#dinosuars

[librarygoth]

dinosaur sanctuary vol. 2 by itaru kinoshita

#dinosaur sanctuary #Itaru Kinoshita #Suma Suzume #manga #dinosuars

[dreambob]

Dinovember 2023 Day 19- Pyroraptor

The sun

#Pyroraptor #tarot cards #Dinovember #dinosuars #Dinovember2023 #Dinovember 2023 #paleoart #why green? because I though it would be funny #Dreambob's art

[asleepinawell]

Prehistoric Planet - Mononykus

#prehistoric planet #prehistoricplanetedit #documentaryedit #david attenborough #mononykus #dinosuars #dinosaur #myedit #mp #i love her?????

[floridaboiler]

#National Velociraptor Awareness Day #April 18 #Velociraptor Awareness Day #Velociraptors #dinosuars #dinosaur

[cosmic-halibut]

Circus Dinos

#dinosuars #dino art #how many velociraptors can you fit in a clown car? #digital art #doodles

[robert-jennex-art]

Chrono Trigger's Ayla in a 65,000,000 BC scene, with some unrelated SNES cameos.

#digital art #digital illustration #illustration #snes #90s rpgs #classic gaming #dinosuars #cave woman #prehistoric #squaresoft #chrono trigger #ayla #super nintendo #90s gaming #video game fanart

[krissiefox]

Sesame Street's Jurassic Park Parody. :)

These two shots are probably my favorite. Cookie Monster decides the "H" must mean "Halibut" so he offers the giant cookie a fish. 😅

#Sesame Street #Cookie Monster #cookie #giant cookie #dinosuars #parody #Jurassic Cookie #jim henson #Halibut

[brokendeerteeth]

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep.                   Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die. -Druid-for-hire

I really liked that line from their comic, it made me think 

#brokendeerteeth #evolution #birds #dinosuars #avian dinosaurs #Art #my art #black guach paint #in joy purple pen #for my art class our theme is “space” and I interpreted it as aliens and how different our own fauna is back then compared to now #I love space and evolution and paleontology #Animals

[scifimushroom]

my friends from school are having a debate and we need more people's opinions

#tumblr polls #megalodon #aquatic dinosaurs #dinosuars

[yr-obedt-cicero]

I know the term was only coinned in like, the mid-19th century, but did the founding fathers knew of dinosaurs? even if the name for them wasn't really a thing?? thank you!

I find it funny I saw that meme way back, and see it's circling around again.

It's true, the founding fathers had never heard of dinosaurs, and the notion or scientific discovery wasn't until much after their time. But that does not mean fossils were not still found even during their days. Though the popular belief at the time was that some of these fossils belonged to giants, and that's due to the religious influence as many in the colonies were Christian (or had to convert to Christianity) and they believed giants to have once existed like in biblical stories.

But some known founding fathers actually had quite a fascination with paleontology. Even before the first known dinosaur bones from America were described by Joseph Leidy in 1856, there was still significant American study of paleontology. Although not necessarily concerned with dinosaurology, it is kinda important to understand these early paleontologists and the impacts of their findings, and how it was important during the Georgian era. Patriotism was one of the major reasons the founding fathers cared so much about the fossils they were uncovering. Influential Europeans like Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon argued that species found in the “New World” were inferior to the ones found in Europe. As I said above, some theorized they were the remains of once giant humans, while others more reasonably compared them to living hippopotamuses and elephants — They were, in fact, Mammoth's — Contrary to popular belief that it was merely Thomas Jefferson who thought of this; extinction was not really a finalized concept or common thought at the time, so the possibility of an extinct animal was not yet considered. Once again, due to religious beliefs, as many believed the Creator would not kill of his own creations. (Yes, most notably Thomas Jefferson thought this way too). Thus this mysterious creature, called the incognitum — meaning ‘unknown’ in Latin — was thought to still roam the uncharted areas of the North American continent, as many other fossils explorers found. The incognitum sparked interest among many of the easily influential explorers, and would be primarily the reason behind for starting serious investigation into paleontology.

That being said, our first president, George Washington actually had some experiences with fossils!

During 1780, in Orange County, New York, some unknown bones and teeth were discovered by a digger in a ditch on the farm of the Reverend Robert Annan. Washington and the Continental Army were in winter quarters nearby, and word of the discovery of the new fossils reached Washington. He was curious as he gathered some officers and went to see the bones for himself. Robert Annan wrote that Washington, himself, actually owned a strange tooth back at Mount Vernon, and talked about it. Apparently it was the tooth of an unknown animal collected from Big Bone Lick near the Ohio River in Kentucky.

