I play Ark: Survival Evolved mostly to look at its dinosaurs. I mean, who wouldn t? But since the very first video that came out about the game, I ve wondered how close to modern paleontological thinking they are. I m interested in all this stuff because for the past few years I ve been reading a wonderfully When the Internet Was Great-style blog called Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs, which documents representations of dinosaurs, mostly from old picture books, many of which I pored over when I was little, and critiques them according to current scientific thinking. So I asked one of its writers, Marc Vincent, about how games and popular culture depict dinosaurs, and to look at a few of Ark s. Guess what? Ark s dinosaurs aren t very dinosaury. …

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