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The hype is real; I can't wait for this and the rest of the Retrosaur Challenge, which I'm really excited that you took up.
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what's the new dinosaur book? i never heard pf it and were can i find one?
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It's a rather old (almost 30 year old) book by Dougal Dixon. It's his speculative approach to what dinosaurs would be like if they hadn't gone extinct.
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What about a few dinosaurs that have survived the K-T event, how they would look today, and how they managed to stay undiscovered for so long?
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Itβs based on this idea made by a friend of mineΒ www.deviantart.com/pterosaur-fβ¦
also, before I discovered your artpiece here, I was thinking of surviving marine abelisaur too, before pterosaur-freak directed your work to me
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I think you're talking to the wrong person.
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Marine abelisaurs? I love it! Will you be doing more derived forms?
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I used to own the original New Dinosaur book, though it had seen better days.
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YES, I'm been waiting for some news about this!
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Interesting choice for aquatic abelisaurs. Will you try to go as nuts as Dixon, or are you gonna be redesigning the creatures he had along with making your own?
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I'm keeping some of Dixon's ideas, but scrapping all the redundant/implausible ones.
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Every example in the book.Β
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If you mean the ones I'm scrapping, I'm not doing any of the small ones, tree dwelling or otherwise, since tree dwelling dinosaurs aren't speculative. Some of the niched pterosaurs are also going, since Dixon believed they would replace birds.
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You're right. Would pterosaurs and birds compete with each other?Β
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It's more a matter that birds were out competing pterosaurs by the end of the mesozoic, so having pterosaurs branch out and take niches akin to avians and non-avian dinosaurs seems very unlikely.
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That's cool, reminds me how spinosaurus could be that aquatic
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That is the most extreme aquatic route for Majungasaurus I've ever seen! Is the title indicating a personal "All-Yesterdays" style publication?
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It would be fun if this project got published, but currently it's just a project taking a more nuanced approach to Dougal Dixon's The New Dinosaurs.
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Ah the speculative evolution classic! It would be nice indeed to see how our most recent
understandings of dinosaurs can change our view of what-if scenarios. ^^
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Never heard of Dougal Dixon's "The New Dinosaurs"? It's probably the oldest "what if the dinosaurs didn't die out and continue to evolve" book there is.
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