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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 (256,283 Views)
CyborgIguana
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I just realized this now, but I suspect that the "monsterizing" of dinosaurs may also be part of the reason that some people question their very past existence on this planet (besides the motive of religious beliefs that contradict scientific fact). I mean it must be admitted, a screeching, slobbering, draconic monster akin to the beasts of ancient mythology isn't exactly the most believable creature to be depicted, and yet this is what most dinosaur depictions come out looking as. Little do these people know that dinosaurs only look this way because this is how we CHOOSE to depict them, it is perfectly possible to portray dinosaurs as completely ordinary animals that most people would have no difficulty accepting as real (with the possible exception of some YECs).
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CyborgIguana
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How hard it is to explain the whole "genus/species" thing to my family and friends.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-mysterious-mysteries-of-feather.html?m=1

The Coelophysis guy's comment in this Mark Witton's article about feather's resistance....



Anyone can translate those pile of words for me get cookies...
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Mathius Tyra
Nov 16 2014, 04:47 AM
http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-mysterious-mysteries-of-feather.html?m=1

The Coelophysis guy's comment in this Mark Witton's article about feather's resistance....



Anyone can translate those pile of words for me get cookies...
"Baaah I don't agree with the article because it's againt my opinion and thus I shall bombard it with a flow of words with no sense or punctuation whatsoever just so somebody might take me seriously even though they won't probably understand me baaaaah!

Baaah!"

You're welcome.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

MrGorsh
Nov 16 2014, 04:59 AM
Mathius Tyra
Nov 16 2014, 04:47 AM
http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-mysterious-mysteries-of-feather.html?m=1

The Coelophysis guy's comment in this Mark Witton's article about feather's resistance....



Anyone can translate those pile of words for me get cookies...
"Baaah I don't agree with the article because it's againt my opinion and thus I shall bombard it with a flow of words with no sense or punctuation whatsoever just so somebody might take me seriously even though they won't probably understand me baaaaah!

Baaah!"

You're welcome.
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And this is not spam, folks...
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Mathius Tyra
Nov 16 2014, 04:47 AM
http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2013/04/the-mysterious-mysteries-of-feather.html?m=1

The Coelophysis guy's comment in this Mark Witton's article about feather's resistance....



Anyone can translate those pile of words for me get cookies...
Would it be too rude to ask that peson to kill him/her/it self or atleast not to produce descendants?

Seriously, they're an awfull contribution to our gene pool...
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CyborgIguana
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*Unleashes a pack of mind-controlled future predators on it (yes, it deserves to be called "it")*
Edited by CyborgIguana, Nov 16 2014, 07:01 PM.
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Incinerox
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Coelophysis is trolling. Please tell me he's trolling.
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CyborgIguana
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People who think we need to base everything in dinosaur speculation on modern birds. While this is undoubtedly helpful, it's important to remember that birds are but one branch of what was once an incredibly diverse assortment of animals.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

when I confuse maniraptora and eumaniraptora xD
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Incinerox
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When I need to find skeletal references and they just don't bloody exist.

For example:

All papers I've read say Megaraptor (excluding the juvenile which we have a lot of the spine for) is known from a complete hand, forearm, scapula, come cervical vertebrae and a pubic bone. Yet all these same papers are only willing to show pics of the scapula, ulna and the thumb claw and thumb bone. I need them metacarpals and other fingers, yo.
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^ It's even more annoying when the species you need a skeletal for is a rather popular one (it happened to me with Pachycephalosaurus and Torosaurus).
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Incinerox
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I at least know where Pachycephalosaurus skeletals exist.

Torosaurus description is still a bit of a mess though, which is probably why none exist yet.

Another thing that annoys me is when you've got 2 or 3 specimens of the same species, of different sizes and ages, and even after being given accurate scale bars and you've scaled them, they're STILL totally different in proportion.
Edited by Incinerox, Nov 19 2014, 06:51 AM.
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Iben
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!

What annoys me is that in many new pieces of art depicting Spinosaurus refer to the new paper and draw them in a quadrupedal way. Now it's not that that bothers me, although I'm still on the fence until we get some more detail on the arms. No it's the fact that most of those still show an almost über-shrink-wrapped Dimetrodon-esque sail, while the paper gives a total different description.
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The Eyes that follow you in the Alolan forests

How some people think Hatzegopteryx is a Quetzalcoatlus
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