Pterodactylus

Hello, and welcome back to me analyzing the creatures of Dino Dan. If you haven’t seen part 1, basically I’m looking at the design of each creature along with any information given in the show and listing any accuracies or inaccuracies, along with some general thoughts on the design removed from accuracy.

Positives = Accuracies

IDK = Can’t find or tell weather that’s accurate/possible or not

Negatives = Inaccuracies

(Creatures in appearance order)

The T.rex was one thing, but this Triceratops design being this wrong is just baffling. I think aesthetic wise, it’s barely saved by the colors, but still, wow

Ahh, much better. I am bothered by the short brow horns, but this Tricera design looks simply majestic. I appreciate the correct legs BTW. Also, while I don’t like the body, the kid Tricera is the only juvenile design that looks notably cute. (Also ironic how Jurassic world had a more accurate juvi tricera, even if barley)

This is mostly the same as the last one, but I think the new colors and rough texture make me prefer it.

While I’m not one for most 2000s Spinosaurus designs, the shades of green with orange stripes are gorgeous enough to (partially) overlook that.

I never really cared for this design, the new texture and recollection removed what I liked about it. Also, it’s really weird to watch 2000s Spino designs swim.

This design is BEAUTIFUL. Hands down one of, if not my favorite Spino design of all time and prolly favorite design of the show. The really long tail and body are lovely, the head is at its finest and I like the m sail shape. I’m unsure if I like it being quadruped or think it’s just fine. I do miss quad Spino for how unique and weirdly cool it was. Only negatives aesthetically would be the colors not being as vibrant as I’d like and the croc skin, but those aside, just fantastic.

This design is fine, great colors aside, don’t really care for it. Accurate Pterodactylus designs are much more interesting.

I can’t tell if this design is bad or I’m indifferent. It’s times like these that remind me why I prefer pycnofibered pterosaur designs, because this looks like a bald vulture. That and the colors are boring now. I do appreciate the updated skull I guess.

This design is decent, I do like how long it is, but not much to not beyond that. The color scheme is interesting, but I don’t know what to think of it.

This one is really pretty, while I wish it were longer and had more of the green on it. The rest does long boi justice. Also, this one of the few Diplodocus in pop culture with a face I like. Shame it and the Corytho redesign are barely in the movie.

My opinions on this one are essentially harsher versions of what I thought about the 1st Triceratops design. Not even the colors save it (yet), despite the frosty red plates looking cool.

While the color scheme is now perfected, the design itself I’m not fond of. Mainly because I prefer the shape of straight backed designs. That and the short neck is weird.

Eew, bad, I wanna leave.

Another big glow-up, I think one’s nice, although the colors throw me off a little.

I was so upset by this as a child and I still am. The Triassic has so many cool interesting creatures, dinosaur or not, and the only creature showcased are these stupid lizard things?! At least 65 has the excuse of the Createous being overplayed! (Even if 65 is much worse in general)

Updated notes: (updates in highlights)

I noticed the running speed pointed in the one of the episodes and reconsidered the alarm call thing

I prolly should have noted the legs on the baby Rex, and after giving it some thought, the skin looks inaccurate compared to paleo art and Prehistoric Planet. I also forgot about the Rex vs Giga episode pointing out T.rex smarts.

Thanks for reading, hope you enjoyed and goodbye

A lot of people hate on this series for lack of prehistoric fauna. I enjoyed (most of) it personally, but I can understand where the haters are coming from.

And this eyesore in "In Cold Blood" sums it up.

In my opinion, the worst scene is the Plesiosaur/Pterosaur/Turtle coasts from an unspecified time in the Mesozoic.

The unnamed Pterosaur, which has pointed wings and long hind limbs, is likely a Pterodactylus,

But, this gigantic unnamed pliosaur (referred to as a higher systematic group, Plesiosauria) appears to be a large Late Jurassic species. But it's quite odd these two are never identified.

It doesn't seem like the writers did any sort of research to find overlapping pterosaur and pliosaur species, or on these two species even. They just slapped them into a scene to check off boxes.

The turtles are also unnamed (shocker). Large sea turtles like Solnhofia lived in the Late Jurassic with Liopleurodon and Pliosaurus funkei, one of which must be the attacker here due to its size.

