Are there Dinosaurs in A Game of Thrones/ASOIAF?

I would guess that from the detailed description of the Dinosaur it could be a nippery noo noo!

Duh. They send mail to the houses.

Mordor is in Sothoryos anything else is would just be absurb!

As an aspiring paleontologist I can say you pronounced Deinonychus right.

Could also be Carnotaurus Sastrei.

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Was gonna say Raptors….. but you did the thing. Well played.

I always thought dragons were just cool dinosaurs anyway

They would have to be Utah Raptors to be that big. I suppose there could be more than one raptor species around, but the "great" ones would have to be Utah Raptors. That is the actual species the ones in Jurassic Park are based on. They call them Velociraptors in the movie because those were more common and the name is catchier, more Hollywood. Utah Raptors could grow to be 500-800 lbs, over 6 feet tall and longer than 10 feet snout to tail. They were also highly intelligent and their killing claws are said to resemble Ghurka daggers. I would highly recommend a book called Raptor Red by Robert T. Bakker. It is a novel from the point of view of one of these magnificent creatures, written by one of the world's leading paleontologists. Very informative, even though it is fiction, and a good place to start if you are interested in this species.

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Makes sense with the descriptions in the books. Sothyros is one of my favorite places. Just like the lands of always winter little & less is known. Thought… If the world is round as GRRM states, what do you think of the possibility that Sothyros & The north are somehow different sides of the same land mass? Or do you think Essos & Westeros are connected somewhere else to the far east? If u did a video on that let me know cuz you seem to have everything else! Thanks

Of course there are dinosaurs, duh. Ravens are birds, therefore they're dinosaurs by definition.

Do they have coal in GoT?

Feathers or no feathers, doesn't make a difference. Look how long it took us to come to such a conclusion and the amount of study that was involved. A Maester without the ability to dissect and classify will look at a Dino and think "reptile-like" … and when 9 out of 10 people going to Sothoryos don't come back I highly doubt anyone had the opportunity to study these creatures. It's for that reason all the stories are cloaked in myth and even IF GRRM knew about the current theories with regard to Dinos I can't see him writing it any other way.

I can not express enough how much i NEED more info about this continent! Also how much i wish they would make a spin-off with Euron as the main character wherein we follow him on his travels through Sothoryos in Asshai and beyond! Imagine that! :DDDD

I thought about Dinosaurs too when Syrio talked about huge walking lizards with long sharp claws. And yes, it is probably Dromaeosaurs (the family that Deinonychus belonged too). If GRRM started writting the first book around 1990 than Deinonychus would most likely be the species he was thinking on since Utahraptor was found later.
Will be interesting to see if the story ever takes us to Sothoryos so we can see these animals but I kind of daubt it.
Have you read The Dinosaur Lords?

it sounds to me these lands with the "striped horses" & such is Martin's version of Africa & the land of tattooed lizards & giant apes is his version of Skull Island.

triceratops and argintinosaurus… no more white walkers

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defiantly have now.

I was one of those kids who adored dinosaurs and am one of those grown up kids that still adores dinosaurs.
I would say it was dinos that got me into prehistory and paleontology.

So is plantos like the world of dbz they both have dinosaurs

Jesus Christ, Sothoryos is basically just an Australia of Ice and Fire isn't it?

it is a type of dromeosaur, no doubt

ah yes, a jungle with dinosaurs and king kongs, I'm there!

reads "Spiders"

actually I just remembered I had a road trip planned in the red waste.

Also, the world ASOIAF takes place in is NOT Earth (so far as we currently know, at least), so they are perfectly capable of having different types of dinos than what we've had in our world.

(L) Rawrist

You clearly do your research for every subject. Beauty and brains. Good stuff.

The giant apes are obviously a reference to king kong. Kong fight dinos. It is known.

Thanks, R

Love this,maybe it could be a allosaurus always pictured as having tiger stripes or leopard pattern. Could wyverns be pterodactyls?

Have you ever done a video in front of the camera? If you have I missed it, but I always love the art you use, and it looks like browsing your patreon page you do art for the show, so I may need to get in on that….

I need a casting update video. I had no idea Euron and Dickon were cast.

Yeye, I understand the Dinohype, I was like that after Jurassic Park one, but really, why get excited about dinos when you got Dragons!?

I never paid any attention to those quotes, thanks for bring them to our attention.

wait if there is a bunch of dark stuff in southos mabey there are like jungel walkers because in the tales of southos it is said that the abonde stments contain gouls

I knew I was right about this when I first read A Game of Thrones … I had the feeling that there were dinosaurs but people said "nah, not possible, at least not in living form anyway"
There is just one question remaining. Are the dinosaurs and the dragons somehow related in the world of ASOIAF? Is this going to be the rational explanation for the dragons? I mean the two moon thing sounds cool and sweet but I doubt that George is going to say "Doreah was right from the beginning". At the same time it's George so … who knows? Rawrist, any thoughts on that?

haha, love the pic at the end, you made that one yourself? 😀

love this idea

Cool video, learned something too 😊

Thanks! awesome … you must have an excellent memory. when I read the passage the first image in my mind was that of the huge T-rex in jurassic park 1 … but I totally agree that your theory on it being a dinonychus is very sound! … so, are dragons still dragons or mutated dinosaurs?

Utah raptor would be even more terrifying but your size range ain't bad. 😉

Given the lack of phylogenetic discapline in ASOIAF lore, a giant, terrible lizard is not a bad way to describe them, in cannon.

hey thank you for that! I have been meaning to search the forums to see what were the dino-clues in the books but had no time. This was great!

My son's head is going to explode!

White walker dinosaurs

I bet people all over the world are like "Bitch, and you taught Westeros was bad?'

Yaaaaaasss! 😀 😀 😀

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