The Dinosaur Discovery Thread

[Cheebs]

So... How long until big dumb action movies start showing dinos as the magnificent feathery death chickens that we now know they were?

[cka]

[Cheebs]

[Low]

The newest such discovery is a mass grave of triceratops, commonly believed to be loners, in Wyoming.

Crazy, would have pegged them like modern buffalo or wildebeest. In fact have a book from the 80s with illustrations of triceratops in circle formation to protect their young.

[NeoZeedeater]

Sort of on topic... does anyone else have a fossil collection?

I haven't looked at mine for many years but I still have some fossils of fish, trilobytes, insects, and a dino spinal piece. Most were bought at stores but I used to find some bug and plant ones myself in a small BC town called Princeton.

[Josh]

Crazy, would have pegged them like modern buffalo or wildebeest. In fact have a book from the 80s with illustrations of triceratops in circle formation to protect their young.

I HAD THAT BOOK

[Low]

Sort of on topic... does anyone else have a fossil collection?

I haven't looked at mine for many years but I still have some fossils of fish, trilobytes, insects, and a dino spinal piece. Most were bought at stores but I used to find some bug and plant ones myself in a small BC town called Princeton.

Got a few too. When the kids are playing in back I'll sometimes sort through the river rock around the plant beds. Tons of fossilized beehive, coral, shells, and bone fragments.

[Yoshi]

Sort of on topic... does anyone else have a fossil collection?

I do, but it's still somewhere at my parents' house. I have some fossilized wood, bison teeth, shark teeth, etc. I am not sure if I kept anything from my eighth grade earth science class, but I found a bunch of stuff for that and on field trips as well.

[Yoshi]

Cool news on the feather front, including feathers designed to help diving in addition to flying.

[Josh]

There is no cool news on the feather front. Only broken hearts.