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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 (256,409 Views)
Similis
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Other mummified hadrosaurs, from what I recall, didn't preserve much soft tissue around the head area. It's unclear if this was due to fact that they didn't have any soft ornamentation or because the head was rushed during excavation, thus, if any were present, they weren't spotted early and thus removed with encasing rock, the latter being a real possiblity.
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CyborgIguana
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Besides, given how relatively rare soft tissue is in dinosaur fossils, it isn't that surprising that only one specimen has preserved it so far.
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CyborgIguana
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Damn, another double post! But seriously, along with Deinonychus always attacking Tenontosaurus and Protoceratops always fighting Velociraptor, there's another more ignored paleo-trope that I'm getting a bit weary of. The fact that Maiasaura is never seen doing anything but looming over a nest and tending to its young ones. Yes, we get it by now that Maiasaurs were nurturing parents. Fossil evidence that's existed since the 1970s has made that very clear. So can we PLEASE see them doing something else now?
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 8 2014, 06:07 PM.
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Furka
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Well those in Dinosaur Planet were doing something different.
And to be honest that's the only depiction of Maiasaura we had in the medias (except Dinosaur Train), I wouldn't mind a documentary about Egg Mountain.
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Meerkatmatt2
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I fail to even
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2515969/Humans-evolved-female-chimpanzee-mated-pig-Extraordinary-claim-American-geneticist.html

Also this cracked article doesn't fail paleontology, it shows some extreme paleofails that people have made in the past. Flying stegosaurs for example.
http://www.cracked.com/article_20861_5-ridiculous-alternate-versions-prehistoric-animals.html
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CyborgIguana
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I would like to know what this geneticist's been smoking. How could a chimp and a pig even produce fertile offspring?
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I Raptus
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What are ya lookin' at?

CyborgIguana
Mar 8 2014, 07:10 PM
I would like to know what this geneticist's been smoking. How could a chimp and a pig even produce fertile offspring?
That's not even the worst. There was a site claiming of a Rabbit and a Pigeon producing fertile offspring. Along with

Human x dog
Human x pig
Horse x Moose
Horse x Red deer
Dog x pig
pig x monkey

etc.

Of course in the comments, there were people who claimed this supported their fight for "Same Love."

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Ulquiorra
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CyborgIguana
Mar 8 2014, 07:10 PM
I would like to know what this geneticist's been smoking. How could a chimp and a pig even produce fertile offspring?
More like "How could a chimp and a pig even produce offspring, let alone produce fertile offspring?"

An attempted mating could be possible, but a pregnancy impossible. A mating of a cat and a dog is more likely to result in offspring, than a pig and a chimp, atleast both cats and dogs are carnivorans.
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CyborgIguana
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Plus, it's not like we don't already have a pretty good idea of the evolutionary history of hominids. Where exactly do Australopithecus and Homo erectus fit into this pig-banging hypothesis?
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Tyranachu
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Nerdasaurus

...I saw this topic.

...I just had to post this.


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forgive me
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Meerkatmatt2
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More weird extinction theories
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/03/09/dark-matter-dinosaurs_n_4929975.html?utm_hp_ref=mostpopular#slide=1206278
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CyborgIguana
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Interesting theory, not sure about it's validity though. xD
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Ulquiorra
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Another issue with the pig-banging hypothesis, if a pig and a chimp created a human, then who domesticated the pig? If humans didn't exist then pigs (and all other domesticated species)wouldn't exist and still be wild boar.
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CyborgIguana
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Well, was it said that the chimp mated with a domesticated pig? I'm not saying I agree with the theory, but perhaps by pig he just meant any member of Suidae (though only domesticated pigs have the features that he argues are present in humans, such as naked skin).

BTW I've read this guy's article, and I'm no longer certain he should be considered a total crackpot, especially since he's apparently a prominent authority on hybridization in animals. Perhaps something as radical as a one-night stand between an ape and a pig isn't particularly likely, but I agree with his opinion that the current conception of evolution may have several flaws. And before the creationists start telling me "just admit that evolution in general is wrong", I'll say with confidence that it's just our current understanding of how evolution works that may not be spot-on. The fact that evolution occurs isn't even scientifically debatable anymore, I advise you to stop pretending that it is and get on with your life.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 11 2014, 10:10 PM.
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Tyranachu
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Nerdasaurus

This reconstruction of Nanuqsaurus.

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This is, by far, one of the fugliest tyrannosaur reconstructions I have ever seen.
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