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> He believes Hollywood is to blame for giving dinosaurs their skeletal 'monster' image. I don't think most dinosaurs are seen as monsters. When it comes to pu

> He believes Hollywood is to blame for giving dinosaurs their skeletal 'monster' image. I don't think most dinosaurs are seen as monsters. When it comes to public relations "monsters", I think it's mostly T-Rex, and usually it isn't portrayed as skeletal. Depictions of most dinosaurs make them look cute.

edflsafoiewq 5y ago
It's older than Hollywood. Early attempts to rationalize geological time with Genesis located dinosaurs in a pre-Adamic world of eternal darkness. Really interesting article about this: Terrible lizards and the wrath of God: How 19th century Christianity and Romanticism affected visual representations of dinosaurs and our perceptions of the ancient world: https://web.archive.org/web/20200905194215/https://web.stanford.edu/group/journal/cgi-bin/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/Peterson_Hum_2012.pdf https://web.archive.org/web/20200905194215/https://web.stanf...
- AdmiralAsshat 5y ago
  That certainly squares with H.P. Lovecraft's "Antediluvian horrors".
- GoblinSlayer 5y ago
  Pagan big reptiles weren't nice either, were they? Tiamat, Nidhogg, Jormungandr, Hydra, Fafnir.