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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 (256,156 Views)
Supersaur
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Wouldnt know myself since you lot are the only other paleofans Ive talked too (which is sad) also wheres the love for extinct animals that are herbivorous eg:Lystrosaurus georgi. I think its funny how dinosaurs are the main focus of paleontology whereas mammals,etc are not cared about as much

Also Why did no one complain about the other two things i said in my previous post (acrocanthosaurus had four nostrils)(postosuchus is t.rex)
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Supersaur
May 15 2016, 02:48 PM
I think its funny how dinosaurs are the main focus of paleontology whereas mammals,etc are not cared about as much
It's probably because dinosaurs are more unusual and alien to modern eyes, whereas prehistoric mammals (while they can be fascinating too once you learn more about them) often just resemble exaggerated versions of animals we see around us today.
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Supersaur
May 15 2016, 02:48 PM
Also Why did no one complain about the other two things i said in my previous post (acrocanthosaurus had four nostrils)(postosuchus is t.rex)
Because we agreed with you on those points. :)
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Now I'm going to say something that is not often said here, I dislike it when people add feathers onto dinosaurs that likely didn't have them. I dislike it almost as much as I dislike it when people don't feather dinosaurs that likely had feathers.
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Amen! Gettin real tired of feathered sauropods or quilled ankylosaurs
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I honestly have not seen a sauropod or Ankylosaur with significant integument other than scales, and considering how easily reticulae can become integument (just look at all the different forms of integument in Ceratopsians alone) I see no reason why small spines on the back of a sauropod's head or on the end of its tail would be that bad of an issue.
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Megalosaurs/ceratosaurs/carnosaurs with feathers....... uuuuuugh.
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PrimevalBrony
May 15 2016, 07:54 PM
Megalosaurs/ceratosaurs/carnosaurs with feathers....... uuuuuugh.
Gonna have to stop you right there. Ceratosaurs, yes, but there's little to no evidence that megalosaurs and carnosaurs couldn't have had feathers.
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May 15 2016, 05:20 PM
Supersaur
May 15 2016, 02:48 PM
I think its funny how dinosaurs are the main focus of paleontology whereas mammals,etc are not cared about as much
It's probably because dinosaurs are more unusual and alien to modern eyes, whereas prehistoric mammals (while they can be fascinating too once you learn more about them) often just resemble exaggerated versions of animals we see around us today.

Not helping is the focus on placental mammals, which are often just that.

But once you get into non-placental-eutherians, metatherians, eutriconodonts, multies and more, things do take a turn for the weird.
Edited by heliosphoros, May 15 2016, 09:39 PM.
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I'm not sure if this is all the time, or maybe because the museum I went to yesterday was housing a travelling dinosaur exhibit, but dinosaur figurines are much more expensive, especially Papo and Collecta ones (if comparing to, say, animal republic).
They had two stands of animal figurines in the gift shop, and I started to compare prices after the first few pricetag checks. There was a mammoth one, about the size of a hand, for $6.99. Not too shabby, I guess, but a similarly sized dinosaur figurine was $25.
I just wanted a nice looking Carno to sit on my shelf ;-;
Maybe it's a design thing, but I dunno.
Then again, I still haven't looked elsewhere so maybe this is an isolated thing.
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May 15 2016, 12:07 PM
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May 15 2016, 09:01 AM
Also the love for british dinosaurs/extinct animals are almost none. The only ones that people care about are iguanadon and meglasaur. Wheres the love for eustreptospondylus? or Rhamphorhynchus huh?
I suppose I ought to mention that Eustreptospondylus and Rhamphorhynchus are mainstream animals nowadays. Rhamphorhynchus is basically THE pterosaur, after Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus. Ever since Eustreptospondylus was in WWD it's been all over the internet. AND THEN there's things like Baryonyx, Hypsilophodon, Eotyrannus... Trust me, of all the dinosaur formations out there, the Wealden is one of the BEST loved by dinosaur enthusiasts. (By the way, no one knows about Megalosaurus anymore. If it hadn't been famed for being "The first named dinosaur" it would have been lost in the public mind with outcasts like along with Poekilopleuron and Chilantaisaurus.)
Then there is Scelidosaurus, a possible early ancestor of both stgosaurids and ankylosaurids (both popular and well known groups) and referred to as "the earliest complete dinosaur", yet, it's still largely ignored.
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Xenephos
May 16 2016, 08:10 AM
I'm not sure if this is all the time, or maybe because the museum I went to yesterday was housing a travelling dinosaur exhibit, but dinosaur figurines are much more expensive, especially Papo and Collecta ones (if comparing to, say, animal republic).
They had two stands of animal figurines in the gift shop, and I started to compare prices after the first few pricetag checks. There was a mammoth one, about the size of a hand, for $6.99. Not too shabby, I guess, but a similarly sized dinosaur figurine was $25.
I just wanted a nice looking Carno to sit on my shelf ;-;
Maybe it's a design thing, but I dunno.
Then again, I still haven't looked elsewhere so maybe this is an isolated thing.
That's because Papo, Safari ltd., CollectA and such are high-end companies. Their extinct animals are of a similar price to their modern animals. These are toys but they are considered educational media, and are created with the intention of also appealing to adult collectors.

