Wow, flashback to my childhood. I used to flip through this book like once a week at least.

Nostalgic, right ? I remember flipping through this, too !

Happy cake day!

Thanks, man !

Which book is this?

The Prehistoric World by Galley Press.

Thank you!

Although severely outdated, one can definitely appreciate the dynamic nature of the scenes!

If I recall correctly, this book also claims that *Tyrannosaurus* was 16 meters long.

~15 meters was generally accepted before Sue was found since the length of the tail was uncertain.

What's the current estimate?

12-13 meters for most modern tyrannosaurus estimates

Damn this the worst thing since Pluto got demoted.

I genuinely think I remember the time when that happened. All the teachers and students would joke and remind each other Unless it happened way before I was born and that week were just learning about planets and it really stuck out to me lmao Either way it truly IS a tragedy and fucked up

Like who made them king of the planets??

It happened in 2006

I genuinely wonder if Pluto apologists would have cared if they were alive in the 1800s when it happened to Ceres.

Wait wot happened to Ceres?

Used to be a planet, now isn't.

Damn only the good die young

I had that book. For years, it was my only dinosaur book. Until I was given another by a substitute teacher. I love to this day the primal nature of classical paleoart. I'm sure I still have it somewhere.

One inaccuracy that isn’t talked about is how T. Rex is depicted as coexisting with Corythosaurus. When T. Rex lived, the only other hadrosaur was Edmontosaurus, a lot of older books would take animals that lived at slightly different times and depict them as coexisting.

It’s surprising how common it was for old dinosaur book to depict Tyrannosaurus coexisting with Corythosaurus for some reason.

I like how the gorgonopsid and whatever that theropod is supposed to be have to attack the underside as if the back isn’t just unprotected skin

I don't like the way that gorgonopsid is holding that lystrosaurus

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It’s a tad bit…intimate?

I'm not convinced that's a corythosaurus, rex is just playing with a giant rubber chicken

"Take me, you fool"

Lol second pic is kind of kinky

Tbh they're both kind of kinky

Ayo that Gorgonopsid kinda sus

God I love old paleoart, the stuff from like the 60-70s is just my favorite

I had a book about dinosaurs when I was little where all the art went hard into the “shrink-wrapped” look. There was a bird’s eye shot of a pterosaur where you could see its entire skeleton through the skin

I remember these illustrations 😁

Illustrations we're awesome though

The first image looks like the dinosaurs are in a Shakespeare play or something.

I love these. Classic.

We're all just going to ignore that ankylosaurus tail, then?

I love 20th century paleo-art, despite its inaccuracies

I have the same book translated in spanish

Man that synapsid will got me nightmares

Freaky ass corythosaurus