here's the dinosaur post that LJ wouldn't let me post

[mckitterick]

In other news, I just finished mowing my lawn, so four fist-sized dinosaurs are roaming the freshly mown grass in search of prey, tearing their victims from newly exposed terrain. Four different breeds, too. If you squint just right, you can imagine how this world must have looked when dinos taller than the trees stomped the land.
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And oooh! A bunny just hopped past! It kinda breaks the suspension of disbelief when a bunny stands three times the size of the feathered T-Rexes.

Comments

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Awesome and terrifying!

If you're a worm.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Indeed! I'm also hoping they reign terror on mosquitos and spiders, too. (Not that my yard houses any spiders, weaselmom.)

[roya-spirit.livejournal.com]

oooh! A bunny!

You crack me up.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

What could I do? Bunny!

[archway.livejournal.com]

~starts humming the Trout Fishing in America song When I Was a Dinosaur ~

~giggles!~

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

*g*

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

It always fascinated me that one major class of dinosaurs was called Ornithischian -- for "bird-hipped".

http://www.ucmp.berkeley.edu/diapsids/ornithischia/ornithischia.html

I also like Delicious Dino Links.

:)

[kijjohnson.livejournal.com]

Birds are actually "dino-hipped."

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

Well see, that's only half true. There are also dinosaurs with a different hip configuration, and a lot of animals have that same hip structure, but birds don't.

This one characteristic of a backward pointing pubic bone is clear and shared between birds and dinosaurs. Of all silly things, however, birds are more closely related to the saurischia, or "lizard-hipped" dinosaurs, than they are to the ones whose pelvic girdle structure they share.

No wonder there are people who hate evolution. If only it were simple, like on the sixth day God made a cool triceratops.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Hey, that was on the fifth day. On the sixth... well, all those Triceratopses were clogging up the works.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Indeed! And those "lizard-hipped" ones? Yeah, lizards are actually dino-hipped, too. In fact, humans are not "human-hipped" but "Pelycosaur-hipped."

Click the image to see the story.

[renegade500.livejournal.com]

And those "lizard-hipped" ones?

I totally read that as lizard-lipped...

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Would lizard lips look like this?

[renegade500.livejournal.com]

He could use some collagen injections.

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

It's pretty clear that birds and therapods are related: See side-by-side photos, above.

And ...

[kalimeg.livejournal.com]

"Bunnies aren't cute like everybody supposes.
They got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses,
And what's with all the carrots?
What do they need such good eyesight for, anyway?
Bunnies, bunnies it must be bunnies!
(or maybe midgets ...)."

Re: And ...

[mckitterick.livejournal.com]

Wow.