If like me you grew up the Sixties then you were probably mad on dinosaurs. They were everywhere. Extinct but everywhere.
The big three vegesaurs back then were the massive saurapods. You'll be able to name them: Brontosaurus, Brachiosaurus and of course Diplodocus.
Much more recently BBC's Walking with Dinosaurs shows us what the Brachiosaurus might have looked like. I'd have loved this as a kid!
I thought that they were the biggest land animals ever. Wrong!
There are new sauropods on the block and they're even bigger!
With names like Titanosaur, Argentinosaurus and the fabulously named Dreadnoughtus!
Here's some somewhat ponderous but somehow hypnotic 'footage' of Dreadnoughtus in Malta!
Some of the these giants have only been discovered since I was a kid so I wouldn't have known about them in the 1960's.
The 'biggest' seems to shift depending on who's telling you. Theses guys slug it out for the top spot continuously.
You can read more about these vege monsters here on Brittanica
https://www.britannica.com/list/titanosaurs-8-of-the-worlds-biggest-dinosaurs
Did you/ Do you like dinosaurs?
Yep, I do like dinosaurs. Fascinating things, shame you can't see them anymore.
ReplyDeleteha ha, you'd only get one look Kev!
DeleteI had every single Pyro dinosaur model, aka “Prehistoric Monster,” in the line. Painted them pretty good for a teen, and kept them for many years. Glorious memory. SFZ
ReplyDeleteThose Pyro's were classics SF and the box art to die for. The glory days of plastic thunder lizards!
DeleteI've had a couple of dino set-ups over the years and have really enjoyed them. I mean they were everywhere as a kid - how can we forget the Flintstones? Modern toy dinosaurs - Pinso, Collect-A, Safari, and Schleich and others - have become very realistic and are just as fun to collect as are the vintage toys from Marx, MPC, and Tim Mee.
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