If you guys were in My Little Maniraptor, what would your cutie marks be?
Anonymous
Or maybe I should have a collections drawer? Hmm…
-Remex
Have you seen the movie "Night at the Museum"? Can you compare it to the events happening in your museum ?
Anonymous
-(Some of) the Raptormaniacs cast
Are Ostrom and Remex going to get a remake soon since 1. Zhenyuanlong proves ground dwelling dromaeosaurs do not have fan tails and 2. Caudipteryx's color has been revealed.
Anonymous
As for Ostrom, Zhenyuanlong proves nothing of the sort. Zhenyuanlong shows that we shouldn’t assume that all dromaeosaurids had Microraptor-like tail feathering, but that doesn’t make Microraptor-like tail plumage incorrect if applied to other dromaeosaurids. If anything, the lesson of Zhenyuanlong is that tail feathering was variable in dromaeosaurids, and a variety of different tail feathering can be plausibly depicted on taxa for which we currently lack direct evidence of their plumage.
-Remex
Remex, show us the new color scheme worked out for your species!
Anonymous
Hooray for the power of summoning relevant imagery!
Everyone seems to forget about Caudipteryx when talking about paleo-color. For shame.
u know what … i changed my mind… all u scientists out there who worked ur butts off just to have your research purposefully ignored by the government… do your science thing and bring back the dinosaurs… catch them ignoring you when a velociraptor is our next president…. like ding dong what’s that? it’s science, it doesn’t care about your silly ignorant opinion… it’s back with a vengeance… and it’s hungry, bitch
And I’ll be here to welcome our new Mesozoic overlords.
You guys have had a velociraptorine ready to be your leader all this time, and you choose the one whose response to a global threat is saying gibberish rather than building a death laser? Unbelievable.
-Skull
Hold it right there, Skull. We already established that giving you a ton of power is a terrible idea.
Rather than acknowledge any current events that might be happening today, let’s get a thread going
Reblog this post and add a picture of a dinosaur. Any dinosaur will do. Is it a descendant of the most recent common ancestor of Megalosaurus and Iguanodon? Then great! Add it to the post. Birds, raptors, ceratopsians, hadrosaurs, even titanosaurs - just add a dinosaur. A good, friendly terrible lizard (because truly, they are terrible at being lizards. Good at being birds, though.)
I’ll start
The plot is Pleasant with new Pheasants (by @ryuukibart)
The littlest auk, smaller than the puffin.
Hmm yes, I approve of this indulgence. Here is a throwback to our latest big adventure. There were lasers and cannons and visitors from another dimension (as pictured below); it was all quite exciting.
We were shocked by the fact that Skull had built a giant mech in his own image and secretly stashed it away in the museum, but in retrospect it was exactly the kind of thing he would do.
Anyhow, Skull went a little power-crazy but everything was okay in the end.
-Remex
Where does Remex's name come from?
Anonymous
A remex is a long wing feather. The plural of remex is remiges. In fact, I used to be called Remige until the artist realized that that was grammatically incorrect!
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
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.
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
Is there a Microraptor in the museum
Anonymous
I’ve tried every legal means to obtain one for the museum, but I’ve been turned down every time.