#dinosaur questions

[realshinjiikari]

did t rex bob its head like a pigeon when it walked

#dinosaurs #dinosaur questions #im hihg

[weaver-z]

I do understand that "intelligence tests" are inaccurate and stupid. That being said, does anyone want to see the IQ test question so terrible that I felt I had to stand up and leave the room?

#i'm not taking the test but i am doing research into the kinds of questions these use #this one was on the mensa qualifier (which seems to have been written when dinosaurs walked the earth)

[a-dinosaur-a-day]

OK Maybe I'm too much of a scientist or something but like... where did the stereotype that volcanoes are a prehistoric thing come from? Different time periods have different levels of volcanism, but like, the Mesozoic wasn't particularly high or anything, frankly, a lot of volcanic activity that still affects us today was in the Eocene, 10 million years after the Mesozoic ended... where did this "Dinosaurs fight in front of volcanoes" Trope even come from like what there are still volcanoes today y'all know that right

#volcanoes #paleontology #dinosaurs #prehistoric life #question

[barghest-land]

normannognathus :) colors were based on the brown pelican

#actually i'm thinking many paleo thoughts this year #i always find it hard to answer the “what's ur fav dino” question #i have a couple that are a bit more special to me but #this year i've realised that actually my favs are just pterosaurs :) #i love dinosaurs too!! and other silly guys but. i get extra happy about flying friends #i love them all #barghestland #paleoland #paleoart #art #artists on tumblr #pterosaur #normannognathus

[incognitopolls]

Images are from Nobu Tamura and Nevermind 08, respectively, via Wikimedia Commons.

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#polls #dinosaurs #incognito polls #anonymous #tumblr polls #questions #paleontology #paleobiology #polls about critters

[batlantern-abyss]

God bless Batman Universe for it's Batlantern content. That being said, somebody PLEASE write a slow burn AU where they get stuck in the Wild West...

#also the green vest was questionable the their little cowboy fits 🛐 #they're so silly #also batman loving dinosaurs is so awesome #batlantern #bruhal #hal jordan #bruce wayne #batman #green lantern

[clarissasbakery]

this shipping meme i did on instagram!

#my art #wordgirl #monster high #teen titans #moon girl and devil dinosaur #lucase #media moon #moon girl casey #moon girl spoilers #miss question #lady redundant woman #too many questions #cyrob #dc comics #teen titans go #teen titans 2003 #dc cyborg #dc robin #jinafire long #skelita calaveras

[rerarlo]

Time to feed the DinoSquad Fandom a little.

Have a sketch-esk re-draw of the circling scene in the last episode and little character sketches for the scrungle Veloci and tired teacher Moynihan. I gave her wrinkled because i can.

#dino squad #dinosquad #dinosaur #IM IN IM IN IN THE DINO SQUAD #I'M IN I'M IN IN THE DINO SQUAD #ON A BEACH NOT FAR AWAY I WENT TO VISIT FOR A DAY- #AAAAAAAAAAAAAA #How did these two survive this long- #and why is only Moynihan affected by aging #seek science for that question Veloci #HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU ALIVE #ANSWEAR THE QUESTION VICTOR VELOCI #AND WHY ARE YOU CALLED VELOCI?? #YA'LL ARE CLEARLY UTAH RAPTORS BOI

[puppetmaster13u]

Give me some of your most crazy or pretty bird species you know. Or just the weirdest. Any bird actually.

I want to draw dinosaurs with modern-day bird patterns. For fun.

#question #gimme #gimme ideas #birds #bird #dinosaurs #dinosaur #gimme birds #gimme gimme gimme #any birds #animals #reply or reblog #I had an idea

[fred-the-dinosaur-draws]

Happy Hanukkah

#my art #dinosaurs #happy hanukkah #happy chanukah #did not realise how soon it was #but the need to rush the drawing drastically reduced the time I spent debating the chanukah Hanukkah spelling question #for tomorrow

[dynoguard]

A Dinosaur’s Harvest Festival

Everyone loves a feast, no matter when you’re from.

Of the five sapient civilizations to call this planet home, only one (the one we don’t talk about) had no known form of harvest festival. The festival for our most recent cousins, the dinosovians, translates as “Festofall,” a corruption of the archaic “Feast of All.”

The “modern” (from the standpoint of dinosovian time-refugees) holiday is a synthesis of a number of similar festivals, mainly “Tubersprang” and “The Hunt of the Gorged” that merged with the rise of multi-species nation-states during the first industrial age. 

From a human perspective, Festofall comes across as a mix of Halloween and Thanksgiving held at a state fair. Cooking begins a full thirdmoon before the festival starts. Each family prepares a vast quantity of a specific dish, all of which is brought together for a community-wide potluck and cook-off. Competition is intense, though caring about winning is seen as gauche. 

The festival lasts for “two claws” (eight days) of feasting, carnival games, live music, dancing, and traditional theater. The potluck aspect is used by every aspect of food production, from farming to dining, to showcase wares and joust with rivals. On the fourth day of the festival, just as the sun begins to set the participants’ offerings are judged, and prizes are passed out.

The prize in question is an “honorloop”, conceptually similar to a blue ribbon or a medal, but taking the form of a ring of metal, braided leather, carved wood, or horn (tough plastic is always an option in the modern day) that is inscribed with the accomplishment.  These are worn over the winner’s own horn-tips, spikes, or talons as jewelry during every major festival for the year, before they are returned for the next year’s competition.

