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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,465 Views)
CyborgIguana
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I think he just heard "Poison Lizard" and that took his juvenile imagination in all sorts of illogical directions.

What use would a herbivore even have for venom?
Edited by CyborgIguana, Nov 20 2015, 08:55 PM.
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heliosphoros
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"Helps" that "veneno" is a word still used in romance languages, so if whoever the hell say that is spanish or portuguese making that idiotic assumption is all the more easy.
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Fluffs
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Pull my finger!

heliosphoros
Nov 18 2015, 10:02 AM
Fluffs
Nov 7 2015, 08:35 PM
Someone removed "Dinosauria" in a lot of bird taxoboxes, and I decided to register and add them back, only to be whined at by some BANDit. Perhaps this is a fail in general?

EDIT: Turns out the "world taxonomy group" or whatever doesn't recognize them in their group which honestly makes no sense
Care to show me the discussion? Maybe I can reason with them.
It's not worth it, trust me.
Edited by Fluffs, Nov 20 2015, 10:16 PM.
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Tyranachu
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Nerdasaurus

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I think that guy saw this piece by Hodari.
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Fluffs
Nov 20 2015, 10:16 PM
heliosphoros
Nov 18 2015, 10:02 AM
Fluffs
Nov 7 2015, 08:35 PM
Someone removed "Dinosauria" in a lot of bird taxoboxes, and I decided to register and add them back, only to be whined at by some BANDit. Perhaps this is a fail in general?

EDIT: Turns out the "world taxonomy group" or whatever doesn't recognize them in their group which honestly makes no sense
Care to show me the discussion? Maybe I can reason with them.
It's not worth it, trust me.

Every chance to fight is worth it.
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Trichechus
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Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Cthulhu R'lyeh wgah'nagl fhtagn

Not a fail, but I decided to make an unofficial PalaeoFail subreddit. If anyone else is on Reddit, you can find it at r/palaeofail. I have five posts up there at the moment; I made it for any other palaeofans in order to discuss and share epic fails from across the internet.

Also, for a fail:
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The rex in the back is just all like "nom nom I'm coming for you."
Edited by Trichechus, Nov 21 2015, 01:54 PM.
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So, last Friday I was volunteering at this Earth Science event that my major puts on for elementary school kids every semester. There's different stations, and I was lucky enough to be at the fossil station. The vast majority of what I do there is to answer the kids' questions about the fossils on display.

One such fossil was a tooth and part of the surrounding jaw of a Columbian mammoth. In each group, there was at least one kid who would ask what it was. I, wanting to encourage them to think, would tell them it was from a mammoth and to guess what part it was. What was by far the most frequent guess?


Ribs. They thought a mammoth's /tooth/ was its /ribs/. Even some of the teachers guessed ribs... oh dear....
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CyborgIguana
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Tyranachu
Nov 21 2015, 02:02 AM
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I think that guy saw this piece by Hodari.
Hodari really has a thing for coming up with his own crazy, improbable (and in some cases outright illogical) Rule-of-Cool-ish hypotheses, doesn't he? (albeit almost always as a joke) xD
Edited by CyborgIguana, Nov 24 2015, 09:27 PM.
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Fluffs
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Pull my finger!

heliosphoros
Nov 21 2015, 09:59 AM
Fluffs
Nov 20 2015, 10:16 PM
heliosphoros
Nov 18 2015, 10:02 AM
Fluffs
Nov 7 2015, 08:35 PM
Someone removed "Dinosauria" in a lot of bird taxoboxes, and I decided to register and add them back, only to be whined at by some BANDit. Perhaps this is a fail in general?

EDIT: Turns out the "world taxonomy group" or whatever doesn't recognize them in their group which honestly makes no sense
Care to show me the discussion? Maybe I can reason with them.
It's not worth it, trust me.

Every chance to fight is worth it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_talk:TheFluffyRaptor

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heliosphoros
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Thanks. When the time is right I will express my holy vengeance.
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Paleop
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ironic how dromeosaurs were thought of as pack hunters and tyrannosaurs as solitary hunters for such a long time and now its more likely the reverse is true for each.
Edited by Paleop, Nov 26 2015, 06:51 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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TBH I'd say we still lack enough evidence to conclude what exactly was the case for either family.

I could still see the super-sized dromaeosaur genera like Achillobator, Dakotaraptor, and Utahraptor potentially being pack-hunting big-game predators.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Nov 26 2015, 11:12 PM.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

It would also varies among genera and species as well, given how social behavior may diverse so much even in closely ralated animals. Tiger and lion are good example. Albertosaurus may hunt in pack doesn't certainly mean that Gorgosaurus or T. rex has to be pack hunter too. Their social behavior might be even different in growth stage, like pack hunting juvenile and solitary adult or vice versa.
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It's easy to overlook how much variation a single species can have. After all, Panthera leo is highly social whereas Panthera onca is almost exclusively solitary. A common problem in paleontology is the one-trait fits all syndrome. We find quills on a ceratopsian and suddenly all ceratopsians must have them. We have evidence that some dromaeosaurs lived in groups and suddenly all of them were social pack hunters. Same goes for tyrannosauroids. I don't blame anyone for leaping to such conclusions because they are very exciting but the truth of the matter is even different species in a single genus can be radically different in appearance and behaviour. Paleontologists and paleo-enthusiasts alike tend to forget this or never know it in the first place.
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CyborgIguana
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There's also the fact that we only have one or two species for most dinosaur genera, and we're likely underestimating how different even those were in life.
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