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Archaeornithomimus
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Tuojiangosaurus |
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di·no·saur (dī'nə-sôr')
1841,
coined by Sir Richard Owen, from Gk. deinos
"terrible" + sauros
"lizard"
It's funny
to think that not many people actually know what a dinosaur
really is. The most concise way I can put it goes something like
this: A dinosaur is a
terrestrial reptile with a basic diapsid skull and specialized joints
that place
the legs directly beneath the body (like, for instance, most any
terrestrial mammal you can think of). Notice there is
nothing in that definition demanding that they be extinct or otherwise
ancient. It just so happens that unless you count birds anything
meeting those
qualifications died out about 65 million years ago, which is actually
not an especially long time when you consider that if earth history
were a 100 yard
dash, the extinction of the dinosaurs would be 1.4 yards from the
finish line.
Sir Richard Owen, if you're interested, was a
perfectly rotten man who might steal your life's work or otherwise
smite you with his considerable influence just as soon as look at
you. He did, however, give us the concept of having a museum be
open to the general public... so there's that, I guess.
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pter·o·saur (dī'nə-sôr')
"winged lizard"
Pterosaurs
were fabulous critters if for no other reason than they were the first vertabrates to achieve
flight. If I were the first vertabrate to achieve flight,
you better believe there would be some bragging going on to that
affect. Granted, they constructed their wings by virtue of a
bunch of loose skin and a grotesquely elongated fourth finger, thus
rendering them freakish and disproportioned, but I guess that's the way
it goes sometimes.
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Sea Monsters, aka
marine reptiles
Rather confused reptiles that
conveniently forgot what life was like as a fish and went to go live in
the sea. Most such knuckle-heads were eventually whiped off the
face of the earth, only to be replaced by lesser sea-monsters like
whales and such. Modern marine reptiles include sea turtles, sea
snakes, and some species of crocodiles.
Three of the most impressively ghastly sorts are as follows:
Mosasaurs
"Meuse River Lizards": Think of a crocodile crossed with a sperm
whale. Or maybe a giant sea snake, but with flippers... or
something equally dreadful...
Icthyosaurs
"fish-lizards": Essentially dolphins from hell. The
had long toothy snouts and the audacity to sprout a dorsal appendage
out of flippin' nowhere.
Plesiosaurs "Near
Lizards": The Loch Ness Monster. Go to Scottland and canoe
around the fjords until you see the thing that looks like the longest
snake you've ever seen just swallowed the fattest sea turtle you've
ever seen.
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the·rop·sid (thə-rāp'sĭd)
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"beast face"
"fused
arch"
Theropsids
(aka synapsids) are generally composed of two groups, the Pelycosaurs
and the Therapsids.
Therapsids are cool, especially the saber-toothed varieties. I'll
probably make some therapsid "proto-mammal" shirts one of these days.
Pelycosaurs are lame. They include things like Dimetrodon.
I will probably never make a Dimetrodon t-shirt, but if I do then I
don't want to make a whole other category for them in the shop, so
instead of just having a Therapsid category I went one up to the
Synapsids, which include those lame Pelycosaurs. See, I've got my
bases covered... Y'know, in a completely amateurish sort of way.
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funk·o·saur (fuhngk'ə-sôr')
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coined by Reno Wallaby TransAm Ernest Fancypants MacEvoy, meaning
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