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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 (256,407 Views)
Similis
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Unpleasant, though rather not surprising.
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Ignacio
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A thing that anoys me about paleontology is that i didn't choose it as career :(

(although that would be something more related to a what anoys me the most about myself kind of topic :P )
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extremos
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Mar 17 2014, 03:32 PM
A thing that anoys me about paleontology is that i didn't choose it as career :(

(although that would be something more related to a what anoys me the most about myself kind of topic :P )
And you would probably have been sucessful if you chose so. Not only are you smart but you also live in a country with like, 180 Dinosaurs species xD
While I, even though I live "nextdooors" to you only have 25 described Dinosaurs in my country... :( (26 if you count the Sauropodomorhp Sacisaurus and 27 if you count the new leg bone they found in the state of Maranhão)
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Ignacio
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Yes i know. I'm an idiot xD Actually I was really close of studying it... it was among my options, but after putting some thoughts into that idea i decided that i prefered to study medicine instead because my interst in the prehistoric life was just a "secondary hobby" and not a real choice as a career. Oh boy i was wrong xD

I'm still in time though. Maybe in the future i can properly study paleontology, at least to fullfil my dream.
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extremos
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Mar 17 2014, 05:34 PM
Yes i know. I'm an idiot xD Actually I was really close of studying it... it was among my options, but after putting some thoughts into that idea i decided that i prefered to study medicine instead because my interst in the prehistoric life was just a "secondary hobby" and not a real choice as a career. Oh boy i was wrong xD

I'm still in time though. Maybe in the future i can properly study paleontology, at least to fullfil my dream.
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Glocks Nigh Svenure
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What annoys me is how much I like it but how little I know! I always embarrass myself. xD
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CyborgIguana
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That just means you have an opportunity to educate yourself...honestly it's more fun to be a beginner paleo-fan because you can still actually LEARN stuff instead of just repeating the same facts over and over again in your head. :P
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Ignacio
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But you can always learn new things... you will never knew everything there is to know about a subject.
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CyborgIguana
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I suppose that's true.
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CyborgIguana
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Sorry about the double post, but I realized that another thing I find rather irksome is the number of those who STILL think Liopleurodon was the biggest marine predator in history. If they'd bothered to look into any research on marine reptile paleontology in the last decade, they'd realize that it was actually on the smaller side of the pliosaur scale, and that other prehistoric sea-dwelling predators like Pliosaurus, Mosasaurus, Shonisaurus, Livyatan, and Megalodon doubled or even tripled it in length. As much as I love WWD, I honestly found their depiction of Liopleurodon rather ridiculous, essentially a pliosaur incarnation of the JP Spino.
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Dr. Hax
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CyborgIguana
Mar 19 2014, 02:09 PM
Sorry about the double post, but I realized that another thing I find rather irksome is the number of those who STILL think Liopleurodon was the biggest marine predator in history. If they'd bothered to look into any research on marine reptile paleontology in the last decade, they'd realize that it was actually on the smaller side of the pliosaur scale, and that other prehistoric sea-dwelling predators like Pliosaurus, Mosasaurus, Shonisaurus, Livyatan, and Megalodon doubled or even tripled it in length. As much as I love WWD, I honestly found their depiction of Liopleurodon rather ridiculous, essentially a pliosaur incarnation of the JP Spino.
At least it behaved in a mostly realistic manner, hugeness notwithstanding, unlike the animal supervillain behavior of the JP Spino.
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Furka
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Well they used the Aramberri monster as an excuse for that, so it wasn't totally unrealistic at the time.
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Meerkatmatt2
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Not sure where to place this, but the levels of butthurt are so high that it may be contagious! http://carnivoraforum.com/topic/9965170/2/
Some people cannot grasp how awesome late cretaceous pterosaurs, mammals, birds and land crocs were. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adamantina_Formation
Original post+ extra post by the same author
http://gwawinapterus.wordpress.com/2012/02/17/even-without-the-asteroid-dinosaurs-were-doomed/
http://gwawinapterus.wordpress.com/2012/11/28/pterosaurs-and-birds-the-stupidity-lives-on-reblogged-because-some-dumdfucks-keep-insisting-in-being-uneducated-subhuman-morons/

the title of the second one in particular! xD
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CyborgIguana
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I'm not a member of the Carnivora forum so I can't view the post. :/

Anyway, it's interesting to consider the possibility that if it weren't for the asteroid the Cenozoic could've been the age of crocs and pterosaurs as well as mammals. Though if you ask me the author clearly holds some kind of grudge against non-avian dinosaurs and those who enjoy them. I never saw dinosaurs as "superior" to other Mesozoic vertebrates, but I don't see them as "inferior" either. Furthermore, he says that dinosaurs are "mere animals", which of course is correct, but he seems at times to forget that this is also true of pterosaurs, crocs, and mammals. xD Overly biased attitude aside though, it is an interesting post I must admit.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Mar 20 2014, 05:44 PM.
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DinoBear
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I remember that thread from Carnivora. I really would say that they were being butthurt, but instead were refuting the claim that baurusuchids were out competing theropods. Sure, the dinosaurs weren't the sole rulers of the Mesozoic that the general public thinks they are, but the writer seems to take that as an excuse to over hype their contemporaries.
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