I found no brand called "Animal Republic" so I assume you meant Wild Republic (aka K&M)? Their products (including their dinosaurs) are cheaper because they are of (much) lower quality. The plastics they use are cheap, the sculpting skill is rarely comparable, and heck I've even seen some bootlegs marketed under the Wild Republic brand.

High-end toys are expensive sure, but you get what you pay for.
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May 16 2016, 08:30 AM
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May 15 2016, 12:07 PM
Supersaur
May 15 2016, 09:01 AM
Also the love for british dinosaurs/extinct animals are almost none. The only ones that people care about are iguanadon and meglasaur. Wheres the love for eustreptospondylus? or Rhamphorhynchus huh?
I suppose I ought to mention that Eustreptospondylus and Rhamphorhynchus are mainstream animals nowadays. Rhamphorhynchus is basically THE pterosaur, after Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus. Ever since Eustreptospondylus was in WWD it's been all over the internet. AND THEN there's things like Baryonyx, Hypsilophodon, Eotyrannus... Trust me, of all the dinosaur formations out there, the Wealden is one of the BEST loved by dinosaur enthusiasts. (By the way, no one knows about Megalosaurus anymore. If it hadn't been famed for being "The first named dinosaur" it would have been lost in the public mind with outcasts like along with Poekilopleuron and Chilantaisaurus.)
Then there is Scelidosaurus, a possible early ancestor of both stgosaurids and ankylosaurids (both popular and well known groups) and referred to as "the earliest complete dinosaur", yet, it's still largely ignored.
but even Scelidosaurus is fairly well known compared to most other dinosaurs. It's been featured in at least one documentary, possibly more, and is featured in a number of old childrens' books. Heck, I knew about Scelidosaurus well before I had ever heard of Carnotaurus. (And I always got it mixed up with Scutellosaurus.)
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May 16 2016, 03:53 PM
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May 16 2016, 08:30 AM
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May 15 2016, 12:07 PM
Supersaur
May 15 2016, 09:01 AM
Also the love for british dinosaurs/extinct animals are almost none. The only ones that people care about are iguanadon and meglasaur. Wheres the love for eustreptospondylus? or Rhamphorhynchus huh?
I suppose I ought to mention that Eustreptospondylus and Rhamphorhynchus are mainstream animals nowadays. Rhamphorhynchus is basically THE pterosaur, after Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus. Ever since Eustreptospondylus was in WWD it's been all over the internet. AND THEN there's things like Baryonyx, Hypsilophodon, Eotyrannus... Trust me, of all the dinosaur formations out there, the Wealden is one of the BEST loved by dinosaur enthusiasts. (By the way, no one knows about Megalosaurus anymore. If it hadn't been famed for being "The first named dinosaur" it would have been lost in the public mind with outcasts like along with Poekilopleuron and Chilantaisaurus.)
Then there is Scelidosaurus, a possible early ancestor of both stgosaurids and ankylosaurids (both popular and well known groups) and referred to as "the earliest complete dinosaur", yet, it's still largely ignored.
but even Scelidosaurus is fairly well known compared to most other dinosaurs. It's been featured in at least one documentary, possibly more, and is featured in a number of old childrens' books. Heck, I knew about Scelidosaurus well before I had ever heard of Carnotaurus. (And I always got it mixed up with Scutellosaurus.)
But it still gets over looked by later thyreophorans (Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus)
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Ulquiorra
May 16 2016, 04:45 PM
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May 16 2016, 03:53 PM
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May 16 2016, 08:30 AM
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May 15 2016, 12:07 PM
Supersaur
May 15 2016, 09:01 AM
Also the love for british dinosaurs/extinct animals are almost none. The only ones that people care about are iguanadon and meglasaur. Wheres the love for eustreptospondylus? or Rhamphorhynchus huh?
I suppose I ought to mention that Eustreptospondylus and Rhamphorhynchus are mainstream animals nowadays. Rhamphorhynchus is basically THE pterosaur, after Pteranodon and Quetzalcoatlus. Ever since Eustreptospondylus was in WWD it's been all over the internet. AND THEN there's things like Baryonyx, Hypsilophodon, Eotyrannus... Trust me, of all the dinosaur formations out there, the Wealden is one of the BEST loved by dinosaur enthusiasts. (By the way, no one knows about Megalosaurus anymore. If it hadn't been famed for being "The first named dinosaur" it would have been lost in the public mind with outcasts like along with Poekilopleuron and Chilantaisaurus.)
Then there is Scelidosaurus, a possible early ancestor of both stgosaurids and ankylosaurids (both popular and well known groups) and referred to as "the earliest complete dinosaur", yet, it's still largely ignored.
but even Scelidosaurus is fairly well known compared to most other dinosaurs. It's been featured in at least one documentary, possibly more, and is featured in a number of old childrens' books. Heck, I knew about Scelidosaurus well before I had ever heard of Carnotaurus. (And I always got it mixed up with Scutellosaurus.)
But it still gets over looked by later thyreophorans (Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus)
True, but that's to be expected. NO thyreophorans are going to be more popular than Ankylosaurus and Stegosaurus. None. It just doesn't happen.
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