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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 (256,498 Views)
Verdant Gregor
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Aww c'mon guys, everybody knows that Dimetrodon and Edaphosaurus were dinosaurs! xD
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

Pteranodon, Plesiosaurs, and of course rhinoceros are dinosaurs!

But how DARE you say a chicken is because it is NOT. It's a bird. Like a pterodactyl.
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Verdant Gregor
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Sheather
Sep 28 2013, 09:59 PM
Pteranodon, Plesiosaurs, and of course rhinoceros are dinosaurs!

But how DARE you say a chicken is because it is NOT. It's a bird. Like a pterodactyl.
But pterodactyls were dinosaurs!
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

No they is birdz cuz dey flyed! Just likes bats and butterflies are birds too.
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CyborgIguana
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Come on, guys. Everyone knows that pterodactyls were both birds and dinosaurs. But chickens are just birds, no dinosaur in there anywhere. :P
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MarxRaptor
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Two words; David Peters. It isn't even his bipedal pterosaur theory that bothers me, it is his insistence that pterosaurs were lizards & that anyone who disagrees is trying to censor him. Not to mention how he uses photoshop to examine fossils, rejecting all argument that actually seeing the fossil is far more valid.

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CyborgIguana
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There's no way that's a Pteranodon! That's a hideous flying alien monster!
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

How the heck could that even eat or fly... or move at all?
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CyborgIguana
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And then...one faithful day...David Peters had his eyes pecked out by a flock of angry Zhejiangopterus.
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Tyranachu
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Nerdasaurus

What are you guys talking about? Dat flying dinosaur is FABULOUS!
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Bigwhale
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extremos
Sep 28 2013, 09:37 PM
Tyranachu
Sep 28 2013, 09:22 PM
But that doesn't mean T. rex evolved to become a chicken. :P They went extinct.
Oh I know that, I misunderstood what you said, sorry! :P
By the way, in addition to Brazil's general ignorance about Dinosaurs, I've already heard people saying that Brachiosaurus evolved into Giraffes and calling Triceratops a Rhino (My Kindergarten teacher said it, it was epic, I was just a child, yet I lifted my hand and said that it wasn't a Rhino, but the Rhino's Grandfather [Yeah I thought that Triceratops was the Rhino's ancestor, but I was like what? Five? xD ])
Here, also itchyosaurs evolved to dolphins . Worst is it was me that said it in kindergarten. But well, now no xD

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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

All of the kid's books teach crap like that.

Some are kind of forgivable like "mammoths are the ancestors of elephants", but some talk about Pterodactyls as birds and all of that. >.>
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CyborgIguana
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Don't be ridiculous Sheather, everyone knows that pterodactyls evolved into bats. And T-Rexes evolved into tigers. Anyone who thinks otherwise is an idiot. :P
Edited by CyborgIguana, Sep 29 2013, 01:48 AM.
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Bigwhale
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Another I'm annoyed of is Esther Inglis-Arkell.

I suppose you know why...
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Similis
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What annoys me is the fact that some people still treat paleontology with utter lack of respect, regarding to it as something lesser than other science fields. It more than often leads to school bullying in kids and then surpressing interests of people who would potentially become great scientists, but due to childhood experience they try to 'fit in' so desperately they shun aside their own desires.

More so, it leads to that extremely arrogant position of some people who claim "who cares, these are just dinosaurs, depict them as you wish, it's not that it's important". If I portrayed a bald lion or scaly dog, the same people would probably flip if I called it a "scientific restoration".

tl;dr - lack of respect for this science field.
Edited by Similis, Sep 29 2013, 02:57 AM.
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