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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 (256,347 Views)
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CyborgIguana
Jul 21 2014, 02:06 PM
Most of the public doesn't even know what Megalodon actually is. They think it's some 200-foot-long leviathan that lived during the Mesozoic and ate humpback-sized whales (which weren't around in the Mesozoic). As stargate has said before, Megalodon was only around 40-50 feet long (still gigantic by shark standards, only the whale and basking sharks reach that length today), it lived during the Miocene long after the non-avian dinosaurs went extinct, and the largest confirmed Megalodon kill was a 25-foot-long baleen whale.
Um, I don't mean to be annoying, but I'm fairly certain the average Megalodon was bigger than the average whale shark. Here's a size chart for reference.
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stargatedalek
Jul 21 2014, 02:36 PM
if there was any "whale killer" of the time it would have been one of a number of large and powerful whales, not megalodon
or, a certain black and white dolphin who happened to appear towards the end of megalodons geological range ;)
Orcas do hunt baleen whale calfs but not adults.
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Are you sure that scale is accurate? It is a few years old IIRC.
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AVCDPS
Jul 21 2014, 02:56 PM
stargatedalek
Jul 21 2014, 02:36 PM
if there was any "whale killer" of the time it would have been one of a number of large and powerful whales, not megalodon
or, a certain black and white dolphin who happened to appear towards the end of megalodons geological range ;)
Orcas do hunt baleen whale calfs but not adults.
there have been isolated incidents of orcas killing large baleen whales

@Cyborg
you are correct, that figure is dated
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stargatedalek
Jul 21 2014, 03:15 PM
AVCDPS
Jul 21 2014, 02:56 PM
stargatedalek
Jul 21 2014, 02:36 PM
if there was any "whale killer" of the time it would have been one of a number of large and powerful whales, not megalodon
or, a certain black and white dolphin who happened to appear towards the end of megalodons geological range ;)
Orcas do hunt baleen whale calfs but not adults.
there have been isolated incidents of orcas killing large baleen whales

@Cyborg
you are correct, that figure is dated
Even if they have attacked adults most times they hunt the young.
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not just that, but IIRC orcas have been trained to hunt large baleen whales in the past
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Drax
Jul 21 2014, 12:49 PM
That's exactly what I'm trying to say here perhaps you all misunderstand me. Anyways.....


Something that doesn't exactly annoy me since I love the franchise, but I still think would be make it a whole lot better, is that JP still has scaly lizard dinos. Feel free to correct me since I've not been following JW in great detail, but I think they haven't changed that yet, am I right? You can't really get mad at them since by now it's kind of iconic for JP movies to have scaly dinos, really it's what the public wants and it would be stupid to change it, if you look at it a business point of view. I guess I just missed the part of history when porcupines mated with raptors:

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Honestly, I prefer the JPIII raptors over the JP-TLW raptors, if only due to the fact that they have some degree of feathers/quills on the males. The thing that annoys me, however, isn't in-universe, it's the fact that some of the production team, including Horner, passed them off as "accurate," when they were hardly more accurate than the old ones. That's the funny part, they got slightly more accurate in two ways (slightly more accurate head shape, stupid-looking quills to be "feathers"), and they acted like they made them entirely accurate.
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People who portray or think that dinosaurs are ugly beasts that deserve no mercy. I mean, I saw at one review on Deadly Shores (Not complaining about it's inaccuracy this time) , and it said that the game is easier to digest for people who like hunting games, but feels bad on killing the deer in Deer Hunter. If you don't understand, read this: http://briefmobile.com/dino-hunter-deadly-shores-review
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stargatedalek
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I feel so alone, I just sat and munched away at mah popcornz when Bambis mother got shot xD

I think they were referring more to the animals behavior in that review
my little cousin nearly cried watching me play Carnivores, so it can happen that dinos get sympathy :P
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When people reconstruct Baryonyx with a sail.

For example;
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If you consider Baryonyx and Suchomimus as the same animal, like some suggested, it's possible it had a sail ...
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stargatedalek
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neither suchomimus nor baryonyx had a sail, but a ridge xD
spinosaurus didn't even have a sail
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Oh come on none of you complain about JP raptors, this is a JP Baryonyx.
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stargatedalek
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you kidding, I complain and go on about them all the time

also, lol at baryonyx weighing 1.7 KG xD
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Nomisoraptor Philotrticus
Jul 22 2014, 11:01 AM
Oh come on none of you complain about JP raptors, this is a JP Baryonyx.
It's not a JP Baryonyx, it's fanart and unofficial. There is currently no known pictures of the JP Baryonyx.
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