Dinosaurs In Equestria

[Silver Dust 19]

Like Earth, birds are everywhere in Equestria; anyone with even an inkling of natural history knows they're actually the last surviving members of Dinosauria. By that logic, their relatives may have once roamed the very lands now inhabited by ponies. Maybe some lucky explorer will find their fossils in the Badlands or just outside Appleloosa... is that too much of a stretch?

[Hive King 1,998]

That would be awesome....but since the target audience is 7 year old girls and girls don't like dinosaurs according to focus groups, it won't happen

[Silver Dust 19]

According to focus groups, men don't like cute ponies. Look how that turned out.

[jackleapp81 456]

I think Silver Dust is right. Dinosaurs wouldn't be too much of a stretch. The show's already dealt with magic, dragons, bat transformations, fantasy mixing with reality, teleportation, cloning pools, and a bunch of other fantastic sci-fi tropes. Dinosaurs would fit right into the Equestrian mythos.

[Khaoios 1,970]

That would be awesome....but since the target audience is 7 year old girls and girls don't like dinosaurs according to focus groups, it won't happen

 

I concur.........that goes for "supposed" Extra-Terrestrials arriving to Equestria, teaching their ancestors knowledge.

 

*yet........that, fillies and gentlecolts, is about to change................very soon*

[Hive King 1,998]

@,

If there are dinosaurs, then I expect transformations,  

[Khaoios 1,970]

@,

If there are dinosaurs, then I expect transformations,  

 

*GASPS*

 

The Mane 6 as Velociraptors,..............my favorite kind of dinosaur.........now that would be truly amazing,

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

And? According to focus groups, men don't like Dora either. Hasbro does not like being risky, they aren't going to toss in dinosaurs since it really doesn't fit in with the show. The show's dinosaurs are dragons.

 

Sure, the might exist since birds are there, but then the Christian Radicals would get pissed off  

@,

We need more transformation episodes, period. Deer, dinosaurs, dragons, I'm up for anything. Season 4 has been very kind in regards to that 

[Khaoios 1,970]

@,

We need more transformation episodes, period. Deer, dinosaurs, dragons, I'm up for anything. Season 4 has been very kind in regards to that 

 

Yeah.....there definitely should be one of those "Dimensional/Universe Shifts" like you said, from ponies to dinosaurs, to dragons, etc.  Good point,

[Hive King 1,998]

@,

Plenty of fanart though

 

[Silver Dust 19]

Fun fact: dragons and dinosaurs are related. Along with crocodiles, and a whole host of animals apparently no one has ever heard of (rauisuchians, silesaurs, the list goes on). The simple fact Hasbro is still making a show that's been vilified and ridiculed with such cruelty, yet still grows, is reason enough for hope. With at least five years of FIM waiting to be seen, dinosaurs would be far from the most unusual sight.

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

They would be. Dinosaurs fit into the sc-fi genre much better than the fantasy genre that is MLP. They would feel awkward when a dragon puts them to shame in every way.

 

Also, why do you have dragons related to dinosaurs? For all we know, dragons may be archosaurs like Pterosaurs 

[Silver Dust 19]

Dinosaurs are also archosaurs; their relationship isn't direct. Dragons are crurotarsans, more closely related to crocodiles. Dinosaurs are ornithodires, with pterosaurs being their most immediate kin (aside from living birds). As for them being "lacking" in comparison to dragons, very little could be further from the truth.

 

Given the choice between fighting a fire-breathing dragon and a pack of deinonychus, I'd take the choice that lets everyone in a five-mile radius know exactly where he is before he started stroking his vanity with death threats and wasteful grandeur. Dragons have a pathetic weakness; dinosaurs are just hungry.

[Rarity Paige Belle 1,853]

In the latest comic, during one of Celestia and Starswirl's adventures they come across a T-rex with a fluttershy cutie mark!

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

Tell me your source for dragon classification.

 

I think I'd pick the one that kills one or two people every few days over the one that levels cities because you took one coin from his hoard. There's also the fact that Ursa Majors make the largest of dinosaurs look like toddlers 

[Silver Dust 19]

Visual analysis of dragons from all stories and continuities. The false palate (a crurotarsan adaption) is vital for preventing breath attacks from backfiring into the gullet. Every skeleton I've ever seen shows their ankle and hip structure to be definitively crurotarsan. The adaptions of hollow bones and beaks may seem to be avian, but one Triassic group of crocodile-relatives reveals this to be a convergent adaption: the ornithosuchians. Basically, crurotarsans that evolved to look and act just like dinosaurs.

 

I'll admit, a dragon's rage is more lethal than an appetite, and Ursa Majors seem invulnerable... until the ultimate archosaur appears. Obviously not in MLP; that would be more than a bit much for children, and many adults, to be honest.

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

 

 I don't see a throat plate on this dragon skeleton. 

 

And what is the Ultimate Archosaur? Sounds like a Godzilla monster

[Silver Dust 19]

Linnorms.

 

 

Side notes: the false palate is fleshy (like in phytosaurs and earlier crocodilians), and Godzilla is just a mutated lizard.

Also, looking at the dragon skeleton, the femur is unbent (unlike in dinosaurs) and is in what's known as the pillar-erect stance; exclusively crurotarsan.

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

Godzilla is a dinosaur in the Japanese version. 

 

Okay then, let's see what common media has to say about dragons vs dinosaurs

What do you know, the dragon kicked the asses of the raptors

 

BTW, your Ultimate Archosaur is still outmatched against the Ursa Major. And Ursa Major is at the very least 300 feet high

 

No throat pallate here

Edited March 26, 2014 by Evil Dragon Master

[Courageous Thunder Dash 7,809]

That would be really awesome, but the little girls wouldn't like that. They'd get scared...ugh...

[Silver Dust 19]

I already acknowledged dragons beating dinosaurs, and I'll admit I don't know that much about Godzilla. 

 

Linnorms eat dragons on a regular basis, and an Ursa Major is still smaller than the largest varieties, especially dread linnorms and corprse tearers. 

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

How big are Linnorms? I could bring in the Raviente(the size of an island) or Jawzahr (the size of the Earth)

[Silver Dust 19]

100-500 feet, on average.

 

I feel the need to thank you. I'm always on the search for more extreme archosaurs, and your info is invaluable.

[Hive King 1,998]

@@Silver Dust,

Oh, so about the size of the Jhen Mohran?

It's a sand whale, let's put it that way. It's also...well, you'll see in the video

 

And you're welcome

[Silver Dust 19]

Killing one would be bittersweet to me.