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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 (256,274 Views)
Louie Misciouscia
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King of Monsters. King of Dinosaurs. GODZILLA

Treebeard
Dec 10 2014, 09:49 PM
I'm an atheist from the south, so I am an example on this very site.

Anyways:
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This piece of art is from the TV show DinoSapien. I absolutely love DinoSapien. Is it still on TV.
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Yi Qi
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babehunter1324
Dec 11 2014, 05:01 PM
Well chasing young Triceratops was not something I would had really expected... Altough now that I think about it might not had been be that far fetched.

There has been records of deers killing and eating juvenile sea birds after all...
And from all we have on pachycephalosaurid teeth, they were if anything, about as meat inclined as troodontids, a famously omnivorous clade which we know from both their teeth and stomachal contents ate both plants and small animals.

so more of a boar or a warthog than the goats everybody seem to depict them as.

@DG: look at the part right before the rest of the gang comes to the rescue, they were clearly trying to eat cera, atleast on that take.
Edited by Yi Qi, Dec 11 2014, 06:37 PM.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Funny that in some later sequels, Pachycephalosaurus are found to be one of the population living in great valley too.

Wouldn't it a kind of risk to have a neighbour that turn on your kids when they are starving. :P
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Furka
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Meh, not as risky as having a resident population of breeding giant herbivores without any predator/disease/population control measure.
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CyborgIguana
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The misconception that all pterosaurs were either seabird-like piscivorous gliders or vulture-like inland scavengers. IT JUST...WON'T...DIE!!!!!
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Yi Qi
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CyborgIguana
Dec 12 2014, 03:25 PM
The misconception that all pterosaurs were either seabird-like piscivorous gliders or vulture-like inland scavengers. IT JUST...WON'T...DIE!!!!!
THIS

SO MUCH THIS.

Plus the idea people have they were bad fliers when they were actually, far superior to birds and bats at that aspect
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Similis
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You can't be bad at flying AND survive as the dominant flying vertebrate group throughout the whole damn Mesozoic.
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You know what annoys me a lot? The lack of Bahariasaurus material.

I mean, we had manage to find in the last two decades some Carcharodontosaurus and Spinosaurus material, but Bahariasaurus material is nowhere to be found (unless Deltradomeus is Bahariasaurus but in order to confirm that we need yet again more fossils). :roll:
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

Even then we don't have a skull of ANY bahariasaurid. At all.
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CyborgIguana
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When people lampoon a dinosaur reconstruction just for being "silly-looking". A LOT OF ANIMALS ARE SILLY-LOOKING, WHY SHOULD DINOSAURS BE ANY DIFFERENT??? I don't know why so many people insist on finding such depictions disgraceful, what I find disgraceful is the notion that dinosaurs were all uber-kawaii monster killing machines that has in fact led numerous laypeople to underrate the beauty and sophistication of real dinosaurs.
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Yi Qi
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CyborgIguana
Dec 12 2014, 08:56 PM
When people lampoon a dinosaur reconstruction just for being "silly-looking". A LOT OF ANIMALS ARE SILLY-LOOKING, WHY SHOULD DINOSAURS BE ANY DIFFERENT??? I don't know why so many people insist on finding such depictions disgraceful, what I find disgraceful is the notion that dinosaurs were all uber-kawaii monster killing machines that has in fact led numerous laypeople to underrate the beauty and sophistication of real dinosaurs.
Dude, you are awesome!

Thats exactly what i've been trying to say over and over again without sucess to all of these JP fanboys and assorted arsewipes who keep insisting all dinosaurs should be the incarnation of Ancalagon on this earth.
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CyborgIguana
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Of course, some dinosaurs probably were pretty scary. Giant carnivorous theropods like carcharodontosaurids and tyrannosaurids must have been terrifying animals by human standards, regardless of how exactly they looked or behaved in real life. However, they weren't monsters, which is the point that people like us are trying to make. But that's why we're starting to learn from our mistakes, and depictions of dinosaurs looking and behaving like real creatures are quickly increasing in numbers. Most of them don't reach public eyes, unfortunately.
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CyborgIguana
Dec 12 2014, 09:39 PM
Of course, some dinosaurs probably were pretty scary. Giant carnivorous theropods like carcharodontosaurids and tyrannosaurids must have been terrifying animals by human standards, regardless of how exactly they looked or behaved in real life. But they weren't monsters, which is the point that people like us are trying to make.
They still had their goofy and cute moments though, like when they are sleeping.
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CyborgIguana
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Of course. Even the scariest and most badass animals of the Cenozoic still have their goofy, cute, and funny moments.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Dec 12 2014, 09:42 PM.
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Yi Qi
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CyborgIguana
Dec 12 2014, 09:39 PM
Of course, some dinosaurs probably were pretty scary. Giant carnivorous theropods like carcharodontosaurids and tyrannosaurids must have been terrifying animals by human standards, regardless of how exactly they looked or behaved in real life. However, they weren't monsters, which is the point that people like us are trying to make. But that's why we're starting to learn from our mistakes, and depictions of dinosaurs looking and behaving like real creatures are quickly increasing in numbers. Most of them don't reach public eyes, unfortunately.
Indeed, but for all we know, even the big scary ones could look silly.

Now looking silly =/= being silly or not being dangerous

Ostriches are quite goofy looking very large creatures, untill they jackhammer you with their feet to the point of nearly killing you, and land you in the hospital for a week.

Its ridiculous to assume all dinosaurs would've looked like ancalagon and godzilla had a baby, which is what most reconstructions seem to aim at sadly.
Edited by Yi Qi, Dec 12 2014, 10:24 PM.
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