I'm a bit traumatised (spoiler)
Anyone else heartbroken when the volcano engulfs the island and you can just see the face on that poor dinosaur like a little puppy abandoned on the road side :(((
It had plenty of time to get in the sea and swim. It just stood there, waiting to die. Like everything else in this film, it was stupid and unsatisfying.
shareYeah i agree - not the best film I've seen .... all I remember of it is that sad little face !
shareI think it was a Brontosaurus, they estimated some 15 tons, they could not swim, it would have sunk to the bottom like a brick.
shareSurvival instinct would of kicked and would of made the step into the sea and i doubt that right at the seas edge it would of been over 30feet deep to of dropped to the bottom and drowned.
shareThe fire, lava, smoke, and overall destruction of the island still would'VE killed it, whether it was standing on the land or a few feet in the water.
shareThe peer was a good 50 metres at least from the edge so it would of stepped off the edge no matter what may of been there due to survival instinct.
At that point only smoke and small amount of lava had just reached that point and the peer was still in place so was no boiling ocean that it couldn't of at least tried to get in to.
Realistically, lava at that distance produces enough heat that he would have died even if he stepped off the pier form heat alone. The whole scene where the raptor tamer was paralyzed near lava was ridiculous. he would have cooked alive before the Tricerators even found him.
shareVolcanic ash and smoke alone would have killed it. The temperature of it would fry its insides. That being said this was one of my favorite scenes in the entire franchise. It was sad but it was the end of an amazing story. First Dino we ever see (all of) on Isla numblar and the last. Same. Animal as well. Was awesome. Movie wasn't perfect but I loved it. Was my second favorite.
share"I think it was a Brontosaurus, they estimated some 15 tons, they could not swim, it would have sunk to the bottom like a brick."
Whether or not something will sink in water has nothing whatsoever to do with its weight. You should have realized that from your own analogy, unless you think that only things lighter than a brick can float. How much do you think a battleship weighs?
A Brontosaurus would have had about the same density as pretty much any other critter, i.e., hovering around 1 g/cm3, which means it could float, or was close enough to being able to float that it wouldn't have any problem swimming. Also, 15 tons = featherweight compared to a blue whale, which is known to weigh up to 173 tons, is the biggest animal that has ever existed (as far as we know), and doesn't sink like a brick, obviously.
Really? Comparing a water animal to a land animal? That is your logic to go with, a whale is completely designed by evolution to swim, a Brontosaurus can't, its the same when you put the whale on land, it can't walk, it dies. And it's known that a Brontosaurus very likely could not swim, there were not dinosaurs that could swim, as dinosaurs all were land animals.
share"Really? Comparing a water animal to a land animal?"
What do you think, that a Brontosaurus had some magical flesh and bones with an overall density significantly higher than 1? The person I replied to said that a Brontosaurus would sink like a brick, which is absurd, and gave its weight as the reason, which is even more absurd. The comparison was with regard to weight.
"That is your logic to go with, a whale is completely designed by evolution to swim, a Brontosaurus can't, its the same when you put the whale on land, it can't walk, it dies."
You're an idiot. Practically all 4-legged animals can swim, because they have a density which is about the same as water and all they have to do is move their legs around. Given that, the default assumption is that they can swim, unless proven otherwise. The list of animals that supposedly can't swim is a short one, and even then, it is debated. For example, many people have claimed that camels can't swim, but that was proven wrong.
Elephants have a very similar body structure to a Brontosaurus (aside from the length of their neck and tail; a long tail would actually aid in swimming, and a long neck would make it especially easy to keep their heads above water), and they swim just fine:
"Like all mammals (except humans and apes, who have to learn how to swim), elephants are very good, untiring swimmers. Elephants move all four legs to swim and are able to move quite fast like that. Their big body provides enough floatation while the trunk acts like a snorkel."
https://en.upali.ch/swimming/
"And it's known that a Brontosaurus very likely could not swim, there were not dinosaurs that could swim, as dinosaurs all were land animals."
No, that is not known at all, given that a live Brontosaurus has never been observed by a human. Since pretty much all 4-legged critters can swim, a Brontosaurus could most likely swim as well.