Comments on: Dinosaurian Snorkels, Air Tanks and Tubas

By: cory

cory — Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:23:21 +0000

Corythosaurus for the win…I loved the airfix model….and the fact we share the name.

By: Doug

Doug — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 17:45:08 +0000

@ Kaje “flame thrower and peasant burninator”- You get a gold star for the Trogdor reference!

@ Tom Hopp “The deep sounds made by such an instrument as the parasaurolophus crest must have carried for miles.”- Elephants communicate with low frequency sounds. We can’t hear them, but they travel through the ground for miles where other elephants pick them up as vibration through their feet. I wonder if ol’ Para here did something similar.

By: Reed

Reed — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:04:02 +0000

In the book “Jurassic Park,” Crichton used a scene in which Dr. Grant is in a tree where a Parasaurolophus is snacking. It doesn’t see him until he moves and that’s when he realizes that the frog DNA used to complete the sequences causes these dinosaurs not to see like “real” dinosaurs would. In the movie, the Dr. Grant says the T-Rex can’t see you if you don’t move with no explanation why he would believe that. In the book “Lost World,” Crichton gets revenge on the movie when two people stand still in front of a T-Rex. “They got some bad advice,” says the character observing this stupid behavior.
Anyway, Parasaurolophus was my daughter’s favorite. In the first Jurassic Park movie, they are seen with the Brachiosaurs when Dr. Grant says “They do move in herds.”

By: Tom Hopp

Tom Hopp — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 13:56:30 +0000

The deep sounds made by such an instrument as the parasaurolophus crest must have carried for miles. I wrote a detailed description of the call and other parasaurolophus behavior in my Dinosaur Wars: Earthfall book. As large as the crest is, it no doubt reverberated lower and louder than a baritone saxophone or bassoon. More like a fog horn.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:04:47 +0000

@ Kaje – indeed! This image came to my mind immediately:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/7230309@N05/3866040918/

By: Peteykins

Peteykins — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:58:17 +0000

I loved the Parasaurolophus in Jurassic Park II. It was one of the franchise’s better creations and particularly gave a fantastic impression of it’s massive size.

By: Kaje

Kaje — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 21:20:24 +0000

Don’t forget my favorite hypothesis: flame thrower and peasant burninator. Still the favored theory of biblical literalists everywhere!

http://johnnykaje.wordpress.com/2011/05/03/a-trip-to-the-creation-museum-of-the-ozarks/

By: kb

kb — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 19:52:49 +0000

yes, I would never underestimate the role that sexual selection plays in evolution, especially concerning something as weird as parasaurolophus