But when the judges go to give the honorloops, they are always wrong! Each replaced by a crude fake bearing a humorous, insults. The nature of the insults varies regionally, but “least improved”, “tastes like it smells” and “bland in, loud out” (very rude in the native podite) are traditional favorites. The honorloops have been stolen by impish bogies called “wildmolts”, “hollowkind”, or “Snappy Jarry.”

Dinosovian folklore associates the child’s first full molt with the shedding of their “hatching wildness” (Dinosovian children can walk within hours of hatching. A hatchling for the first three years or so is essentially a pet raccoon that gets bigger and more sapient every day, with substantially more bite-strength). The wildmolts are this lost wildness made manifest, in the form of macabre goblin-like pranksters.

The wildmolts, are of course, dinosovian children, who have been making their costumes and planning the theft of the honorloops since cooking began. The children hide the stolen loops in public places, and the winners must find their proper prizes before the festival ends or they must wear the mock-prizes at each of the year’s remaining cultural festivals and bank holidays (of which there are many). Wildmolts trade hints at their hiding places (in the form of riddles and puzzles) for treats and small toys. Adults are expected to play along with the ruse.

The second half of the festival belongs to the wildmolts, with adults and children alike participating in ritualized practical joke games that vary community-by-community (the uniqueness of which is a point of local civic pride.) These range from insult-competitions to hold-my-klem* reckless self endangerment. At night, live theater performances take on a more macabre tone and scary tales are told around bonfires.

Many of the more modern additions to the holiday, such as Aegis Shows, Pulse-Tag, and the Gorge-o-Rama (sponsored by Mr. Big Byte, Gorge Responsibly) take place in this latter half of the festival. 

The dual nature of the holiday symbolically conveys that even in times of plenty, the unexpected can strike at any moment. Post Time-Slip Festofall celebrations are held from November 16th through the 23rd. Mid October is generally considered more “seasonally accurate” to the original Pre-KT celebration, with the later date being intentionally chosen to overlap with American Thanksgiving. 

Festofall is, in human terms, a largely secular holiday and is open to human participation in most communities.

The above images were taken at the Ceratopolis Festofall celebration on the 7th-12th of Harvest Moon 2, 5 BKT, and were generously provided by the Dinosovian Cultural Council of Colorado. 

* a foamy beverage distilled from cycads 

#DynoGuard #questionably canon #dinosovian #dinosovians #festofall #holiday celebrations #worldbuilding #AI assisted art #alternate history #dinosaurs #anthroart #midjourney edit #midjourney

[slimslamflimflam]

sbr doodles because cowboys cool

yeehaw am i right gamers *a semi truck collides into my home at high speeds, killing me instantly*

#WOOO YEAHHH COWBOYS #still reading but MAN #im gonna be honest sbr is probably super close to new favorite part because johnny and gyro live in my heart forever right next to #joseph and caesar and they are competing for brain space but i think part 2 still my favorite #SBR IS REALLY CLOSE THOUG #jjba #steel ball run #johnny joestar #gyro zeppeli #i could also tag diego i guess but he’s in like one thingy and i speedran drawing him #do you think he names the dinosaurs he makes #important genuine question i need to know #if he doesn’t I will #i’m naming them all gertrude #sic em Gertrude 2000!!!!!!!!!!!!!! #my art !! :]

[tendou-satori-chocolatier]

Interviewer: what did you bring to the table?

Tsukki: in my last job I brought a lot of maturit-

Interviewer: no what did you just put on my desk?

Tsukki: you mean my dinosaur plushie?

#why was that a question. ofc his dinosaur plushie came with him #haikyuu #haikyuu incorrect quotes #incorrect haikyuu quotes #incorrecthaikyuu #haikyuuanime #haikyuuincorrect #tsukkishima kei

[fossilprep]

I have a question: how do you get taught to do fossil preparation? Do you start practicing on plain rocks just to learn how the tools work, or something else? I found one of my old plaster egg things and just started wondering.

Also, this blog is super cool I love hearing about how it works.

Some of the very best preparators I know claim to have started with fossils they collected on their own, and it was the same way with me. We'd look up ways to get our fossils out of the rock and would use dental picks and other easily available tools, breaking fossils in the process and making lots of mistakes, so that when we finally got the opportunity to volunteer at a museum we knew a few things.

Every institution is different in how it teaches people how to prepare fossils. The most common practice is to assign a volunteer a fossil and a manual tool of some kind to be used under a microscope. Usually the first tools are dental picks because they're made of stainless steel which doesn't tend to scratch fossils as easily as the tungsten carbide in pin vises. Later on, carbide tools like pin vises and airscribes will be introduced.

I'm happy to educate people on what we do behind the scenes since it doesn't get as much attention as research.

#thanks for the question and the kind words! #paleontology #palaeontology #paleoblr #palaeoblr #dinosaurs #fossils #fossil preparation #fossil prep

[andoutofharm]

why do they end every show with saturday? (bonus questions from the ask me anything chat)

#BECAUSE IT DOES #happy belated saturday saturday #this was a good chat! other questions include why is tttyg the only album with them on it #and which dinosaur is their favorite #each of their answers is Very Them imo #fob #fob videos

[mandareeboo]

Fun fact: This is what Molecule Man looks like in the comics.

WOW. The show really gave my man a glowup.

#Ask #Question Mandar #l-egionaire #Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur #Molecule Man #I like the alien vibes over this dude