a picture of Sarcosuchus and Suchomimus

Raul Martin is a renowned paleontological illustrator. Yet one of his pictures always makes me laugh. It is a picture of two of the most fearsome predators that ever walked the earth, the crocodile Sarcosuchus and the theropod Suchomimus. Here it is:




I don't know how you feel about that picture, but for me it looks as if Suchomimus is telling Sarcosuchus an extremely funny joke, and both laugh about it. Is this just my overactive imagination or do you feel the same way?



Edited by BaldFriede - February 24 2014 at 18:30

Oh, by the way: The joke could be something like this: "Question: How do you crack the armour of an ankylosaurus? Answer: You don't; all you will crack are your teeth".




Edited by BaldFriede - February 24 2014 at 17:41

"Boy, you know what I hate?  When one of them, uh, those giant space rocks?"
"Asteroids?"
"Yeah, when one of them asteroids hits the earth and kills us all."
"I hate when that happens!"

Well, it's not exactly how I would imagine a bloody duel to death between these two dinosaurs.
They rather seem to be chillin' out in their nice pool, in the middle of the summer... Or is it me being tired of February?

I have always been fascinated by dinosaurs, or to be more exact giant reptiles of the mesozoic since pterosaurs, crocodiles and all the gigantic marine reptiles like mosasaurs, pliosaurs, ichtyosaurs and so on are not dinosaurs. I sincerely wish I could travel back in time and see them all in their living glory. But unfortunately I can't, so I have to stick with the reptiles of today.

I would love to have a boa in a terrarium, but Jean is opposed to it. She could stand the boa, but not that it has to be fed with living mice.

As a teenager I was also extremely fascinated by bats, and I wanted to have a tame one. That was due to my fascination with magic at that  time, especially dark magic. My parents were dead against it though. I have no idea if bats can be tamed at all, by the way, and even if they can it is most definitely impossible to get them housebroken.