Editing Dinosaur (section)

==/tg/ Dinosaur Trivia==
* [[Gary Gygax]] used a set of cheap "Prehistoric Animals" toys that could commonly be found in supermarkets in the 1970's as monsters during the creation of [[Dungeons & Dragons]]. The [[Owlbear]], [[Rust Monster]], and [[Bulette]] are all based off cheaply made Hong Kong plastic versions of dinosaurs. 
* Some dinosaurs had feathers. The only ones who didn't were the oldest, such as Plateosaurus, and as a result didn't survive to see poofy dinos. Whether this is adorably awesome or ruins your childhood is subjective. [https://twitter.com/WobblyWorks/status/1621585656182104066 (but really it's awesome)]
* The famous ''Velociraptor'' was the size of a turkey, and likely hunted similarly to wolves. Although some would put anything that looks similar under the name "Velociraptor", the actual family is called Dromaeosauridae, or simply Raptors, of which Velociraptor is only one member (other genera include ''Pyroraptor'', ''Microraptor'', and ''Utahraptor'').
* Some scientists believe that a relative of the ''Velociraptor'' called the ''Troodon'' may have used tools (not too surprising, some animals use tools today; tools as in "some birds, bugs and mammals use sticks and rocks to help them crack open or dig out their food"), and possibly had the intelligence of modern crows (for reference the American Crow is believed to be one somewhere in the top five most intelligent animals on Earth) and as we know: birds are dinosaurs. A small handful of scientists believe that had it not gone extinct likely due to lack of food, it could have evolved to become a [[Lizardmen|human-like species.]]
* As described above, scientists consider birds to be dinosaurs. As a result their Clade, ''Avialae'', are the dinosaurs that survived the Cretaceous–Paleogene Mass Extinction Event. Its a subgroup of Theropods, meaning those tiny bastards that wake you up at 6:00 am and the one who died to become your lunch sandwich are all cousins to the T-REX. 
**As an aside this also means that scientists agree on two things regarding the Chicxulub Impact, the asteroid that struck the earth 65 Million years, first that it was the most dangerous extraterrestrial impact in earth's history since life began, and two that this event hold the record for the most amount of birds killed with a single stone.
* Jurassic Park style resurrection (discover intact dinosaur DNA, inject into frogs, create hermaphrodite dinosaurs) may not be possible due to actual surviving DNA not being likely to still exist. Unlike mammoths and early humans who died in frozen temperatures and were naturally preserved like a big freezer and not long ago comparatively, dinosaurs went extinct in a hot climate with 66 million years to decay. Technically we don't find dinosaur bones, we find minerals which took the place of bones, remember that DM's if you ever find a necromancer in a natural history museum! However, scientists at Ivy League schools such as Yale and Harvard as well as research funded by the Chinese government have been progressing towards discovering existing ancient DNA in living birds then combining genes to create something that resembles a dinosaur (the process is similar to the creation of Glofish, created by using SCIENCE to hybridize jellyfish and Zebra Fish into an abomination that will probably destroy humanity).
*Dinosaurs lived on this planet for 177 million (1.7*10^8) years. 40k takes place in the 41st millennium. Even in the far, far future humanity has only existed for only about 2.25% as long as the dinosaurs had. 
*Despite being real creatures that once existed there is substantial room for '[[Your Dudes]]' when you imagine dinosaurs. You want to imagine Velociraptors building mating structures like bowerbirds? Go for it! Triceratops forming herds like buffalo to fend of T-Rex horns out? Not impossible! Protoceratops in trees? Anatomy suggest otherwise but hay, goats do it, So ya! Dinosaurs using tools? Hell some scientist things that New Caledonian crows, (an actual dinosuar!) may qualify for being in the stone age! We are currently living in the most exciting time for paleontology, as all kinds of old assumptions are being questioned and thrown out. We are a far cry away from the days of the slow lumbering, stupid crystal palace dinosaurs, and Dinosaurs are not just more interesting, they are weirder than they have ever been before.
*A lot of the skills used in the modeling and painting aspects of the wargaming hobby are the same skills used in preparing fossils. These include filling gaps with putty (used to fill gaps/cracks in bone), cleaning mold lines or filing down other unwanted plastic/resin (similar to removing matrix from a bone), and painting (painting casts of bones). If you REALLY love dinosaurs, hone your hobbying skills and volunteer at a museum. /a vertebrate paleontologist