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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 (256,313 Views)
Stan The Man
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Bigwhale
Sep 7 2014, 04:22 AM
Not to mention WWD's Acheroraptor (I know, it's called a Dromeasaurus in the show because it's years before the naming xD).

Also games that are lazy on making new models on way way different dinosaurs. It's still understandable to have similar animals with the same models, yet in Deadly shores, they used the same model of Bambiraptor with Agilisaurus >_<
If there's anything about that game's dinosaurs I hate, it's that right there. Let me put out more examples from that game:

-Staurikosaurus and Dromaeosaurus are simply reskinned Vewosirappas
-Hypsilophodon and the pachycephalosaurs are just Vewosirappas with different heads and no sickle claws- even the sounds those dinosaurs produce are the exact same
-Titanis has a dinosaurian tail, and thus also a dinosaurian stance (they're also pussy cats, but that's not part of the subject at hand)
-Heterdontosaurus has the same condition as the herbivores mentioned above, except it's the Compy instead of the Vewosirappa
-Troodon is a Vewosirappa with a different head and no sickle claws
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Admiral General Aladeen
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The "Dinosaurs are dumb because they got wiped out" mindset.
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Taurotragus
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How I can't find much info on prehistoric antelope and bovines.
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BossAggron
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Admiral General Aladeen
Sep 7 2014, 09:40 PM
The "Dinosaurs are dumb because they got wiped out" mindset.
im waiting for someone to say that to me just so i can say that we probably wouldn't have been much better off if it happened to us.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

I've heard worse

died out because they were dumb
died out because they all killed each other
died out because there was no room on the arc
and the most offensive/stupid
died out because they were homosexual
yes thats a thing that some idiots really believe
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Posted Image Drax
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Once my science teaches told my class about a theory that the dinos dies out because of indigestion and diarrhea, I didn't believe him until I looked it up xD
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CyborgIguana
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Frog-faced deinonychosaurs. Why do so many artists depict raptors that are feathered beautifully for the most part, but for some reason still have their snouts drawn as scaly? It makes zero sense to me.
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BossAggron
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CyborgIguana
Sep 9 2014, 06:23 PM
Frog-faced deinonychosaurs. Why do so many artists depict raptors that are feathered beautifully for the most part, but for some reason still have their snouts drawn as scaly? It makes zero sense to me.
i figured that a Scaly Snout would be less work to clean is why.
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CyborgIguana
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That doesn't seem to be a problem for birds of prey.
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^
Vultures, and this ain't spam.
Edited by Drax, Sep 9 2014, 06:37 PM.
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Furka
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It really depends on how they ate food too large to be swallowed whole.
Birds of prey take out small pieces of food, so they don't get that dirty.
Vultures have some specific adaptations to say clean, but they dive into carcasses to feed.
I am not sure what kind of feeding dromaeosaurs used, and if it was the same or if it varied among different animals like Unenlaginae and Velociraptorinae (swallowing a long azdarchid bone looks rather piggy eater to me).
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Posted Image Drax
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Exactly. Most birds of prey such as raptors or eagles will eat smaller foods that they can swallow whole or are fairly small, like rabbits, and they can finish a meal quickly without getting to much crap on their facial feather, even though they still have to do a lot of preening afterwards. Raptors would be more like vultures in my mind because they would have normally consumed much larger prey, and like vultures, probably wouldn't want any facial feathers to get mucked up with scales, blood and flesh.
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CyborgIguana
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There isn't actually much evidence that they normally consumed much larger prey. Most raptors probably tackled prey their own size or smaller, just like hawks, eagles, and falcons today. Anyway, I never said frog-faced raptors were necessarily inaccurate (though most of them probably are IMO), it's just an over-used trope that bugs me.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Sep 9 2014, 06:53 PM.
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Justice Society of America
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Even if they were consuming prey their own size, we still don't know if they dug their faces into the carcass like vultures or if they ripped small pieces off like eagles.

If the prey was exactly their own size, then that would make sense for their snouts to be bare and not their whole head/head and neck because their prey wouldn't have been like a zebra and more like a gazelle, so from the bottom to the top of the prey's torso it would only be a snout's length.

Although we still don't know until evidence is found. Out of curiosity, do you dislike restorations like this bother you or only ones like this? (The first one looks much more like a frog I guess)
Edited by Justice Society of America, Sep 9 2014, 07:06 PM.
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Carnoraptorsaur
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Something that always annoys me is when people confuse Paleontology with Archeology >__<
I mean really is it that hard to tell the difference. In fact I've seen some Dinosaur Documentaries
that confuse the two.
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