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
Are you allowed to leave the museum grounds?
Anonymous
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.
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.
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…
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.
Dinosaur March Madness Round Three was a mess and Theo is very angry because he was counting on Saige to win in his place. So, as usual, she has to physically hold him back to prevent him from destroying all who oppose him.
@a-dinosaur-a-day honestly, thank you so much for DMM, it’s giving me so much motivation to draw my OCs
You are welcome! These are so cute (and your Styracosaurus drawing solidified my support for it)!
Ebeff was unavailable for comment, as he is still off marching madly.
-The Raptormaniacs cast
What tourist destinations are there in your city besides the museum? A zoo maybe?