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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,477 Views)
CyborgIguana
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Really? I was under the impression that they were smarter.
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Stan The Man
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CyborgIguana
Apr 8 2014, 10:19 AM
Really? I was under the impression that they were smarter.
Troodontids and dromaeosaurs are similar animals, so their intellectual differences theoretically shouldn't be drastic. :P
Edited by Stan The Man, Apr 8 2014, 11:35 AM.
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CyborgIguana
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Yeah, I guess that's kind of obvious when you think about it. :P
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Jules
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Mihi est imperare orbi universo

Well, orang-outangs and humans too :P
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Dylan
Apr 7 2014, 07:37 PM
Why would a basal bird need to be dumb, considering the ostrich is very highly derived and also very stupid, compared to the chicken which is both less derived and more intelligent?
Largely because the brain anatomy responsible for avian intellect as restricted to Neognathae, as far as we know.

I also don't think there's good examples of brain degeneration being a thing, aside from maybe a few insular vertebrates, so there's not good precedent for palaeognaths to be the result of secondary stupidity instead of being ancestrally stupid. Then again, I don't think there's many intelligence tests on ratites aside from ostriches.
Edited by heliosphoros, Apr 8 2014, 07:46 PM.
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Hammond
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Swigity Swag what's in the Bag

Well I got this from an unreliable source but here goes, I've been hearing some talk from some people that work with me on volunteer hours and they say that stegosaurus's plates were just rocks or foliage.

I doubt it's true but I need to know if my beloved stegosaur has turned into a nodosaurus(even though it's not) with a spiked tail.
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Meerkatmatt2
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Don't think so, they have turned up on multiple specimums on multiple species.
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hammond
Apr 10 2014, 06:55 PM
Well I got this from an unreliable source but here goes, I've been hearing some talk from some people that work with me on volunteer hours and they say that stegosaurus's plates were just rocks or foliage.

I doubt it's true but I need to know if my beloved stegosaur has turned into a nodosaurus(even though it's not) with a spiked tail.
WHAT??? No offence, but how could you buy that for even a second! That's complete and utter rubbish! The odds of all known stegosaurid genera having perfectly arranged rows of rocks preserved near their skeletons is astronomical! I wouldn't even buy that if it came from an otherwise reliable source.

BTW just out of curiosity, where exactly do you work on your volunteer hours?
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 11 2014, 01:33 PM.
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CyborgIguana
Apr 10 2014, 11:08 PM
hammond
Apr 10 2014, 06:55 PM
Well I got this from an unreliable source but here goes, I've been hearing some talk from some people that work with me on volunteer hours and they say that stegosaurus's plates were just rocks or foliage.

I doubt it's true but I need to know if my beloved stegosaur has turned into a nodosaurus(even though it's not) with a spiked tail.
WHAT??? No offence, but how could you buy that for even a second! That's complete and utter rubbish! The odds of all known stegosaurid genera having perfectly arranged rows of rocks preserved near their skeletons is astronomical! I wouldn't even buy that if it came from an otherwise reliable source.

BTW just out of curiosity, where exactly do you work on your volunteer hours?

Also, while this is unrelated, can anyone (preferably someone who's NOT a creationist) shed some light on this thing that I just stumbled across? Because I'm kind of freaking out right now.
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/stegosaurus-rhinoceros-or-hoax-40387948/?no-ist
Cyborg, calm your stegosaurs, it could of been a practical joke someone pulled on people. anyway, the smithsonian says that it is no evidence for modern non avian dinosaurs.
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I'm amused now. Not only does it seem like recently carved, its only resemblance to the overhyped in some articles genus, Stegosaurus are the crudely shaped objects above its back that don't even resemble the plates of Stegosaurus but also none of its relatives within Stegosauria. Of all genera they had to pick one that went extinct by the end of Jurassic, had many more differently shaped plates, completely different posture in-life (no dinosaur bends like the one on the pic), but also is famous of one of the smallest heads among Thyreophora. Not to mention it lived on a different continent. Depicted beast's head is gigantic, resembling more a deformed ceratopsian/rhino hybrid's head rather than those of stegosaurs. Conclusion: just another hoax to try to shed any credibility on the claims that humans ever co-existed with non-avian dinosaurs. :P
Edited by Similis, Apr 11 2014, 01:13 AM.
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That thing looks more like a boar to me ...

If this should proove anything, is that humans have been using drugs for a veery long time, long before this century.
Edited by Furka, Apr 11 2014, 07:34 AM.
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CyborgIguana
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TBH I was tired and not exactly in a clear state of mind when I first stumbled across that post. Not to mention that Stegosaurus NEVER lived anywhere NEAR Cambodia! :P
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One of its relatives might... Wuerhosaurus is a close relative from EK China...

But they seem to not recognise that it might be decorations, or elaborations...
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It's probably just a depiction of some creature or entity from their mythology that just happens to vaguely resemble a stegosaurid dinosaur.
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Pull my finger!

Wouldn't Pakicetus have fur?
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