Croc relatives , one had shoulder horns?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aetosaur

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=98wra_4AhCg&t=319s

Dino lectures

T. Rex and Albertasaurus https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2q8yFXLbHs&t=2671s , see time 44:20 to hear about how he doesn’t think Nanotyrannus is real… that was 5 years ago, becuase a month ago here is agreement all over that Nanotyrannus is real. 

Tate part 2 - (Cretaceous dinos) - (nobody has part 1)

 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-ngnGT0ls

Ceratops…Beginning icon thing, all the heads 

Get photo time 23;28

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyXC21ux4Yk&t=764s

This one is neat, time 3:13 shows how they got 100 new dinos described in recent times, opposed to the original 20 dino species.  Wow. Utah. 

Utah has the most complete dinosaur record located in any one area in the world.

Tate Geologic Museum’s spring lecture 2021 Cretaceous Dinosaurs part 3- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Thhb6Jy-Acw&t=193s

-=-=-=-=-=-=-= extras! Charts and art

https://paleontologyworld.com/dinosaurs-%E2%80%93-species-encycolpedia/compsognathus

AWESOME Same as dino vid part 2 - https://geology.utah.gov/map-pub/survey-notes/preserve-cret-dino-salt-deposits/

The D&D cartoon items in D&D 5.5e 2024

 Energy Bow, we have it, love it, so versatile: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Energy-Bow

• Can restrain
• Can save your friends from a distance (treats like a teleport back to you, but we reskin to be it grabs you and brings you back quickly)

Hat of Many Spells, might be good: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Hat-of-Many-Spells

Shield of the Cavalier, nice: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Shield-of-the-Cavalier

• Has a super invul type sphere thing like in the cartoon
• Powerful bash attack

Quarterstaff of the Acrobat, quite nice: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Quarterstaff-of-the-Acrobat

• once per rest when you're hit with an attack while holding the quarterstaff, you can spend a reaction to gain a +5 armor class bonus against that attack.
• Adv on acrobats checks when 10 foot pole form, but can't use it to deflect or throw this way. 

Thunderous Greatclub - I love in the cartoon how he has to knock it on something, gently or hard, to activate, very cool: https://www.wargamer.com/dnd/magic-items#Thunderous-Greatclub

• Can knock people down
• Destroys objects well (just like cartoon)

Sauropods yt lotsa details

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GyWu4MZeaGs&t=443s

Is from 6 yrs ago but says something like  the biggest skellie on display is in Chicago. 130ish ft long!

The crazy long spines on sauropod necks, etc.

The long spiney things on necks of dinos. Especially obvious on sauropods. What are they for exactly? Are they just related to tendons that start to form bones (happens in some humans ... like in legs somewhere I think).  

Talked about here: https://svpow.com/category/dicraeosaurids/

quote "The serial positions of the cervical ribs with prominent dorsal processes is telling — in every example that we know of, whether sauropod, theropod, or (shudder) ornithischian, the dorsal processes are best-developed in the middle of the neck. That suggests that the divergent muscles were pulling on the cervical ribs hard enough to leave separately-ossifying tendons only at mid-neck, at some distance from both the head and the trunk."

It seems these critters were doing some real work with their necks. Ceratopsians and theropods had big heads to hold up and maneuver. Apatosaurs didn’t have big heads, but they had big heavy necks — weirdly, apomorphically, expensively heavy necks — so whatever they were doing, it was probably something important.

Carnotaurus , not a sauropod, also has 'em. 

Stuff here: https://svpow.com/2016/05/03/tutorial-30-how-to-identify-morrison-sauropod-cervicals/wedel-2005-morrison-sauropod-cervicals-1-diplodocus/

UPDATE, this vid at time 30:13 has two sauropods, one with forked neck “ribs” and other without forking https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ty-ngnGT0ls

Dino Skeletal Drawings, nice

 https://www.skeletaldrawing.com/sauropods-and-kin

I see how they started getting the HUGE necks on the more upright bigger sauropods. Compare those thick neck bones to those of a giraffe... 

Alamosaurus sanjuanensis From the skeeltaldrawing site. 

_by_izzycreates from deviant art.

Over 700 Dinosaur names

700 DINO NAMES:

Wow: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/name/name-az-all/gallery.html

Some I need to pay attention to more:

Allosaurus -

First an old favorite. 

Cool dude, my old favorite as a youngster. 3 fingers. 

Albertaceratops

 - Canada

Albertosaurus - Relative to T. Rex, huh? 

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/cetiosaurus.html - Britain.

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/chasmosaurus.html - a big ceratops

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/carcharodontosaurus.html - "kar kar o don to saurus", big therapod, the yt lister dude spoke about a lot. Many species I believe. 

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/microceratus.html - used to be called microceratops till decades later they realized that was a beetle name. I like this drawing: 

    

Microceratus. 

https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/juravenator.html - therapod, also shows SCALY tail, no feathery stuff. 

