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Holiday ShenanigansDecember 27th, 2005 by Mike Keesey :: see related comic |
I enjoyed the movie, and I love gorillas, but we all know who really would have won that fight. (If you don’t know what I’m talking about, you can’t really call yourself a dinosaur fan.)
Speaking of recent movie releases and Darwin and Father Christmas, you can catch Charles’ great-great-grandson Skandar Keynes as Edmund Pevensie in The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe. No kidding!
And, on a final note to do with Darwin and Christmas, Judge John Jones (say that three times fast) has given us all an excellent Christmas present: a ruling that teaching “Intelligent Design” in science classes in public schools is unconstitutional. Darwin would be pleased….
Happy Holidays, everyone!
Even one of these Tyrannosaur-like monsters should´ve won that battle!!! kill the synapsids!!! Archosaurs rule!!! (That´s the meaning of their name, isn´t?)
and Thanks to Judge Dredd!!!… er…. no, Judge Jones!!! that´s a big step for the human race!
Happy new year!
Carnotaurus was a neoceratosaur, no? As was, if I recall correctly, Gojirasaurus quayi (or at least, it was thought to be a neoceratosaur last I heard)…insert King Kong vs. Godzilla joke here.
Actually, the V. rex looked more like derived pseudosuchians to me (think Postosuchus), although they were supposed to be T. rex descendants. (Where are the feathers, dambit?)
Big step for us ‘Merkins, anyway.
IIRC, at SVP, Irmis et al. posited that Gojirasaurus might be a chimera, although mostly coelophysoid (and possibly synonymous with Coelophysis). Appropriate, since its namesake is kind of a theropod/stegosaur chimera.
In the American version of KK v. G, new footage was shot involving a “paleontologist” who uses a dinosaur book aimed at small children to illustrate that Godzilla might be a hybrid between a Stegosaurus and Allosaurus. Not one of paleontology’s finest moments on film.
An hybrid between Allosaurus and Stegosaurus!!!!! I wanna see the conception moment of that hybrid!!!!!!
What is *V.rex*??? I´ve read in some place that the giant theropod of the movie was called *Vatuastosaurus rex* or something like that… is that right?? the rest of the dinosaurs in the movie have such kind of invented names too????
Along with the Taylor Trail foootprints in Glen Rose, Texas, this PROVES that dinosaurs and men (Darwin himself, no less!) walked the Earth together!!
And since I did’t mention it last time I horned in on your message boards, thanks for the great strip!
Heh, glad you enjoy!
To answer Ezequiel’s question, the large predators in Kong Kong (2005) are an imaginary species that is supposed to be descended from Tyrannosaurus rex. Me, I think they’re actually gigantic dinosaur-mimicking crurotarsans, a la Effigia, Postosuchus, etc.
Hooooooooooooooooooooooray for posting while reading through the archive a year later!! Anyway, yes, the fight scene was awesome, but they really should have gone for those giant fingers that kept grabbing them… like tasty little sausages… Anyways, about the ruling against teaching intelligent design in classes, I don’t see anything wrong with teaching it, as long as you teach other possibilities. Way back in my Freshman bio class, we did a project about theories of the beginning of life, and it was quite entertaining. While there were famous one like primordial soup and intelligent design and “seeding,” there was the less-popular “life in a bubble theory.” Don’t ask. Also, if you teach ID, you better teach FSM as well.
Teaching ID is fine in a religion or mythology or philosophy class–it is not science, however.
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