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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 (256,441 Views)
TyrantTR
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MrGorsh
Nov 20 2013, 05:31 PM
TyrantTR
Nov 20 2013, 05:20 PM
Actually there has been a refutation paper iirc. There are camps that don't agree with the notion that Torosaurus is an older morph of triceratops. The follow up is still being written and it extensively evaluates these specimens. (including the proposed juvenile torosaurus specimen)
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I'm not feeling too attached to any genus so I'll be happy once it's settled once and for all. All in all, our understanding of these animals is supposed to be developed.
Agreed, I'm not particularly attached to it whichever way it goes. But at the moment I am far more convinced by toroceratops.

These people so dramatically opposed to it are absolutely silly. Its not like the remains once attributed to torosaurus are even going anywhere. That animal still exists, regardless of whether or not it is a distinct species. In fact it would just make triceratops that much cooler.
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extremos
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Where's Mr Pig?

zoocrazy
Nov 20 2013, 02:36 PM
Plus is one of the worst choices BF made when selecting the animals for the game :P
I actualy do like the idea of a T-Rex ancestor in the game, but I think that Allosaurus would have been a better choice
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

But Allosaurus isn't a T. rex ancestor D:
Though it would've been better.
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Megaraptorking
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I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.

Yeah I would have preferred allosaurus because it was in the original game, that or spinosaurus something from the first game would have been filled with nostalgia instead of Strokeosaurus but it did give me a dinosaur I never knew about.
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Captain Phasma
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Captain of the First Order and Boba Fett 2.0

I will agree with Dr. Hax that SOME feathered dinos look cool. xD
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CyborgIguana
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I believe you mean ALL feathered dinosaurs look cool. xD
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extremos
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Where's Mr Pig?

Crookedjaw
Nov 20 2013, 06:11 PM
But Allosaurus isn't a T. rex ancestor D:
Though it would've been better.
But I never meant to say that! xD I'm sorry if it seemed like that's what I meant, but it surely wasn't.
But yeah, a nice Alosaurus would've been better in my opinion.
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Fluffs
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Pull my finger!

How many big-name organizations use inaccurate portrayals of dinosaurs.

Take a look at how Velociraptor is shown as in National Geographic: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/prehistoric/velociraptor-mongoliensis/
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

This image is much too relevant :

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Dr. Hax
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CyborgIguana
Nov 20 2013, 06:36 PM
I believe you mean ALL feathered dinosaurs look cool. xD
Cyborg, did you switch your brain with Sheather's?
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When people use feathered raptors like this:
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While in reality they should look like this:
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Dr. Hax
Nov 20 2013, 07:02 PM
CyborgIguana
Nov 20 2013, 06:36 PM
I believe you mean ALL feathered dinosaurs look cool. xD
Cyborg, did you switch your brain with Sheather's?
Oh, that reminds me. Tell Sheather I need my brain back soon. xD
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

In my opinion, half-feathered hybrids are the worst. I still prefer entirely scaled animals to these.
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The Fluffy Raptor
Nov 20 2013, 06:43 PM
Take a look at how Velociraptor is shown as in National Geographic: http://animals.nationalgeographic.com/animals/prehistoric/velociraptor-mongoliensis/
I honestly believe that animal came from Spore. It looks just like something someone would make in the Spore creature editor.

Crookedjaw
Nov 20 2013, 07:16 PM
In my opinion, half-feathered hybrids are the worst. I still prefer entirely scaled animals to these.
But the public doesn't want accurately-depicted animals! They want their man-eating monsters! D:

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Iben
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There'll be no foot-walking! Just air-flying!

TyrantTR
Nov 20 2013, 05:20 PM


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Actually, I don't quite agree with this.

There are various examples of animals that live in the same ecosystem, are similarly adapted and most likely cannot be differentiated from their skeletons. Gazelles for example.

Now find me an example of a large animal that does this. Animals the size of triceratops consume a lot of resources. Not only that triceratops is one of the most common fossils we find in places like hell creek. Which means there was probably a lot of them. Given the morphological features of torosarurus, it was as far as we can discern not distinct in its diet or even dietary habits.
Animals like this often compete heavily with each other to the detriment of other species. That is why if torosaurus is a thing, it probably wouldn't have been around long seeing as based on the fossil record triceratops was clearly winning the evolutionary arms race. I never said these sorts of things don't happen, but generally they do not happen for long, because one species simply does it better than the other.
Zebra's, giraffes(1),Roan Antelopes, Black vs white rhino, etc. Often these animals don't live quite far from each other and often come into contact with each other, even sometimes overlapping each others habitat. Mountain zebras and Burchell's zebras don't have any adaptations that would make us think that their dietary habits are different.

But again, as I mentioned, this was never an argument in the whole Torosaurus/Triceratops debate, as it's not something I really care about. :P
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