Talk:Cultural depictions of dinosaurs

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Contents 1 First sentence 2 Dinosaur renaissance 3 Caves and Volcanoes 4 Fair use rationale for Image:Ad microsoft dinosaur.png 5 Misconceptions

[edit] First sentence

The first sentence reads, "By human standards, dinosaurs were creatures of fantastic appearance and often enormous size." There are a large number of dinosaurs that weren't large by human standards, this should be clarified.--Blackmagicfish 05:49, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

Clarified. How about that? Dåvid Fuchs ^{(talk / frog blast the vent core!)} 15:23, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Dinosaur renaissance

Why does Dinosaur renaissance redirect here? -- it was shift in scientific thought as much as popular culture, and the article doesn't even cover it. John.Conway 12:03, 11 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Caves and Volcanoes

I'm curious how an association came to exist between dinosaurs, caves, and volcanoes in trite cinema. I suppose that The Lost World and Brute Force had something to do with this, but does it go back even further? I understand that early (though forced) confusions in the timeline would put cavemen and dinosaurs at each other's throats, but how did volcanoes sneak in? 204.186.60.80 17:20, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

I'd have to check the exact artist, but it was an influential muralist of the mid 20th century who really cemented the "volcano=dinosaur times" association. J. Spencer 20:39, 25 August 2007 (UTC)

It was Rudolph Zallinger, from the post-WWII era, with his fondness for cinder cone volcanoes. J. Spencer 04:46, 26 August 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Fair use rationale for Image:Ad microsoft dinosaur.png

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BetacommandBot (talk) 06:35, 2 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Misconceptions

I think it's not quite fair to list, for example, dinosaurs as 'monsters who do nothing but fight each other' as a misconception when nobody has any idea what dinosaur behavior is/was. A lot of animals spend all their time fighting... Tasmanian devils, for one. It's certainly a cliché, but hardly a mistake. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.122.63.142 (talk) 16:54, 3 March 2008 (UTC)