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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 (256,430 Views) | |
| Whalebite | Dec 14 2013, 12:11 AM Post #1051 |
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I will probably see Walking with Dinosaurs, It was probably intended to be more of a kids program It is annoying that the dinosaurs are narrating it though. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 14 2013, 04:25 PM Post #1052 |
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When people call any prehistoric animal a dinosaur. They claim "whatever, mere technicality" but it's NOT! It's the equivalent of calling every tetrapod a mammal!!! |
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Dec 14 2013, 08:26 PM Post #1053 |
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Pull my finger!
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Bistahieversor. God, that name. Just, what was the person who named it smoking? |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 14 2013, 08:38 PM Post #1054 |
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I'm more annoyed by the huge number of dinosaur names that suggest an ever-fighting, monstrous nature in dinosaurs. Teratophoneus, meaning: MONSTROUS MURDERER!!!! Just...why??? Yes, it sounds cool, but I don't suspect it reflects the animal's real-life biology at all!
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| DinoBear | Dec 14 2013, 08:41 PM Post #1055 |
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Eh, Loxodonta sounds stupider to me. While calling something "gore king" (Lythronax) is going a little overboard, it's better than "different lizard" (Allosaurus), IMO. @ CyborgIguana: I don't know about that, after all, it was a carnivore. The ''murder" part is going a bit overboard, though. Edited by DinoBear, Dec 14 2013, 08:44 PM.
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 14 2013, 08:42 PM Post #1056 |
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Loxodonta isn't even a dinosaur. It's the generic name of the elephant. |
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| DinoBear | Dec 14 2013, 08:46 PM Post #1057 |
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I know that, just saying that cool modern animals have stupid generic names, too. Also, that was back when I thought that it was just how the generic name sounded annoyed people, not the actual meaning. |
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| Meerkatmatt2 | Dec 14 2013, 09:36 PM Post #1058 |
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The fact that geology related courses are needed to get into paleontology. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 14 2013, 09:45 PM Post #1059 |
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Agreed. It seems my school doesn't want me to have a future, as it refuses to teach geology.
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| Sheather | Dec 14 2013, 10:06 PM Post #1060 |
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!
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On a related note, I'm annoyed that birds are -by the general public at least, and a lot of the scientific community- considered to be their own class of aves just because they can fly and have feathers. Birds are really just highly derived reptiles and considering the other extant group of archosaurs is still considered to be reptilian, it makes no sense that people deny that birds are reptiles especially since we can consider their ancestors -often just as feathered as they were - to be reptiles, and these animals differ in no fundamental ways (shorter tails, atrophied hands, and no teeth are about the only things). I imagine were pterosaurs extant today, they'd also have been given their own group, because furry warm-blooded animals surely don't look like reptiles... similarly, if birds were extinct, there would probably be no question they were reptiles. All of them are; birds, lizards, pterosaurs, crocodiles. It's almost like if we reassigned bats into their own group because they can fly. -- It's also annoying on a similar note that only animals believed to have derived after Archaeopteryx are considered avians when there were even more small theropods just as much if not more so bird-like present before Archaeopteryx existed. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 14 2013, 10:23 PM Post #1061 |
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I think the only reason they're still in their own class is because the public thinks reptiles are slimy and gross, so they would cry and beg for a different classification if their favourite little feathery cuties were classified as evil scaly monsters. |
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| caviar | Dec 14 2013, 10:24 PM Post #1062 |
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Actually we shouldn't call birds, dinosaurs. We should call dinosaurs, birds. Because after all wich group was named first. |
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| CyborgIguana | Dec 14 2013, 10:26 PM Post #1063 |
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I don't think that works, since "bird" is just a common name, not a taxon. Plus only some dinosaurs were closely related to birds, others are too distant to be included in the same group. |
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| caviar | Dec 14 2013, 10:37 PM Post #1064 |
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Aves or whatever you want ![]() And an elephant and a monkey are pretty different and we still call them both mammals |
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Dec 14 2013, 10:48 PM Post #1065 |
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I stand in the shadows waiting for you to return me to the light.
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Yeah I still will never understand human logic, nor will I understand my logic. Yet when it comes to animals being placed in a group such as mammals, reptiles, or otherwise, it is because mankind currently never made these groups in present time, people in past created these groups, named these animals, and other things in which we have no control over. Therefore it has become a habit of keeping the names of species like aves, reptiles, and otherwise separate. It's quite idiotic yet somewhat normal in the case of mankind to follow on older traditions and repeat themselves. |
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