I suppose I wouldn’t really need it though. I already win every time. Maybe what we need is a second Deinonychus to show Ostrom the ropes!

-Savape

We museum exhibits are free to leave after the museum closes, but there is not much point because everywhere else is also closed. That is time much better spent on plotting my next plan to take over the museum.

Besides, moving around takes too much work for me.

-Skull

yutyrannusrex:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

raptormaniacs:

a-dinosaur-a-day:

Here we have it. The Non-Neornithean Theropod Quadrant. Everything but the last two were determined by the most number of votes for that category; the last two were two of some of the other largely-voted-for theropods that were significantly different from the others that were placed in the Quadrant. 

The Sauropodomorph Survey will go up on Sunday. 

Herrerasaurus by Smnt2000; Majungasaurus by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 2.5); Spinosaurus by @ad-0rca-ble; Carcharodontosaurus by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 2.5); Compsognathus by Durbed (CC BY-SA 3.0); Yutyrannus by me; Gallimimus by John Conway; Mononykus by Andrey Atuchin (taking from the NHM Site); Nothronychus by @palaeoplushies; Anzu by @artisticthingem; Dakotaraptor by @ewilloughby (CC BY-SA 4.0); Balaur by @ewilloughby (CC BY-SA 4.0); Avisaurus by Green-Mamba; Hesperornis by Nobu Tamura (CC BY 3.0); Cryolophosaurus by @ahseeru; Confuciusornis by @ryuukibart

Or whatever your fancy new name is. Palaeoblr, is it? In any case, if you were hoping that I’ve already forgotten what happened last year: I haven’t.

Sometimes I wonder why I even bothered to join you all, really…

-Skull

I was rooting for you, Skull, I really was

I voted for Tsaagan too, don’t worry, you’ll get there someday!

Sometimes it takes your darkest hour for one to realize who their allies are.

-Skull

You darkest hour? Aren’t you being a little melodramatic? I thought going mad with power and trying to blast the museum to pieces was your darkest hour.

-Dinky

What the hell, Dinky. When did you learn to edit posts on a Tumblr account?

-Skull

jurassicsunsets:

ANGER

Some of you are simply infatuated with stating the obvious sometimes.

-Skull

palaeofail-explained:

palaeofail-explained:

what dinosaur was the biggest weeb

Tsaagan mangas

Dinky, Dinky, Dinky. This is why I come up with the plans.

Besides, the pun is on manga, not anime.

-Skull

a-dinosaur-a-day:

Your Dinosaur Government! 

Thank you everyone for participating in Dinosaur March Madness! It’s been a wild ride and there’s definitely been lots of unexpected twists. Image sources under the cut

If you’d like me to keep going with the Dinosaur Government gag, let me know

Keep reading

I didn’t think I’d make it this far. I’ll do my best!

-Ostrom

Democracy is dead and a failed system!

-Remex

We have gone underappreciated for too long. Too many jokes are made about how inadequate a legacy we serve for the Dinosauria. This is not true.

We can fly. You can only fly with the aid of machinery, or hidden away from our competition in your eternal refuge, the darkness. Besides, how did you get the idea to take to the skies? By watching us.

We have colonized every part of the globe, be it the freezing Antarctic, dry tropical deserts, remote islands, or the urban environments you set up that have pushed out so many other species. Even in marine ecosystems we remain diverse, a feat almost no other dinosaur group can boast.

Our communication network is complex and our problem-solving skills are almost unparalleled. We go everywhere and see everything. We’ll be watching. Always.

And should it enter your heads to attempt to get rid of us: we eat your pests, disperse seeds of plants you depend on, and keep the environment clean of refuse. Let it be known: if we ever decide to leave, you will suffer.

-Dinky

Do not fail me next time.

Fair warning: I may decide to assassinate your vice president before the term is over. She irritatingly interrupted our coherent narrative a couple years ago.

-Skull

Here you can see Remex cowering before her not long prior to the incident. She’ll be repaired in a few months.

-Savape

I miss going to those places. But I’m stuck here now.

-Dinky

I don’t know what my sculptor is up to these days. I hope she is making more of me, because then I could have an army of me!

-Savape

a-dinosaur-a-day:

versus

Ravens are rad, even if Skull doesn’t understand them. Happy to have them represent Team Passerines. Savape thinks shrikes would have been a better choice though. But that’s the thing with songbirds - there are so many of us, how could you ever choose?

-Dinky