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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 (256,241 Views)
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Dilophoraptor
Mar 2 2015, 07:26 PM
Crookedjaw
Mar 2 2015, 02:19 PM
Looking for skeletals or launching .gifs of Pterosaurs and stumbling on David Peters.
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Poor thing has a broken wing. Otherwise it would have been able to fly perfectly. Stop clipping and breaking Pterosaur wings David Peters!
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CyborgIguana
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Brian Ford is back with more of his BS.

It appears Ibrahim and Sereno's research on Spinosaurus gave him false confidence.
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CyborgIguana
Mar 2 2015, 10:51 PM
Brian Ford is back with more of his BS.

It appears Ibrahim and Sereno's research on Spinosaurus gave him false confidence.
1 out of the 800+- Dinosaurs we know of are likely aquatic?


____ it, they all are!
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CyborgIguana
Mar 2 2015, 07:40 PM
You can tell just by looking at that gif that the Dimorphodon should have taken off perfectly. Peters just decided to deliberately make it plunge downward again so it would look like he was onto some biomechanical error with quad-launching that only exists in his miniature brain.
He also conveniently chose to use the only known pterosaur that may have been a biped.

CyborgIguana
Mar 2 2015, 10:51 PM
Brian Ford is back with more of his BS.

It appears Ibrahim and Sereno's research on Spinosaurus gave him false confidence.
The fact he uses bootlegs of JP toys and not even the originals only makes it all the better! xD

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I'll admit Dimorphodon may have been an exception to pterosaur quad-launching given its arboreal habits and likely poor flying ability, but I still wouldn't rule it out. And even if it is, that hardly rules out quadrupedal launch in pterosaurs as a whole (claiming it does is the exact same logic used by the aforementioned Brian Ford, since Spinosaurus was aquatic that automatically means ALL large non-avian dinosaurs were).
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 3 2015, 10:08 AM.
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Somebody already posted this on the Extinct Animals Question thread, but I think it is worth posting here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZbmywzGAVs

Apparently this book author and film director thinks that he knows better than the whole Paleoantropologist community as he claims than Neandertal were more carnivorous bipedal gorilla like creatures. He attempts to liken a Gorilla and Neandertal skull (altough the Neandertal skull it's at a different angle), and claims that Neandertals had muzzle like those on great apes (in spite of the fact that Neandertals had a more pronounced nasal bone than our species).

Also kinda funny that he depicted them as evil cannibal creatures considering that there's a lot more evidence for canibalysm in Neolithic societies than there is for Neandertals.
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Mathius Tyra
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What I can see in Neandertal is that they are a race with very small society. They are less sociel and have a few to none relationship with other Neandertal from other family/clan/tribe. So no trading/no helping each other/less chance to make frienda with the others outside their sociel and so more chance for war to occur and due to the extreme climate they live in, more chance to eat the foes they killed. But yeah, their practice of cannibalism is not from belief or tradition like in some modern human's culture.
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Actually the only evidence we had about Neandertal cannibalism has been assoicated by some as ritual defleshing which might or might not had implied actual cannibalism.

By contrast: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8394802.stm

So yeah might had been more clossed societies but I doubt they were more prone to cannibalism than modern humans.
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In any case, I think this attempt to outright dehumanize Neanderthals into savage ape-like beasts is undoubtedly laughable. xD
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Just because they're a different species doesn't mean they aren't the same genus as us.
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Remember how a few months ago I vented about how Expansive Works claimed that they used realistic dinosaur models for their title THe Hunter: Primal in spite of half-*** feathered Utahraptors with the wrong anatomy and Charles R. Knight style Triceratops with quills?

They still haven't heeded they're lesson:
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-1 For underfeathering.
-1 For originality.
-100 For smaller copy of previous animal in-game.
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babehunter1324
Mar 4 2015, 11:32 AM
Remember how a few months ago I vented about how Expanisve Works claimed that they used realistic dinosaur models in spite of half-*** feathered Utahraptors with the wrong anatomy and Charles Knight style Triceratops with quills?

They still haven't heeded they're lesson:
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-1 For underfeathering.
-1 For originality.
-100 For smaller copy of previous animal in-game.
Are they related?
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Yeah the melanistic skin of Velociraptor in game does indeed had similar colors to the good ol' Godzilla only that those thing on the back are supposed to be feathers.

BTW: My sister has told me that while she was talking with a friend she bringed up the fact that I always said that Pterosaurus weren't actually dinosaurs.

Her friend answered was more or less like this "Of course they aren't dinosaur, dinosaurs are the ones that moved on land without sliding they're bottom (she actually said a**) on the ground"

Heh!
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The "paleontologists" who attempt to outright disprove widely-accepted theories and rant about how wrong other scientists have been (ala David Peters, Brian Ford, and Alan Fedducia) really annoy me. That's not exactly how science works, claiming that everyone else is "doing it wrong" and you're the one with all the real answers is just arrogant and isn't likely going to get you anywhere in a scientific career. The things these people attempt to discredit are the result of decades of extensive scientific research and testing, and unless you're EXTREMELY lucky you're probably not getting the chance to disprove them anytime soon. As the saying goes: extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.
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Inspired by this thread, I'm probably going to repeat myself: http://w11.zetaboards.com/The_Round_Table/topic/9149166/21/#new

Incinerox
Mar 13 2015, 05:37 AM
T. rex is a unit of measurement.


T. rex is love. T. rex is life. T. rex is paleontology.


  • Bite force compared to T. rex
  • Lived in Mesozoic like T. rex
  • As big as T. rex
  • Bigger than T. rex
  • Smaller than T. rex
  • Heavier than T. rex
  • Is a dinosaur, like T. rex
  • Is an archosaur, like T. rex
  • Is extinct, like T. rex
  • Is a bird/theropod, relative of T. rex
  • Is an ornithischian, not a relative of T. rex, but a dinosaur like T. rex.
  • Is a mammal, who lived in mesozoic like T. rex
  • Is a mammal, who lived in cenozoic, so after T. rex
  • Is an early synapsid, who lived before T. rex
  • Is a mosasaur, like T. rex but is of sea
  • Is a carnivore, like T. rex


I could probably go on like this forever, but I prefer to save energy. ._.
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