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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 (256,145 Views)
PrimevalBrony
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Could be worse, we could continually bash the media for dinosaur inaccuracies every day.

But honestly the fact that quite a few things in palaeontology have horrid accidents of phylogenetics really bugs me as a person that likes to go through things nice and easy. So it's horrendous for me to try and get through certain phylogenetics where dinosaurs are jumping around the place. Looking at you, Abelisauridae. Make your mind up exactly where Eoabelisaurus, Vitakridrinda and Rugops go and keep them there until new evidence pops up
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PrimevalBrony
Jun 18 2016, 09:09 PM
heliosphoros
Jun 17 2016, 07:56 PM
CyborgIguana
Jun 17 2016, 07:25 PM
PrimevalBrony
Jun 17 2016, 04:19 PM
It bugs me that so many amazing dinosaurs are almost completely ignored by everything, even Wikipedia!

Don't believe me? Go look at Viavenator's "page"
Yes yes, we've heard this before.

Better ignore him at this point. He is appearently incapable of learning from past experiences.
I do learn, it's just that it still bugs me that Viavenator's page is only ~8 words and a tiny table.

Anyway, something that bugs me (that I hopefully haven't said before, if I have then it still bugs me I guess) is how dinosaurs are abused in the media. Need something fresh and new in your kids show? Just add dinosaur skeletons. And somehow it keeps working. I mean I can understand it with preschooler programmes, but shows that were kids shows that seem to be for a broader demographic nowadays (although still targeting kids in particular) simply refuse to be rare, fresh and interesting with dinosaurs except for one: Dinosaur Train.

Yup, you heard me. The show that is hated by seemingly everyone has more rare dinosaurs and palaeo-education than every other programme that thinks "Dinosaurs, now that is how views are gotten"

Then why you bring it up after I don't know how many pages of addressals and shows of other far more unnecessarily obscure animals?

I don't even know what you're trying to convey in the last two paragraphs.
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Why do older people feel that dinosaurs are for kids? I dont understand it. If you dont like football you are weird and unusual. Plus I also dont understand how palaeontology is usually mistreated as a thing where all the "monsters" are at. I dont know if this is just me or is this relevant to anybody else?
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heliosphoros
Jun 19 2016, 07:55 AM
PrimevalBrony
Jun 18 2016, 09:09 PM
heliosphoros
Jun 17 2016, 07:56 PM
CyborgIguana
Jun 17 2016, 07:25 PM
PrimevalBrony
Jun 17 2016, 04:19 PM
It bugs me that so many amazing dinosaurs are almost completely ignored by everything, even Wikipedia!

Don't believe me? Go look at Viavenator's "page"
Yes yes, we've heard this before.

Better ignore him at this point. He is appearently incapable of learning from past experiences.
I do learn, it's just that it still bugs me that Viavenator's page is only ~8 words and a tiny table.

Anyway, something that bugs me (that I hopefully haven't said before, if I have then it still bugs me I guess) is how dinosaurs are abused in the media. Need something fresh and new in your kids show? Just add dinosaur skeletons. And somehow it keeps working. I mean I can understand it with preschooler programmes, but shows that were kids shows that seem to be for a broader demographic nowadays (although still targeting kids in particular) simply refuse to be rare, fresh and interesting with dinosaurs except for one: Dinosaur Train.

Yup, you heard me. The show that is hated by seemingly everyone has more rare dinosaurs and palaeo-education than every other programme that thinks "Dinosaurs, now that is how views are gotten"

Then why you bring it up after I don't know how many pages of addressals and shows of other far more unnecessarily obscure animals?

I don't even know what you're trying to convey in the last two paragraphs.
What I'm trying to convey is the fact that dinosaurs are just used as toys, and ways to sell toys in certain franchise

And I bring it up because well I forgot I had already brought it up.
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Paleop
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I'm upset at the lack of skelitals etc for mammals in the paleogene. the only good one I have found is of Diprotodon. (I find that to be a fairly obscure animal)
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Really you can't find anything skeletal-wise for extinct species except for Dinosaurs and a few reptiles if you're lucky. There's a fair amount of Pterosaur skeletals, but most of them are by David Peters so they don't really count.
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Diabloceratops

Nice roast to david peters Flish. Btw in paleontology news I just found out what once lived in my country
At least 20 trilobites, 1 fish and 1 amphibian. Funny but cool.
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Flish
Jun 19 2016, 01:54 PM
Really you can't find anything skeletal-wise for extinct species except for Dinosaurs and a few reptiles if you're lucky. There's a fair amount of Pterosaur skeletals, but most of them are by David Peters so they don't really count.
Mark Witton's done some good pterosaur skeletals IMO (Scott Hartman's done one or two as well).
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Yah, there are a few, but not nearly as many as with Dinosaurs.
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PrimevalBrony
Jun 19 2016, 10:07 AM
And I bring it up because well I forgot I had already brought it up.

Well, for your own sake I hope you remember it this time.

As for skeletals, there's very few good Mesozoic mammal skeletals:

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Paleofile has a few good skeletals, but some are outdated as all heck
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The fact that most of the dinosaur reconstructions displayed on Wikipedia are shrinkwrapped to a greater or lesser extent. Wikipedia being Wikipedia, they probably think it's "too speculative" to have a dinosaur reconstruction look like an animal that could actually exist.
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Cuvier to the rescue! First skeletal ever, and damn well executed too!

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Wait, so these primitive mammals have no eye sockets???
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mammal eye sockets are just weird and inconsistent. On some mammals, the eye socket is very defined, but in others, it's difficult to see.
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It just varies among mammals.
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