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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 (256,264 Views)
Yi Qi
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Ignacio
Jan 7 2015, 10:59 AM
Oh and a southern lapwing when i was a kid :P Those things are nasty!
Southern lapwings are incarnations of pure hatred in bird-like form, plus they swarm basically everywhere with an open field, football fields, graveyards,parks, you name it, absolutely no one and absolutely no where is safe from their brutal wrath, to make it worse,the bastards have sharp spurs in the tip of their wings they wont hesitate in shoving into your skin either.

Well, i've been attacked by many birds, from owls to tinamous up to ostriches and i do agree birds can be the nastiest of bastards sometimes.

however , we didn't suffer heavy predation from birds on our evolutionary path in the african savannah(except MAYBE crowned eagles) as we did with reptiles and mammals, hence why we don't really have any pressure to find them scary, and hence why many people find feathered dinosaurs "silly".
Edited by Yi Qi, Jan 7 2015, 01:11 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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Which, let's face it, they probably were. But hey, what's wrong with that? :P
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Yi Qi
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CyborgIguana
Jan 7 2015, 02:37 PM
Which, let's face it, they probably were. But hey, what's wrong with that? :P
Exactly, that has been my point since like, forever.
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Yutyrannus the second
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It´s quite funny.
The most dangerous african bird was an eagle.
The fost feared birds today are Crows and eagles xD
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BossAggron
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Formerly Dilophoraptor

Oi. We have these like Science Prefix, Root, and Suffix quizes. and Ichthyosaur was on their for Ichthyo-, and when we were going over it when we go to that.


Everyone said "it's a Dinosaur"




And I pretty much just yelled NO.
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Denomon3144
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Pick a god and pray!

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CyborgIguana
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I think the last line makes it pretty clear that that logo is meant to be satire. :P
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Yutyrannus the second
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I once drawed a feathered T.rex on the cupboard.
A guy asked me why the T.rex have so spiky skin -.-

Another guy later asked me, why I drawed a feathered Velociraptor (it was Archeroraptor in reality, by the way) with the T.rex.
I said him that we definitly know that Velociraptor was feathered.
He said: "No, just a subspecies from Velociraptor was feathered." O.o
I´m pretty sure he don´t meant the feathers from Velociraptor mongoliensis or Microraptor guy.
Do someone have an idea were he have the `just a subspecies´-sh*t from?
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Yutyrannus the second
Jan 10 2015, 03:58 AM
I once drawed a feathered T.rex on the cupboard.
A guy asked me why the T.rex have so spiky skin -.-

Another guy later asked me, why I drawed a feathered Velociraptor (it was Archeroraptor in reality, by the way) with the T.rex.
I said him that we definitly know that Velociraptor was feathered.
He said: "No, just a subspecies from Velociraptor was feathered." O.o
I´m pretty sure he don´t meant the feathers from Velociraptor mongoliensis or Microraptor guy.
Do someone have an idea were he have the `just a subspecies´-sh*t from?
Velociraptor sornaensis, probably. Which is a hybrid mutant species from a movie franchise anyway.

Or Microraptor. :)
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Yutyrannus the second
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MrGorsh
Jan 10 2015, 04:15 AM
Yutyrannus the second
Jan 10 2015, 03:58 AM
I once drawed a feathered T.rex on the cupboard.
A guy asked me why the T.rex have so spiky skin -.-

Another guy later asked me, why I drawed a feathered Velociraptor (it was Archeroraptor in reality, by the way) with the T.rex.
I said him that we definitly know that Velociraptor was feathered.
He said: "No, just a subspecies from Velociraptor was feathered." O.o
I´m pretty sure he don´t meant the feathers from Velociraptor mongoliensis or Microraptor guy.
Do someone have an idea were he have the `just a subspecies´-sh*t from?
Velociraptor sornaensis, probably. Which is a hybrid mutant species from a movie franchise anyway.

Or Microraptor. :)
V.sornaensis isn´t even feathered, it just have some ugly porcupine quillls on the neck. -.-
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Similis
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Some people would call it "bold feathered restoration despite no evidence for it", so... you know ._.
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Yutyrannus the second
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A, yes. There´s another point which annoy me.
Fanboys keep complaining that there is no evidence for feathers.
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Seriously, we have feather impressions on various species from China, Russia, Germany, USA and others; preserved Dinofuzz; Quill knobs and at last but not least the fact that EVERY SINGLE RECENT DINOSAUR HAVE FEATHERS!!!!!! -.-
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

*cough* you need to practice learning what sarcasm is *cough*
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Similis
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@Yu, could you elaborate what do you not understand from my post? :L
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CyborgIguana
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The number of people who still say dinosaurs never existed. IMO it's just about the worst paleo-fail anyone could possibly make.
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