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For me, my hot take is that scaly dinosaurs are better than feathererd dinosaurs. Before you get the pitchforks out, I’m not saying that feathered dinosaurs aren’t scary. I do agree that feathers dinosaurs can be scary, I mean just look at primitive war as an example. It’s just that aesthetically in my opinion, they look better. For example, i really like the croc like armor on the primal carnage T. rex and much prefer it over the primitive war T. rex from the comics. The croc like armor gives it a much more reptilian feel that I really like. The primal carnage T. rex is honestly the closest a depiction of T. rex has come to what I think of when I hear the word “T. rex“. Whenever i picture T. rex I imagine a mostly reptilian animal with black stripes and red coloration on the rest of its body with mostly small scales like that of a monitor lizard with feature scales or in layman term, larger scales (that aren’t osteoderms) like that of Carnotaurus on a few parts of its body. I also imagine T. rex to have lips and haver very few feathers.

Anyways getting back on topic, another scaly dinosaur design I like is todd Marshalls Spinosaurus. I really like all the dewlap and all the spikes the Todd Marshalls spinosaurus has. It really gives it this iguana look to it. In fact, I like depictions of dinosaurs that give them things like spikes or dewlaps in general.

I like to think it would be pizza for some reason, but what do you think? Also before you say it, I know, Theia’s a planet. This is just a fun hypothetical, that’s all.

Me and Theia decided to make some ice cream and now we’re eating and licking it. In case you’re wondering what those circles are that are beside us, they’re supposed to be our hands. In case you’re wondering what those pink things are that are coming out of our mouths, they’re supposed to be our tongues.

For me it’s deep blue, but what is your opinion?

Hello everyone. I really like megalodon and I want to know which body plan is currently considered the most plausible. Is it the bulky body plan or the slender body plan? I’ve seen arguments for the bulky body plan that claim that since Cretelamna (which is megalodon’s distant ancestor) had a bulky body plan (which was found out through body fossils like the one you see in the second image), megalodon should have a bulky body plan too through phylogenetic bracketing.

However on the other hand some of the arguments I’ve seen for a slender body plan of megalodon are pretty convincing. If I remember correctly one of the arguments is that any sea animal over 10m tends to become less bulky and more slender. So I’m curious, which body plan is more plausible and why?

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