“He told me, he had in his house a grinder which was found on the Ohio, much resembling there.”

(source)

Research proves Washington received the tooth by Dr. John Connolly. He was a trader and land speculator in western Pennsylvania, and had also dined with GW in 1770, and wrote to Washington in September, 1772, describing a visit to Big Bone Lick where he had; “just stumbled upon the tooth I now present you with.” But Washington had many other opportunities to learn of such fossils. The Ohio Company was responsible for exploring the Ohio River Valley and promoting English occupation against the French, and it was a land speculation company that drew the participation of Washington and a few of his relatives. In 1751, Christopher Gist, who was an explorer, surveyor, and frontiersman active in Colonial America. He was one of the first white explorers of the Ohio Country. Also knew Washington quite well, and had while traveling through Ohio had received two teeth of a giant beast from an Indian trader. But it's unknown if he actually knew anything more of it, other than it existed.

Next on the list, is nature-loving, first Secretary of State, Thomas Jefferson.

Jefferson was fascinated by the fossils of the incognitum. Interestingly, Jefferson believed that these creatures still roamed North America, and collected many accounts of their supposed continued existence. He even hoped that Lewis and Clark would find a living specimen of the mammoth on their famous 1804-1806 expedition. Clark and Lewis would often send him back fossils and other wonders they found, and he would excitedly analyze them. Jefferson’s paleontological career truly began in 1797 with reading of a short paper to the American Philosophical Society. This paper possibly was the first ever published work concerning paleontology, as it described strange fossils recovered from a cave located in West Virginia, including a set of large claws. Jefferson called it Megalonyx, meaning “giant claw”, and incorrectly identified the bones as belonging to a giant lion, apparently (the identification of Megalonyx as a lion was probably part of TJ's attempt to find an American carnivore to reflect against the European claims of superior fossil findings). Fast forward, during his presidency in 1807, he hired William Clark to collect fossils from the “birthplace of paleontology”, as it is famously known as; Big Bone Lick in Kentucky. Jefferson then had Clark's collection, numbering around three hundred bones of various extinct mammals including mammoths, shipped back to the White House the next year, displaying all of it on the floor of the East Room. There he collaborated with Caspar Wistar in analyzing and formally describing the numerous fossils. The Jefferson-Clark collection, as it would come to be known, would remain the most extensive assemblage of fossils in the United States for decades. There have been many debates wether Jefferson is to be truly credited in the field of paleontology, considering his analysing and identification was mostly incorrect. But others argue he still contributed to the stepping stones of early discovery of paleontology. The remainder of Jefferson's collection was divided between the Society and Monticello, where the fossils were displayed in the Entrance Hall;

“There is a tusk and a femur which Genl. Clark procured particularly at my request for a special kind of Cabinet I have at Monticello,”

(source)

#amrev #american history #american revolution #thomas jefferson #george washington #paleontology #dinosuars #cicero's history lessons #history #queries #sincerely anonymous #founding fathers

[ghost-diner]

🎵 it's a little fella! 🦖

#a vague dinosaur in some vague woods #my art #dinosaur #dndinos #illustration #dino #dinosuars #im hesitating to tag this paeloart #because this is not a researched dinosaur at all

[librarygoth]

dinosaur sanctuary vol. 2 by itaru kinoshita

#dinosaur sanctuary #Suma Suzume #Itaru Kinoshita #manga #dinosuars

[dreambob]

Dinovember Day 12: Diplodocus

Two baby Diplodcus running through they’re parents legs.

#Diplodocus #paleoart #dinosuars #Dinovember #Dinovember 2022 #Sorry I'm late #I was trying to get this done before I when into work..... #(and yes it sort of inspired by the lion king)

[turntechg-ethead]

so

housemates and i been using vpn to cast votes for the field museum of chicagos new spino because sobek is too fucking cool to let sandy win right

i voted for sabah originally but it was sitting at an undeserving 10% while sobek and sandy were neck and neck

it used to have a bar showing the live cast of votes percentages after you cast your vote but after like day two of doing this suddenly theres an added captcha and the percentages after voting are gone

idk if anyone else out there is doing this but

lol

#text #me words #spinosaurus #field museum #getting really autistic about dinosuars finally #yall are probably gonna see some dino posting #shit maybe ill post pics after the museum that would be kinda cool #photo graphy #dinosuars #paleontology

[floridaboiler]

#National Velociraptor Awareness Day #April 18 #Velociraptor Awareness Day #Velociraptors #dinosuars #dinosaur

[lowcountry-gothic]

Spinosaurus, by Natalia Jagielska.

#art #natalia jagielska #spinosaurus #dinosuars #paleoart