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Tag Archives: dinosaurs

New from the Royal Canadian Mint:

New Series! The Pachyrhinosaurus lakustai dinosaur coin is the first in a 4-coin Prehistoric Creature glow-in-the-dark (photo-luminescent) series!

• For best effect, place the coin in sunlight, fluorescent, or incandescent light for 30 – 60 seconds then bring the coin into the dark to reveal the skeleton of the dinosaur!

You know when you were eight years old and imagined you ruled the entire world? This was legal tender in your empire.

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Here’s an uncaptioned piece of art from James Gurney’s Dinotopia: A Land Apart From Time. Appearing on page 90, it illustrates the feeding of a Brachiosaurus at the forest village of Treetown.

If you read Dinotopia as a kid but haven’t for years and years, I have excellent news for you: it is every bit as magical as you remember it being. And if you never did, then you won’t regret doing so now.

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Earliest bird was not a bird? New fossil muddles the Archaeopteryx story

Earliest bird was not a bird? New fossil muddles the Archaeopteryx story

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So there’s this guy named Mark Verge in Ontario who made a thirty-nine foot long sculpture of a T-rex using 1400 balloons.

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Record Monsters:

We make 3d models out of old vinyl records.  We have 20 designs, from Ants to Velociraptor to Pteranodon.  We ship out a vinyl record, you get to pop out the pieces and assemble the model.

This is a rad idea, and the final result looks fantastic. Click the photo to head to their Kickstarter page and fund the hell out of this.

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