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Isle of wight may 2021

When I was a young child, I was obsessed with dinosaurs. Every couple of weeks my parents would take me to the public library, and I would always check out at least one dinosaur book. Here in southern Arizona, we have a creature that I always thought was the closest thing on earth to a modern-day dinosaur, the Horned Lizard. I was, and am, always delighted to find one. I took this photo of a Horned Lizard in southeast Arizona USA.

Looking Close... on Friday: Holding

He wanted a photo of the dinosaur :)

These interesting petroglyphs are in Dinosaur National Monument. Some have hypothesized that these are of aliens, but they look like humans wearing headdresses to me. Enjoy.

A dinosaur at the West Midlands Safari Park.

The striking badlands topography is seen everywhere at the Dinosaur Provincial Park, Alberta, Canada. The park is a UNESCO World Heritage Site well known for being one of the richest dinosaur fossil locales in the world.

I can't see this creature without thinking of dinosaurs. This photo was taken in the Merritt Is. NWR, near Titusville, FL

Taken at the West Midlands Safari Park.

Dinosaurs, not always the prettiest beasts to wander the earth, but impressive and fascinating they were. And extinct.

 

I feel the same about these endlessly fascinating but taste-sensitive brutalist monsters.

This one, Blakeburg, like many, is under threat of being demolished. A true waste...

 

Design (1977): Jan Hoogstad.

My old friend the dinosaur

These Tasmanian Dolerite rocks are said by geologists to be 180 million years old. It was also a time when dinosaurs roamed the earth. This is not a fossil, but it can look very much like the close up of a dinosaur's eye.

The unique dinosaur like egg rocks on Porth Nanven beach.

After millions years evolution, these turkeys still preserve their survival character: alert and agile, reminding me the dinosaurs in the Jurassic park.

East Bay Municipal Utility District Land

At British Ironworks.

"Climate change caused by volcanic eruptions played a role in massive die-offs for the dinosaurs - long before a comet or asteroid impact sealed their fate"

Where dinosaurs walked, as the 150 full dinosaur skeletons found here have proved. But instead of the badlands with cactuses there were tropical forests with palm trees when dinosaurs roamed here.

This is a closeup of a rhinoceros iguana found in the Dominican Republic. This particular iguana was found at the Scape Park's iguana enclosure in Punta Cana.

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Kind of a cool brainy looking cactus in the newly remodeled Smith Interpretive Center at Boyce Thompson Arboretum in Superior, Arizona

"L'Odyssée lumineuse" au Parc Floral de Paris

Festival de lanternes chinoises

Taking this life size dinosaurs and placing them out in the Utah desert is pretty cool to see ... and fun to walk around and shoot for compositions too :)

Who doesn't think dinosaurs are cool. Prehistorica is a great place to visit for photographers. You can temporarily rez things long enough to take a picture usually.

 

It's really for people changing into dinosaurs but I rezzed a campfire for a scene in my video. It's trickier if you're videoing because autoreturn is 5 min -- seems a little longer though because I was able to move my campfire across the doorway to a better spot and get my shot before it disappeared.

 

www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQueYnQIezs

 

Prehistorica Dawn Kingdoms

 

Location: maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/Fort%20Nowhere/128/249/1103

 

The Landing Point is in their crossroads: choose Experiences, Avatars or Hangout.

 

To get to the land of the Dinosaurs:

* head for the door that says "Experiences"

* hang a left to "Dawn Kingdoms: Time Travel Experience"

* go through the portal

 

You will land on a beach.

There's a dinosaur you can ride; just click on the Gallimimus or the Pteranodon.

 

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I am experimenting with 2 different pictures/thumbnails for my youtube video. This is my 2nd thumbnail. I usually don't like that much "empty" space but it works well for text.

  

Oxford Museum of Natural History.

Continuing with the game of finding shapes on trees :-)

Have a great weekend!

Dippy the Dinosaur

From my last trip to London

A truly wonderful building

Or more accurately, rocks that look a lot like dinosaur bones. Although carnivorous dinosaurs thrived on the Australian mainland up to about 100 million years ago, there was a large rift valley (now covered by the sea) between it and Tasmania. This prevented the dinosaurs from migrating south. However, there are fossilised bones of a large reptilian crocodile-like creature (about 250 million years old) that have been found on the island. This goes back to a period before the dinosaurs as we know it evolved.

 

Looking back at a time when Tasmania's ancient reptiles and dinosaurs packed a bite

www.abc.net.au/news/2022-12-10/ancient-tasmanian-reptiles...

You can have all the money in the world,

but there is one thing you will never have...

... a dinosaur.

(Homer Simpson)

 

Smile on Saturday! :-) - Money Box

(photo by Freya)

 

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Those dinosaurs in Utah were quite friendly :)

 

Well at least the vegetarian ones were ...

I saw this rainbow yesterday as I looked up from working and shot it through the window glass.

The church spire in the distance is known locally as St Dinosaurs (St Dionysius) and is in the heart of Market Harborough, about one mile from where I live on the southern edge of the town.

 

~ Rainbow - Stargazer ~

You can have all the money in the world, but

there's one thing you will never have... a dinosaur.

(Homer Simpson)

 

(photo and dino made by Freya)

 

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Australian Museum, Sydney

Tread lightly...

 

Not a great photo. It was taken with my Garmin GPS.

Porth Nanven, is a secluded spot on the west coast of Cornwall’s south-western tip. It lies at the mouth of the Cot Valley, about a mile’s walk from the town of St Just, which is characterised by its granite miner’s cottages.

 

In the spring and early summer the hedgerows of the narrow lanes of the valley are abundant with masses of wildflowers, such as three-cornered leek, cow parsley and lady’s mantle. There are also old disused mine shafts to the left and right which are not safe for exploring, as many of them are not sealed off. Dogs need to be kept on a lead.

 

The defining feature of this beach is the covering of round granite boulders that give it the nickname Dinosaur Egg Beach. Some of these smooth boulders can be seen embedded in the soft cliffs surrounding the beach, dating back to a time when sea levels were much higher. However, there are no fossils to be found here. A thin strip of soft, golden sand is exposed for around an hour each side of low tide.

 

Looking out towards the sea, the rocky twin peaks of the Brison islets, named after the Cornish word for ‘prison’ – ‘brissen’ – as they were once used as basic jails. However, in Cornish, they are known as ‘Enys Vordardh’, or ‘breaker island’, as they have caused many historic shipwrecks.

 

Today, they are a busy nesting spot for gannets, gulls, storm petrels, puffins and red-billed choughs. The islets’ 25m-high peaks slowly turn frosty white with guano throughout the breeding season. They are also thought to resemble a man on his back, leading to the nickname, ‘Charles de Gaulle in his bath’.

  

Badlands National Park, South Dakota

Taken at Bowman Lake in Glacier National Park, Montana US

It's amazing how these red sandstone formed from great shifting sand dunes during the age of dinosaurs, 150 million years ago and now you can find the image of dinosaur at the same location.

Dinosaurs and Other Prehistoric Animals, 1959. By Darlene Geis, illustrated by R.F. Peterson.

Inside the Natural History Museum in London.

The Uintah Mountains extend from north-eastern Utah into Colorado. On the left side of the image one can see the visitor center of Dinosaur National Monument, one of the worlds finest paleontological sites. Hundreds of fairly complete fossils of various Dinosaurs have been found at the Dinosaur Quarry, located in the hills right behind the visitor center. The image can be downlaoded in high resolution (10000 pixels horizontally).

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