{"id":13576,"date":"2013-05-08T03:00:36","date_gmt":"2013-05-08T08:00:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13576"},"modified":"2013-05-08T03:00:36","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T08:00:36","slug":"an-unfortunate-coincidence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13576","title":{"rendered":"An Unfortunate Coincidence"},"content":{"rendered":"

I read Joe Hanson’s post The Evolution of Tyrannosaurus rex<\/em><\/a> this morening (i.e. yesterday, relative to this appearing) about the correction of the posture of Mr. T as depicted in various media over the years.<\/p>\n

[T]he tail-dragger myth persisted, and in 1988\u2019s The Land Before Time<\/em> (which, let\u2019s face it, is where most of us first formed our images of dinosaurs) Sharptooth was frustratingly upright<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I remember thinking that I’m not<\/em> going to face it, because it’s quite possible our first glimpse of dinos, including an upright T. rex, was (as it was for me) in a movie was as a stop-action clip made possible by the wizardry of Ray Harryhausen.<\/p>\n

And, later in the day, it was announce that Ray had passed.<\/p>\n

So here’s a video, which includes an upright, posturically-incorrect, rexie, along with similarly-depicted Allosaurs, Ceratosaurs and Sceraptosaurs.<\/p>\n

[A] compliation of every Ray Harryhausen animated creature in feature films, presented in chronological order.<\/p>\n

Read the complete creature list at http:\/\/www.harryhausen.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video<\/em><\/object> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I read Joe Hanson’s post The Evolution of Tyrannosaurus rex this morening (i.e. yesterday, relative to this appearing) about the correction of the posture of Mr. T as depicted in various media over the years. [T]he tail-dragger myth persisted, and … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,35,37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movies","category-other-science","category-photography"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13576"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13576\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}