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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 (256,252 Views) | |
| Yi Qi | Jan 21 2015, 05:53 PM Post #3721 |
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Compy's tail scales were lately found out to be sedimentological artifacts.
in short, those have been disproven time after time again, and the newest studies sugest those scales are actually corpse wax. This holds truth to jura tough, which likely had scales running up to its stomach. In short, basal, non maniraptoriform coelurosaur integument had no discernible "pattern" whatsoever, we have things like juravenator which shows a mid coat of feathers and an entirely scaly underside ,Sinosauropteryx and some tyrannosaurids with some traces of scales on the pubic area and under thebase of their tails, as you previously mentioned, yet you have aberrations like Sinocalliopteryx who is feathered up to its feet. There is a but simple explanation to this however, basal coelurosaur nomeclature is a huge cluster****, in short, "Compsognathidae" is as paraphyletic as theropods get, with things such as juravenator being more closely related to ornitholestes and coelurus (and to tyrannosaurs) than to compsognathus, wich is likely not that closely related either with things such as Sinosauropteryx,Huaxiagnathus and Sinocalliopteryx who likely form a clade amongst themselves. and thats why our dinosaur taxonomies need updates, BADLY. Edited by Yi Qi, Jan 22 2015, 07:13 PM.
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| the dark phoenix | Jan 21 2015, 06:25 PM Post #3722 |
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Care to know one thing that annoys me? Wars and politics preventing more fossil finds. They blow the places up and then its a miracle if we find even a toe or tooth. Private fossil hunters that don't share. And stupid people that find them and ground them up for "Dragon potions" or some other hogwash. |
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| Yi Qi | Jan 21 2015, 06:49 PM Post #3723 |
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Fun fact, our legends of griffons might very well have come from Protoceratops bones brought on from the east by the silk roads on ancient roman times. ![]() Edited by Yi Qi, Jan 21 2015, 06:49 PM.
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| Incinerox | Jan 21 2015, 08:24 PM Post #3724 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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YES! THIS! This is why we barely have anything from the Middle East. It remains almost completely unexplored, and I have a hunch that it's got A LOT of potential going for it paleontologically. Edited by Incinerox, Jan 21 2015, 08:25 PM.
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Jan 21 2015, 08:30 PM Post #3725 |
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WELL, THANKS A LOT. You just made my mind explode.
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| CyborgIguana | Jan 21 2015, 10:05 PM Post #3726 |
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How many of the dinosaur articles on Wikipedia still display shrink-wrapped reconstructions. Because I guess according to Wikipedia policy, non shrink-wrapping would be "too speculative".
Edited by CyborgIguana, Jan 21 2015, 10:05 PM.
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Jan 22 2015, 01:44 AM Post #3727 |
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Realizing that Humposaurus maximus doesn't exist depressed me. ._.
Edited by Narukota, Jan 22 2015, 01:44 AM.
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| Incinerox | Jan 22 2015, 06:44 AM Post #3728 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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They removed my Thalassodromeus because "it's head is too small". I have since solved that problem and still not back. It makes me angry... >:C |
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| Brach™ | Jan 23 2015, 02:24 AM Post #3729 |
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It's not and it shouldn't be. Not unless they want to use pictures of emaciated lions for their lion article it isn't. |
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| Yutyrannus the second | Jan 23 2015, 05:57 AM Post #3730 |
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Forget Wikipedia. The german one failed to mention Yutyrannus feathers on the T.rex article over 3 years. So, on Wikipedia, there still is that nonsense that T.rex can´t have feathers because it´s to big.... And yes, we even have a Yutyrannus article in the german Wikipedia
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| Yi Qi | Jan 23 2015, 12:26 PM Post #3731 |
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Theres another thing that annoys me, the fact that people still use that arguemnt even tough its been consistently proven to be bullshit over and over again. |
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| CyborgIguana | Jan 23 2015, 01:16 PM Post #3732 |
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It also clearly demonstrates lack of knowledge about feathers. Feathers don't trap heat in the manner of mammalian hair, so they're useful both for warming up the animal and cooling it down. |
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| Iben | Jan 23 2015, 01:23 PM Post #3733 |
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
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Even if it worked like mammalian hair, shouldn't we be portraying Megatherium with naked skin if this was true ? ![]() Besides, even in current mammals there are ways to get rid of warmth using hairs, elephants do this with their hairs.
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| CyborgIguana | Jan 23 2015, 01:24 PM Post #3734 |
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Exactly, thank you for making my point. |
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| Yi Qi | Jan 23 2015, 01:53 PM Post #3735 |
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And people misunderstand why elephants and rhinos are hairless. it is not because they're "big" its because their ancestors were semi aquatic creatures, plus they often start regrowing fur whenever things get a little colder. and talking about sloths, which are similar sized, we have many ground sloth skin material and they're by average WOOLIER THAN MAMMOTHS even tough the species we have fur of lived at places such as... the northeastern Brazilian caatinga: or the Mojave desert: see, theres many reasons animals lose integument and size isn't one of them Edited by Yi Qi, Jan 23 2015, 01:54 PM.
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