Sadness: Dinosaur Knowledge Versus Age

Damn that makes me sad. By the time you're old enough to make a graph about dinosaurs you can't even spell dinosaurs correctly. It's enough to make a dinophile cry. Which reminds me: my second semester at college I managed to sign up for a senior-level paleontology course despite it having a whole bunch of prerequisites I never took. Yeah, and not only did we never watch Jurassic Park, the teacher tried to fail me for stealing bones. I ALREADY TOLD YOU, I THOUGHT MY LAB FEES COVERED THEM!

Ahh, Jurassic Youth [graphjam]

Thanks to whitney and Chinese Fingercuffs, who both subscribe to National Geographic to stay on the cutting edge of breaking dino-news and native booby pictorials.

• Dinosaurs Developed Feathers To Attract Mates, Not Fly

  October 26, 2012

  In news that shouldn't surprise anyone who finds them so irresistible, paleontologists are now claiming that the earliest dinosaurs to develop feathers did so for courtship purposes and not to soar like giant, sexy eagles. *ruffling tail-feathers* CAW, CAW! "They may have in... / Continue →
• The Illustrated T-Rex Guide To Eating A Triceratops

  October 25, 2012

  Illustrations by Nate Carroll As any t-rex could tell you, the best triceratops meat is in the neck beneath the frill. And now paleontologists believe they've discovered just how the beasts tore the heads off their prey to get at it. The steps they took (as illustrated above)... / Continue →
• I Refuse To Believe: Scientists Claim It's An Impossibility To Clone Dinosaurs From Preserved DNA

  October 10, 2012

  In soul crushing news, scientists claim there's no chance of cloning dinosaurs from DNA found in the present day because DNA rapidly deteriorates over time, citing that even under optimal conditions every single bond in DNA is broken in less than 1/10th of the time since the mo... / Continue →