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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 (256,254 Views) | |
| Mathius Tyra | Jan 20 2015, 07:37 PM Post #3691 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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You can't just expect people to know everything especially thing they aren't interested to... We may know about dinosaurs but in the same time we might be so suck at food, cars, fasion, actors, chemistry, etc. which people that may not know about dinosaur know them in deep detail. |
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Jan 20 2015, 07:40 PM Post #3692 |
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i know but dinosaurs is like english . if no good go home ! ! you know what i mean ? |
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| CyborgIguana | Jan 20 2015, 07:41 PM Post #3693 |
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No, I can't say I do. |
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| Jules | Jan 20 2015, 07:46 PM Post #3694 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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Judging by your English, you should honestly apply this to yourself. |
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| BossAggron | Jan 20 2015, 08:00 PM Post #3695 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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Crooky, don't you think that's a bit mean-spirited? |
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| Jules | Jan 20 2015, 08:17 PM Post #3696 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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I'm only being honest in this case, especially with someone who seems to be a troll
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Jan 20 2015, 08:42 PM Post #3697 |
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blah
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Preach it, sista.
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| BossAggron | Jan 20 2015, 09:18 PM Post #3698 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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Well if it is one, then its probably not a good idea to feed a Troll, at least one of this low of a threat level. |
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| babehunter1324 | Jan 21 2015, 06:47 AM Post #3699 |
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One thing that kinda annoys me is the assumption that the number of species and families of animals that currently exists is higher than it has ever been before as if we were at a point of "maximum biodiversity" (or at least before we started to cause a massive ecological impact). Haven't those who make those claims consider two things: 1.- The fossil record is very fragmentary, we will never found remains of all species that had lived in the past and maybe not even all families (Phylogeny concept) of animals that ever lived. 2.- The fact that is a way deal harder to differentiate extinct species from one another compared to differentiating extant species (with exctant species we can now they're shape, colors and genetic information to classify them according while we seldomly do with extinct ones). Edited by babehunter1324, Jan 21 2015, 12:37 PM.
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| Furka | Jan 21 2015, 06:52 AM Post #3700 |
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Not to mention, even with some modern animals it's hard to tell if they are different species, subspecies or populations sometimes. |
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| babehunter1324 | Jan 21 2015, 07:06 AM Post #3701 |
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True. But it's harder still with extinct ones. It would had sense that we had indeed a relative high biodiversity compared to most of the geological range (the more time life is on Earth the more derived it gets and the more taxons are formed). But claiming that we are on a climax of global biodiversity is in my oppinion kinda callous. |
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| Yutyrannus the second | Jan 21 2015, 07:38 AM Post #3702 |
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We don´t even know all modern animals. If you don´t believe me, how many tapirs were known 2010 and how many ones are known today? So, I think we can´t even except to know everything about extinct animals, since we don´t even know everything about recent ones. |
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| Incinerox | Jan 21 2015, 09:16 AM Post #3703 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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Well here's some statistics which I will go double check later on to make sure I've got this right. But anyway:
More food for thought. |
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| Yutyrannus the second | Jan 21 2015, 01:35 PM Post #3704 |
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I just don´t understand why we find fossils from some species more often than from others.... That´s kind of annoying... |
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| CyborgIguana | Jan 21 2015, 01:49 PM Post #3705 |
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Preservation artifact, I assume. Some places preserve fossils more easily than others. |
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