If you you don't mind, history of dinosaur exploration is a favorite of mine, so I'd like to comment on one area. :/ The tripod stance actually wasn't from dinosaurs=reptiles, ergo reptiles=guess tail dragged; it was that for I want to say T. rex, they studied the only extant bipedial, long tailed animal, the kangaroo/wallaby which has large hind legs, short forelegs and does use its tail to support its body when resting or in the kangaroo, anything but moving at full speed (hence paws facing down; I know that the paw finding has been scarce and at the time, I don't know if the wrist was preserved; to this day if I recall correctly, even Sue wasn't 100% complete) (see Dinosaurs: A to Z. Some of the first people to study dinosaur tracks, if I recall Bakker correctly, had studied their toe structure and thought the tracks were that of a primitive bird based on how the bones would have to be placed in the foot. Bakker was one of the first to suggest dinosaurs=birds, and it took a while for palentologists to accept that; I think that was roughly late eighties early nineties. One of the leaders of the Natural History Museum, Andrews, helped popularize the dinosaurs as having dragging tails, perhaps based on the trex. Horner talks about this in the preface to In The Presence of Dinosaurs, while a book I have have from I think the late eighties talks about how the focus was on more dinosaurs=bird, although ironically the illustrations weren't very bird like; in addition, that dinosaur book I obsess over, Dinosaurs A to Z, while it's out of date and gets on my nerves from time to time, gives a good overview of the history of dinosaur discovery; in fact, it has pictures of the original model of the dinosaur side by side with skeleton of the wallaby and emu. Even the recent documentary Trex walks again said how difficult it was to try and figure out the movement of an animal with the legs of an emu but pull of a muscular tail like a crocodile. I so want to see that model, it's cool;. D:) The stegosaurus was thought to have its plates horizontal to give it better protection; it was an artist who first suggested that the plates would stand vertical; I don't know the fossil history well enough to know if the later fossils of stegosaurus supported the artist or not. :/ Iguanadon was that only a few of its bones were found and based on how the bones were similar to an iguana, it was thought to have a similar structure. Later many iguanadon fossils were found in a coal mine that were more intact so that the thumb spike was placed on the right spot. Still later it was argued that the iguanadon was a quadreped)

For a time, it wasn't even known if dinosaurs laid eggs or gave birth until eggs were found; coelphysis in fact, was at first thought to be that dinosaurs gave birth. I think maiasaurus was the first that had suggestions that dinosaur cared for their young.

[Night Bear]

Oh? Well that's not what I was told. In some other area, I think some sites or a book, they mention that the tail dragging was from the dinosaurs being reptiles.

And yeah, I wasn't sure what to put in so I chose some random animals. ^^; If you were to join, I could give you a custom title involving troodons, if you want.

Btw, I added your post (the parts dealing with dinos that is) to the topic.

[EbonyPatriot]

Depends on the dinosaur in question. Horner does mentions preferring Andrew's style for dinosaurs=lizards, but for trex at least it was based on the wallaby model (I'm not sure why a wallaby and not a kangaroo), not just dinosaur=lizard (and indeed, he based it on an emu as well). ^^ Iguanadon was thought to be a primitive iguana until more fossils were found; it was later that they argued for iguanadon using four legs I've sometimes wondered if Andrew based the tail on the tex model. ^^ I do a few of Andrew's books around that I should scan in sometimes.

Aw you don't have to add it ; I just couldn't resist given my favorite dinosaur.

Aww thanks.^^ I really need to scan that Dinosaur A to Z book I mention all the time: it has some neat stuff. If it weren't for the book, EbonyPatriot would still have feathers or scales.

That said though, the troodon actually didn't become my favorite for that. There was a CD game for the 1993 Macintosh called Microsoft Dinosaur that had "a day in the life of a troodon", that was were troodon became my favorite. /nostalgia

Ahem er anywho, would you like me to recommend a dinosaur manga and series? ^^

[Night Bear]

You're welcome. ^^

Oh? What manga and series?

[EbonyPatriot]

^^

The manga's Dinosaur Hour, Volume 1 by Hitoshi Shioya. It's a bunch of silly misadventures, especialy with the two reoccuring protocerotops.

Some of the jokes were more miss than hit (actually, one of my least involves the troodon, D: as well as the hadrosaur family), but most of them were funny. The velociraptor one was the best. ;D

The series is actually one my brother likes more than me, but it's an anime called Dinosaur King. It's a ripoff of Digimon (with the dinosaurs switching between cute small size to full size dinosaurs), Yu-Gi-Oh! (with the card-based animals) and Pokemon* (down to the dastardly trio trying to steal the dinosaurs), but it's a fun show. I like Chomp the triceratops and the therizonsaurus the best myself.

*4kids is doing the dubbing and they've casted everybody the same as Pokemon, the young hero Max has the same actress as Ash, the villainous female has the same voice of Jessie, one the male villains share the actor for 4kids's Pokemon Live! Giovanni.

[Night Bear]

I haven't heard of Dinosaur Hour (I'll try to check it out soon), but I have seen Dinosaur King. I got Hulu Plus and they, even not on Hulu Plus, a ton of free shows, and they had Dinosaur King on there. So one day, I sat down and proceeded to, day by day, watch the entire series. Yes, I enjoyed it. I liked how fast-paced it was, the comedy, etc. Some things were a bit awkward though, like the CGI dinos. But it wasn't awful. I actually drew some DK fanart but never posted it up yet.

I had come up with a fanfic idea for it but not sure if I'll start writing it anytime soon. The premise is that a kid with a terrorbird species hates what the D-Team is doing, believing that dinosaurs already had their chance and feel that it is wrong to not let them rest, and has a goal to tear up the cards, thus "killing" the dinosaurs so they may rest in peace. The terrorbird has a new element called Mind, in which he's able to control others in the battle field.

[Truttle]

I've been trying to look up this Dinosaur Hour manga you mentioned EP. Do you have any links or resource we can look up so we can find it? =3

[EbonyPatriot]

Night Bear: Sounds cool eh? I do like what I've seen of the show. ^^

I liked the computer animated dinosaurs myself, but then again I liked the designs.

Truttle: Sure ^^: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/dinosaur-hour-volume-1-hitoshi-shioya/1013984172?ean=9781421526485&itm=1

It's pretty easy to find in libraries too.