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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,452 Views)
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BossMan, Jake
Apr 11 2016, 02:15 PM
Anybody else notice the edmontosaurus's front feet?
Yeah, what's up with them? They're not inaccurate, exactly, but it looks like they grew toenails which fused into one giant hoof.
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BossMan, Jake
Apr 11 2016, 02:15 PM
Anybody else notice the edmontosaurus's front feet?
That is one nice pair of socks. xD
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Apr 11 2016, 11:11 AM
What is it with people making Pachycephalosaurus many times the size it actually was?
IIRC it's because before they had complete skeletons of other pachycephalosaurs that showed they had proportionally huge heads, they assumed Pachy had ornithopod proportions which led to over-estimates of its size.
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CyborgIguana
Apr 11 2016, 03:31 PM
Acinonyx Jubatus
Apr 11 2016, 11:11 AM
What is it with people making Pachycephalosaurus many times the size it actually was?
IIRC it's because before they had complete skeletons of other pachycephalosaurs that showed they had proportionally huge heads, they assumed Pachy had ornithopod proportions which led to over-estimates of its size.
But that Pachy's head is almost bigger than an entire real-life Pachy.
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Yeah, it still never accounted for those who failed at anatomy entirely. :P

Also technically any hadrosaur forefeet that show hooves or nails are inaccurate, their forefeet were just fleshy pads in life.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 11 2016, 04:24 PM.
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CyborgIguana
Apr 11 2016, 04:19 PM

Also technically any hadrosaur forefeet that show hooves or nails are inaccurate, their forefeet were just fleshy pads in life.
ACTUALLY...

Turns out, you'd see the first two hoof-like claws poking out of said fleshy pads.
Edited by Incinerox, Apr 11 2016, 08:14 PM.
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Apr 11 2016, 08:13 PM
CyborgIguana
Apr 11 2016, 04:19 PM

Also technically any hadrosaur forefeet that show hooves or nails are inaccurate, their forefeet were just fleshy pads in life.
ACTUALLY...

Turns out, you'd see the first two hoof-like claws poking out of said fleshy pads.
When was this determined?! :o
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Since the early 20th century, actually. You know the "webbing" they misinterpreted and took as evidence of hadrosaurs being aquatic? Turns out it was actually a fleshy pad that submerged the entire front foot in flesh and scales (except the aforementioned first two hoof-like claws Incinerox mentioned).

Here's a diagram to prove it, notice how the scales extend right onto the unguals:

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The back feet would've still had nails though, as demonstrated by footprints.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Apr 11 2016, 11:39 PM.
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Apr 11 2016, 11:36 PM
Since the early 20th century, actually. You know the "webbing" they misinterpreted and took as evidence of hadrosaurs being aquatic? Turns out it was actually a fleshy pad that submerged the entire front foot in flesh and scales (except the aforementioned first two hoof-like claws Incinerox mentioned).

Here's a diagram to prove it, notice how the scales extend right onto the unguals:

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The back feet would've still had nails though, as demonstrated by footprints.
No, not this. I'm talking about the claws. I thought Hadrosaur forefeet were clawless.
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Okay, too much internet for today...
Edited by Zhadow, Apr 21 2016, 12:57 AM.
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Like seriously these are just awful!!!
I don't care if these are from the 90s era we had enough information to not make them like this!
Edited by BossMan, Jake, Apr 27 2016, 11:39 PM.
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Apr 21 2016, 12:55 AM
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This image at least gave way to a wildly hilarious reaction text by Marc Vincent of Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs:

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Well now...I'm quite lost for words. Was the expression of intense pain really necessary? I mean, you don't see zebras collapse in the middle of the Serengeti, their faces contorted into grotesque grimaces of equine agony, now do you? I blame Dougal Dixon for this. I bet he sneaked into the artist's studio in the dead of night, dressed in an oversized trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat, cigarette dangling from his mouth and muttered through clenched teeth "I'll tells ya what the kids gotta see, son. Dixie Doug's gonna teach them a little life lesson right here in his blessed dinosaur book."
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CyborgIguana
Apr 28 2016, 12:11 PM
Zhadow
Apr 21 2016, 12:55 AM
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This image at least gave way to a wildly hilarious reaction text by Marc Vincent of Love in the Time of Chasmosaurs:

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Well now...I'm quite lost for words. Was the expression of intense pain really necessary? I mean, you don't see zebras collapse in the middle of the Serengeti, their faces contorted into grotesque grimaces of equine agony, now do you? I blame Dougal Dixon for this. I bet he sneaked into the artist's studio in the dead of night, dressed in an oversized trenchcoat and wide-brimmed hat, cigarette dangling from his mouth and muttered through clenched teeth "I'll tells ya what the kids gotta see, son. Dixie Doug's gonna teach them a little life lesson right here in his blessed dinosaur book."
When I saw that image, the first thing that came into my head was, is that dinosaur male, and then I read the description and then begin to think, is that even a Pachycephalosaurid?
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The other day I was volunteering at an event a public school was holding where they had a bunch of tables themed after different fields of science and the like and the kids and their parents were going around visiting the tables. I was running the fossils table- it was a set of fossils that belonged to my school and frequently use to teach kids about paleontology, and since I help at these events a lot I'm pretty familiar with these fossils and know what I'm talking about. At one point, during a slower time of the evening a mom and her daughter came up to my table. They were polite and asked questions, and I explained everything as best I could. Apparently the mom didn't get it though, because as she walked away she said, dismissively, "They're just rocks."
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Of course, technically speaking fossils ARE just rocks now, but I assume she was implying that's all they ever were.
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