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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 (256,309 Views)
Furka
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I guess Anteater style.

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Edited by Furka, Sep 12 2014, 05:34 AM.
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Dr. Hax
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Seriously though, this news that just makes Spinosaurus weirder also makes it more awesome. The world needed a quadrupedal theropod.
Edited by Dr. Hax, Sep 12 2014, 05:43 AM.
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Sorry but it apparently wasn't an obligate quadruped. Took less time than I expected :
http://www.skeletaldrawing.com/home/theres-something-fishy-about-spinosaurus9112014
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MightyFan217
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OH YESSS!

EDIT: Ninja'd by Furka.
Edited by MightyFan217, Sep 12 2014, 11:59 AM.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

MrGorsh
Sep 12 2014, 02:56 AM
And the paper clearly mentions that the 'sail' would resemble that of a crested chameleon, as the edges of the spine ends are far too pointy to support extensive muscle coverage. So no more overdone bison-like Spinosaurus. Still, the thinner part of the sump/'sail' wouldn't dig far down to the base of the spines in the vertebrae, as the animal requires some muscle tissue in that area. The top would be rather thin. Of course, relatively, it's still a 15m long animal, so no fish-like 'fins'.
I called it! xD

http://www.primalcarnage.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=61&t=11581&start=20

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CyborgIguana
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The fact that Mark Witton hasn't posted about Ikrandraco yet on his blog. I'd have thought he'd be one of the first to comment on this discovery. :P
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Bigwhale
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Apparently he's focusing on Sauropods right now xD He's making a Sauropod book btw.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

last I knew he was offering to illustrate a sauropod book, rather than writing one
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Even
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He commented on an Ikrandraco article in NatGeo, if I'm not mistaken..
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CyborgIguana
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Edited by CyborgIguana, Sep 15 2014, 07:46 PM.
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Yi Qi
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@Cyborg: I hate political correctness and the fact that we have to hide an opinion because it may "hurt someone's sensibilities" Ahh give me a freaking break, nowadays everything is considered "offensive" or "pejorative" and its been decided we need moral guardians to sort out whats offensive and whats not, infact its this political correctness that is ruining the modern world...

rants aside

I hate when people think we know prehistoric ecosystems in depth, no we don't we have found less than 1% of all life that lived on the planet, how can we know every detail of the life of "X" or the place inhabited by "Y".
Edited by Yi Qi, Sep 15 2014, 08:11 PM.
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CyborgIguana
Sep 15 2014, 07:44 PM
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For squeezing lemons into delicious, fresh lemonade, of course.
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Mathius Tyra
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Dr. Hax
Sep 15 2014, 08:48 PM
CyborgIguana
Sep 15 2014, 07:44 PM
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For squeezing lemons into delicious, fresh lemonade, of course.
That would be the worse idea of making lemonade ever...
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Mathius Tyra
Sep 15 2014, 10:00 PM
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Sep 15 2014, 08:48 PM
CyborgIguana
Sep 15 2014, 07:44 PM
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For squeezing lemons into delicious, fresh lemonade, of course.
That would be the worse idea of making lemonade ever...
Especially with all the holes, and particularly unclean squeezer.
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CyborgIguana
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The bulls**t notion that we can't know anything about the distant past because we weren't there to witness it. Right, just like we can't know anything about outer space because we've never been outside of Earth's orbit. All the stars and planets that we observe with our telescopes are obviously just optical illusions. This is basically the kind of logic creationists and pseudo-scientists use to debunk our understanding of the prehistoric past.

I mean, I agree that we know relatively little about the past and that there's a lot more left to learn than there is that's been discovered, but to claim that even what little we do know could all be 100% wrong is bullcrap!
Edited by CyborgIguana, Sep 16 2014, 02:48 PM.
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