#fasolasuchus

So, I watched 65 recently, 2 years too late, I know.

To give my quick thoughts on the movie, it was... alright, I guess, just super boring, I'd give it a 5 out of 10.

I know this is beating a dead horse but the dinosaur designs in this movie are just TERRIBLE. It's not that they're inaccurate that's the problem, it's the fact that they're so lazy and uninspired, most designs just being off brand Indoraptor and V.rex clones. Looking at concept art, there was a T.rex design that was still very inaccurate, and while I still think it isn't the best, it was much more unique and that makes it better than the off brand V.rex we got

Ultimately, somrthing must have went HORIFFICALLY wrong during production since there is concept art of a Pegomastax, which actually looks good, and a feathered raptor.

Ok, rant over. I decided to redesign one of the dinosaurs from the movie, that being the infamous quadrex. I've seen people also call this thing a Fasolasuchus, yes, Fasolasuchus, 65 million years ago at the tail end of the cretacious, though it's pretty obvious that it's just a made up hodge podge of dinosaur parts.If I were a producer, I would just replace this thing with a T.rex but, working with what I got, I decided to make it look much more like a Fasolasuchus, especially since I heard somewhere that the movie was originally meant to take place in the triassic, which, if true, really pisses me off that they changed it because the triassic is a really underrated period imo.

I also heard that the quadrex was originally meant to be a Triceratops but was changed for some damn reason, which also pisses me off since it would have been much cooler to see a big, dangerous herbivore instead of the dino chimera, so I took a crack at designing a 65 style Triceratops, used the JP Triceratops and Ferrucutus from Peter Jackson's King Kong as inspiration.

For “season 2“ we‘re moving to South America, more precisely to Argentina, which has lots of fossils to offer.

Once again, you get to vote on which one should represent the nation. As always, it could be a fossil that is just exceptionally well preserved and beautiful, had a huge impact on paleontology and our knowledge of the past, is very common/representative of the area, is beloved and famous in the public eye, is just a very unique and interesting find, or has any other justification.

Here are the options:

Argentinosaurus: The first contestant is one of the biggest land animals of all time with a length of more than 30 m and a weight of 80 t or more. It‘s also very fittingly named after the country.

Carnotaurus: Next up is the carnivorous dinosaur Carnotaurus. Only one skeleton has ever been found, but it was so well preserved, that Carnotaurus still is one of the best understood theropod dinosaurs of the Southern hemisphere. It‘s a fan favorite movie star, with roles ranging from the dorky dancer of Prehistoric Planet all the way to the main villain of Dinsey‘s Dinosaur (Art by Fred Wierum)

Eoraptor: while Argentina has some of the biggest dinosaurs ever to offer, it is also well known for some of the earliest ones. The small Triassic Eoraptor and some of its Argentinian cousins are very important for our understanding of the evolution of dinosaurs as a whole

Kelenken: One of my favorite groups of South American animals are the terror birds, giant predatory flightless birds that make it very clear that birds are in fact dinosaurs. The biggest one of them was 3 m tall Kelenken, known from some leg bones and the skull. It lived during the Miocene about 15 million years ago (Art by Julio Lacerda)

Argentavis: If one giant Miocene bird is not enough for you, Argentina also offers you Argentavis. While it maybe wasn‘t the biggest flying bird in terms of wingspan, it most likely was the heaviest one (more than 70 kg; for comparison, the heaviest flying bird today weighs about 20 kg) (Art by Fabio Alejandro)

Fasolasuchus: If you‘re really not a fan of dinosaurs (including birds), maybe I can interest you in the crocodile-site of the Archosaur family tree: Fasolasuchus was an distantly-related triassic cousin of our modern crocodiles and it was the biggest terrestrial predator of its time; the only carnivores to ever surpass it were the biggest theropod dinosaurs

Arctotherium: South America is home to many bizarre mammals, but most of them I want to reserve for other countries. Still, here is one mammal option for y‘all: Arctotherium, the giant short-faced bear. The biggest species of them lived in Argentina and they were probably the biggest bear ever (maybe up to 1500 kg and more). (Illustration by Soibelzon, Schubert 2011)