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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 (256,440 Views) | |
| TyrantTR | Nov 21 2013, 04:17 PM Post #901 |
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And none of those are even remotely triceratops sized. Rhinos are an endangered species, of-course the potential strain on their environment is limited. Which makes intermingling with other rhinos possible. Introduce much more prolific animals and these strains increase. Example being feral horses vs elk. I never once said large animals can't coexist, they do so all the time. And there was even another large grazing herbivore known in Triceratops' environment. And that was Edmontosaurus, but these animals clearly are doing different things, and so competition is not as likely. What I had specifically said was large animals that fill the same niche. But I am dubious of your contention that the animals you have listed don't appear adapted for for any specific dietary habit. There is a lot we can discern just from teeth and mouth shape alone. And all of your example animals could be individually divided with accuracy to their niche based on fossil material alone. |
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| Stephen | Nov 21 2013, 05:25 PM Post #902 |
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Black and white rhinos don't compete for food. Black rhinos are mostly browsers (head's tilted more upwards, pointed/hooked upper lip), while white rhinos are bulk grazers (they hold their heads lower, wide lips). Wikipedia says something about elephants competing with Black rhinos for food, though. |
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| Jules | Nov 22 2013, 06:03 PM Post #903 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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![]() ![]() This annoys me like hell. And one of the articles mentions Lythronax as the "species closest to T.rex". First of all, Lythronax is not a species, it's a genus, and the species closest to T. rex is, given Tyrannosaurus is as far as I know monospecific, Tarbosaurus baatar. |
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| Similis | Nov 22 2013, 06:08 PM Post #904 |
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Laypeople :] We love them, don't we? <paleonerdrant> |
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| Jules | Nov 22 2013, 06:16 PM Post #905 |
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo
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The fact is, pretty much anyone I know knows Canis is the genus and lupus is the species, but people insist on confusing genera with species in paleontology. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 23 2013, 09:58 AM Post #906 |
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Fanboys who stunt scientific progress with their complaints that their childhood is ruined. Ideas about dinosaurs and their lives are constantly changing, so it's not a good idea to get too attached to certain ideas and depictions. |
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Nov 26 2013, 07:30 PM Post #907 |
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I've noticed something with the trend of feathers. It seems that many people are giving various famous dinosaurs feathers in the name of "Speculation", and this is something that's getting on my nerves right now. Out of all the things you could speculate about dinosaurs, giving them feathers or protofeathers without changing their classical behavior is something that bothers me. I mean, you could have small ceratopsians climbing trees to eat the fruit, or Therizinosaurus using it's claws to slash open bark and eat the insects inside, or Spinosaurus using it's hump (Or sail, or "sump") as a shading spot to cast over the water and lure fish, out of all the cool and interesting ideas you could come up with about these animals that could very well have been possible, why is giving the animal a coat of feathers and not changing it in any other way so popular right now? |
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| Sheather | Nov 26 2013, 07:38 PM Post #908 |
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!
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Feathers make everything better. ![]() --- However, I also really appreciate speculation with behavior and a quick search through DeviantART can reveal plenty of what your looking for as can the All Your Yesterdays book. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 26 2013, 07:53 PM Post #909 |
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Speculation is part of paleo-art, Hax. You might as well complain about dinosaur reconstructions being in colour, considering we have no evidence of what colours most dinosaurs were. Without speculation, dinosaur reconstructions would just be walking skeletons.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Nov 26 2013, 07:58 PM.
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Nov 26 2013, 08:04 PM Post #910 |
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I think you misread my post. I never said I didn't like speculation, in fact, I'm in favor of it, I'm just bothered by the amount of attention speculating about how dinosaurs looked rather than how they behaved is getting. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 26 2013, 08:11 PM Post #911 |
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Perhaps, but there's quite a bit of behaviour speculation as well.
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| Ignacio | Nov 27 2013, 09:24 AM Post #912 |
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I agree with you that people given everthing a feathered coat, even when there is no direct or indirect evidence to support it (or even when there is evidence that says otherwise) is anoying me as well. And no, not everything looks good with feathers. If something didn't have feathers, then it shouldn't be reconstructed with them. (that last statement goes to scientific paleo-art / reconstructions.... i don't find it bad when is just artistic creativity )
Edited by Ignacio, Nov 27 2013, 09:25 AM.
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| Furka | Nov 27 2013, 12:47 PM Post #913 |
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pterosaurs with bat-like wings. i hate that. |
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 27 2013, 01:01 PM Post #914 |
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Oh, god, a Pteranodon with bat wings! God help me! Even worse if it has a rhamphorhynchoid tail! Just...don't even! It literally makes me want to vomit.
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| extremos | Nov 27 2013, 09:59 PM Post #915 |
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These depictions of Cynognathus, I can just hope that whoever made them is tortured for eternity by every single Synapsid who ever was... If you like Synapsids like I do then for goodness's sake DON'T you look at these! I mean really, look at those, what kind of demon thought those could be possible? The last one looks like if it's out of a 50's Terror B movie! Luckily some hevenly blessed human being made these divine drawings: :worship: Also, sluguish Proterosuchus recreations annoy me, like, who the heck thought these were appropriate? Like the first spoiler in this page, do not open this if you like Proterosuchus! When these should be the only kinds of Proterosuchus drawn? YAY for Permian realism! So, as you've seen, mess with the Permian or with the Early Triassic and you'll have to deal with me babe!
Edited by extremos, Nov 27 2013, 10:01 PM.
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