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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 (256,351 Views)
trisdino
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This thread: http://www.dinosaurhome.com/inaccuracy-in-jurassic-park-movies-100022.html

Just... read some of the posts...
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Furka
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Most of those posts seem logic, only very few of them are silly, and quickly corrected by people.

Weird how no one mentions skinny bipedal hadrosaurs, naked Dinos and Brachio rearing up.
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CyborgIguana
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Well most of them are probably fanboys, so they don't see feathered dinosaurs as inaccurate. :P
Edited by CyborgIguana, Jul 17 2014, 11:45 AM.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

I absolutely want to punch this guy (the second guy)
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Also it was intelligent compared to most dinosaurs but (correct me if i'm wrong) was only about as smart as a modern day chicken
Compared to a mammal's intelligence, the raptors were only about as smart as a koala. Not very smart to our standards. Compared to a bird, however, they would've been as smart as an eagle.
chickens are way smarter than koalas, and quite probably smarter than most eagles

the same guy then went on to insist spinosaurus coexisted with tyrannosaurus despite having already been told otherwise

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Yep. The earliest (and biggest) feathered dino was Yutyrannus. Thats 124MYA. Youo had Eotyrannus etc in America.

yet another person I would like to see in pain
Edited by stargatedalek, Jul 17 2014, 10:16 AM.
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Bigwhale
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Don't forget the 'smarter than Chimps' person *Holds a chainsaw*
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trisdino
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There were basically two camps in that thread:

1. Dinosaurs are scaly super-beasts of incredible intellect, and jurassic park was super accurate.

2. Dinosaurs were feathered or plucked, dumb as hell, evolutionary failures.

The majority of people fell into camp 2., which is, in my opinion, worse than camp 1., especially since they insulted birds.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

opening doors is not hard to do anyway, hardly takes an "animal genius"
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trisdino
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Depends on what you qualify is "genius". It is more the act of the animals learning to associate the door knob with the act of opening it, and the correct sequence of events.

That said, many, many, animals are able to do this. The only reason it seemed impressive to people in jurassic park is that they underestimate the intelligence of most animals.
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CyborgIguana
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Is it just me, or did you just diss Jurassic Park? :P
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

I think more so dissing the people who flip about the JP raptors "ermahgawd dats so smart"
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Black Hawk
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stargatedalek
Jul 17 2014, 11:53 AM
I think more so dissing the people who flip about the JP raptors "ermahgawd dats so smart"
actually that was my reaction to it as a child xD until i knew alot of other animals aswell could do it.
Edited by Black Hawk, Jul 17 2014, 12:02 PM.
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BossAggron
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Didn't the raptors also open a Door with a Door Handle? Many animals can do that if they jump ontop of it and are heavy enough to pull it down. Now a DoorKNOB would be impressive.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

a doorknob could also explain the pronated wrists being needed in order to properly hunt humans
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Nomis
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Jul 17 2014, 12:32 PM
Didn't the raptors also open a Door with a Door Handle? Many animals can do that if they jump ontop of it and are heavy enough to pull it down. Now a DoorKNOB would be impressive.
My Cats do that :P
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Actually, there is even a report of an albino Burmese Python learns how to open the door. It's not the door with knob though. :P
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