Basically, LooP vaguely states that marine reptiles and pterosaurs existed. It shows turtles hatching, pterosaurs eating them, and a pliosaur swimming around and eating them.

Scientific inaccuracy isn't this scene's biggest weak point, it's the mere presence of it. The lack of detail given on these two incredible groups just turns it into a bland and argueably unnecessary few minutes.

It's like last minute, they thought "Oh fiddlesticks, we forgot about the other Mesozoic reptiles. Eh, let's just throw 2 random ones in there real quick".

So I haven't been on this wiki for very long, but I've seen two users who are having the same experience as me. The difference being, these two users live in America and Germany. I live in Japan. We got lucky. We are an island nation unlike America and Germany, so society is still functioning somewhat normally. There have been reports of creatures getting in, though. In fact, I've seen a few.

It's usually just smaller ones, such as the ones you call “Utahraptors” or “Velociraptors” and occasionally “Pterosaurs” And usually our police or defence forces deal with them before they hurt anyone. Usually. There’s or actually, there WAS a group of girls that were friends across the street. Six of them I believe? Anyways, they didnt go home one night, and then the next morning they were found torn to shreds, by something called a “Fukuiraptor.” It had ambushed them from one of the alleyways and none of them could escape.

I should stop rambling. I’m not gonna say my real name because crime has ramped up and I don’t need anyone tracking me down, but you all can call me Reiko. Let’s just say I'm a high school aged female living in Fukuoka. I also may think I know why they are back. My father is a high ranking scientist at a company known as “Tartarus Industries.” It’s an Italian company that is all over the world. It specializes in fields of science such as nuclear energy, genetic engineering, and space travel.

My father was working on a project called Operation Sisyphus. He never told any of us, my mom or my siblings what it was about. All we knew was that the name was in greek, it was being worked on by Japanese, Korean, American, German, French, British, and Australian scientists, and that it had something to do with the fundamental laws of the universe.

The week before the whole disaster began, he had come home in a panic. He said we needed to prepare for the worst. We stocked up on food and water. He left his job. I overheard a few phone calls between him and his coworkers on the project. The most I could hear him say was “Something heard us”, “They are coming back”, and the strangest of all in my opinion, “Why and how they using them?”

Days before the disaster started, he dissapeared. I don't mean that he was killed, he just vanished. All he left was some money for us and an envelope. My mom wont let me see what's inside but ever since she read it she's been in a depressive state.

Ask anything you want, and I apologize for gramatical errors since i'm not the best with the english language.

Wow amazing

Big chicken

Professor Ichthyosaurus by Sir Henry de la Beche

I wanna see the same thing but Professor Tyrannosaurus Rex holding a Woolly Mammoth skull and a bunch of theropods (Eoraptor, Herrerasaurus, Eodromaeus, Procompsognathus, Coelophysis, Megapnosaurus, Zupaysaurus, Dilophosaurus, Megalosaurus, Ceratosaurus, Cryolophosaurus, Allosaurus, Yangchuanosaurus, Saurophaganax, Torvosaurus, Monolophosaurus, Guanlong, Compsognathus, Ornitholestes, Archaeopteryx, Ornithomimus, Gallimimus, Pelecanimimus, Struthiomimus, Carnotaurus, Baryonyx, Suchomimus, Spinosaurus, Acrocanthosaurus, Siats, Concavenator, Carcharodontosaurus, Giganotosaurus, Beipiaosaurus, Alxasaurus, Falcarius, Therizinosaurus, Caudipteryx, Microvenator, Anzu, Gigantoraptor, Oviraptor, Lythronax, Yutyrannus, Dryptosaurus, Albertosaurus, Sinosauropteryx, Mononykus, Sinornithoides, Microraptor, Sinornithosaurus, Velociraptor, Deinonychus, Utahraptor, Troodon, Gansus, Hesperornis and Avisaurus in my imagination) and the caption "This primitive animal, known as a Woolly Mammoth, but I like to call it a "Stupid Animal that Nobody Even Cares a Fukuivenator about", is one of the animals that we theropods are about to wipe out from existence"

Let's just get on to the stories

Story #1 written by @Carnotaur :

Pterodactylus: Forasmuch as many haue taken in hand to set foorth the storie of those things, whereof we are fully persuaded, As they haue deliuered them vnto vs, which from the beginning saw them their selues, & were ministers of ye word, It seemed good also to me (most noble Theophilus) assoone as I had searched out perfectly all things from the beginning, to write vnto thee thereof from point to point, That thou mightest acknowledge the certaintie of those things, whereof thou hast bene instructed.

