The Tyrannosaurus Rex is an “apex predator,” which is the top of everything- the ultimate predator of the time. ‘Rexes hunted everything- they do not scavenge. They are one of the largest predators in the entire world, that ever lived, period. They were not perfect, of course- an adult male triceratops, full sized, could easily fend off a T-Rex, even if ambushed, because a Trike has a very lower center of mass, and their legs can turn them very quickly. Combined with the horns and the shield, a Rex would be unable to kill a Trike. However, many other dinosaurs were still vulnerable.
Well, it is speculated that the T-rex is actually a vegatarian as it’s limbs(arms) is way to short to be of any use in hunting and some other reason i can remember, google it i guess would provide more info >_<
The short arms are an adaptation seen in all Tyranasaurids. Even the relatively tiny Nanotyrannus, 17 feet long and 1800 lbs, had similar proportions. It allowed them to develop a massive head and jaws while cutting the excess weight of the arms so they could remain bipedal and balanced. There are a few other carnivores, like Spinosaurus that have proportionally larger jaws, but Spinosaurus was partially quadrupedal as well as being also partially aquatic.
I’ve heard of T-Rex arms being powerful despite being so short & having limited mobility, worked out by the size of the muscle-anchor-point-things. I’ve also found theories ranging from assisting in getting up to holding prey in place to mating, & beyond. I do know 1 thing tho, they knew how they liked their dinner – fresh, uncooked meat…
…it had teeth like knives. It had a ridiculous sense of smell and sight. It had quite possibly the strongest bite of anything to ever live. And most importantly, we’ve found its bite marks on prey animals in the area.
There is abso-fucking-lutely no way T. rex was an herbivore.
Not only have we found evidence of biting prey, it turns out it would rip the heads off Triceratops to get at the good meat.
T. rex were amazing predators. I don’t know why so many people like to talk them down so much, it feels like some kind of palaeontology hipsterism, like they’re too popular to appreciate.
They had a binocular (binolfacular?) sense of smell. All modern predators have to zigzag back and forth across a scent drifting on the wind to triangulate it. T-rexes’ nostrils were far enough apart that they could smell direction the way we can hear which direction a sound is coming from.
They did not evolve this awesome (in the proper sense of the term) trait to help them better locate radishes. 😛
They were not, in fact, the largest Theropod. Also, their only real predatory claim-to-fame is the amount of force that they could close their jaws with is virtually unrivaled by any known living thing, short of Dunkleosteous.
The T. Rex as scavenger hypothesis has been completely debunked. It’s widely acknowledged the Jack Horner threw the idea out there mostly for attention, and it worked. He got a Discovery Channel program out of it. But Horner will downplay it when pressed, saying he only put it out as a possibility. The rest of the paleontology are more than a little annoyed that the T. Rex as a pure scavenger keeps popping up in popular culture. To them, the idea has been completely discredited.
Wasn’t there an “Amazing Stories” that did that? Aliens crashed a Miss Universe contest because it was only humans (sort of like the America’s “World Series” of baseball which, correct me if I’m wrong, only has teams from two countries).
The alien judges were totally going to ruin everything, until they added in a special prize for the winner: A date with the reigning Mr Universe!
Yes, but it definitely minimises cleanup, and since both encounters were in the vicinity of her dorm, it probably fall to her to deal with the excessive arterial spray.
I am expecting a crab with a Caribbean accent to wander into the frame and start singing “kiss the girl”.
Of course, that would probably throw both these ladies’ views on evolution into total chaos.
No way Becky was allowed to watch Little Mermaid growing up. Not only does it feature witchcraft and interspecies romance, but Triton was a son of Poseidon, and therefore that movie portrays paganism.
There, you see her…
Sitting there upon de bed…
Hoodie frill upon her head
‘Cause there’s some-ting about her…
With her three horned face
And her sciencey ways, you wanna
KISS de girl…
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It’s probable she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
Just use your words
And she will use her words,
Then you can kiss the girl
SHALALALALALA
My, oh MY
Looks like de girl’s too shy!
Ain’t gonna kiss de girl
Opportune time right here
In dis place
Dat closet’s bombed from space
Still gonna miss de girl…
I’m genuinely worried for these two. They are so adorable and cute together and things are going so well that I feel they are inches away from just a metric butt-ton of awful and all the cuteness is just making me more and more worried that the scared Joyce and hospital previews are going to involve one of them… 🙁
Dunny, they have already went past “different temperament”, “different upbringing”, “people mistake me for a child”, “don’t know squat about your main passion in life” “Do we even have compatible orientations?” “none of us know the first thing about dating” “I’m actually homeless” “my dad is a buttshaped waste of space who tries to take me away”
I think they are pretty well equipped to deal with whatever comes next.
“WHAT?!?!? YOU PUT MILK ON YOUR CEREAL?!?!? That just….I can’t….the very thought…oh no…I gotta-“*stomach growls*
*Becky runs into half-bath, throws up violently*
Until the endorphin crash hits and the little tiny things start popping up and irritating them until they break up and are too emotionally immature and scarred to understand that they’d still be great friends and the rough spots are natural, leading to years of isolation from each other and regret…
Dimestrodon, good sir or madam, was a synapsid that existed during the Permian period, several million years before dinosaurs were a concept. Reptile, but not dinosaur.
…Huh. You know, I was gonna say that synapsids are also called mammal-like reptiles, but upon further research, it turns out that that classification has changed since I last checked. Huh. You learn something every day.
OK, so so revise the previous statement, they’re in the same basal group as reptiles, the amniotes, but they’re no longer considered reptiles. That said, though, they were NEVER dinosaurs.
