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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 (256,288 Views) | |
| stargatedalek | Oct 24 2014, 10:31 PM Post #3181 |
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!
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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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Oct 24 2014, 10:48 PM Post #3182 |
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Stegosaurus never had two brains. It was just a big misunderstanding by people from the 19th and early 20th century. Link: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-double-dinosaur-brain-myth-12155823/?no-ist |
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| stargatedalek | Oct 24 2014, 11:28 PM Post #3183 |
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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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| Furka | Oct 25 2014, 03:41 AM Post #3184 |
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The fact it was mentioned in Pacific Rim makes me think it's not that out of the loop. |
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| Brach™ | Oct 26 2014, 11:06 PM Post #3185 |
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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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| stargatedalek | Oct 27 2014, 05:44 AM Post #3186 |
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Nat Geo annoys me |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 27 2014, 06:51 AM Post #3187 |
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That Sea Monsters documentary they did was pretty good, but otherwise I agree. |
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| Brach™ | Oct 27 2014, 05:19 PM Post #3188 |
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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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| stargatedalek | Oct 27 2014, 07:23 PM Post #3189 |
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thats the exception, probably because it was so high budget whereas most things they make are low grade tv docus |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 27 2014, 08:32 PM Post #3190 |
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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 | Oct 27 2014, 08:49 PM Post #3191 |
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don't forget Dinosaur Planet, it was absolutely amazing for its time although its now dated |
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| CyborgIguana | Oct 27 2014, 08:57 PM Post #3192 |
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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).
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| Jules | Oct 28 2014, 06:29 AM Post #3193 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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The first dinosaurs I saw on screen were their feathered Velociraptors
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| Furka | Oct 28 2014, 06:32 AM Post #3194 |
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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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| Incinerox | Oct 28 2014, 09:48 AM Post #3195 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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... And single handedly conquering entire islands.
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