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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 (256,240 Views)
Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

T-rex*

T. rex is the animal while T-rex is the palaeontological unit of measurement.
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Similis
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Eh, it's always variation of T. rex, T. Rex, T-rex, T-Rex and such. :P
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Taurotragus
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It annoys me that less prehistoric animal documentaries were made about animals from Paleogene-Quartenary of South America, Africa, Australia, and Madagascar combined than all of the T.rex documentaries that are out there.
Edited by Taurotragus, Mar 13 2015, 05:11 PM.
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Denomon3144
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Pick a god and pray!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSBQ9MoaI4

Cyclone? Blame Jurassic Word!
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CyborgIguana
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Uggh...not these guys again. Tell me when their leader lady is devoured by a Saurophaganax.
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Taurotragus
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Treebeard
Mar 13 2015, 04:47 PM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRSBQ9MoaI4

Cyclone? Blame Jurassic Word!
And once again all Christians look like idiots because of one group of complete brain-dead people.
Edited by Taurotragus, Mar 13 2015, 05:12 PM.
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babehunter1324
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I just came across a guy who claimed that the closest modern analogy that we had to Dromeosaurids are...
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Chimpanzees*!!!!! :jawdrop: >_<

They really should start to preech more about why comparing dinosaurs with mammals because "similar echological niche" (which is not even the case in the analogy that he bringed) is less than optimal. For now I bringed up that both Komodo dragons and modern raptors are an overly better model... Let's wait for his response.

And he also claimed that the massive differences in onthogeny, matabolism and overall anatomy didn't play a role on how the animal exploited it's niche in the ecosytem... WELP!

*Actually he bringed this up: http://anthropology.net/2007/07/17/bili-apes-the-giant-lion-eating-chimps-of-the-magic-forest/#comments

That fringe Biology...
Edited by babehunter1324, Mar 17 2015, 08:10 AM.
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CyborgIguana
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People who use mammals as analogues for dinosaurs in general. It's part of the reason some people still won't accept that even some larger dinosaurs had feathers: "becuz elephants and rhinos".
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 17 2015, 07:48 AM.
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Furka
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People use mammals as analogues for everything, not just dinos.
I've also seen them being used as analogues for fish ,_,
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kepperbob
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- Pure Shardana -

''Cough''Sailfish id the cheetah of the ocean''Cough''
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babehunter1324
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And the madness continues:
"You quoting Wikipedia and HuffPost literally won you the debate."
Ok... Because everybody knows that since wikipedia can be edited by anyone the information that means that it is not good enough for a non academic debate... Yeah. Sure.
Also BTW the HuffPost link was a picture, not an article.
(this one: http://i.huffpost.com/gen/1370644/thumbs/o-DEER-570.jpg?6)
Anyways in my reply I bombarder him with peer revies about niche partiotioning in Theropods and the modern komodo dragon.

"But alas, my google searching skills do not match yours. And yes, I "heared" about RPR. And it's a good theory, keyword theory. Is there a way for me to emphasize the word theory any more clearly?"
Wait, since when is anything about the behaviour of an extinct animal not a theory? There's theories that are better than other and so far it seems that the RPR tactic is the one with the biggest consensus. I guess his hypothesis about killer arcosaurian apes are better...

I show him a graph on the growth pattern in Tyrannosaurids* and he said this: " And it's neat that no animal on the graph starts growing at all until it's 5 years old."

*( http://www.oldearth.org/curriculum/dinosaur/Tyrantgraph.png)

>_< Apprently he is not aware that the youngest (regular age) fossil material that we had from Tyrannosaurines was a 3 year old Albertosaurus making it impossible to draft it's growth patter during those early years without a massive error.

Oh my...
Edited by babehunter1324, Mar 17 2015, 01:32 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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Related to part of the above post: the number of people who use the words "theory" and "hypothesis" interchangeably bug me. THEY ARE NOT THE SAME THING!

Sorry, I know that doesn't really relate to paleontology.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 17 2015, 06:09 PM.
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

It's not limited to paleontology, but it's EXTREMELY relevant.

People who misuse those terms annoy me.
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CyborgIguana
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The YECs who use "just a theory" as an argument against evolution come to mind in particular.
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BossAggron
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Formerly Dilophoraptor

ok ok, im gonna see if we can let this little swing stop before it hurts anyone.

When people say that Dinosaurs have to have only a thin layer of Fluff, and to them I say, Birds.
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