University of Bristol

Mike Taylor

Most dinosaurs are elegant animals. Tyrannosaurs are elegant biting
machines. Chasmosaurs are elegent. Brachiosaurs are hella elegant. Even
ankylosaurs have their own robust elegance.

And then there's *Camptosaurus*.

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Why do you have to be so lumpen? What's your head doing down there? What
the heck are your ilia doing up there? What are they even supposed to
be, TV aerials?

Just look how impressed Matt is by this hunk of No Thanks:

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Maybe *Camptosaurus* looks better from above?

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Nope. Look how short its stupid neck is.

Ugh.

And if anything, the life reconstruction on the signage is even worse:

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Just no, *Camptosaurus*. Just no.

 

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[doi:10.59350/xsbn5-ap820](https://doi.org/10.59350/xsbn5-ap820)


Most dinosaurs are elegant animals. Tyrannosaurs are elegant biting machines. Chasmosaurs are elegent. Brachiosaurs are hella elegant. Even ankylosaurs have their own robust elegance.

Messaggi di Rogue Scholar

Why do you have to be this way, Camptosaurus?