I’ve always been fascinated by the pre dinosaur reptiles like postosuchus. The idea that there were large animals that predated the dinosaurs is something that completely blew my mind when I was a kid.
To be fair, though, rauisuchids like Postosuchus weren’t exactly pre-dinosaur. More like…peri-dinosaur. Evolved around the same period of time. I do agree, though, same thing surprised me as a kid. If you don’t know about it, check out Before the Dinosaurs: Walking with Monsters. Never liked the name, but it’s a fairly good look at the Paleozoic era.
That’s probably a compromise. The “Walking With” shows were shot on location with animatronic puppets for the close ups and CGI for the wide shots. The big problem in this is finding locations with appropriate vegetation, or at least something close. As far back as Dimetrodon, I think they’d be dealing with giant club ferns and the like Not a lot of them around. I’m not sure of that, of course, but that might be the reason. That was another thing I had to get around, mentally. The fact that the vegetation evolved in parallel with the animals. I guess it was a left over assumption from creationism that all the plants came first.
Dude, what if they get to discussing Dimetrodon and Becky is having a hard time swallowing that this weird, gnarly toothed, sail monster shares an ancestor with them, so Dina is talking about the temporal openings and to help explain she places her hand on Becky’s temple. Becky looks at Dina’s hand, then into her eyes, blushing, and Dina realizes the intimacy of the moment. Dina then has a choice to make, go in or pull back.
It seems we have a case of misidentity
so everybody follow me
say these words respectfully
don’t mean to hurt your feelings
that’s not a dinosaur
that’s not a dinosaur that’s not a dinosaur.
…THANK YOU. Both because this was filmed in the Peabody Museum at Yale University, where I volunteered as a 13-year-old, AND because I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS EXISTS.
I promise, if I ever find a dinosaur in the Northwest Territories, I WILL NAME IT THIS. The species name will be Northwestteritoridon palamdronensis. I SWEAR IT!
Well, you know, technically speaking, Albertosaurus was discovered in the Northwest Territories. The province of Alberta wasn’t created until 1905, a full 21 years after the original discovery, during which time all that land belonged to the NWT. And since the dinosaur wasn’t named until 1905, in commemoration of the new province, we already had our shot at glory, and missed.
There may not be many Canadian named dinosaurs, but Albertosaurus was a Tyrannosaurid, a smaller cousin of T. Rex that went about two metric tons and was around nine meters long. They weren’t as big as T. Rex, but fossil records suggest they were pack hunters, basically two ton thirty foot long wolves. There have been 26 indivituals found, making Albertosaurus one of the most well documented theropods.
Yay, a local reference. And just a few years ago they found a dino fossil less than a kilometre from my house, and coincidently enough, an fellow employee was working on the site where it was found, so I heard about it before it was publicized, and I was able to wander into the job site and have a look before they excavated it.
We all know of Dina’s great love of dinosaurs. But how does she feel about other prehistoric animals, such as the wooly mammoth or that giant sloth thingy.
She might not be interested in them since they lived during the Ice Age,while dinosaurs species lived in more periods,in each one appearing new species.
Yeah, I can totally see Dina looking in her closet this morning to decide what to wear, and thinking, “It is very likely that Triceratops used their neck frill for sexual display purposes. Perhaps it will perform the same function for me.”
She sadly tosses away her feather jacket and matching hat, afraid it’s too early in the relationship to bring up feathers based on her experience with Joyce.
Well, it was either the hoodie or a Super-Dina costume…
Hmm…
In that sequence, Amber speaks about not wanting to think of Dina as a sexual being yet, if I’m not mistaken, their bunks are arranged head-to-head with each desk below. Danny has stayed overnight and they’ve been less than stealthy in the morning.
As a male of the species, I’m going to need some sort of display. Smaller theropods were feathered, so maybe a brightly colored feather crest would work?
Give her a break, it’s her first romance. She’ll figure out more subtle ways of flirting, later. Like, concealing images of dinosaurs within the folds of a dress, so they reveal when she spins…
Okay, this is too much! Every strip their relationship keeps getting cutter and cutter and I just can’t take it anymore! I’m about to die of cute a overdose!
Yes, please. After 11 years with my husband I miss that sweet, silly, still nervous around each other stage. Even with the shocks of anxiety it feels nice to have that definitive feeling of getting closer to each other.
I love the ceratopsids, but I must confess my first love was T. Rex. When Jack Horner came out with the documentary that claimed T.Rex was a scavenger, well, it was one of the few times I actually yelled insults a the T.V. I was also that smug guy sitting in the theater watching Jurassic Park saying, “Those aren’t velociraptors, they’re too big. Those are deinonychus.”
Man, are hadrosaurs anyone’s favorite?
I never liked T. Rex all that much. The main thing that made it more interesting than Allosaurus and Albertasaurus for me was that it was bigger, and since other tyrannosars were bigger still, it was always a B-lister in my favorites. Deinonychus, Pachycephalosaurus, Ankylosaurus, assorted ceratopsids, and a couple sauropods dominated the A-list.
Fun story related to that link: I was out at a museum in Utah a number of years ago and actually met Donald Burge. He took us all on a sort of behind-the-scenes tour. We got to see the fossil archive rooms, and one area where they were in the process of assembling a recently dug-up skeleton.
And then I went and got Burge’s autograph. My museum map still has his signature on it to this day (I have it sealed in plastic).
I like the crested hadrosaurs. For me as a kid, the big revelation was that the dinosaurs didn’t live all at once. That T. Rex and Triceratops never saw a diploducus or stegosaurus and that most of the giant sauropods were gone by the late cretatious. I always had a soft spot for brachiosaurus, though.
