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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.
The unique shape of the 15m high sea stack resembles a giant dinosaur enjoying a drink from the ocean.
The shot was taken at sunrise (and what a sunrise it was!) on my last day in Iceland. What a glorious way to end such an unforgettable trip!
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Hvitserkur, Iceland (Western shore of Húnafjordur)
© All rights reserved Rui Baptista. Please do not use this image on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit written permission.
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.
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.
Common names: Brazilian Giant-rhubarb, Giant rhubard, Dinosaur Food.
Botanical name: Gunnera manicata.
Family: Gunneraceae.
Taken at Wildekrans Country House, Houw Hoek, Western Cape, South Africa during Elgin Open Gardens 2016.
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.
Camera: Canon Eos 6D
Lens: EF17-40mmF/4L-USM
Aperture: f/22
Focal Length: 17 mm
Shutter Speed: 1/80
ISO: 100
Another Rock Island spinoff, the Austin, Todd & Ladd is owned by Wheeler Brother's Grain Company and exists primarily to run grain from the elevators at Watonga down to El Reno, where the operation connects with UP. Here, six of the pike's eight operable units tip-toe around the wye at Geary, OK with a long line of empties, turning from westbound to north to reach Watonga. The track continuing west is the branch to Bridgeport, which appears to be used primarily for car storage, and ends in a gravel pile a couple miles west of its namesake.
The sad piece of machinery in the foreground looks to be CF7 2491, the one non-operable unit on the roster. Parts of its carbody were in a scrap pile located near the railroad's crossing of US Hwy 281 in downtown Geary.
Huge boulders tumble down a fork of the Wallace River like displaced dinosaur eggs.
Happy Saturated Saturday!
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.
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...
60+ dinosaurs on display at the Bronx Zoo - they move, roar and rumble much to the terror of a lot of kids and the delight of adults like me.
A giant pigeon sculpture called "Dinosaur" by artist Ivan Argote installed on the plinth at the High Line.
From the website:
Reflecting on the work’s title, Argote notes, “The name Dinosaur makes reference to the sculpture’s scale and to the pigeon’s ancestors who millions of years ago dominated the globe, as we humans do today… the name also serves as a reference to the dinosaur’s extinction. Like them, one day we won’t be around anymore, but perhaps a remnant of humanity will live on—as pigeons do—in the dark corners and gaps of future worlds. I feel this sculpture could generate an uncanny feeling of attraction, seduction, and fear among the inhabitants of New York.”
Dinosaur, like the pigeons that inspired it, bears witness to the city’s evolution and confronts us with our ever-changing relationship with the natural world and its inhabitants. The oft-overlooked and derided creatures that seem to over-populate the city first arrived in the US via Europe, likely in the 1800s. They were kept as domesticated animals and were most notably used as reliable message carriers. Pigeons have an internal GPS, known as “homing,” that allows them to always find their way back home. This skill once made the bird indispensable in war—they served as military messengers in both World War I and World War II, saving hundreds of soldiers’ lives by transporting messages quickly to both the trenches and front lines. Many of these pigeons received gallantry awards and were celebrated as war heroes, before technology eventually rendered them obsolete.
Dinosaur recognizes this seemingly prosaic figure and celebrates its anonymity amongst the urban landscape, while also taking aim at classic monuments erected in honor of great men, who all too often are neither honorable nor great. Argote humorously suggests that, in fact, the not-wild—but no longer domesticated—birds are likely more deserving of being placed on a pedestal and celebrated for their contributions to society than most. Further, by highlighting their origins, Argote reminds viewers that, to some degree, everyone is an immigrant. Even the pigeon, a New York fixture, initially migrated here and made the city their home, like millions of other “native” New Yorkers.
What a lovely spot this was with the lush greens there in the slot canyon ... a pretty spot there in Utah. The CPL really brought out the colors of the sky, rocks, and greenery there in this scene.
I recently got a dinosaur and had to put it to some use!
A nest was one of my earliest ideas, since I wanted to include the baby dinos too. The sand was initially built for Relaxing Bedrock Style but it didn't work as planned. So it made the base for this MOC instead!
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