Talk:Rayman Legends Adventures in The Land Before Time 1/Script/@comment-130.44.61.244-20201119154804

The original Land Before Time was narrated by Pat Hingle, who lived from 1924 to 2009. Unfortunately, none of the dinosaur names (which are used by paleontologists today) were mentioned in the narration. Like the dinosaur characters, Pat Hingle referred to their species by made-up names (much to my annoyance, as giving dinosaurs made up names will make you forget what kind of dinosaurs they are as well as forget their generic names), such as calling an Apatosaurus a “longneck”, a Triceratops a “threehorn”, a Tyrannosaurus rex a “sharptooth”, etc. He even said that the dinosaurs were two kinds by diet. Pat Hingle said that some dinosaurs had flat teeth for stripping the leaves of trees (though, in reality, many herbivorous dinosaurs were suited for ground feeding; it’s only that some sauropods were able to browse from tall trees, but not all. And large ornithopods were able to feed at mid-level, though some of the largest hadrosaurs were capable of reaching tall trees), while others had sharp teeth for eating meat, and they preyed on the herbivorous dinosaurs. Pat Hingle was obviously referring to the carnivorous theropods, but in reality, not all theropods were carnivorous and many lineages evolved to become herbivores (as is the case of the therizinosaurs and the noasaurid Limusaurus, although I have recently heard that young Limusaurus were omnivorous and had teeth compared to the adults), omnivores (as with the case of the ornithomimosaurs, which were theropods that resembled ostriches, and the oviraptorosaurs, which were members of the theropod dinosaur blade Maniraptora, which also includes the dromaeosaurids, troodontids, therizinosaurs, and modern birds, which are the only dinosaurs living today. Recently, I started to think that the troodontids were omnivores due to the large denticle size, U-shaped snouts and the small, coarsely serrated teeth), piscivores (as is the case with spinosaurids, though there is some evidence that Ceratosaurus ate fish), and insectivores (as is the case with the alvarezsaurids). In reality, the dinosaurs are divided into two different orders by their hip structures, which resemble the hip structures of the two living animals, lizards and birds. The dinosaurs with the lizard-like pelvic structure is called the Saurischia, and the pubis points forward. The Saurischia order of dinosaurs includes the sauropods and the theropods. The other order is Ornithischia, which has dinosaurs with the birdlike pelvic structure, with the pubis pointed backwards and in parallel with the ischium. The Ornithischia order includes marginocephallians (pachycephalosaurs and ceratopsians), thyreophorans (stegosaurs and ankylosaurs) and ornithopods (iguanodonts, hadrosaurs, hypsilophodontids, and heterodontosaurids). Despite the similarity with modern birds, however, ornithischians are distantly related as birds are theropod dinosaurs, which are members of Saurischia (this would obviously mean that modern birds are saurischian dinosaurs). Some members of the theropod group have a pubis pointed backwards like an ornithischian, and they include therizinosaurs, modern birds, and dromaeosaurids, Because the backward pubis is present in both ornithischians and some theropods, this is an example of convergent evolution, which is the independent evolution of similar features of species from different periods or epochs. Although pterosaurs and Mesozoic marine reptiles lived alongside the dinosaurs, they are exempt from the Saurischia and Ornithischia, as well as Dinosauria, which means that both groups are not dinosaurs. However, pterosaurs are closely related to dinosaurs as well as birds, though they are not the direct ancestors of birds. The ancestors of birds were actually theropod dinosaurs, though they were small theropods, not gigantic ones like Tyrannosaurus rex. Pat Hingle also voiced Rooter, the old ankylosaur who consoles Littlefoot after the death of his mother and told him about the circle of life. Those are some of the things that I need to say.