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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 (256,209 Views)
Luca9108
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I know, it would be just possible if they would have quills like psittacosaurus. But that is just speculation.
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I think TheToastinator is drawing a distinction between quills and actual feathers.
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Luca9108
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CyborgIguana
Aug 20 2015, 04:09 PM
I think TheToastinator is drawing a distinction between quills and actual feathers.
Ok. BTW you don't think that I would say sauropods would have bird feathers? Because that would be crazy.
Edited by Luca9108, Aug 20 2015, 04:31 PM.
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heliosphoros
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Actually, Psittacosaurus was appearently fully fuzzy. We will see a described paper soon.

Simple feathers don't preserve very well. And in at least some examples the scales come from dystal areas, so it'd be like finding a bird foot and assuming birds were scaly.
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Luca9108
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heliosphoros
Aug 20 2015, 04:40 PM
Actually, Psittacosaurus was appearently fully fuzzy. We will see a described paper soon.
Didn't know that, interresting.
Edited by Luca9108, Aug 20 2015, 04:44 PM.
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Incinerox
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heliosphoros
Aug 20 2015, 04:40 PM
Actually, Psittacosaurus was appearently fully fuzzy. We will see a described paper soon.

Simple feathers don't preserve very well. And in at least some examples the scales come from dystal areas, so it'd be like finding a bird foot and assuming birds were scaly.
This can be either a very exciting read, or loaded with bull***. Especially with THIS to refute...

I look forward to reading it either way. Where'd you find out about it?
Edited by Incinerox, Aug 20 2015, 06:28 PM.
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heliosphoros
Aug 20 2015, 04:40 PM
Actually, Psittacosaurus was appearently fully fuzzy. We will see a described paper soon.

This contradicts all our very direct evidence we have of this creature, specially since the same lime beds that present quills also show scales.

EDIT: GODDAMNIT DG!

Edited by Yi Qi, Aug 20 2015, 08:02 PM.
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Lopatin, A.V., Mashchenko, E.N., Tarasenko, K.K., Podlesnov, A.V., Demidenko, N.V., Kuzmina, E.A. 2015. A unique burial site of Early Cretaceous vertebrates in Western Siberia (the Shestakovo 3 locality, Kemerovo Province, Russia). Doklady Biological Sciences, 462 (1): 148-151. dx.doi.org/10.1134/S0012496615030102.

Which mentions the juvenile specimen briefly, not yet described.
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Incinerox
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There is no mention of any preserved integument in that paper. :/
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Posted Image Narukota
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Illuminati conspiratists saying that dinosaurs don't exist and the Illuminati put the fossils underground to make us think that there were dinosaurs for some secret soon-to-be-revealed "plan" for world domination.

..I

..I can't even..
Edited by Narukota, Aug 20 2015, 10:42 PM.
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Narukota
Aug 20 2015, 10:41 PM
Illuminati conspiratists saying that dinosaurs don't exist and the Illuminati put the fossils underground to make us think that there were dinosaurs for some secret soon-to-be-revealed "plan" for world domination.

..I

..I can't even..
Do people even think that is true?!
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Aug 20 2015, 09:41 PM
Illuminati conspiratists saying that dinosaurs don't exist and the Illuminati put the fossils underground to make us think that there were dinosaurs for some secret soon-to-be-revealed "plan" for world domination.

..I

..I can't even..

Do people even think that is true?!


I hope not. This is worse that the Nazi having plans to clone dinosaurs cospiracy.

Anyway

Look at what I found on facebook

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Why? just why?

but the worst part are the comments :

there was one that said that all the prehistoric creatures still live today, and we can't just find them.

But the worse of them was a comment of one that said that megalodon evolved into the great white shark.


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Luca9108
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You forgot the people who use Coelacanths as example why megalodon is still alive. BTW I think they don't know that Coelacanths are a group of animals and not one species. Also if I am right the genus Latimeria isn't known from the Mesozoic.
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Narukota
Aug 20 2015, 10:41 PM
Illuminati conspiratists saying that dinosaurs don't exist and the Illuminati put the fossils underground to make us think that there were dinosaurs for some secret soon-to-be-revealed "plan" for world domination.

..I

..I can't even..
Anyone who says that dinosaurs are fake sickens me. Dinosaurs existed, just suck it up and live with it! I don't give a s**t if it interferes with your beliefs, I guess that just sucks for you.
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CyborgIguana
Aug 21 2015, 07:58 AM
Narukota
Aug 20 2015, 10:41 PM
Illuminati conspiratists saying that dinosaurs don't exist and the Illuminati put the fossils underground to make us think that there were dinosaurs for some secret soon-to-be-revealed "plan" for world domination.

..I

..I can't even..
Anyone who says that dinosaurs are fake sickens me. Dinosaurs existed, just suck it up and live with it! I don't give a s**t if it interferes with your beliefs, I guess that just sucks for you.
those comment hurt me on a PERSONAL level it's that bad.
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