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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 (256,424 Views)
Furka
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European dinos are well known. Iguanodon and Baryonyx, just to name 2. And Australia is also known thanks to WWD.

and i mean that people love T-rex, aka the scaly JPish monster, not T. rex the real animal.
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Baryonyx and Iguanodon are only well-known if you're interested in Palaeontology. If you showed members of the public photos of a Baryonyx or Iguanodon, most of the time they'd have no clue what they were.

What Hananas was saying is that this isn't true of a lot of North American dinosaurs. Ask anyone if they've heard of Tyrannosaurus rex, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, or Apatosaurus/"Brontosaurus" and they almost certainly know them. A lot of the North American dinosaurs are quite famous anyway, even if they didn't know the name of them. Ankylosaurus, Parasaurolophus and Styracosaurus are quite recognisable, although the latter is sometimes mixed up with Triceratops. This isn't true of any European or Australian dinosaur, so I can see Hananas' point.

(The exceptions to the "'Murica rulez" law of palaeontology are Velociraptor, which most people have heard of because of Jurassic Park, and Spinosaurus, although most people still think of it as a smaller T-Rex with a sail)
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At least Yixian is getting some recognition because of Yutyrannus. Though mainstream only knows about the animals it was informed about through popular media. And because most of the documentaries and S-F base on dinosaurs from US or Canada, they're the most known. Though it's not that hard to imagine considering that many of these documentaries are made in NA :P
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well i think Iguanodon it's still pretty well known, also thanks to Disney's Dinosaurs.
At least, i've met as many people that know Iguanodon as those who know Parasaurolophus (it could also be that Iguanodon is way easier to learn and remember as a name).
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hananas59
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Evolving creatures from earth.

Well iguanodon is an exception but most others are relatively unknown

And Mr. Gorsh is completely right.
What annoys me about America is that they use their own country in the hundreds of films they make. But other parts of the world without a well known film industry should deserve some attention too.
So americans make some dinosaur movies about the rest of the earth !
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Furka
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but that's not just an American thing, I think pretty much every country does that.
Italian movies are mostly located in Italy, the only exceptions are the Christmas "movies" (if that trash can be called like that) which however portray foreign countries always in stereotypical ways.
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hananas59
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Evolving creatures from earth.

Yeah thats alright but with documetaries its like this

BBC travels the whole world
Americans use their own country
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Furka
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National Geographic documentaries are done worldwide too.
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hananas59
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Evolving creatures from earth.

Most of the americans do that. NG is sure a exception but discovery channel , History channel etc. use mostly american dinosaurs. Even JP did that
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extremos
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hananas59
Dec 30 2013, 07:51 AM
Most of the americans do that. NG is sure a exception but discovery channel , History channel etc. use mostly american dinosaurs. Even JP did that
With JP it's another case, Crichton explained that Hammond was only funding dig sites located in the north hemisphere because of the colder climates (And I still don't get where Cearadactylus came from then) that were more proper to the preservation of DNA. And well, actually I don't think there was any asian dinosaur in Jurassic Park, considering that the "Velociraptor" in the book was actually Deinonychus
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Furka
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there's Gallimimus, although it's just mentioned. and then the compies, carnotaurus and mussaurus.
Also, DC only made When dinosaurs roamed America with that theme: the rest of their documentaries were rather widespread (otherwise why calling it Dinosaur Planet ?).
Edited by Furka, Dec 30 2013, 08:45 AM.
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"99% of people don't like extinct animals. If you're part of the 1% who likes extinct animals, put this in your signature!"

This is one of the stupidest thing related to paleontology I have ever seen. Where did you get that 99% of people don't like extinct animals? That's just an absolute lie.
Edited by Oviraptor, Dec 30 2013, 12:39 PM.
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hananas59
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Evolving creatures from earth.

Well I had it long in my signature but thought it was a bit ridiculous and deleted it

You know most people dislike the people that like paleontology so I think they're referring to that fact.
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extremos
Dec 30 2013, 08:37 AM
hananas59
Dec 30 2013, 07:51 AM
Most of the americans do that. NG is sure a exception but discovery channel , History channel etc. use mostly american dinosaurs. Even JP did that
With JP it's another case, Crichton explained that Hammond was only funding dig sites located in the north hemisphere because of the colder climates (And I still don't get where Cearadactylus came from then) that were more proper to the preservation of DNA. And well, actually I don't think there was any asian dinosaur in Jurassic Park, considering that the "Velociraptor" in the book was actually Deinonychus
In the book they were velociraptors if i remember correctly. It was Spielberg who used Deynonichus as the base for his velociraptors in the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)#Prehistoric_animals_featured_in_the_novel
Edited by Ignacio, Dec 30 2013, 01:40 PM.
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extremos
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Where's Mr Pig?

Zoocrazy
Dec 30 2013, 01:37 PM
extremos
Dec 30 2013, 08:37 AM
hananas59
Dec 30 2013, 07:51 AM
Most of the americans do that. NG is sure a exception but discovery channel , History channel etc. use mostly american dinosaurs. Even JP did that
With JP it's another case, Crichton explained that Hammond was only funding dig sites located in the north hemisphere because of the colder climates (And I still don't get where Cearadactylus came from then) that were more proper to the preservation of DNA. And well, actually I don't think there was any asian dinosaur in Jurassic Park, considering that the "Velociraptor" in the book was actually Deinonychus
In the book they were velociraptors if i remember correctly. It was Spielberg who used Deynonichus as the base for his velociraptors in the movie.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jurassic_Park_(novel)#Prehistoric_animals_featured_in_the_novel
Acually no, there's this part where this part wher Tim says that Deinonychus could kill Tenontosaurus, but then Grant says "Yes but Deinonychus was later reclassified into Velociraptor", and their name is Velociraptor antirhopus, not to count that they are found in North America
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