There aren’t really bigger tyrannosaurids. There are some bigger theropods, but in most cases not actually by that much; it’s speculated they were reaching a maximum viable size.
Out of this group, T. rex still stands out for its amazing bite, the non-tyrannosaurids being more arm-focused. You don’t have to make it one of your favorites, but for what it’s famous for, it’s in no way an also-ran.
I’m very glad that they play so well off of each other.
**Possible Spoilers for people reading through It’s Walky**
You know, if I recall, in the Walkyverse, Dina had one point harbored an attraction to Walky. Earlier when Becky and Walky first met, we saw they get along handsomely, with Becky having in a lot of ways a similar personality. Maybe Dinas have a type. Given Walkyverse Dina also liked Mike, I suppose all Dinas do enjoy blunt, direct people.
Makes sense. Blunt, emotionally open and honest people are easier to read and more willing to share when things are and aren’t working. For people who need that emotional openness either psychologically, or due to non-neurotypicality, that can be a big and important thing.
In dinosaur toys as a kid, I always tended to gravitate towards Triceratops, since they never had suitably flashy Parasaurolophus toys, a bias I developed reading a well drawn book of dinosaurs by someone who made them as colourful as hornbills and gave them a skin flap from the nasal structure behind the head and down the neck.
What I’m saying is I like flashy displays and am a lesbian and maybe this is the real cause of saurian extinction.
I had a similar fascination with Parasaurolophus that had to be satisfied with Triceratops . . . and I’m a gay dude! Who knew that dinosaurs caused homosexuality?!
What’s specially cute about this strip is DMW makes it nice and clear that Becky didn’t consciously realise that Dina was wearing a hoodie patterned on her favourite dinosaurs until she actually took a second look. That’s the sort of spontaneous/subconscious act that makes you want to “D’aaawww!”
I’ve got this mental image of one future strip with Amber storming past a flummoxed Mike and depositing herself next to Danny on the room’s couch. “I need a half-hour of Mike’s bitter misanthropy to soak up all of Dina and Becky’s sugar!”
In the last panel it serms like Triceratop gives a meaningfull (but stern?) look at us (the audience) 😀 not sure what they’re trying to tell us, though 😉
…You’re asking 3 questions that have nothing to do with each other. She’s clearly intelligent and hardworking, but she doesn’t necessarily have good grades in spite of that (We don’t know). She may not have the money to go to a prestigious school (Is MIT a prestigious paleontology department? I would think not, and she’d avoid it if so, but there are surely others that are.)
Even high grades and actual brilliance aren’t necessarily enough, unless you’re truly a genius you need social skills to get into a college as well. Especially prestigious ones that actually perform entrance interviews.
Me ‘nd Wilford Brimley need ya to keep this storyline up, Willis. We’re makin’ a fortune sellin’ testin’ supplies fer all the diabeetus yer givin’ everybody. ‘Murica.
All my favourite relationship moments in the series are the ones that are really heartfelt and angsty, but I gotta say, Willis is going to have to try really hard to make these two sad about anything. What would they even argue about?
I hope there’s no Dina slipshine. I mean, beyond the fact that lesbian sexcapades have no appeal for me, Dina is like… like the whole cast’s adorable little sister. Dina porno would just make me really uncomfortable.
I wouldn’t say she’s pursuing Becky to prove a point, more just that she likes her. She did kiss Becky the first time when Joyce, Dorothy and Sarah were belittling her, though.
I admit, they could just be the ‘sweet’ kinda shipping where that aspect of their relationship isn’t emphasised an awful lot by Willis himself, personally I love this arc just for how they simply appreciate each other like that.
And of course there are other likely couples for the role of getting giggity jiggy with it, that much is obvious.
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See, Dina? Not wearing a predator outfit worked out after all =D
[also, not wearing a Predator outfit, I guess]
[ULTIMATE ADORBS]
You’re telling me. I’m about to barf rainbows.
(Also, as referenced in an earlier comic, we know Dina is interested in kissing Becky. Just kiss and stop making me squee already!)
But Inkblot – that would just make you squee -more-! 😀
Ohhhhhh so the flashy
display was used to attract a mate! neat!
It all makes sense now!!!! OoO
Dina used ETHOLOGY!
IT’S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Becky: Yeah, that’s it…talk dino to me, baby!
*Glomped by Dina desu*
Cuteness overload~! X_X
Just look at these cuties.
imaginging the reaction to Zhenyuanlong suni
If she dressed as the Predator she’d be invisible and people wouldn’t notice he-heywaitaminnit.
A-ha!
But T-rex is a scavenger.
The Tyrannosaurus Rex is an “apex predator,” which is the top of everything- the ultimate predator of the time. ‘Rexes hunted everything- they do not scavenge. They are one of the largest predators in the entire world, that ever lived, period. They were not perfect, of course- an adult male triceratops, full sized, could easily fend off a T-Rex, even if ambushed, because a Trike has a very lower center of mass, and their legs can turn them very quickly. Combined with the horns and the shield, a Rex would be unable to kill a Trike. However, many other dinosaurs were still vulnerable.
Well, it is speculated that the T-rex is actually a vegatarian as it’s limbs(arms) is way to short to be of any use in hunting and some other reason i can remember, google it i guess would provide more info >_<
Seems wolfram list it as carnivorous though so who knows xD
Sure that’s not creationists claiming its teeth were used for opening coconuts?
