This is something I'm kind of confused about, while cladistically Tiktaalik is definitely is a fish, but should it be considered a fish in the informal sense? It's just so much like a tetrapod (and stem-tetrapods), that some might argue against it being a fish.

JWE 1 is currently on sale for only $7, so I was wondering if I should buy it. I already own JWE 2 and all the DLCs, so should I? I heard the campaign is leagues better than the JWE 2 campaign so I'm kinda interested in trying it out

Is Stygimoloch really a junior synonym for Pachycephalosaurus? Why or why not? What evidence is there to support each side, and what other species in the family may indeed be species of Pachycephalosaurus?

If you don’t know what an acanthodian is, they’re an extinct class of fish that evolved into actual cartilaginous fish, like sharks. A popular nickname for them is “Spiny sharks” of their streamlined body shape.

While it’s definitely okay to call stuff like Hybodus a shark, but they’re actually in the same class as modern sharks. It feels kind of like calling Plesiadapis a monkey.

Well, its Thanksgiving for everyone in the US! I hope everyone has a good one! There is no special event going on this year so you can maximize your time with friends, family, and food :)))

But if you have time, or simply aren't in the US, why not do a silly little Thanksgiving questionnaire?

1. Whats your favorite Thanksgiving food?

2. If any non-avian dinosaur had to replace the turkey, which do you think would be closest in taste???

3. Would the Thanksgiving Parade be more fun with sauropods instead of floats?

4. What are you most thankful for?

5. You have to eat 8 whole turkeys in 1 hour. What dromaeosaurid you bringing to help?

All of mine are outdated and my newest one (Dinosaur World: Over 1,200 Amazing Dinosaurs, Famous Fossils, and the Latest Discoveries from the Prehistoric Era by Evan Johnson-Ransom) Is falling apart. Can you recommend any good Dinosaur Encyclopedias? I prefer ones with more images, and less words, since I learn better that way.

Ok since I want to be more active on this wiki, I thought it would be a good idea to update my profile and maybe add a info box, bc it looks neat and I the cleaner my ‘about’ page can look the better. Anyways I wanted to ask does anyone recommend certain templates to use for a base to add a variety of info?

Also would it count as off-topic? I want to be sure it wouldn’t be an issue on here.

I'm doing a roleplay with some (at the moment 2) friends on discord and it's somewhat a jp style dino park conspiracy roleplay and I want to know how many dinosaurs the zoo should have and you guys to name dinosaur species that are no longer considered valid (already know about troodon and Dakotaraptor)

This is quite possibly one of my oldest fossils (if I'm correct, I got it along with a few other sandtiger-esque teeth in Denver back in 2011). Only fairly recently has it caught my eye again and I'd like to know what species it came from.

I'm 98% sure it might be Otodus obliquus, as it seems to match a good number of obliquus's teeth on google and fossil shops. The 2% I'm not sure about is because of slight variations in shape in photos and hard-to-judge sizes.

Fingers for detail contrast

Backside

Quarter for scale

As you can see here, it matches a good number of these teeth pretty well

If you guys can't ID or confirm its O. obliquus I can bring it to a museum, there's quite a few around me.

just right now I just thought about what does a baby anomolacaris look like . how about arthropleura or baby meganeura?

If "terrible" means "deino", like with Deinosuchus and Deinonychus "Terrible Crocodile" and "Terrible Claw", how come "Terrible Lizard" isn't Deinosaur, and just Dinosaur? Same goes both ways, why wouldn't Deinonychus be Dinonychus?

This may seem like an oddly specific question, but I want to add it but adding it seems a bit controversial.

Basically I have this book called “Cruising the fossil coastline” and in it there’s a section about Alaska. In it, they show an Alaskan formation where a Shonisaurus fossil was found and they listed Hybodus as another animal that was discovered there. There’s one problem, the formation is from the Triassic.

Now, Hybodus did survive until the Cretaceous, but it’s pretty speculative to say it stayed in Alaska that long. Another thing is, Hybodus is currently a wastebasket taxon so a lot of fossils may end up being reassigned to other species, but until further notice, they’re still Hybodus.

So what are your thoughts, should I add it or no?

I'm kind of confused about what they are, there placed in Avialae, but no one calls them birds even though a lot of people call all members of Avialae "Birds".

In other words, I'm asking, are they birds? or are they non avian dinosaurs? Or just something else that goes in between.

What are some good sources for researching topics surrounding the paleobiology and paleoecology/fossil formations of different species

I hope everyone has a good Halloween, for those celebrating it. For this holiday, I have a quiz for y'all?

1. If you had to make a prehistoric horror movie, what animal would be the main antagonist?

2. What dinosaur skeleton is the spookiest looking?

3. Any scary paleo media you've seen? Feel free to share it below! We'd love to be frightened too!

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