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| What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,289 Views) | |
| BossAggron | Oct 21 2014, 10:46 PM Post #3166 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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I will admit the Concept of all todays (shrink wrapping modern animals) is fun though. |
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| Carnoraptorsaur | Oct 21 2014, 10:55 PM Post #3167 |
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Oh Big Al, super power dinosaurs through radiation! Ha! You crack me up!Anyways back on topic: By Shrink-wrapping I assume you mean the reconstruction of extinct animals based only on skeletal evidence right You mean like this? "Shrink-wrapped" Sorry I'm new to these terms
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| Taurotragus | Oct 21 2014, 11:00 PM Post #3168 |
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Off Topic: Wow Big Al has popped his head up again, when will he get tired of messing with us. On Topic: Everybody lock your doors, the shrink wrapped spider monkeys and rhinos are coming.
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| Carnoraptorsaur | Oct 21 2014, 11:03 PM Post #3169 |
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Them spider monkeys would make an amazing Halloween decoration to hang on your window. It probably scares kids away
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| BossAggron | Oct 21 2014, 11:33 PM Post #3170 |
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The Hippos are Amazing.
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Oct 21 2014, 11:39 PM Post #3171 |
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Yes. I did mean that shrinkwrapping. |
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| kepperbob | Oct 22 2014, 10:30 AM Post #3172 |
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- Pure Shardana -
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The Srhink wrapped hippo look like an estemmenosuchus |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 22 2014, 12:20 PM Post #3173 |
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Maybe that means Estemmenosuchus looked like a hippo (well, one with insane bony protrusions on its head).
Edited by CyborgIguana, Oct 22 2014, 12:21 PM.
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| Carnoraptorsaur | Oct 22 2014, 05:44 PM Post #3174 |
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Ok sorry but this is the last off topic: Big Al made a reappearance. I got into an argument with him at Gaia yesterday and this morning. He goes by the name of Grendal. Interesting. It was in the Favorite Dinosaurs Poll Back on topic: So does this mean most of the extinct animals we have reconstructed may not be accurate? I mean the toad looks pretty similar but the rest are way off. Edited by Carnoraptorsaur, Oct 22 2014, 05:49 PM.
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 22 2014, 07:20 PM Post #3175 |
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I have trouble imagining that we're quite THAT far off with our reconstructions, but we're certainly not spot-on either. All Yesterdays (the book that those illustrations are from) was just trying to make a humorous point about how we can't deduce everything about the appearance of an animal from fossil remains alone.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Oct 22 2014, 07:21 PM.
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| Anas Platyrhynchos | Oct 22 2014, 07:37 PM Post #3176 |
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The Quacky Canine
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those people who say dinosaurs are scary giant scaly monstrosity's just because they don't look scary with feathers. THEY ARE ANIMALS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD NOT MONSTERS FROM HORROR MOVIES |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 24 2014, 11:50 AM Post #3177 |
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The fact that most feathered dinosaur depictions make a mistake that surprisingly is seldom pointed out: the legs leave the knee and thigh of the animal completely visible, despite the fact that in most living birds the upper portion of the leg is almost completely hidden by feathers so that only the foot and ankle can be seen (which is also why the ankles of birds are commonly mistaken for the knees by laymen). |
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| stargatedalek | Oct 24 2014, 12:49 PM Post #3178 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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well most birds have considerably small thighs, which isn't true of many other dinosaurs *edit* I meant the thigh being well defined under the feathers, not having bare thighs Edited by stargatedalek, Oct 24 2014, 12:50 PM.
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| Slothy Dude | Oct 24 2014, 01:03 PM Post #3179 |
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The Happy Xenarthran.
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This was funny. I used to draw dinosaurs like that but then I saw Paleoart of dinosaurs with the legs visible and I started drawing dinosaurs with their legs visible. Nowadays I have reverted to drawing dinos the Corecct way. |
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| BossAggron | Oct 24 2014, 10:17 PM Post #3180 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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