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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 (256,137 Views)
DinoBear
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Not really something that annoys me so much as just is something rather curious, but the lack of up to date skeletals for things you'd think would have them. Yangchuanosaurus is a perfect example. You would expect one of the largest theropods of the Jurassic would have quite a few post 2010 skeletal diagrams, but none exist to my knowledge. Same for stuff like many early psuedosuchians or Mosasaurus, which have stuff for some of their relatives but oddly not for themselves.
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BossMan, Jake
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My best guess as to why that is...

The skeletons haven't recovered much updates from then so there is no need to update if nothing significant is found
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DinoBear
Sep 24 2016, 12:20 AM
Not really something that annoys me so much as just is something rather curious, but the lack of up to date skeletals for things you'd think would have them. Yangchuanosaurus is a perfect example. You would expect one of the largest theropods of the Jurassic would have quite a few post 2010 skeletal diagrams, but none exist to my knowledge. Same for stuff like many early psuedosuchians or Mosasaurus, which have stuff for some of their relatives but oddly not for themselves.
Honestly I've noticed skeletals just seem to be all over the place. I can find one for Sinoceratops, which is very fragmentary, but not Torosaurus. :P
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BossAggron
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Sep 24 2016, 10:08 AM
DinoBear
Sep 24 2016, 12:20 AM
Not really something that annoys me so much as just is something rather curious, but the lack of up to date skeletals for things you'd think would have them. Yangchuanosaurus is a perfect example. You would expect one of the largest theropods of the Jurassic would have quite a few post 2010 skeletal diagrams, but none exist to my knowledge. Same for stuff like many early psuedosuchians or Mosasaurus, which have stuff for some of their relatives but oddly not for themselves.
Honestly I've noticed skeletals just seem to be all over the place. I can find one for Sinoceratops, which is very fragmentary, but not Torosaurus. :P
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This was one I found. Theres also an image somewhere with alot of Torosaurus skulls.
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BossMan, Jake
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Yeah I've noticed that to that Torosaurus skeletals are few and far between...

Thanks Horner XD
Edited by BossMan, Jake, Sep 24 2016, 05:26 PM.
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Incinerox
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So the Utahraptor paper finally came out...




































Still no bloody skeletal restoration.
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kepperbob
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This article

http://apologiesaccepted.org/2013/12/05/what-about-the-dinosaurs-a-young-earth-creationist-view/
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Incinerox
Sep 25 2016, 07:16 AM
So the Utahraptor paper finally came out...

Still no bloody skeletal restoration.
The paper on the sediments and taphonomy surrounding the specimens?
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BossMan, Jake
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What Utahraptor are we talking about? The supposed giant specimen?
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Incinerox
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The bonebed with 6 Utahraptor specimens.
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BossMan, Jake
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I thought that was already out? Or maybe I was just reading an article and nothing else.

I see now :P
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Mathius Tyra
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Many people still believe that Troodon has the intelligence of JP raptor and is a devastating killing machine eventhough it's most likely only as smart as typical chicken nowaday and probably only as deathly as a raccoon...
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Mathius Tyra
Nov 5 2016, 02:14 PM
Many people still believe that Troodon has the intelligence of JP raptor and is a devastating killing machine eventhough it's most likely only as smart as typical chicken nowaday and probably only as deathly as a raccoon...
You can phrase "as intelligent as a chicken" in whatever negatively implying way you want published papers and studies still prove them to be very intelligent.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2344198/Chickens-smarter-human-toddlers-Studies-suggest-animals-master-numeracy-basic-engineering.html

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25RcDO2RdZQ

http://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/bts/vol15/iss1/6/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empathy_in_chickens

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Incinerox
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This just in: Birds aren't as dumb as bipedal mammals like to think.

Though I suppose that's less a paleontological thing that annoys me, and more a general science thing that annoys me. People underestimate the intelligence of most (if not all) animals in general.
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Incinerox
Nov 6 2016, 05:38 AM
This just in: Birds aren't as dumb as bipedal mammals like to think.

Though I suppose that's less a paleontological thing that annoys me, and more a general science thing that annoys me. People underestimate the intelligence of most (if not all) animals in general.
Such as the record of Ego plays.
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