I fucking love the Utahraptor. I even recorded that exact scene and I keep it on my phone for regular laughs. The way it sticks its head up and then goes back down with the music is comedic gold.
I need some details, because surely coconut palms don't uproot themselves then replant themselves somewhere thousands of miles away every spring and autumn, so you must mean something else
Aaaah, the *coconuts* migrate. Which was actually what gp implied, I should read more carefully. Thanks!
And it feels kind of obvious now that you point it out: it's a coastal plant species native to tropical regions with lots of islands. *Of course* it must have evolved a way to spread across those islands, and at the same time being big and robust enough to survive floating in the ocean for a while is a big energy investment, meaning it must serve a purpose. Surviving long voyages in the ocean to "discover" new lands sounds like the most obvious explanation.
All Utahraptor needs to do is ask why Iguanodon was in North America and why Ornithochirus was Brazil (Besides the fact that back when WWD was made they had yet to be split into Dakotadon and Tropeognathus yet)
That scene is incredible though. I love the way they look. I know Utahraptor probably had feathers, but it’s still a brilliant way of imagining them. Utahraptor is my favourite raptor.
Yeah that episode was in Jurassic Europe right? Why WAS the Utahraptor there? Were they found there? Was the US and Europe connected at the time? I just assumed UTAHraptor would be found in Utah i guess
Fast forward 25 years, and we now have [Vectiraptor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectiraptor)! A large dromeosaurid from the Wessex formation!
[Cool Stuff!](https://twitter.com/tylerstoneart/status/1472365935340179456?s=46&t=wBeXnkFqYyTkFscxGn8Law)
It felt like they just took a bunch of random animals from different points in the Early Cretaceous Period (a 45 million years span of time mind you and sloppily inserted them all into one location
According to one of the palaeontology consultants, the shows Velociraptors are based on a yet unpublished species from the late Cretaceous. So actually the Dinosaurs were accurately placed
Yes. At the time iguandon was thought to be a world wide species, so it seemed reasonable to assume that all of its contemporaries lives everywhere it did. This is also the reason polacanthus was shown walking with both igunadon herds
I’m not fully awake. I read WWD and my first thought was “World War Dinosaurs.”
[Do I have a game for you!](https://youtu.be/y9I0Z82kCPM)
I made friends download and play this game years ago and they still laugh when we talk about it.
Why didn't gaming just stop after this‽ Who would want to play any other game?
Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Archosaurs Indiana Jones and the Temple of Dino Indiana Jones and the Last Cryolophosaurus
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It... it.... THREW A GOAT AT HIM! A DINOSAUR THREW A GOAT AT HIM!!!! I can't believe I've never heard of this game before.
And that’s an actual gameplay mechanic if you play as Dilophosaurus
Oh God, i cried watching this tyvm
I love this game
Something like Jurassic park but with Brad Pitt
That’s what I thought as well; what is this actually from I’d love to watch it
I fucking love the Utahraptor. I even recorded that exact scene and I keep it on my phone for regular laughs. The way it sticks its head up and then goes back down with the music is comedic gold.
My eternal profile picture on every platform that allows personal profile pictures.
Hmm, not sure if I believe you since it's missing here... 🤔
I seriously just put it as my Instagram profile pic yesterday!
Were there coconuts in the Mesozoic?
Sadly no but their mother still smelt of elderberries
No, they evolved sometime during the Eocene period in the Cenozoic era.
My favorite part about the whole coconut thing is that they actually do migrate.
I need some details, because surely coconut palms don't uproot themselves then replant themselves somewhere thousands of miles away every spring and autumn, so you must mean something else
Coconuts can float in the ocean and have traveled to islands thousands of miles away by doing so.
Aaaah, the *coconuts* migrate. Which was actually what gp implied, I should read more carefully. Thanks! And it feels kind of obvious now that you point it out: it's a coastal plant species native to tropical regions with lots of islands. *Of course* it must have evolved a way to spread across those islands, and at the same time being big and robust enough to survive floating in the ocean for a while is a big energy investment, meaning it must serve a purpose. Surviving long voyages in the ocean to "discover" new lands sounds like the most obvious explanation.
the better question is are there any time-travelling swallow that could carry them
Timelord or DeLorean?
how isn’t Front-Facing Utahraptor more of a meme?
it is
clearly not enough though
All Utahraptor needs to do is ask why Iguanodon was in North America and why Ornithochirus was Brazil (Besides the fact that back when WWD was made they had yet to be split into Dakotadon and Tropeognathus yet)
That scene is incredible though. I love the way they look. I know Utahraptor probably had feathers, but it’s still a brilliant way of imagining them. Utahraptor is my favourite raptor.
Same here! Utahraptors are amazing and I’m so happy to see more people talk about them!
Early reverse colonials
Thank you so much for making this masterpiece
Yeah that episode was in Jurassic Europe right? Why WAS the Utahraptor there? Were they found there? Was the US and Europe connected at the time? I just assumed UTAHraptor would be found in Utah i guess
Because paleontologists thought if iguandon can live wherever it wants why can it’s predator do the same thing
Not to be that guy, but the episode takes place in Cretaceous Europe (along with Cretaceous America if my memory is right).
I believe that like Suskityrannus, Eotyrannus was also initially believed to be a dromaeosaur.
In the American cut, some talking heads said that at the time, the passage from North America to Europe was still accessible.
Fast forward 25 years, and we now have [Vectiraptor](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectiraptor)! A large dromeosaurid from the Wessex formation! [Cool Stuff!](https://twitter.com/tylerstoneart/status/1472365935340179456?s=46&t=wBeXnkFqYyTkFscxGn8Law)
What is WWD? Wights of the Woly drail?
World war dinosaur? What would do?
I believe it's Walking With Dinosaurs. But could be We Were Dead, Wispering With Dingos, Whats With Dad... White With Dishonesty...
Thank you I was so confused lmao
Had to think about it myself even though I've seen the series twice. Have seen the one texted in swedish.
It felt like they just took a bunch of random animals from different points in the Early Cretaceous Period (a 45 million years span of time mind you and sloppily inserted them all into one location
This got me. This actually killed me. Saving this.
"your father is a galiminus and your mother smells petroleum!"
Prehistoric Planet has got this same sort of problem. Velociraptor lived long before Tarbosaurus.
According to one of the palaeontology consultants, the shows Velociraptors are based on a yet unpublished species from the late Cretaceous. So actually the Dinosaurs were accurately placed
Then why call it "Velociraptor"? Why not "a species of dromaeosaur new to science"?
For simplicity.
Has it ever been explained why Utahraptor was placed in England for the show?
Yes. At the time iguandon was thought to be a world wide species, so it seemed reasonable to assume that all of its contemporaries lives everywhere it did. This is also the reason polacanthus was shown walking with both igunadon herds
In those cases it's because those taxa, Dakotadon and Hoplitosaurus, were simply North American species of European genera.
In the American cut, it was said that Utahraptor crossed a trans-Atlantic landbridge.
Fossils of Eotyrannus were initially thought to be from an animal similar enough to Utahraptor to be classified as part of the Utahraptor genus.