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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 (256,308 Views)
Furka
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Language. CI ;)

And don't forget people that use the same logic to defend their personal opinions on extinct animals.
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CyborgIguana
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The cliched association of volcanoes with the Mesozoic. Nothing...but...volcanoes...everywhere!
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CyborgIguana
Sep 17 2014, 09:43 PM
The cliched association of volcanoes with the Mesozoic. Nothing...but...volcanoes...everywhere!
The only areas with high volcanic activity I could think of in the Mesozoic is the early Rocky Mountains, India's Deccan Traps, and maybe the Yixian Formation but I don't know any other. Volcanic regions was not everywhere, if so then the Mesozoic was full of dead plants and animals.
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CyborgIguana
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I think Hell Creek also had some volcanic activity (at least if various documentaries are to be believed).
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CyborgIguana
Sep 17 2014, 09:50 PM
I think Hell Creek also had some volcanic activity (at least if various documentaries are to be believed).
Wasn't that by the early Rocky Mountains.
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CyborgIguana
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Well they're both in the western USA, so possibly.
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Meerkatmatt2
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Also those areas in the rift valleys between splitting continents would experience it as well,
I'm careful with this, but some of us atheists seem to be a little too anti-religious, to the point of being mean to those that are religious,Recently I have become a lot more tolerant of people with such viewpoints.through this should not be made into an argument.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

I wouldn't say I'm deliberately more aggressive to religious people, but I tend to get edgy and defensive, same thing around extremist right wing people
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CyborgIguana
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The amount of times that pseudo-scientific or creationist articles have become front-page news. Just...AUUUGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
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CyborgIguana
Sep 19 2014, 10:44 PM
The amount of times that pseudo-scientific or creationist articles have become front-page news. Just...AUUUGGGHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!
It's okay until they start to use that to show evolution is wrong or the world is very young with very little evidence!
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My father thinks that all animals today are descended from dinosaurs XP
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Just one thing I'll say: shrink-wrapping and this-
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Pronounced MY-cro-RAP-tor) Microraptor (meaning "little plunderer") is a newly-discovered, bird-like dinosaur from China. This crow-sized coelurosaurid theropod was about 16 inches (40 cm long). Its feet were adapted for climbing; it have spent much of its life in trees. This bipedal meat-eater had some bird-like features, including its teeth (like those of early birds) and hip (it had a Rahonavis-like ischium). A partial skeleton (missing the middle portion) and feather-like impressions were found in Liaoning, China. It is probably an adult, but this is not certain. The type species is M. zhaoianus; it was named by Xu, Zhou, and Wang in 2000.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

^ just.....what.....just like what seriously.....

why would they seem to have done research, and then deliberately ignored the other fossils of it we have
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stargatedalek
Sep 20 2014, 08:44 PM
^ just.....what.....just like what seriously.....

why would they seem to have done research, and then deliberately ignored the other fossils of it we have
Exactly, a half-feathered abomination that doesn't even follow the fossils.
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CyborgIguana
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BANDits and the increasingly desperate and illogical arguments they make. Feduccia even stated in a recent article IIRC that Ornithomimus couldn't possibly have had feathers just because the arrangement of its quill knobs is nothing like that of living birds. So...just because it had differently arranged feathers means it didn't have feathers at all?
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