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What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you.
Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,399 Views)
CyborgIguana
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That's exactly why the Procompsognathus and Velociraptors in Jurassic Park the novel were such a threat.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 23 2014, 03:39 PM.
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Hammond
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Swigity Swag what's in the Bag

well at least we know the dinosaur's sizes, so I guess we can place a compsognathus in some sort of big terrarium. that should do the trick until thy start to breed rapidly.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

And then when they are widespread to people in the form of pets. Sure, there must be some buttholes who'd toss them into the natural environments when they feel that their pets are boring or they can't keep it anymore...
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CyborgIguana
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Well, I don't think anyone would get bored with a pet dinosaur, but surely there wouldn't be many people who could meet a small theropod's requirements, so they would most likely end up dumping them in the woods after a few months where they'd invade and compete with native species.

However, this is "what annoys you about paleontology?", not "what would the long-term consequences of resurrecting long-extinct animals be?".
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 24 2014, 10:17 AM.
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Bigwhale
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Lythornax, being called King of gore annoys me a lot. I mean, without that name, it would be not stereotyped as a lethal killing machine by many people, and said being the most powerful creature to live.
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Furka
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I completely agree, usually I don't hate dinosaur names (except for unspeakable ones), but this one is just plain horrible, it looks like it was made by an anime fanboy to make it look kewler than the contemporary Siats (contemporary as discovered the same year).
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Well, if not look at its meaning... I feel that its name is catchy. :P
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Bigwhale
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I like it's name to, but some fanboys are too much, even in some games Lythronax are classified as one of the strongest.
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CyborgIguana
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The BANDit (Birds Are Not Dinosaurs) crowd is very annoying to me.
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I Raptus
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Apr 24 2014, 12:13 AM
And then when they are widespread to people in the form of pets. Sure, there must be some buttholes who'd toss them into the natural environments when they feel that their pets are boring or they can't keep it anymore...
Hmmm that actually would be a good idea as like per-say a fan fiction.
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Megaraptorking
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Apr 23 2014, 11:31 AM
Parasaurolophus didn't actually use its call to disorient predators, that's a myth spread by Clash of the Dinosaurs. Otherwise I agree with what you're saying.
Well true however it is possible to be considered a way to actually make a predator pause in pain, if a Parasaurolophus is enough or is loud enough to make a human pause for a second when it is at it's loudest a herd of them could potentially make even a Tyrannosaur or Carcharodontosaurid pause in it's tracks as I am referring to early Tyrannosaurs and Siats along with Acrocanthro who could have been potential predators of the Parasaurolophus.

Especially since if or since they are related to birds, there would be a likely chance a theropod would have sensitive hearing in which could make the predator be unable to hear itself think. Which means it would have given the herd a temporary time to move away or make it so the predator say to itself "I can't hear... I out..." So the predator moves away and the herd continues...



Also yes that BANDit people group about that is really annoying and even fanboys who say their favorite predators cannot be fluffy are wrong... I mean look at a male lion it has a fluffy mane yet do you see a weak and helpless predator, no you see the fearsome king of the Savannah...(It is not the king of the jungle!)

So a T-Rex with fluffy protofeathers, is still a T-Rex so they are in any sense giant predators who could gobble one up in a second. Am I not correct? lol.
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CyborgIguana
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I suppose Parasaurolophus could use its call to briefly distract predators, but it was mainly for communication among herd members and certainly not the brain-scrambling infrasound weapon COTD suggested. As for your comment regarding feathers, you are indeed correct.
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Megaraptorking
Apr 26 2014, 08:07 AM
T-Rex with fluffy protofeathers, is still a T-Rex
T. rex*

Sorry, I kind of had to do that :P T. rex is a theropod dinosaur from the Late Cretaceous, T-Rex is a movie monster invented by the general public that is an ultra-predator, lives near constantly erupting volcanoes and fights everything to the death.
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Similis
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Time for a post dissection. My favourite time of day.

Megaraptorking
Apr 26 2014, 08:07 AM
Well true however it is possible to be considered a way to actually make a predator pause in pain, if a Parasaurolophus is enough or is loud enough to make a human pause for a second when it is at it's loudest a herd of them could potentially make even a Tyrannosaur or Carcharodontosaurid pause in it's tracks as I am referring to early Tyrannosaurs and Siats along with Acrocanthro who could have been potential predators of the Parasaurolophus.


Considering the fact that Parasaurolophus was an animal whose hearing was one of the best of the mesosoic Dinosauria and whose brain, as far as I recall, was developed to have a great sound processing, having ear-piercing calls essentially means that the animals would have a great chance of distracting, disorienting, confusing themselves, their own group/herd and even causing a massive panic attack, stampede and trampling due to the sound being, as you suggest, highly unpleasant and/or irritating. Simply being loud wouldn't make the predator go away, though it would be greatly helpful to it when it comes to finding food.

Siats and Acrocanthosaurus lived 98.5 and 110 millions of years ago, respectively. Parasaurolophus is known to have lived 76.5 millions of years ago, rendering the meeting of the three unlikely at best, pretty much logically impossible. Lambeosaurinae as a subfamily appeared somewhere around 85 mya, also meaning that they didn't have to avoid predators you've mentioned, although obviously they had their own set of hunters that would greatly appreciate if they prey was oblivious enough to be extremely loud. Arrival of the herd would be like a McDerps opening with a fanfare.

Megaraptorking
Apr 26 2014, 08:07 AM

Especially since if or since they are related to birds, there would be a likely chance a theropod would have sensitive hearing in which could make the predator be unable to hear itself think. Which means it would have given the herd a temporary time to move away or make it so the predator say to itself "I can't hear... I out..." So the predator moves away and the herd continues...


As I mentioned, hadrosaur's hearing was superior to that of most theropod groups at a time, especially Lambeosaurines, probably due to fact that they evolved to be sensitive to sound communication. So the first victims of the noise would be the animals themselves, not their predators. We can, of course, speculate that they'd be immune to their own distress calls or aggression displays meant to scare off the predator, but we have to exclude possiblity that they'd produce sounds that they themselves wouldn't be able to hear while theropods would. If I was to place a bet, I'd say theropods would be more afraid of getting kicked in the face than hearing the calls of their prey, which weren't also unlimited in variation, as we know from the reconstructions of the sound-producing passages in the crest of Parasaurolophus - each crest had a set range of tones it could produce.
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Furka
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Regarding Parasaurolophus, some books of mine list the genus among the last surviving dinos, but is there any evidence for that ? I'm pretty sure P. walkeri died out earlier, but the other species whose name I forgot ?
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