The short arms are an adaptation seen in all Tyranasaurids. Even the relatively tiny Nanotyrannus, 17 feet long and 1800 lbs, had similar proportions. It allowed them to develop a massive head and jaws while cutting the excess weight of the arms so they could remain bipedal and balanced. There are a few other carnivores, like Spinosaurus that have proportionally larger jaws, but Spinosaurus was partially quadrupedal as well as being also partially aquatic.
Thanks Dina, that makes sense 😉
I’ve heard of T-Rex arms being powerful despite being so short & having limited mobility, worked out by the size of the muscle-anchor-point-things. I’ve also found theories ranging from assisting in getting up to holding prey in place to mating, & beyond. I do know 1 thing tho, they knew how they liked their dinner – fresh, uncooked meat…
Well, it is also said that most of the dino’s prefered the green snack but might go for meat if needed:-P
…it had teeth like knives. It had a ridiculous sense of smell and sight. It had quite possibly the strongest bite of anything to ever live. And most importantly, we’ve found its bite marks on prey animals in the area.
There is abso-fucking-lutely no way T. rex was an herbivore.
Not only have we found evidence of biting prey, it turns out it would rip the heads off Triceratops to get at the good meat.
T. rex were amazing predators. I don’t know why so many people like to talk them down so much, it feels like some kind of palaeontology hipsterism, like they’re too popular to appreciate.
They had a binocular (binolfacular?) sense of smell. All modern predators have to zigzag back and forth across a scent drifting on the wind to triangulate it. T-rexes’ nostrils were far enough apart that they could smell direction the way we can hear which direction a sound is coming from.
They did not evolve this awesome (in the proper sense of the term) trait to help them better locate radishes. 😛
They were not, in fact, the largest Theropod. Also, their only real predatory claim-to-fame is the amount of force that they could close their jaws with is virtually unrivaled by any known living thing, short of Dunkleosteous.
The T. Rex as scavenger hypothesis has been completely debunked. It’s widely acknowledged the Jack Horner threw the idea out there mostly for attention, and it worked. He got a Discovery Channel program out of it. But Horner will downplay it when pressed, saying he only put it out as a possibility. The rest of the paleontology are more than a little annoyed that the T. Rex as a pure scavenger keeps popping up in popular culture. To them, the idea has been completely discredited.
Pretty much any animal will scavenge if they get the chance. No reason to expend more energy than necessary, after all.
Only true to a point; not all animals have digestive systems sturdy enough to eat carcasses that may be full of decomposers or even rotting.
…Willis you glorious *******.
Lesse, seven letters…
Dinobot?
“DamnYou”.
Willis, you Inglorious Basterd?
But if her Predator outfit came with a functional shoulder laser, just think how easy it would have been to deal with both Amber’s & Becky’s dads!
*zot* [laser strike to the ‘nads]
As long as the suit comes with a mask. We all know the Predator will never win a beauty contest.
Doesn’t seem to stop the fan girls. lol
Whole new meaning to “Miss Universe”…
That depends entirely on who’s judging.
Wasn’t there an “Amazing Stories” that did that? Aliens crashed a Miss Universe contest because it was only humans (sort of like the America’s “World Series” of baseball which, correct me if I’m wrong, only has teams from two countries).
The alien judges were totally going to ruin everything, until they added in a special prize for the winner: A date with the reigning Mr Universe!
The aliens left.
…And you don’t want to be identified when dealing with idiots in that way…
But a weapon that cauterizes the wounds it makes negates the best part of aiming for the genitals! Do you know how much bloodflow they get?
Yes, but it definitely minimises cleanup, and since both encounters were in the vicinity of her dorm, it probably fall to her to deal with the excessive arterial spray.
Plus, there’s something to be said for the guaranteed elimination of possible reattachment.
Ease and Ethicality are often adversaries both striving to bring about happiness and satisfaction.
Or Predacon …
I dunno, I think she might make a cute Spinosaurus.
Although a full day of being unable to use chairs may prove impractical.
Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaa
*flails arms*
this is too cute aaaa
Sorry, lost the capacity to think for a minute.
*Fans Darkoneko*
*Just walks up & dumps a bucket of ice-water over Darkoneko*
Better now?
Do I make you horny, baby? Yeah.
Beat me to it.
Dang it, wanted to make one too, couldn’t think of anything I’d like…
Oh good, I was almost afraid no one would make the joke.
All Dina needs now is a Austin Powers British accent and smile.
Frillled to meet you in your hoodie, baby, yeah!
alt title: “Mating Display”
dinasaurus’s strategy for attracting a mate is maximum effective
THIS IS JUST TOO CUTE.
Dina’s mating plumage worked after all.
Was there ever any doubt? Ever since Becky’s lip bite when she saw the outfit, we knew this was coming. Dinosexuality all round!
Neeeeerds. Adorable, adorable nerds.
The best kind.
The adorbs are out in full force again tonight, I see…
The adorbs are *strong* with these goofballs <3
*squeeeeeee*
Those times when you just walk smack dab into a compliment, out of nowhere.
*HNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNGH intensifies*
Does anyone else read all of Dina’s dialogue in Hynden Walch’s Starfire voice?
No, but I will now.
I always heard Michelle Ruff’s Nagato voice, but she’s been more emotional of late, so I dunno if it works anymore.
Yeah that’s always been my default voice for her in my head.
I read everyone in my voice, in everything I read.
I do not recommend it. My voice is not versatile.
I just read that in Starfire’s voice.
Drop it a few octaves, and you’ve pretty much nailed it.
Heh.
I do that too! Cool, I thought I was the only one.
Lack of contractions and a distinct “I don’t understand humans at *all*(but I keep trying to)” vibe makes it a pretty easy tie-in, I gotta say.
I am expecting a crab with a Caribbean accent to wander into the frame and start singing “kiss the girl”.
