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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:19 PM
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Who's your favorite dinosaur?
(Unfortunately, poll posts are temporarily down, so I'll just list down some dinos).

1) Brontosaurus

2) Brachiosaurus


3) Giganotosaurus

4) Montanoceratops

5) Megaraptor

6) Stegosaurus

7) T.Rex

8) Pterodactyl
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brentspeak Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:20 PM
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1. One vote for Pterodactyl
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Bridget Burke Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:36 PM
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8. The Houston Museum of Natural Science has a Quetzalcoatlus skeleton!
Quetzalcoatlus was a huge pterosaur with a wingspan of up to 15 metres - the largest flying creature of all time. It is the last known pterosaur which survived to the very end of the Cretaceous period. Quetzalcoatlus was named after the Aztec's feathered-serpent god, Quetzalcoatl, by Douglas Lawson who first found the remains at Big Bend National Park in Texas.

Despite its huge size, the skeleton was lightly built and the whole animal probably weighed no more than 100 kilograms. Its neck was extremely long, its slender jaws were toothless and its head was topped by a long, bony crest. Unlike most other pterosaur fossils the Quetzalcoatlus remains have not been found in marine strata but in the sand and silt of a large river's flood plain and this has raised questions about how it lived.

www.abc.net.au/dinosaurs/fact_files/volcanic/quetzalcoatlus.htm

Leaving the wonderful LOTR exhibit, museumgoers found themselves in the Hall of Dinosaurs & Other Big Extinct Beasts. I'm sure I'm not the only one who looked up & noticed the Fell Beast skeleton.
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motely36 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:20 PM
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2. I was gonna say Strom Thurmond
:P
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:20 PM
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3. I thought the Brontosaurus was now the Apotosaurus!!
Edited on Fri Oct-28-05 01:22 PM by Shell Beau
But I'd say that one!! Gentle Giants!!
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Fox Mulder Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:24 PM
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4. T.Rex...
too bad its skeletal structure is all wrong.

My actual favorite isn't on your list, and it is the velociraptor.
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:25 PM
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5. They are meanies!
Do they still have Walking with the Dinosaurs on Discovery? That was such an awesome show. They would personalize it and I'd feel sorry for the little (or big mostly) creatures.
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no name no slogan Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:26 PM
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6. Keith Richards (nt)
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redqueen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:27 PM
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7. Other - Triceratops.
Or any of those really... Protoceratops is just as nice. :)
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kick-ass-bob Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:36 PM
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9. that's a hell of a long pinky finger!
:wow:
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billyskank Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:37 PM
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10. Open the door! Get on the floor!
Everybody walk the dinosaur!
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Shell Beau Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Oct-28-05 01:38 PM
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11. Boom boom shak-a-lak-a-lak boom
Boom boom shak-a-lak-a boom boom!! :)
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