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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town Man. I thought we were buddies? Wheres my invite? Lol |
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| @Darkseid_of_town Brett Booth has a twitter account and is active on it. He sells some of his artwork through The Artist Choice. I don't know if Brett Booth is taking commissions. You could reach out to Spencer (who runs The Artist Choice) and find out. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by BronteYou can have em too...how many ya want? |
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Quote:Originally Posted by KeepItClunky It was claustrophobic at times, but not in a bad way. Fallen Kingdom presented intriguing ideas about how far someone with the means might go using saurian DNA for genetic research for purely selfish reasons. And the risks to civilization of dinosaurs being auctioned off for military application or getting loose. The mansion compound was part research laboratory and museum, so freed dinosaurs lurking around in a totally alien environment was pretty compelling from my POV. Scooby Doo never entered my thoughts although the mental image of auctioning re-engineered, military controlled raptors is haunting (let's not give the good folks at HA any ideas, OK?).   . |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town I was just kidding. But thank you for the offer. |
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  A tale of four eggs..... Back about 1998 I was tossing through ebay listings and noticed some for dinosaur eggs.Since I was a child, i had always fantasized about owning a dinosaur egg, but never thought I could.....so I started following the seller, and studying his offerings. He was offering various "grades" of hadrosaurid eggs from China....apparently an emerging world market was forming as citizens in China discovered and took the eggs to Hong Kong, where they were sold to the world at large on open market. I watched until I felt alright with things and jumped in, buying a specimen for myself. Hadrosaurid eggs are from duckbill dinosaurs, as we call them in shorthand....and most are hatched eggs. They are excavated from underneath via a tunnel, so the hatching window facing up , remains covered with matrix which becomes the stand for the egg. The egg itself is ovoid in shape, and roughly the size and shape of a football. Dinosaur eggs are given names based on shape and shell pattern alone, rather than forming tenous ties to known species, perhaps only to discover later your egg was laid by a species not yet discovered.This egg, known as dendroolithus, is generally accepted as being from the hadrosaur family however...similar to the dinosaur pictured with the egg...  I can show the egg with the bikini model tomorrow if there is a clamor for it, but she is so pretty the egg almost hatched. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town I was following this story & was genuinely intrigued (congratulations on your one-time prehistoric grail) but then, this line came out of nowhere.  |
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| ah Slim, I am off to bed to rest for today..but tomorrow I will finish the tail with the other three eggs. I figured I would let the readers decide if I posted Katelynns picture or not... but tomorrow we have in store...a cittipatti egg, an oviraptor egg, a sauropod egg, some glamorous replicas, and a plot twist or three ! |
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Quote:Originally Posted by KeepItClunky I'll watch the new film, and will have high hopes for it, but I agree about Fallen Kingdom. It just didn't do it for me, and I honestly can't remember much about it. I'll try it again someday, but the 1st viewing simply left no lasting impression that makes me want to. In it's "simplicity" I enjoyed III the most, though it can't top the "You crazy son of a bitch, you did it" scene from the first film. And of course the book blows them all away, though Malcom's and Hammond's characters might disagree. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by SiggyI am a different type viewer I guess...for me it isnt about the badly twisted plot or any acting that might seem wooden or characters that arent really getting it across. I wind up sitting and watching the movies for the rare omoments when the camera captures liquid lighting in a bottle and a scene shows some dinosaur or behavior that is entirely stunning. For me its more what new species we get to see, how they interact and the way they are portrayed...I am there for the dinosaur drama, more than the human one. Coming at it from that angle I always leave more less happy... one of my all time favorite scenes was with the Ankylosaurus and their subsequent interaction with the traveling sphere things. Another that always brings the ohs and ahs from people is when the Brachiosaur rears up and tears leaves from the tree.....incidentally the one , the only sauropod that exists WITHOUT any adaptation for that behavior, within the sauropod family. The Spitting Dilophosaurus with its incorrect head crest and imaginary neck frill did little to impress ...far too many guesses and far too little evidence for any of it, in effect creating a dinosaur boogey man out of a species that likely had none of those features |
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| I'm just glad there are folks that share their imaginations with people in general. Personally I have zero imagination. Although I can read a book, I cant conjure up the images in my mind the author tries to convey. Movies like Jurrassic park gives us a visual treat of what could have been. When some of the stuff is based on science it makes it even more entertaining. |
