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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 (256,331 Views)
Dr. Hax
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When people call an otherwise completely accurate restoration of a tyrannosaur a retrosaur because it doesn't have feathers. Really? I mean, come on, it was discovered that T. rex had feathers only a couple of years ago, and now everybody's calling the DR T. rex a "retro" because it doesn't have feathers!
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CyborgIguana
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Well, technically any outdated dinosaur depiction can be called a retrosaur (even if it's only outdated by a year or two). Also, people were already reconstructing tyrannosaurs with feathers by the time DR first aired, it just hadn't been proven by that point in time.
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Dr. Hax
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I dislike that attitude because it's basically dismissing a mostly-accurate restoration of a T. rex and calling it a retrosaur because it doesn't have feathers.
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trisdino
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I do not call them retrosaurs, but I do view them as far to conservative, and will always, without fail, say that a restoration without any form of feathering is statistically so likely to be inaccurate as for the fact that we have not quite literally found fossil evidence of it to be neigh irrelevant.

But no, they are not retrosaurs.
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Admiral General Aladeen
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I'm aware tris posted this picture many pages back, but something I want to touch on is what in the name of science is the hideous deformed mutant in the bottom left? xD
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Edited by Admiral General Aladeen, Aug 9 2014, 03:44 PM.
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trisdino
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Actually, I was the one who posted that, not stargate.

I think the deformed things are supposed to be charred corpses.
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Admiral General Aladeen
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trisdino
Aug 9 2014, 03:42 PM
Actually, I was the one who posted that, not stargate.

I think the deformed things are supposed to be charred corpses.
Oh my bad.

And yeah I can see where you're coming from with that My original thought was it looked like a giant scorpion's two pincers xD
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trisdino
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Now, WHAT animals they are on the other hand... that is hard to say. They look almost like mosasaurs... but this is obviously a picture of the jurassic... except for the late cretaceous pteran- oh, its one of those drawings
Edited by trisdino, Aug 9 2014, 03:52 PM.
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Dr. Hax
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It looks like a Giant Enemy Crab to me.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Admiral General Aladeen
Aug 9 2014, 03:31 PM
I'm aware tris posted this picture many pages back, but something I want to touch on is what in the name of science is the hideous deformed mutant in the bottom left? xD
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I think its a Pacific Rim Kaiju

Jurassic MT
Aug 9 2014, 08:30 AM
OMG! What film do these guys come from? xD

2 films (at least 2 I recognize)
the dimetrodon is from Journey to the Center of the Earth
and the others are from Lost World
both were 50's-60's versions

trisdino
Aug 9 2014, 08:27 AM
More slurpasaurs coming up!

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yay, my 2 favs ^_^
lava monitor and frilled lizard monitor

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Hammond
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Swigity Swag what's in the Bag

Apparently Parasaurolophus can breathe fire from it's nostrils.

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This was an old book I used to own. I don't remember it much but the most hilarious part of it was the fire sneezing hadrosaur. xD

Also it had a bonus page about Bombardier beetles which I don't think it has to do with anything dinosaur related.
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trisdino
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The lava monitor just looks so happy, it is rather adorable.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

trisdino
Aug 9 2014, 05:56 PM
The lava monitor just looks so happy, it is rather adorable.
it does, the lizards expressions are what makes that film worth watching

[EDIT] remember the demon signs?
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I found their home
http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/rise-of-robosaurs-at-marwell_6550.html
Edited by stargatedalek, Aug 9 2014, 09:58 PM.
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Fireplume
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Snok Snok Snerson

stargatedalek
Aug 9 2014, 06:47 PM
trisdino
Aug 9 2014, 05:56 PM
The lava monitor just looks so happy, it is rather adorable.
it does, the lizards expressions are what makes that film worth watching

[EDIT] remember the demon signs?
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I found their home
http://chasmosaurs.blogspot.com.au/2014/06/rise-of-robosaurs-at-marwell_6550.html
Does that sign really show x15 the weight of a anteater?

Wat
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trisdino
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Hey, I have heard of weirder measurement systems... though not by much.
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