Of course, that would probably throw both these ladies’ views on evolution into total chaos.
No way Becky was allowed to watch Little Mermaid growing up. Not only does it feature witchcraft and interspecies romance, but Triton was a son of Poseidon, and therefore that movie portrays paganism.
Sadly, upon reflection, I must agree.
That made water come out my eyes.
Also, dong buildings.
Religious circles call them ‘steeples’ 🙂
And a teenager defying her father
Yup. No way any of that was getting through Toedad’s ban. What? Daughters can marry who they want? Magic? Non-Christian Gods?
There, you see her…
Sitting there upon de bed…
Hoodie frill upon her head
‘Cause there’s some-ting about her…
With her three horned face
And her sciencey ways, you wanna
KISS de girl…
*slow clap*
Yes, you want her
Look at her, you know you do
It’s probable she wants you, too
There is one way to ask her
Just use your words
And she will use her words,
Then you can kiss the girl
SHALALALALALA
My, oh MY
Looks like de girl’s too shy!
Ain’t gonna kiss de girl
Opportune time right here
In dis place
Dat closet’s bombed from space
Still gonna miss de girl…
Who else is now picturing Walky taking on the role of Scuttle for this segment?
What about a singing robot crab?
…
Any robotics majors here? That sounds both rad and marketable, but I don’t want to ever look at programming again.
Frankly, that’s sounds fucking terrifying to me.
Oh, it could be, but I was picturing a simple animatronic Sebastian the Crab, not a battlebot.
the battlebot part comes when you make him a Singing and Dancing Crab Robot, as you then need functional claws.
Build any other crab except Mr. Krabs. He’s so greedy that he wouldn’t spend a nickel,not even for his own construction.
Keep going this way and you are going to need some cold showers…
These girls have the sweet!flirt down!!! Love it. (Will be sad when Willis takes it away…)
Willis does seriously need to stop with it though, cause my family has a history of “diabeetus.”
adjorable
Prehistoric Peacocking
I’m genuinely worried for these two. They are so adorable and cute together and things are going so well that I feel they are inches away from just a metric butt-ton of awful and all the cuteness is just making me more and more worried that the scared Joyce and hospital previews are going to involve one of them… 🙁
DON’T JINX IT! Just let the adorable envelop you like the wind caresses a floating leaf.
Aaauuuggghhh!
I am a leaf on the wind. Watch how I
Please don’t do that.
Dunny, they have already went past “different temperament”, “different upbringing”, “people mistake me for a child”, “don’t know squat about your main passion in life” “Do we even have compatible orientations?” “none of us know the first thing about dating” “I’m actually homeless” “my dad is a buttshaped waste of space who tries to take me away”
I think they are pretty well equipped to deal with whatever comes next.
How does Becky feel about cereal?
…that’d be a deal breaker, right there.
“WHAT?!?!? YOU PUT MILK ON YOUR CEREAL?!?!? That just….I can’t….the very thought…oh no…I gotta-“*stomach growls*
*Becky runs into half-bath, throws up violently*
“…………..It seems my choice of adding milk to my breakfast cereal might be something of an issue between us…”
Surprised and confused by how much it’s changed since the dawn of agriculture (which was WHEN?!?!?!), apparently.
Knocks on wood.
Yep. This ship was made to last!
Until the endorphin crash hits and the little tiny things start popping up and irritating them until they break up and are too emotionally immature and scarred to understand that they’d still be great friends and the rough spots are natural, leading to years of isolation from each other and regret…
…I may be a monster.
I get the feeling that you’ve practiced this speech. Are you to be the best man at a wedding soon?
Here’s to the happy couple. May they manage a few more pleasing memories before inevitably descending into recrimination and despair.
Consider how long a human relationship’s endorphin high lasts. Now consider the lag between DoA time and IRL time. This is gonna *last* 😀
No, Becky’s dad may be a butthole, but we’ve already established that he’s TOE-shaped.
I stand corrected!
Plot twist: Becky gets injured by overenthusiastic makeouts.
Breaks a rib from tantric snuggles
Rendered mute by tongue strain.
I like how, in the first three panels, it seems like even Dina’s horns are paying attention to Becky.
Dimetrodon, yo!
That’s not a dinosaur though.
SEConds. You beat me to this by SEConds.
Aw…aw, noooooo…and you got a Dina avatar, too…
Dimestrodon, good sir or madam, was a synapsid that existed during the Permian period, several million years before dinosaurs were a concept. Reptile, but not dinosaur.
Not even a reptile. They’re synapsids (ie: related to us), not sauropsids.
…Huh. You know, I was gonna say that synapsids are also called mammal-like reptiles, but upon further research, it turns out that that classification has changed since I last checked. Huh. You learn something every day.
OK, so so revise the previous statement, they’re in the same basal group as reptiles, the amniotes, but they’re no longer considered reptiles. That said, though, they were NEVER dinosaurs.
I’ve always been fascinated by the pre dinosaur reptiles like postosuchus. The idea that there were large animals that predated the dinosaurs is something that completely blew my mind when I was a kid.
To be fair, though, rauisuchids like Postosuchus weren’t exactly pre-dinosaur. More like…peri-dinosaur. Evolved around the same period of time. I do agree, though, same thing surprised me as a kid. If you don’t know about it, check out Before the Dinosaurs: Walking with Monsters. Never liked the name, but it’s a fairly good look at the Paleozoic era.
Except for the fact that they depict Dimetrodon as living in a desert rather than an Everglades-esque environment.
