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| What annoys you about paleontology?; Rant on about moronic theories, complaints, or just animals that annoy you. | |
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| Topic Started: Sep 28 2013, 05:04 PM (256,444 Views) | |
| CyborgIguana | Nov 17 2013, 10:42 PM Post #841 |
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Technically all we know is that abelisaurs had scaly sides, we don't have any impressions from the head or lower legs, so those areas could've been feathered (though I admit I am skeptical of feathers on abelisaurs). |
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| Verdant Gregor | Nov 17 2013, 11:05 PM Post #842 |
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I believe that we had scale impressions of the head of Carnotaurus, though sadly those impressions were destroyed during preparation. |
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| TyrantTR | Nov 17 2013, 11:35 PM Post #843 |
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Such selective balding would be entirely unprecedented. No bird has anything comparable, in fact the first place birds lose feathers tends to be in those parts of the body; The head, neck and the legs. Its not just a matter of saying "these areas aren't preserved, there could be feathers there" the argument needs to make sense biologically and if this is the reasoning for feathers on carnotaurus, it doesn't. |
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| Similis | Nov 18 2013, 03:08 AM Post #844 |
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So you say that >feathered theropods< didn't have feathers, because scaly theropods were found with scales? Wut. He didn't say all theropods were feathered, but made a reference to the lizardraptors from JP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dilophosaurus#Ichnology ^also, this is kind of interesting. All in all I think you exaggerated a lot and should read more carefully when approaching subjects that are 'sensitive' area for you, ergo, feathered theropods being feathered. |
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| Iben | Nov 18 2013, 03:31 AM Post #845 |
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
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Man you're quick to judge aren't you ? Everything is either black or white, nothing in between. Two things to keep in mind. First, the WWD site is meant for a bigger public than just palaeontological experts, it's meant for normal people as well, to get them interested. This brings me to the second point, if someone says all mammals have fur to a group of people who don't have a big knowledge about biology , I wouldn't see you calling that person a pseudoscientific crank. You'd see that as just a normal way of educating people. Simplify it first, not every single detail should be addressed. There's nothing wrong with that. It was used in your education as well, remember ? And it's still being used. And to be honest (not directed at you alone ), often it's people who lack a lot of biological knowledge to start with ( don't get me started on palaeontological knowledge ) that oppose feathers the most. And then they claim that palaeontologists don't know what they're doing. I'd rather believe someone who has a decent amount of knowledge, so they don't make mistakes as "feathers would make them overheat", then a bunch of sceptical people on forums that think they know better when they have less than 1/4 of the knowledge and the material on their hands. |
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Nov 18 2013, 04:24 AM Post #846 |
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I never said that feathered theropods were not feathered, I was just saying I think he could have used better wording, instead of bluntly saying "Theropods were feathered and the JP raptors are incorrect". Now granted, the JP raptors are of course incorrect, but it seems like he could have put up a better argument about feathered ornithischians in my opinion. He didn't even mention Psitaccosaurus, Yinlong, or the Unidentified neornithischian that was recently found! |
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| Iben | Nov 18 2013, 04:39 AM Post #847 |
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
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It links to a page that mentions Psittacosaurus. Next to that Yinlong hasn't been found with feathers and the new unidentified neornithischian wasn't even published when that article appeared on the WWD site. Basically, you're complaining that a palaeontologist that made a simple article for a very broad public, that does include dinosaur-noobs as well, didn't go deep enough and is an example of how (you think that ) palaeontologists exaggerate ? Of course not all information is going to be in there, of course he's not going in detail. That was never the point of the article. You're basically basing your claims on an article made for kids/adults that want to learn more about dinosaurs ( and not people who already knew a lot about it) instead of basing it on actual papers. Papers are much more detailed and give a lot more evidence than just a few things for a "noob" public. Do you really expect every single detail in an article like that ? |
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Nov 18 2013, 05:00 AM Post #848 |
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.....Every time I say something in this topic, somebody shows up and makes me feel like crap. I honestly feel worthless when people beat my arguments into the ground like this. I don't even know what I can think was scaly and what I can't anymore. It almost shocks me when you guys completely destroy my arguments without any mercy at all. I was just looking for an interesting argument about feathered sauropods, but instead, I was disappointed. |
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| Iben | Nov 18 2013, 05:22 AM Post #849 |
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!
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You shouldn't feel like crap or feel worthless. I don't think that's any-ones intention here. Look the thing is, it's completely fine if you prefer your dinosaurs to be scaly, that you prefer that they at least look intimidating, etc. I compare it to this. Some people love to draw their wolves like this, and this. That's fine, you can do that and you can like that if you want. However, when it's known and a fact that wolves actually look like this and this, you can't expect people to agree with you and try to convince that the version you like is actually the real deal. You can like a certain version of it, but when you go in a scientific discussion/argument/debate, whatever you want to call it really, then people will expect that you go by the facts and not by your likings. So don't feel bad, because there's no need to.
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Nov 18 2013, 05:33 AM Post #850 |
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Thanks for that, Iben. And no matter how difefrent we see how our dinosaurs looked in life, I think we can all agree that T. rex did not look like this:![]() OH GOOD LORD WHAT IS THAT?! |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 18 2013, 05:51 AM Post #851 |
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It looks like Scar as a plucked chicken!
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| Mathius Tyra | Nov 18 2013, 07:25 AM Post #852 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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That's a cockatrice, you know? |
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Nov 18 2013, 10:21 AM Post #853 |
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I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.
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i am going to say this involving feathered theropods right now, do not get me wrong I kinda like having some under feathered theropods like Carnotaurus, howver there is something we cannot say about it, if it had feathers or not. As well as a lot of prehistoric animals, we cannot tell if they had fur, feathers, scales, skin, or whatever on their body because we never watched or looked at them in a living world. However for the case of find dinosaur scales, one it does not matter if there were scales or not, because for it being a chunk even the head it could be not feathered for a bilogical reason or the animal had feathers over scales which I think some things or animals have today (I do not remember this much) Because if you see a carnotaurus they are not much of a supreme hunter, I mean it was a much bulldog like dinosaur, made by nature. Carnotaurus if it had a coat of feathers could have looked similar to a really ugly over-grown vulture lizard who really looked ugly. I mean I love vultures but that would be still ugly in a way. Or another way they could be fully feathered or that their body would have a undercover of feathers where it kinda is like a turtle (the scutes being unfeathered in this situation) who had some parts of their body. So for certain nobody can say a dinosaur is not feathered nor can they say it is feathered unless there is more proof. We have feathered Megalosaurs, Tyrannosaurus, and Dromeosaurs, then feathered herbivores like triceratops and Tianyulong so there is a chance more had feathers... Also everybody who denies Spinosaurids had feathers, they are from the Megalosaurids so.... Yeah there is more chances of them being feathered than ever plus the fact that early megalosaurids had feathers then why would their ancestors need to lose them. (If you say to be able to good in water your a idiot because birds have feathers even if they are aquatic....) |
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| Furka | Nov 18 2013, 10:56 AM Post #854 |
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if you are refering to Sciurumimus, we aren't sure yet if it's a megalosaurid or a coelurosaurs, so i think we are still far from telling Spinos were feathered too (don't get me wrong, i love feathered spinosaurs). |
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Nov 18 2013, 10:59 AM Post #855 |
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I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.
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Good point but still if it was that just proves the point even more if not still there is a more likely chance spinos had feathers kinda oily type which lets them to be able to not have soaked feathers weighing them down like a kid with swim trunks. |
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