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The man who saved the dinosaurs

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15-07-2014 4:38pm

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Rucking_Fetard

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Dinosaurs were lumbering, stupid, scientifically boring beasts—until John Ostrom rewrote the book on them.

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/articles/3921

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#2 15-07-2014 6:05pm
Adam Khor

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The drawing by Robert Bakker is still one of my favorite dinosaur-related art pieces today. He doesn´t get enough credit as an artist.

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#3 18-07-2014 11:43pm
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Dinosaurs were lumbering, stupid, scientifically boring beasts—until John Ostrom rewrote the book on them.

Leaping Laelaps by Charles R. Knight, 1897

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#4 19-07-2014 2:17am
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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Lost World" had some really active, dangerous theropods chasing the main character. Sure, he described them as toad-like, and had them hop around like kangaroos, but still, not sluggish at all...

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