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| Best paleontology fails | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,464 Views) | |
| TheToastinator | Nov 29 2015, 02:52 PM Post #271 |
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A piece of toast and a terminator.
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The Good Dinosaur calls a Nyctosaurus a "pterodactyl".
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| CyborgIguana | Nov 29 2015, 03:00 PM Post #272 |
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^The fact that people are still complaining about inaccuracies in a PIXAR film! Also, "pterodactyl" can be an informal term for "pterodactyloid", the group which Nyctosaurus belongs to. |
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| BossAggron | Nov 29 2015, 03:28 PM Post #273 |
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Formerly Dilophoraptor
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Is this amount of variation seen in Birds on average actually? |
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| Paleosaurus | Nov 29 2015, 07:13 PM Post #274 |
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Yep, in some genera at least. These three are all members of the genus Corvus Hooded Crow American Crow Pied Crow These three are all Sula. Red-Footed Booby Nazca Booby Brown Booby These three are all non-domesticated Gallus. Green Junglefowl Red Junglefowl Grey Junglefowl And last of all the three extant Fratercula. Atlantic Puffin Tufted Puffin Horned Puffin This level of difference between species isn't really common but neither are Lion to Jaguar degrees of difference for mammals. Birds may not be a good analogue for non-avian dinosaurs anyway since most of them occupy drastically different ecological roles whereas mammals have quite a bit of niche overlap with non-avian dinosaurs. Edited by Paleosaurus, Nov 29 2015, 07:14 PM.
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Dec 31 2015, 10:28 PM Post #275 |
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Once again part of the ZT2 Community.
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Someone thought that Predator X was a Mosasaur with a shorter tail........
Edited by Spinosail, Dec 31 2015, 10:48 PM.
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| Imperator Furiosa | Jan 1 2016, 01:58 AM Post #276 |
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Chaos Theory
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As someone who's currently studying to be a paleontologist or museum researcher this whole thread makes me cry. ![]() I'd have to say the worst paleontology fails I remember were some old reconstructions of mammoths where the tusks were shown coming out of the nasal cavity. Like what the heck? Or there's one that actually happened at my school, but this is more of a basic anatomy fail than anything else. My classmates and even teacher in my freshman religion class were convinced women had an extra rib because Adam and Eve. *facepalms* |
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | Jan 1 2016, 02:29 AM Post #277 |
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!
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I get why they would think this, it's such a widespread idea that I've seen it on TV when someone wants to identify the gender of a skeleton, but I always thought the idea was that men had one rib missing. I've never heard this version before. Edited by Acinonyx Jubatus, Jan 1 2016, 02:30 AM.
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| BossAggron | Jan 1 2016, 06:15 AM Post #278 |
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Its untill you realize that any human can have between 11-13 pairs of ribs IIRC. |
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| heliosphoros | Jan 1 2016, 09:31 AM Post #279 |
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Its moot since the "rib" is an euphemism for the penis bone otherwise very common in non-human placentals. |
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| BossAggron | Jan 1 2016, 09:48 AM Post #280 |
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oh, is that what it is? well then... |
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | Jan 1 2016, 01:57 PM Post #281 |
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!
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I have been a creationist Christian all my life and I have never heard this. |
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| heliosphoros | Jan 1 2016, 10:31 PM Post #282 |
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Most evangelical instutitions don't teach hebrew language and cultural context, let alone something like this. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baculum#Cultural_significance http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/bible-interpretation/the-adam-and-eve-story-eve-came-from-where/ |
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| kepperbob | Jan 2 2016, 10:37 AM Post #283 |
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- Pure Shardana -
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In a video I'm watching right now a guy said that raptor claws could be venomous! WAT|!just WAT.Also he saind that panthers and leopards are different species. |
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| Rockypockypuff | Jan 2 2016, 01:51 PM Post #284 |
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Is walkin' with a dead man.
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This is true in some cases though. A "panther" can be a jaguar too? |
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| Paleop | Jan 2 2016, 03:08 PM Post #285 |
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Paleopterix
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or a mountain lion |
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