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Post by theTorterra on Oct 9, 2015 18:36:21 GMT
As I recall a general decline in diversity was a thing but some groups, like abelisaurs and titanosaurs, were doing fairly well. I dunno, correct me if I'm wrong.
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Post by spinosaurusthefisher on Oct 9, 2015 19:14:27 GMT
Yup, that's true!
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Post by Viergacht on Oct 10, 2015 8:28:53 GMT
I'll give them a pass on the feathers because it's more of a technology limitation than an artistic one. There isn't as much of an excuse nowadays.
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Post by magistermystax on Oct 10, 2015 14:02:52 GMT
Huh, I had no idea the current consensus was that volcanism played a part too. Good job, Walking With Dinosaurs.
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Post by theTorterra on Oct 11, 2015 19:27:49 GMT
There was a lot of stuff going on at the end of the Cretaceous that affected the K/Pg extinction. This included a general decline in diversity in many groups (but then again, groups like mosasaurs and titanosaurs were doing just fine), drastic climate change (much of which resulted from the receding Western Interior Seaway), volcanism, etc. The bolide impact was the final nail in the coffin, so to speak.
That said, I find it interesting that freshwater species made it through easily. I mean, amphibians experienced almost no loss in diversity. Crurotarsans were pretty much just chilling out and waiting. Turtles factor into this, too.
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Post by citipati on Oct 11, 2015 21:34:58 GMT
I still really like the WWD movie; I have for as long as I've known about it and even after they butchered it with inexplicable dubbed voices for only four characters (seven if you include the people in the prologue).
I do think they could have done a dubbed version really amazingly if they'd played them as actual animals a-la watership down.
Anyway it was down to visuals with that movie for me and it looks and soundtrack (the scores sans some of wedged-in songs) were brilliant and I don't think the movie gets the credit it really deserves because of that awful last-minute decision.
As for WWD it was brilliant at the time but is rather dated now, as most palaeo-docs get after a few years/a decade. Also the BBC has this really awkward sort of... stiff? Animation thing going on. And they like to recycle footage from it nearly every time a natural history show mentions dinosaurs even though they have the Planet Dinosaur dinosaurs? That being said they STILL managed to mess those up a bit, but seeing Gigantoraptor in it's full glory was amazeballs.
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