Quetzalcoatlus: Who the hell are you, and why are you in my house?!

Story #2 suggested by @Rexyisdebest :

Quetzalcoatlus: *Sips tea* Ah! What a wonderful morning

Pterodactylus: Hello

Quetzalcoatlus: *Dies of cringe*

Quetzalcoatlus is revived

Quetzalcoatlus: This is too cringe, time to change our appearances

Quetzalcoatlus changes them both to the Dino Dan versions

Quetzalcoatlus: Ah, much better!

Pterodactylus: What the heck just happened?

Story #3 suggested by @Deltadromeus445-2 :

Quetzalcoatlus: Hello? Prenocephale? Compsognathus? Dromaeosaurus? Your signal has been distorted

Pterodactylus: Looks like there in trouble, what do we do now?

Quetzalcoatlus: We'll have to go to space ourselves and see what's going

Meanwhile the eldritch being still lurks in the void

Story #4 suggested by @I lovenarwhals274 :

Quetzalcoatlus: Finally! I have ALL the birthday cakes in the WHOLE WORLD! *evil laughter*

Narrator: Little did he knew, he had one cake left

Quetzalcoatlus: What? And where is that distorted voice coming from?

Story #5 suggested by @Mimikyutube :

Pterodactylus: What a wonderful day! Am I right imaginary friend #6?

Imaginary friend #6: ....

Pterodactylus: Quite as ever! How about you imaginary friend #10, how's your business going?

Imaginary friend #10: ....

Pterodactylus: Good to hear!

Quetzalcoatlus: Lmao! Looks at this guy! Talking to his imaginary friends! I'm assert my dominance!

Quetzalcoatlus swoops in and breaks everything and "kills" Pterodactylus's imaginary friends and leaves

Pterodactylus: NOOOOOO!!!!!!!

The next day

Pterodactylus: Alright Quetzalcoatlus! This is your end!

Quetzalcoatlus: Ha! What are you gonna do with that tiny sword! *dies*

Pterodactylus: Well that was easy

Story #6 suggested by @Anatotitan :

Quetzalcoatlus: I'm so tired, I'll just take a little break

Pterodactylus: AH! You're sitting on me! Wait, he can't hear me *Sigh* guess I'll have to do this

Pterodactylus bites Quetzalcoatlus's tail

Quetzalcoatlus: *Distorted screams*

That's it for the suggested stories, now let's get to my story

Quetzalcoatlus: I'm so hungry

Pterodactylus: OK, so go find a carcass

Quetzalcoatlus: Can't I just eat the egg?

Pterodactylus: Are you stupid! Huh? Where did you go

Quetzalcoatlus grabs the egg and is about to eat it

Pterodactylus: HEY!

Pterodactylus bonks Quetzalcoatlus on the head knocking him down

And here's your daily dose of Terrifying Dinosaurs:

The flying spaghetti monster blasts Aromatisse and Lana to death

Requested by @Anatotitan

Hop, Comodactylus, and Slaking arrive at Kanto, meanwhile Eternatus continues his battle against Clawitzer and Peeko

Requested by @Mimikyutube

Lickilicky eats a Coelophysis as well as a baby Megalosaurus

Kiawe takes a Monoclonius to hell, where a Pterodactylus and Stegosaurus greet the ceratopsian

Burgh's Bug Types eat the scavenged remains off of a Maiasaura

Swirlix literally devours a Megacerops to the bone, while Megaloceros looks in horror

Gladion shoves his Lightsaber on Dakotaraptor (as a reenactment of Han Solo's death in Star Wars VII: The Force Awakens)

This one is about a certain famous flier. Is it accurate, outdated, or just plain wrong?

Ask to be pinged. @Palaeontologica @Deltadromeus445-2 @Nizaluddin

And here's your daily dose of Terrifying Dinosaurs:

Titanoceratops and Eternatus get into a clash before Mega Tyranitar joined in the battle between Eternatus and Titanoceratops.

