d20 dinos

[Desdichado]

JD: preach on, brutha. Bring the dino-word to the street. You can post long detailed historical/paleontological summaries ANY time.

I failed my will-save vs. rambly lecture three times on a single page of a single thread. I are a bad man.

 

[JamesDJarvis]

dinosaurs fit in just fine with "fantasy" elements. Heck, they were in elfquest 20+ years ago.

 

[DMH]

And the only Surrey claw I'm aware of belongs to Baryonix, a very strange fish-eating dinosaur that was the first of it's kind discovered.

I didn't know that the book I got it from was so old (85), but it does mention a partial therapod skeleton which was discovered in 1982 that has a claw 3 times the size of Deinonychus.

It also has Velociraptor as a fish eater with a flatten skull (sort of like a crocodile).

 

[Logan]

I failed my will-save vs. rambly lecture three times on a single page of a single thread. I are a bad man.

Actually, I think it's great. I've been out of touch with a lot of what's going on in paleotology
in past few years. Speaking of which, if you don't mind, I'd like to ask you a question.
I'm thinking about getting an updated book on dinosaurs, and was wondering if you had any you'd recomend. Thanks.

 

[DragonLancer]

I didn't know that the book I got it from was so old (85), but it does mention a partial therapod skeleton which was discovered in 1982 that has a claw 3 times the size of Deinonychus.

Are you thinking of Deinocherius? It was found in Mongolia I think, but all that was found were the forearms and claws.

More info on Deinocherius.

Hope that helps.

 

[DMH]

Not really, but thank you for your efforts none the less. The Surrey claw was discovered in Surrey, England.

Nice link!

 

[demiurge1138]

The Surrey claw did indeed belong to Baryonyx. That creature was about thrity feet long, had a crocodile like head, and ate fish. It's a relative of Spinosaurus, which, thanks to finding new fossils (the originals were destroyed during WWII), also had a flat head, large foreclaws and ate fish.

Demiurge out.