Scales, alright. 

Funny names:

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/irritator.html - irritator, heh. 
• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/khaan.html - reminds of me Star Trek "Khaaaaaaan!!!!"

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/sinraptor.html - Sin Raptor, really? Means plunderer in Chinese apparently. It's not a raptor though, seems like it's related to Allosaurus: 

Taxonomy:
Dinosauria, Saurischia, Theropoda, Neotheropoda, Tetanurae, Avetheropoda, Carnosauria, Allosauroidea, Sinraptoridae

• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/rugops.html - means wrinkle face, but it's interesting b/c they say: Rugops is known from an almost complete skull. The skull is relatively delicate, suggesting that this was a scavenger, not an attacking dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus.  So once again, HAH to the old Jack Horner dude that kept pretending T.Rex was a scavenger, what a bunch of hogwash.
• https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/dino-directory/supersaurus.html - Superman? No, Supersaurus. 
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Sidenote, Blogs to see: 

• https://novataxa.blogspot.com/  -  has dinos, insects, frogs, etc. 
• https://koprolitos.blogspot.com/ - NSFW - funny weird humanized dinos. Spanish. I think I know what koprolitos means. 

T Rex and eras/periods - Cretaceous's Maastrichtian.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cretaceous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mesozoic

Maastrichtian Mentioned a lot in  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSQs2kzgQJM&t=889s

• Also mentions Big Bend’s Javelina formation (fossils found). 
• Guy guesses that T Rex ancestors maaaaybe came from south (Texas then say New Mexico). 

They say this is of Sue.

Interesting take. I like variety in scales, seems possible.

BTW, they don't have lips. 

Vintage Dinosaur Art, Some More, and Ancient Reptiles (not dinos)

From a book I had as a kid: 

Unique take. You have to admire the collared lizard inspiration; it feels possible. Plus the plants are awesome. 

Speaking of lizards, young N. American Anole lizards will wag their tale before they strike. ReptileRoom site. Saw it again just the other day... love those dudes.  Reminds me of my cat when it is about to pounce. 

 1960s Britain: https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/whats-wrong-with-these-dinosaur-reconstructions.html

Scelidosaurus

I love this guy's attitude, you see it in the eyes and mouth. We'll miss this type of art. 

Others: https://chasmosaurs.com/2020/08/04/vintage-dinosaur-art-dinosaurs-and-other-archosaurs-part-2/

Dromaeosaurs vs. Iguanadont

Wow, raptor types look so much better without the feather art. Original here: http://gurche.com/new-page

Ancient Reptiles (that weren't Dinos)

• Elasmosaurus - Was the 1933 King Kong fighting the Elasmosaurus? It sure looks like it. 
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Quick Edit CMD Prompt

 I have noticed that clicking INSIDE the window will now too easily pause a command in the windows cmd prompt. It happens easily with a continuous ping, and is just weird that I've never really noticed it that acutely in all my years. But it's super obvious. And Quick Edit is the "cause"... see here:

https://superuser.com/questions/555160/windows-command-prompt-freezing-on-focus

quote: How are you selecting/focussing that window? If you simply Alt+Tab to it or click its titlebar, the scrolling output shouldn't pause. My guess is you have QuickEdit Mode turned on (right-click the command prompt windows's titlebar and select Properties) and you are clicking inside the window with your mouse, thus selecting text by mistake and causing the program to pause.

Real medieval armor n weapons, Adam Savage

 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zretcxDkU1I&t=515s

See above at time 8:35 for awesome detailing on a crossbow. Dragon related organization or something... even though the art is birdlike. (Yeah, the wood gotten eaten up by insects, weird). 

A lot of plant type, vine type decorations. 

Etching I think. Lots of vines and plants. 

Similar stuff on armor- https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=yS3TtXkhnjQ&list=PLPZ-5RCqLp23DKzqI1aHh4L41LfCsuc02&index=283&t=14s&pp=iAQBsAgC

Sometimes they have some entertaining things that only the designer/armor detail people and the owner would ever notice. One had a rabbit riding a lizard, it probably had a lance or something. 

Cartoon, Merlin and the Dragons

Merlin and the Dragons

 It is on Tubi. Looks like a late 1980s or 1990s British cartoon.  Cool animation style, has some good parts, and though is geared a little more to youngsters, it was quite watchable by myself.    

Starring Kevin Kline

Directed by Hu Yihong,Dennis Woodyard

D&D Cartoons episodes 4 and 5 on youtube

 More official D&D cartoons on youtube, episode 4 and 5. Great as usual!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAo1XVR-JiQ

DM's crazy eye "You might just be right" scene was great. 

They snuck in some demon statues/altars. 

Monsters, good and bad aplenty. Always unique stuff. 

Venger's eye beams, yeah. 

Warduke, a fan favorite.