more like sockuel jacksock
― velko, Sunday, 9 August 2009 19:36 (fifteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lx6X_VLtfIc
^^ still my favorite scene in the movie
― a being that goes on two legs and is ungrateful (dyao), Sunday, 9 August 2009 20:16 (fifteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/5431548/velociraptors-cousin-had-a-venomous-bite
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:25 (fourteen years ago) link
http://www.livescience.com/animals/091221-venomous-dinosaurs.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29&utm_content=Google+Reader
Using snake-like fangs, saber-toothed dinosaur relatives of velociraptors likely subdued their prey with venom, scientists now suggest.
Paleontologists analyzed the skulls of Sinornithosaurus, whose name means "Chinese bird lizard." This narrow-snouted raptor was the fifth and most bird-like dinosaur species ever to be discovered, and lived roughly 125 million years ago in the warm, moist forests of northeastern China during the late Cretaceous.
"This is an animal about the size of a turkey," said researcher Larry Martin, curator of vertebrate paleontology at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum in Lawrence. "It was almost certainly feathered. It's a very close relative of the four-winged glider called Microraptor."
Their investigation revealed its upper teeth are grooved, long, and fang-like, and its upper jaw contained pockets that could have housed venom glands. These pockets are connected to the base of the teeth by narrow ducts.
"People are probably sorry they missed it, since it's so obvious," said researcher David Burnham, a vertebrate paleontologist at the University of Kansas Natural History Museum in Lawrence.
"When we were looking at Sinornithosaurus, we realized that its teeth were unusual, and then we began to look at the whole structure of the teeth and jaw, and at that point, we realized it was similar to modern-day snakes," Martin said.
How it worked
This pattern of features is specifically much like that found in "rear-fanged" venomous snakes. The fangs in these serpents do not inject venom, but instead channel poison along a groove on the outer surface of the teeth that pierce their prey's flesh.
"This thing is a venomous bird for all intents and purposes," Martin said.
If rear-fanged snakes serve as any sign, the venom Sinornithosaurus employed likely was not lethal. Rather, it may have caused rapid shock, enabling the saber-toothed raptor to subdue its victim, shrinking the odds of retaliation or escape from the prey or piracy from other predators.
"You wouldn't have seen it coming," Burnham said. "It would have swooped down behind you from a low-hanging tree branch and attacked from the back. It wanted to get its jaws around you. Once the teeth were embedded in your skin the venom could seep into the wound. The prey would rapidly go into shock, but it would still be living, and it might have seen itself being slowly devoured by this raptor."
The length of the dinosaur's fangs probably allowed it to penetrate the thick layer of feathers on the birds abundantly available as prey. Teeth at the tip of the snout may have then helped Sinornithosaurus pluck the feathers off its victims.
Recently scientists discovered venom in snakes and lizard was very ancient, dating back to roughly 200 million years ago. "It wouldn't surprise me at all if it dated back to their common ancestor with the dinosaurs," Burnham said.
Other raptors?
These findings are prompting the researchers to look more closely at other raptors.
"Preliminary results suggest that Microraptor may have been venomous too," Burnham said. When it comes to larger, more iconic raptors such as Deinonychus, "they were bigger animals, so they might have lost venom since they had other means of subduing prey, but then again, who's checked?"
There remains potential for many other discoveries in China. "This is just the tip of the iceberg," Burnham noted. "There are thousands of feet of sediment one can search that span an area from North Korea to Inner Mongolia, and it's proven hugely diverse, producing things one could have never imagined.
Martin, Burnham and their colleagues detailed their findings online December 21 in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
― tiger's wood (latebloomer), Monday, 21 December 2009 22:26 (fourteen years ago) link
http://bubleraptor.tumblr.com/
― Gee, Officer (Gukbe), Wednesday, 7 April 2010 11:28 (fourteen years ago) link
http://io9.com/5813380/who-wants-to-stay-at-a-jurassic-park-themed-love-hotel
― in no way more ancient than fucking space (latebloomer), Sunday, 19 June 2011 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
watched this again at the cinema tonight. was actually a couple of moments when the audience audibly laughed at the exposition etc., best laugh was at the couple of close up shots of dr ian malcolm's greased torso as he lay injured.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 16 July 2011 01:09 (thirteen years ago) link
this is probably my favorite spielberg. "i didn't say i was scared."
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
but the raptors were still scary right?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xp
yeah, raptors were still scary.
i actually hadn't noticed attenborough is doing a scottish accent at times in the film, until today, cinema was howling whenever he cracked some ridiculous groundskeeper willie phrase.