Requested by @Deltadromeus445-2

Apollo sends a plague to kill of the remaining combatants

Requested by @Bajadasaurus234

Kaprosuchus kills Donald Trump (I cant say I feel sad)

Requested by @Anatotitan

Mosschops acsends to a god and killed all pokemon and made a mukbang out of it as kaprosuchus is watching

Requested by @D1n0635

Since Cynthia and Lucario are dead, the rest of Cynthia's Pokemon have no idea what to do, so Eternatus kills all of them, but Clawitzer keeps battling him

Requested by @Mimikyutube

Hadrosaurus and Spinosaurus driving a dump truck, on their way to dump the truck (which is full of Bonsly) into the ocean, immediately killing them in the process

Kahili hypnotizes a Ceratosaurus and then makes it its master, in which its first task was to kill and eat Chloe, in which the Ceratosaur obeys

Crasher Wake drowns a Giganotosaurus

Espurr sends an Olorotitan and Prehistoric Planet Edmontosaurus to space

Mine is Velocitaptor

I went to Orlando to observe Animal Kingdom's Dinoland USA as the rumors of it being taken down began to rise. I will agree, many of the things there are either outdated or very obviously directed at children. But I did make a promise to my family not to nerd out while at the park, so instead I will do it here to all you nerds. Let's start.

See, the park was made to celebrate life in all forms: Modern, Mythical, and Prehistoric.

• Modern was represented with the Asia and Africa section, containing safaris, exhibits, and rides/shows about modern animals.

• Mythical was supposed to have a whole section, but was cancelled. So, Pandora (the world of Avatar) was made to fill that gap along with the Yeti at Mount Everest. Loved the speculative nature of Pandora and wished I could stay there longer.

• Prehistoric was sadly lacking. More than half of the park were just big old cartoony scaled kangaroos, more resembling the creatures of The Flintstones than true dinosaurs. The rest was pretty alright, as there were great plaster molds of popular dinos, such as Giraffatitan (though mislabeled as Brachiosaurus), Sue the T. Rex, and Carnotaurus.

-I will try to explain the experience of that specific section of the park, as anything else would just be a tangent or simply off topic. Upon entering Dinoland, we are greeted by a large arch with the sign of said section made of a mixture of rock and the skeletal mold of Giraffatitan looking over the crowd. The posture seemed great and I loved the detail of the whole body.

-The next thing we see is the Boneyards, a tall digging-site themed play area for kids. Think Chuck E. Cheese play place but with bones and rock instead of plastic. We didn't enter it as I am a beeg boi, though I did want to take pictures.

-Just past the Boneyards was a large carnival themed part with large green cartoony dinosaurs as the mascots. Many silly themed carnival games like "Whack-a-Pachycephalosaur" and the like. Lots of inaccurate information, obviously, like the inclusion of Pterodactyl or anthropomorphism but I am okay with it only because this section was clearly directed at children below 10. Wouldn't wanna shatter their dreams by making them look too real I guess.

-The food there was great, along with the theming. "Trilo-bites" was a neat snack shack and "Restaurantosaurus" was cheesy but still tasty.

-The best part was the Dinosaur ride, themed after the movie with some twists put in. The cue line was really small, so most of the things inside I couldn't get pictures of fast enough because of the employees telling us to hurry to the ride. I did get some pictures, though, so enjoy those later in the post. Before the ride, a pre-show came on giving us the lore, told by the wife from the Cosby Show. The ride itself was a fun dark ride with us hopping in a time machine to the last moments of the Cretaceous to get catch an Iguanadon, with us almost being caught by the Carnotaurus. The cart we were in would "identify" each animatronic, with some being right and some intentionally vague. Some would say "Alioramus" while others would just be "Sauropod". Some animals were just not in the right era, namely Iguanadon and Styracosaurus. Thrilling ride, neat animatronics, and radical gift shop (I didn't get anything).

Overall Dinoland USA was fun, but definitely needs an update, not to mention more than just Mesozoic Era. There was more prehistory than just dinosaurs. The Dinosaur ride was the highlight, but definitely needs more accuracy. The second best part was a tie between the skeletal molds and the food. If the rumors are true that it will be replaced with Moana or Zootopia, I'm glad I got to enjoy it while it lasted despite Disney's flaws. Here's the photos I assume you wanted.

Monke