 | | Dinosaur Color Scheme —Hao-yang Wang
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| | | From the fossil records, really we cannot know what colors these dinosaurs were in when they were alive. The artists usually picture dinosaurs in gray or other dull colors, because today somehow large animals are never colorful (e.g., elephant, (...) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | (...) Uhhhh.... I used to live in Florida, and then in Louisiana (both are in the southern USA, and both have alligators as a natural species- Louisiana also has crocodiles). Trust me on this one, alligators and crocodiles *do* come in green. eric (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) In fact: (URL) (24 years ago, 25-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | | OK, but LEGO green?! Chris who actually doesn't see that many (thankfully) aligators in New Orleans. (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) Well, ok, maybe that's a little bright. (...) Slidell isn't exactly infested either, though it is near Honey Island Swamp. eric (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Christopher Masi
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| | | | | | I take it the "used to" part of your message means that you are no longer down here? Chris (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Eric Joslin
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| | | | | | (...) 'Fraid not. I lived in Slidell about... christ, about 10 years ago now. eric, who feels old now FUT lugnet.people (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.people)
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| | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Arnold Staniczek
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| | | | (...) gray or (...) There is no indication at all that a Triceratops or Stegosaurus would have had differently coloured legs. Extrapolating from recent species it is most likely that they were unicoloured. (...) theropods. (...) Because some birds (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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| | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Shaun Sullivan
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| | | | | (...) just because I'm feeling combatative, I figured I'd challenge you on this ... what recent species are you extrapolating from? Many many reptiles and amphibians display massive variation in their coloration: lizards tend to have lighter (...) (24 years ago, 26-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers, lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Arnold Staniczek
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| | | | | | (...) The biggest terrestic sauropsid species today is the Komodo Dragon...... (...) the (...) variations in (...) Yes, because it is a selective advantage for poisonous animals to let their possible predators know that they are poisonous.... I (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.off-topic.debate)
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| | | | | | Re: Dinosaur Color Scheme —Norman Mensing
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| | | | (...) The Dino Island sets arrived in our stores, so I had a chance to look at the boxes. "The Dino Research Compound" has the stegosaurus displayed under the lid, and I can say, it looks *way* better than on the pictures. Actually, the Stego (...) (24 years ago, 27-Jul-00, to lugnet.adventurers)
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