That’s probably a compromise. The “Walking With” shows were shot on location with animatronic puppets for the close ups and CGI for the wide shots. The big problem in this is finding locations with appropriate vegetation, or at least something close. As far back as Dimetrodon, I think they’d be dealing with giant club ferns and the like Not a lot of them around. I’m not sure of that, of course, but that might be the reason. That was another thing I had to get around, mentally. The fact that the vegetation evolved in parallel with the animals. I guess it was a left over assumption from creationism that all the plants came first.
I’ve heard them referred to as para-mammals. Is that still an accepted term for them?
Never actually heard that, but it IS a word that’s sometimes scarcely used.
Dude, what if they get to discussing Dimetrodon and Becky is having a hard time swallowing that this weird, gnarly toothed, sail monster shares an ancestor with them, so Dina is talking about the temporal openings and to help explain she places her hand on Becky’s temple. Becky looks at Dina’s hand, then into her eyes, blushing, and Dina realizes the intimacy of the moment. Dina then has a choice to make, go in or pull back.
*sha na na na na na, my oh my…* etc.
It seems we have a case of misidentity
so everybody follow me
say these words respectfully
don’t mean to hurt your feelings
that’s not a dinosaur
that’s not a dinosaur
that’s not a dinosaur.
…THANK YOU. Both because this was filmed in the Peabody Museum at Yale University, where I volunteered as a 13-year-old, AND because I AM SO HAPPY THAT THIS EXISTS.
Dat prominent epoccipital fringe, tho.
Alberta dinos represent!
Also… I kinda imagine Becky saying this, “paint me like one of your frilled dinosaurs.”
Well, now I’m picturing an Edmontosaurus lying on a couch seductively in front of a confused Leonardo DiCaprio.
I HAVE TO DRAW THIS.
JUST DO IT!
MAKE YOUR DREAMS COME TRUE!
DON’T LET YOUR DREAMS BE DREAMS!
Also, can we get a Heavy version of the Shia Lebouf monologue?
Apparently pesto sauce is a little too dense to be launched out the nose from laughing too hard mid-chew. Ow.
I once ended up with half a spaghetti dangling out my nose after sneezing while eating.
Do not understimate what can pass throught there.
Unfortunately there’s none right now,but i think this will do for the moment.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXb-8AR2220
…Yeah, that’ll DO IT!!!! JUST…DO IT!!!
*plays Fleetwood Mac (and the USC marching band)’s “Tusk” on the Muzak*
Nice
A Canadian dinosaur…?
There are lots of them. There’s another one called “Albertasaurus”
Only six genera named after Canadian regions, though. Edmontosaurus, Edmontonia, Albertosaurus, Albertonykus, Albertaceratops, and Albertadromeus.
That’s a lotta Alberta.
It’s a pretty awesome place if you like fossils and don’t mind arid environments.
And the lesser known Northwestterritoridon.
I promise, if I ever find a dinosaur in the Northwest Territories, I WILL NAME IT THIS. The species name will be Northwestteritoridon palamdronensis. I SWEAR IT!
Well, you know, technically speaking, Albertosaurus was discovered in the Northwest Territories. The province of Alberta wasn’t created until 1905, a full 21 years after the original discovery, during which time all that land belonged to the NWT. And since the dinosaur wasn’t named until 1905, in commemoration of the new province, we already had our shot at glory, and missed.
There may not be many Canadian named dinosaurs, but Albertosaurus was a Tyrannosaurid, a smaller cousin of T. Rex that went about two metric tons and was around nine meters long. They weren’t as big as T. Rex, but fossil records suggest they were pack hunters, basically two ton thirty foot long wolves. There have been 26 indivituals found, making Albertosaurus one of the most well documented theropods.
Yay, a local reference. And just a few years ago they found a dino fossil less than a kilometre from my house, and coincidently enough, an fellow employee was working on the site where it was found, so I heard about it before it was publicized, and I was able to wander into the job site and have a look before they excavated it.
Sweet!!
Alright,now i know how i’ll dress for the Halloween party.
We all know of Dina’s great love of dinosaurs. But how does she feel about other prehistoric animals, such as the wooly mammoth or that giant sloth thingy.
She might not be interested in them since they lived during the Ice Age,while dinosaurs species lived in more periods,in each one appearing new species.
The Ice Age wasn’t one period though and the Cenozoic had multiple epochs.
Have to check my facts again,thanks.
*has
Yeah, I can totally see Dina looking in her closet this morning to decide what to wear, and thinking, “It is very likely that Triceratops used their neck frill for sexual display purposes. Perhaps it will perform the same function for me.”
Yup, that’s exactly what she was doing.
Oooooh, I would love to see a montage with her discarded ideas.
She sadly tosses away her feather jacket and matching hat, afraid it’s too early in the relationship to bring up feathers based on her experience with Joyce.
Dina knew exactly what she was doing when she chose that outfit…
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/curating/
Well, it was either the hoodie or a Super-Dina costume…
Hmm…
In that sequence, Amber speaks about not wanting to think of Dina as a sexual being yet, if I’m not mistaken, their bunks are arranged head-to-head with each desk below. Danny has stayed overnight and they’ve been less than stealthy in the morning.
It’s super effective!
But wait, she’s evolving…into…
Regardless of what the future might hold, this is a sweet moment between the two of them.
Dina, you clever girl.
+1
+1. You get a cookie…
Clearly I have been going about the dating world all wrong.
I’m going to need a costume.
It seems to be working for Ethan, after all.
Oh yeah, I forgot about that.
I wonder if just wearing a hat of any sort will work until I get myself a solid getup.
As a male of the species, I’m going to need some sort of display. Smaller theropods were feathered, so maybe a brightly colored feather crest would work?
Dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
Say what you will about Dina, but she’s not exactly subtle in her advances.
Luckily!
Give her a break, it’s her first romance. She’ll figure out more subtle ways of flirting, later. Like, concealing images of dinosaurs within the folds of a dress, so they reveal when she spins…
this is so cute it gave me diabetes
worth it
Dinabetes?
Yes.
(gotta say it in Wilford Brimley’s voice)
Dino-beetus.
Female dinosaurs have the fancy frills and horns to grab a potential partner’s attention, THE PROOF IS HERE!
Okay, this is too much! Every strip their relationship keeps getting cutter and cutter and I just can’t take it anymore! I’m about to die of cute a overdose!
You might even say that the sheer adorableness is . . . cutting.
I guess you could say Dina is horny.
Five minutes in the bad pun penalty box for you! (Totally cool, though. Fistbump.)
I think you mean the bad punalty box. 😛
That does it, the pun ninjas have been summoned. Please settle your affairs.
Sadly, she’s 30 minutes after the first mention of this pun. (Thank you, Ctrl-F)
I hope the rest of this storyline is just these two looking at dinosaurs.
We are reaching peak levels of cuteness.
literal screaming
Yes, please. After 11 years with my husband I miss that sweet, silly, still nervous around each other stage. Even with the shocks of anxiety it feels nice to have that definitive feeling of getting closer to each other.
Too much cute. dying of sweetness
Just imagining Dina’s thought process while choosing her outfit, “To attract a mate I must pull out my fanciest dinosaur!”
I love the ceratopsids, but I must confess my first love was T. Rex. When Jack Horner came out with the documentary that claimed T.Rex was a scavenger, well, it was one of the few times I actually yelled insults a the T.V. I was also that smug guy sitting in the theater watching Jurassic Park saying, “Those aren’t velociraptors, they’re too big. Those are deinonychus.”
Man, are hadrosaurs anyone’s favorite?
I never liked T. Rex all that much. The main thing that made it more interesting than Allosaurus and Albertasaurus for me was that it was bigger, and since other tyrannosars were bigger still, it was always a B-lister in my favorites. Deinonychus, Pachycephalosaurus, Ankylosaurus, assorted ceratopsids, and a couple sauropods dominated the A-list.
UTAHRAPTOR
Fun story related to that link: I was out at a museum in Utah a number of years ago and actually met Donald Burge. He took us all on a sort of behind-the-scenes tour. We got to see the fossil archive rooms, and one area where they were in the process of assembling a recently dug-up skeleton.
And then I went and got Burge’s autograph. My museum map still has his signature on it to this day (I have it sealed in plastic).
My friend whose online name is Raptor is a (mobile) fossilised utahraptor according to his fictional back story. 🙂
I like the crested hadrosaurs. For me as a kid, the big revelation was that the dinosaurs didn’t live all at once. That T. Rex and Triceratops never saw a diploducus or stegosaurus and that most of the giant sauropods were gone by the late cretatious. I always had a soft spot for brachiosaurus, though.
I prefer scansoriopterygds, personally.
Ah, good, another Anklyosaur fan. Been a while since I’ve seen one.
Parasaurolophus is my guy.
There aren’t really bigger tyrannosaurids. There are some bigger theropods, but in most cases not actually by that much; it’s speculated they were reaching a maximum viable size.
Out of this group, T. rex still stands out for its amazing bite, the non-tyrannosaurids being more arm-focused. You don’t have to make it one of your favorites, but for what it’s famous for, it’s in no way an also-ran.
You have no idea how much I want them to release a special edition where they add the feathers in. Holy crap that would rock so hard.
The ship is strong with this one.
I see fancy pigeons in this couple’s future. What are Indiana University’s rules on pets in dorms?
I’m very glad that they play so well off of each other.
**Possible Spoilers for people reading through It’s Walky**
You know, if I recall, in the Walkyverse, Dina had one point harbored an attraction to Walky. Earlier when Becky and Walky first met, we saw they get along handsomely, with Becky having in a lot of ways a similar personality. Maybe Dinas have a type. Given Walkyverse Dina also liked Mike, I suppose all Dinas do enjoy blunt, direct people.
Makes sense. Blunt, emotionally open and honest people are easier to read and more willing to share when things are and aren’t working. For people who need that emotional openness either psychologically, or due to non-neurotypicality, that can be a big and important thing.
Ack!!
One more strip as cute as this and will definitely die of the adorables.
Thanks for Dina & Becky – the cutest, best, most unlikely couple ever.
With 5 more stripe to the storyline, I kind of expect at least 1 more.
You might want to get your affairs in order, just in case. 😉
A HREF=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicbvWwQ_MA”>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yicbvWwQ_MA
Oh gods. So. Much. Cute. XD
OH MY GOD YOU ARE SO CUTE STOP IT!
NO DON’T STOP IT!
OH MY HEART….
In dinosaur toys as a kid, I always tended to gravitate towards Triceratops, since they never had suitably flashy Parasaurolophus toys, a bias I developed reading a well drawn book of dinosaurs by someone who made them as colourful as hornbills and gave them a skin flap from the nasal structure behind the head and down the neck.
What I’m saying is I like flashy displays and am a lesbian and maybe this is the real cause of saurian extinction.
I had a similar fascination with Parasaurolophus that had to be satisfied with Triceratops . . . and I’m a gay dude! Who knew that dinosaurs caused homosexuality?!
At the very least that Parasaurolophus is looking suspicious*
Congratulations, Willis. This comic is so sweet, I now have type 2 diabetes, and must have my feet amputated and dialysis twice a day.