― you've got male (jim in glasgow), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:35 (thirteen years ago) link
T-Rex attack sequence awesome, raptor stuff scary, much of the rest a risible if technically proficient mess.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:46 (thirteen years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iBxgAmdPQWg
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:54 (thirteen years ago) link
heheheherr harrr ehheh heh hehurrrr hehaarrrrrr
― del griffith, Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:56 (thirteen years ago) link
gross
― del griffith, Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i've already gotten ian malcolm, but they say that's not enough. they want alan grant.
grant? you'll never get him out of montana.
why not? ... why not?
because grant's like me. he's a digger. que lindo eres.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
you mean 'amazing'
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:57 (thirteen years ago) link
when i was a kid i thought he said the n-word instead of digger
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:58 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah this might be spielberg's best film. kind of want to watch this right now.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
anybody else hear that? that's, uh, that's an impact tremor, is what that is. i'm, uh, i'm fairly alarmed here.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 02:59 (thirteen years ago) link
sam neill in this reminds me of james mason as dashing expository scientists in jules verne movies, laura dern spends most of the movie laughing, jeff goldblum's character is an authorial mouthpiece so goldblum just fills it up with hilarious tics, the dinosaurs might show up early but the raptors are held off and built up even longer and bigger than jaws was, and there's a major sense of scientific wonder that's both little-kid and grown-up, as when grant splays himself across the triceratops and the cynical malcolm looks on and grins, or when sattler is so absorbed in a plant that amazes her she has to be physically turned to see something more amazing, or when -- and this is kinda sappy but it's spielberg -- grant tosses the raptor claw down from the tree because "we're out of a job" but also because having now seen actual dinosaurs he's achieved the ambition that put him in the job in the first place, which he had previously, heartbreakingly, had to accept was impossible. also the flea circus speech (if malcolm is crichton's puppet this scene is spielberg's) and the way the two kids grin at each other over their desserts just before the raptor scene.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:07 (thirteen years ago) link
also "well here we are... back... in the car again" obv.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:08 (thirteen years ago) link
man the opening scene where they lose the worker to the raptor and it's raining and the man's arm slowly slips out of the guy's grasp
― dayo, Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:12 (thirteen years ago) link
when they lower the cow into the raptor pen and 5 seconds later tattered shreds come back up
"clever girl"
a cryogenics container cleverly made up to look like a can of barbasol shaving cream
― dayo, Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:13 (thirteen years ago) link
conspiracy discussed over tapas in a small latin american town?
― dayo, Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:15 (thirteen years ago) link
SHOOT HER dissolving into peaceful tropical river
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:19 (thirteen years ago) link
henry, henry, why didn't you tell me? i insist on being here when they're born.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:20 (thirteen years ago) link
i think this was gennaro.
...i think this was too.
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:25 (thirteen years ago) link
Never thought this would turn into the new JFK thread.
― ephendophile (Eric H.), Saturday, 16 July 2011 03:28 (thirteen years ago) link
the raptors are really great in this. perfect movie monster villains.
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:01 (thirteen years ago) link
i watched this stoned a couple of months ago. got seriously emotional during the first scene with the brachiosaurs.
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:03 (thirteen years ago) link
Couple of years and they'll be planning a remake or prequel or something!
― not_goodwin, Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:07 (thirteen years ago) link
also watched the Lost World on cable recently...man, that movie blows. i mean it still has dinosaurs in it and any movie with dinosaurs in it can't *completely* suck, but still.
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
got seriously emotional during the first scene with the brachiosaurs.
have definitely cried @ "they're moving in herds... they do move in herds"
― my Sonicare toothbrush (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 16 July 2011 04:08 (thirteen years ago) link
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, July 16, 2011 12:08 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark
if rumors are to be believed, koepp directed big chunks of that while spielberg was focused on amistad.
― DEHUMANIZE YOURSELF AND FACE TO BLOODSHED (Princess TamTam), Saturday, 16 July 2011 06:12 (thirteen years ago) link
You guys who think this is the best Spielberg are crazypants. Most ruthlessly efficient, perhaps. Most Spielbregian of the latter Spielberg, maybe. But best is crazypants.
What is also crazypants is that he did this and "Schindler's List" at the same time. That's some A+ virtuoso compartmentalization.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 July 2011 12:41 (thirteen years ago) link
It's not his best movie by any means. But even Jaws, a superior movie of the same type, doesn't have a living, breathing triceratops.
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:26 (thirteen years ago) link
True. How Spielberg raised and trained such a beast we'll never know ...
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:48 (thirteen years ago) link
he had a second island like john hammond in JP2
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Site B-movie
― cave duel (latebloomer), Saturday, 16 July 2011 15:57 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd love to spent like a week w/ spielberg just to see how he gets all this fucking shit DONE. i mean the guy producers like 100 movies a year, directs 2, raises 85 children, does charity work, what the fuck.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 19:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i dunno man, jaws is jaws of course, and raiders is great, and i even think munich is kind of great except for the sex scene, but c'mon.
― by another name (amateurist), Saturday, 16 July 2011 19:20 (thirteen years ago) link
I really don't know why this is funny but it just is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w-58hQ9dLk
― Virtual Bart (EDB), Sunday, 12 February 2012 11:15 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjZuzC7IQfY
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 12 February 2012 14:03 (twelve years ago) link
yeah this might be spielberg's best film
This is madness when there are three good Indiana Jones films to choose from.
― Inevitable stupid samba mix (chap), Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:23 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-554bEUL0&feature=related
― tanuki, Sunday, 12 February 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/ccqpa.png
― barthes simpson, Tuesday, 2 October 2012 18:43 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFUlAQZB9Ng
― bell biv devo (Stevie D(eux)), Tuesday, 2 October 2012 19:59 (eleven years ago) link