Comments on: African Dinosaur Hunting: Art Deco Style

By: bsass

bsass — Mon, 01 Jan 2007 19:14:58 +0000

Actually, I have been to the Sauropods cave in Africa and from what I found, I suspect that species is definately classed as a pro-sauropod. Vulcanodon is my first guess and it is definitely reptile not mammal. It does exist and for various reasons (to be published later) could quite easily have survived the KT extinction.

By: Tengu

Tengu — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 21:45:25 +0000

I love the art deco style too, myself.

I think we should re image the Dinsosaura, bring them a bit up to date. make them small, but still very much obtrusive, jazz them up with funky colouration, make them non threatening and toothless, and able to perform some really nifty tricks…

What do you mean it’s already been done?

By: busterggi

busterggi — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 14:26:27 +0000

Got to agree with Captainnemo, any chance you might consider a book on the history of hunting living dinos ?

By: captiannemo

captiannemo — Sat, 30 Dec 2006 02:54:33 +0000

Fantastic artwork!

Many thanks Loren!

By: totnesmartin

totnesmartin — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:43:02 +0000

Art Deco cryptid dinosaurs! This is the best Christmas present I could have! Cheers!

By: Mnynames

Mnynames — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 14:28:10 +0000

As much as I am a complete nut for all things Dinosaur, I believe that if anything is eventually discovered in Africa of this nature, it will prove to be a mammal, perhaps some relative of Indricotherium or something similar. Such a find would be an indication of convergent evolution, where an unrelated animal shares characteristics of another because they adapted to a similar environment, mode of behaviour, etc. There is just no way that something that big (Even the smaller 20-footers) survived the K-T extinction. Heck, we don’t even have good evidence of any Sauropods surviving past the early Cretaceous. Having said that, PLEASE, let some CZ expedition prove me wrong!

By: kamoeba

kamoeba — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:17:00 +0000

Apatosaurus (aka Brontosaurus) and Brachiosaurus are only two types of sauropod dinosaur and are among the biggest of sauropods (and dinosaurs in general). My guess is that if sauropod dinosaurs do exist in Africa they are most likely Vulcanodon or some other species that grew to “only” 20 feet in length or so.

The African tiger is amusing, too.

By: Sordes

Sordes — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 13:02:06 +0000

The best thing is the african TIGER, attacking the alleged sauropod…

By: daledrinnon

daledrinnon — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 07:43:18 +0000

OK, just what is the “Is the Deadly Dinosaur Dining near the Noth Pole!” (example number 3) all about anyway? And is the partial track shown in number 1 a fossil or supposedly recent?

By: mystery_man

mystery_man — Fri, 29 Dec 2006 06:22:52 +0000

Very cool artwork! I’m glad to see some attention paid to African sauropods once again. Mokele Mbembe has not been mentioned in awhile and seems almost like it had dropped off the cryptozoology radar. I’ve always thought that while I am skeptical about modern day dinosaurs, if they exist it seems plausible that deep, unexplored Africa would be the place to find them.