What’s specially cute about this strip is DMW makes it nice and clear that Becky didn’t consciously realise that Dina was wearing a hoodie patterned on her favourite dinosaurs until she actually took a second look. That’s the sort of spontaneous/subconscious act that makes you want to “D’aaawww!”
This.
D’aaawww!
Dina and Becky sittin’ in a Cycad tree*
K-I-S-S-I-N-G
First comes Ankylosaurus
Then comes Struthiomimus
Then comes Brachiosaurus in a baby carriage.
*Yes, I know a Cycad isn’t a tree, but that makes it rhyme.
Dina and Becky in an Araucana tree
S-M-O-O-C-H-I-N-G
(on the mouth)
Can we just never have any more plot and just have the whole comic be dina and becky reading a book?
Nope.
It looks like there is an interesting Joyce arc coming up; I’m looking forward to seeing how DMW deals with it.
That will be their slipshine comic. Dina and Becky Read A Book (With Overwhelming Cuteness)
Now *that* I would have fewer reservations about joining Slipshine for…I just read it for the character insight, I swear!
The emotions must balance out. Inconceivable cuteness now means that unspeakable horrors lie ahead.
So that they can be bookended by unspeakable horrors????
…
..
.
Yep that sounds like the usual balance for life … :-\
I would be OK with that outcome!
Fourth wall twist: the book they’re reading is Dumbing of Age.
This is freaking adorable!!!! Now kiss.
I’ve got this mental image of one future strip with Amber storming past a flummoxed Mike and depositing herself next to Danny on the room’s couch. “I need a half-hour of Mike’s bitter misanthropy to soak up all of Dina and Becky’s sugar!”
I’m reasonably sure that Mike would deny her that only to be more of a jerk, but I love your idea nonetheless.
Mike would intentionally get drunk, and smile sweetly at her for that half-hour.
Diabeetus.
Maaaan, Becky’s face in the third panel.
“Wait, what exactly did my mouth just say?”
She is blushing. Becky is blushing. Dina is almost blushing. They are smiling. Maaaaan, they are so CUTE
Oh what a day ^^
In the last panel it serms like Triceratop gives a meaningfull (but stern?) look at us (the audience) 😀 not sure what they’re trying to tell us, though 😉
Something about forum etiquette, I’m sure.
Becky likes dinos with horns, horns are closely associated with penises … STRAIGHT BECKY CONFIRMED.
Ah! This is what the cuteness singularity will look like . . .
So I guess Becky is FRILLED to meet Dina?
Eh? *nudge, nudge* Ehhhhhh?
😀
*Long silence filled only with the chirping of crickets*
Maybe we need a pun jar, here… Willis could make a ton of money, that way…
Oh come on, don’t be so ridged.
I could single-handedly fix the economy and go into personal bankruptcy.
Ahhh! This is so cute <3
oh my god.
Awww!!! She is displaying her brilliant plumage to attract a mate! 😀
And succeeding, apparently…
Wait, lemme see if I can get this right…
Dina uses Dino-Flirt!
It’s super effective!
shit, I really need to get my hands on the new Dina/Becky print for sale.
I just had a thought. Is Dina as brilliant as she seems? I mean does she have high grades? If so, why isn’t she at MIT?
…You’re asking 3 questions that have nothing to do with each other. She’s clearly intelligent and hardworking, but she doesn’t necessarily have good grades in spite of that (We don’t know). She may not have the money to go to a prestigious school (Is MIT a prestigious paleontology department? I would think not, and she’d avoid it if so, but there are surely others that are.)
Even high grades and actual brilliance aren’t necessarily enough, unless you’re truly a genius you need social skills to get into a college as well. Especially prestigious ones that actually perform entrance interviews.
This is the most adorable ship ever.
Fallosaurus.
Me ‘nd Wilford Brimley need ya to keep this storyline up, Willis. We’re makin’ a fortune sellin’ testin’ supplies fer all the diabeetus yer givin’ everybody. ‘Murica.
All my favourite relationship moments in the series are the ones that are really heartfelt and angsty, but I gotta say, Willis is going to have to try really hard to make these two sad about anything. What would they even argue about?
Which dinosaur is cutest?
Though that mix of passion, enthusiasm, and mild discord is likely what’ll lead to their eventual Slipshine encounter 😛
I hope there’s no Dina slipshine. I mean, beyond the fact that lesbian sexcapades have no appeal for me, Dina is like… like the whole cast’s adorable little sister. Dina porno would just make me really uncomfortable.
Isn’t part of the reason that Dina is pursuing a relationship to try and discourage that notion?
I wouldn’t say she’s pursuing Becky to prove a point, more just that she likes her. She did kiss Becky the first time when Joyce, Dorothy and Sarah were belittling her, though.
ahhhhh they’re flirting, this is so adorable 🙂
whoops, did the link wrong, ah well
http://www.dumbingofage.com/2015/comic/book-5/02-threes-a-crowd/curating/
becky confirmed for dinosaur
😀 😀 😀
Greetings from Edmonton, Alberta.
Oooh, she’s sneaky.
The time frame for how long it takes after THIS snippet of webcomic before Becky & Dina replace Sal’s & Jason’s faces on the Slipshine link.
Place your bets now!
I admit, they could just be the ‘sweet’ kinda shipping where that aspect of their relationship isn’t emphasised an awful lot by Willis himself, personally I love this arc just for how they simply appreciate each other like that.
And of course there are other likely couples for the role of getting giggity jiggy with it, that much is obvious.
…But if you HAD to put a date on it?
cuties <3
Super late comment, but I had to post to say EDMONTON REPRESENT!
SO MUCH CUTE