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Quote:Originally Posted by Bronte My friend, Josh, had this problem as well. There’s a word for it now. “Aphantasia”, is a condition describing those who are unable to visualise mental images. clickable text |
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| @00slim Very interesting. I have never encountered this before. Thank you for sharing. |
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| @Bronte You’re welcome. My buddy was very excited to share a similar article. He thought he was the only one. It always feels good to know you aren’t alone. | ||
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Quote:Originally Posted by Darkseid_of_town So to continue the saga ...here is the story of the remaining eggs. After perhaps a year, i was looking over the sellers offerings on ebay and noticed he had two different types of eggs for sale. The first type, Segnosaur, were little black roundish things that just seemed kind of ....the second type were much more like rock stars for me. The seller had purchased an entire unhatched cluth of 13 sauropod eggs, all mired in mudstone and requiring murderous hours of tedious prep to remove matrix and clean for resale. The lowest end eggs in the clutch were running around 200 and lacked any visible shell coverage, vs the elite which were priced from 1800 downwards and had much more to offer. Sauropods are those big, long necked, long tailed massive dinosaurs from the Jurassic, and these being Chinese sauropods, were quite likely to be mamenchisaurids.These are my spirit animals..and I have always been fascinated with them. I bought the sauropod egg...despite the fact the price was easily double what the segnosaur egg might have been.All of the sauropod eggs were gone and done with inside four days.....he never dabbled in those again.Still I had gotten myself an unhatched sauropod egg, to go with my hadrosaur egg. A year or two passed, while life did its best to get in the way ....and I was glancing through his sales again.The action had shifted from the xixian formation to the Guamdong district, and the eggs being sold were from three different species of the same genera. In China during the mesozoic something had gone much differently than it had in North America....China had at least three different sizes and kinds of large, beaked predators from the family known as Oviraptorids. The big boy in this group was Gigantaraptor, with eggs that measured 15-18 inches long. Rare, exquisite, and priced in the 18 -24 thousand range....yeah, no that isnt working...so next? The next size down was Cittipatti, a 13-19 foot oviraptorid as well.....their eggs were smaller than the Gigantaraptor and seemed to be in the 6- 11 hundred bracket. Then there were oviraptor eggs, from a dinosaur roughly nine feet long. Eggs were even smaller for this species. All of these eggs were going to figure out to more money no matter what due to the fact they were from a predator, rather than a plant eater. In nature there exist natural laws that provide a ratio of predators vs prey animals within a given environment...too much prey and they overuse the resources in the area and die out, but not enough and the predators in the area become stressed and die off...so its a balancing thing. The concept is known as the Lotka Volterra equations, and extending those to the fossil record you would expect in general for the same bias to exist, meaning that carnivore fossils would be rarer by a large factor than prey animal fossils . this all then helps determine the eggs from the oviraptorid family would be more scarce and far more expensive than the eggs from , by example, the hadrosaurids I had previously purchased. My next egg would prove to be from a Cittipatti, and a mid grade at best due to the increased expense. Even at that it would cost 1 1/2 times the cost of the sauropod egg. Weighing in at a whoppping 2.7 pounds and well past nine inches long...it has nice shell coverage, good inflation and definitely would be considered a middle of the road egg. A few months would pass and I would learn of impending disaster for my future egg collecting. Until now these eggs had been quietly moved from China, into Hong Kong and thus out onto the world market. A peasant making thirty dollars a year could exhume and crate some eggs, move them to Hong Kong and sell the crate for around 1600 dollars on the market.....just too good to pass up for most. However, the city of Hong Kong, leased to the British until the year 2009 was about to revert from British rule to Chinsese once more. Under british law, smuggling a case of dinosaur fossils onto the world market was theft and brought a stiff fine....but under Chinese law the removal of treasures belonging to the peoples Republic of China is punishable by death. The market came to a screeching halt, with no more dinosaurs coming to market, and the once lucrative egg trade coming to a screeching halt. The entire fossil rush of the nineties and early 2000's from China was unprecedented. Nowhere on the planet could you buy dinosaur eggs and own them for your own, before this. Dinosaur eggs, on the North america continent are a rarity largely due to the acidic nature of the formations they would have preserved in,most due to volcanic activity. I could see the writing on the wall, as a few major dealers quickly made their announcements and bowed out. My seller posted he was ceasing the sale of eggs as