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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 (256,288 Views)
stargatedalek
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because everyone knows scorpions are poisonous


that does bring up a question however, I used to hear all the time about this "secondary brain/nerve cluster", but a few years ago I stopped hearing it ever mentioned, has it fallen out of common assumption? or were its "mysteries solved" and it was no longer worth mentioning?
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stargatedalek
Oct 24 2014, 10:31 PM
because everyone knows scorpions are poisonous


that does bring up a question however, I used to hear all the time about this "secondary brain/nerve cluster", but a few years ago I stopped hearing it ever mentioned, has it fallen out of common assumption? or were its "mysteries solved" and it was no longer worth mentioning?
Stegosaurus never had two brains. It was just a big misunderstanding by people from the 19th and early 20th century.
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http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/?no-ist
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I knew it wasn't a brain, but brain was often said in lack of a better term so I stuck with it

Interesting to see this theory has fallen out of popularity, I thought it made sense in stegosaurs actually, giving them faster and more accute control over the tail
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stargatedalek
Oct 24 2014, 11:28 PM
Interesting to see this theory has fallen out of popularity
The fact it was mentioned in Pacific Rim makes me think it's not that out of the loop.
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Furka
Oct 25 2014, 03:41 AM
stargatedalek
Oct 24 2014, 11:28 PM
Interesting to see this theory has fallen out of popularity
The fact it was mentioned in Pacific Rim makes me think it's not that out of the loop.
I don't really think Guillermo Del Torro, good at making films as he is, is really up and up on dinosaur theory. The stegosaurus brain line is a pretty common mistake.
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Nat Geo annoys me
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That Sea Monsters documentary they did was pretty good, but otherwise I agree.
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Nat Geo is usually ok when they're doing normal nature documentaries but they usually take a nosedive into a Discovery-esque level of pandering stupid when they try to do extinct things.

Smithsonian Channel <3
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Oct 27 2014, 06:51 AM
That Sea Monsters documentary they did was pretty good, but otherwise I agree.
thats the exception, probably because it was so high budget
whereas most things they make are low grade tv docus
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Just as WDRA and DR are the sole exceptions to DC's otherwise crappy lineup of paleo-docs.
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stargatedalek
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don't forget Dinosaur Planet, it was absolutely amazing for its time
although its now dated
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Especially since it was one of the first paleo-docs to feature feathered maniraptorans (even though we now know they were far more extensively feathered than depicted). :P
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stargatedalek
Oct 27 2014, 08:49 PM
don't forget Dinosaur Planet, it was absolutely amazing for its time
although its now dated
The first dinosaurs I saw on screen were their feathered Velociraptors :P
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Except that Dinosaur Planet producers must have been racist towards feathered raptors (they keep dieing horrible deaths, I mean, geyser and meteorites !?)
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Furka
Oct 28 2014, 06:32 AM
They keep dieing horrible deaths, I mean, geyser and meteorites.
... And single handedly conquering entire islands.

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