Comments on: What Kind of Dinosaur is Godzilla?

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 Oct 2012 14:40:50 +0000

I have a book that that article was published in, a Godzilla book that came out between G vs Destroyah and the 1998 Godzilla.

By: Bill

Bill — Mon, 01 Oct 2012 19:50:46 +0000

I’m wondering what the osteoderms might indicate in a creature that size. Since they’re for protection from bites to the spine, it might be that there are larger something-o-saurus yet beneath the sea of Japan, or that it might have mutated from maybe the stego group (radiation can do that y’know). Clarification might be obtained researching Japanese movie studio design archives from the ’50s.

By: 'Dr'. S Beckmann, BS

'Dr'. S Beckmann, BS — Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:29:48 +0000

Well, uh, yeah… sure. But does it have feathers?

By: Julian Schwarzenberg

Julian Schwarzenberg — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:24:33 +0000

An Abelisaurian origin for Godzilla makes sense, given that Godzilla was from the South Pacific (i.e., near the southern continent)

By: Jim Kirkland

Jim Kirkland — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:31:51 +0000

Ken’s analysis is a classic piece of pseudoscience. I prize my copy of that volume.

By: Tim

Tim — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:21:02 +0000

In the 2000-era flicks Godzilla goes up against Japan’s own AMF, or Anti-Megalosaurus Force. Laying waste to the wastebin taxon, I suppose.

By the way, there’s a new comic book coming out right now, Godzilla: The Half Century War, that’s drawn by all-around-talent James Stokoe – far more artistic and intricate stuff than the cornballingest movies, and worth checking out if you’re into dinosaurs at all.

By: John R Hutchinson

John R Hutchinson — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 15:19:40 +0000

Also see Per Christiansen’s fun biomechanical study of Godzilla:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/m43r6n41826j7214/ (paywall)

also covered here:

http://startswithabang.com/?p=1828

By: Herman Diaz

Herman Diaz — Fri, 21 Sep 2012 14:55:18 +0000

“Everyone knows that Godzilla is a mutated something-o-saurus. Just what sort of creature the aberration started out as varies from one canonical storyline to another.”

I always went w/”King Kong vs. Godzilla”, in which it was said that Godzilla is a cross btwn Allosaurus & Stegosaurus. Either that or not a dino at all, but an alligator ( http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BsgPwoRH9Jo&feature=plcp ).