well....everything must go, no egg left behind as he stated. I searched frantically through his auctions trying to decide what to get before the door slammed shut forever on my chances. I had noticed he had a museum grade oviraptor egg, that was priced at more than any other oviraptor egg or cittipatti he had left. This egg has nice inflation, nearly complete shell coverage at around 97.5 percent, and is so stunning a museum would be glad to display it. Adding to its mystique, the egg has a few insect bores through the shell that end in a solid white mass inside the egg.....meaning this egg had been unhatched and had an embryonic dinosaur die within it. Insects had then bored into the egg, and eaten the contents, giving fossil evidence not only for reproduction but predation as well. I knew this egg was out of my reach pricewise...this would have been prior to 2009 and the egg was priced at about 1200 dollars. I neogtiated the price down a bit and the seller agreed to take installments. Not long after , my mother inherited a nice sum, and stepped in to clear the egg for me and see that it was mine. Each year I display my eggs for the kids who visit the annual show to learn from and study. I also display my collection of fossil eggshell alongside them. My Mother visits the show each year and gets to see children enjoying and learning from the investment she made Nowdays my egg collecting is limited to buying egshell from species or locations I havent owned previously, or buying partial crushed eggs from locations that never offered eggs into the market. I have a crushed specimen from North America, and one from patagonia as well. A final twist to it all.....one day i heard several people at the show arguing if the eggs were real or replicas. I asked myself...given my knowledge and understanding of eggs and how they would look , why couldnt I create a Gigantaraptor egg, or a Segnosaur to display...along with my real eggs. I would of course mark them clearly as replicas, but why not? So I sculpted a few replica eggs and sent them to my paleo expert at painting , Martin garrat. So now I display my four real eggs, two crushed specimens, and a few replicas as well as a vast collection of eggshell.  Gigantaraptor  Cittipatti  Oviraptor  Segnosaur  Sauropod, Mamenchisaurus   Sauropod egg  Cittipatti egg, alongside Hadrosaur egg  Cittipatti egg alongside Oviraptor egg..the Cittipatti is roughly nine inches long for scale.  Perfection, the Oviraptor egg.   In this view you can clearly see the bug bores ending in a white mass within the egg...a likely pre embryonic dinosaur . these are my two replicas I sculpted. Creating the shell ornamentation pattern was tricky...but I utilized a piece of eggshell affixed to a stamper to impress the patterning on the freshly sculpted egg.    Martin holding the Gigantaraptor sculpted egg....after painting.  Complete set...segnosaur is the small rounded black egg to the back, also sculpted. the Gigantaraptor, the largest elongated egg. The four real eggs displayed as well.  Crushed partial egg from a titanosaur from Patagonia.  An oviraptor nest...this one sold for 54,000 dollars. Notice the eggs are laid in pair...the hen would begin at the twelve o clock position placing a pair of eggs, then rotate enough to leave a gap and lay two more eggs...and continue in this fashion. She would return to the nest for a few weeks paying more eggs as they were ready, following her pattern, two then a gap. Once she filled the lower level, she began laying her two eggs in the gaps of the next level, sometimes laying enouogh eggs to go several circles high This one is a partial nest...notice the white areas within the gaps of the eggs, that are visible. these are the white of exposed bone..these eggs died directly before hatching, and all or nearly all likely contain chicks.  close up of evidence for chicks within these eggs  Cittipatti alongside mutliple oviraptor eggs   Cittipatti egg with chick inside At some point a friend of mine had bought one of the eggs with a known chick inside and chose to have it catscanned to determine for certain...if you ever wondered what a CT scan for a dinosaur egg would look like, here you are.         you can clearly see the difference in the internal structure of the egg where the chick is compared to the surrounding matrix. I had promised a picture of the girl in the bikini with the egg, so thats how I can end the post...Katelynne asked to pose with the egg so thats what we did.  I am the ultimate Egg-centric and I have the pictures to prove it. Another place, some other time, someone said I have a hoarders level of dinosaur collection that seems to spill all over my house...which made me smile. I don't have a hoarders level collection of dinosaurs...I would never go at anything that weak or mildy. I suffer from ADD...addicted to dinosaurs disorder. My hoarders level of a collection is actually a collection of fossil bones, a collection of bone handle knives, a collection of dinosaur eggs, a collection of dinosaur models, a collection of dinosaur books, a collection of dinosaur movies, a collection of dinosaur pictures, a collection of dinosaur postcards, a collection of autographed dinosaurs, a collection of dinosaur trace fossils, a collection of dinosaur bone spheres, a collection of dinosaur toys , a collection of dinosaur based autographs, and a vast collection of dinosaur memories. I can live with that...if that makes me a hoarder or means it spills all over my house, there are far worse things to waste money on.  The missing nest picture from above |
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