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| Best paleontology fails | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,448 Views) | |
| Mathius Tyra | Jul 14 2016, 11:48 PM Post #511 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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What made up about Brontosaurus is that they added Camarasaurus's skull into the already described genus's specimen, so that it would look more complete... Ah... The Bone War... |
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| BossMan, Jake | Jul 15 2016, 12:29 AM Post #512 |
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Son of God
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![]() I have been terrified I don't care if it has feathers this is some kind of SyFy channel horror |
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| Ulquiorra | Jul 15 2016, 09:39 AM Post #513 |
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Looking at the front view, it's face looks like it belongs on a Chinese dragon/lion statue/costume. |
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| babehunter1324 | Jul 15 2016, 10:16 AM Post #514 |
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![]() Yep, I think you are right. |
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| CyborgIguana | Jul 15 2016, 10:43 AM Post #515 |
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Yeah, but that's unrelated to the name. Also it wasn't to make it look more complete, it was just that they found a Camarasaurus skull in close proximity to a Brontosaurus skeleton and assumed they belonged to the same animal (not an unreasonable conclusion TBH, so they can hardly be blamed). Neither animal had its skull known at the point of the discovery IIRC. In other words, the mistake probably would've happened regardless of the bone wars. Edited by CyborgIguana, Jul 15 2016, 01:10 PM.
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| Acinonyx Jubatus | Jul 15 2016, 04:08 PM Post #516 |
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!
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So I just got back into playing ZT2. According to the Zoopedia, Protarchaeopteryx is a Sauropod. |
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| Imperator Furiosa | Jul 15 2016, 04:23 PM Post #517 |
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Chaos Theory
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Yeah they really dropped the ball on the Zoopedias for some of the extinct animals. Really the designs for several of the extinct species could be paleofails too, especially the poor Megatherium. We have a good idea of what it looked like and that thing is definitely not it. |
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| BossMan, Jake | Jul 15 2016, 11:28 PM Post #518 |
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Son of God
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Man Blue Fang rushed Extinct animals both times man! First they screw up the biome requirements in the original I mean good lord, Sloths in snow?! Plaetosaurus in deciduous forests? Or Giant tortoises in tundra? Lol give me a break. XD, and even making some of them freakishly huge or like Kijus with T-Rex of course being an unkillable monster! On top of that they label the age of certain foliage and animals wrong and on the wrong continents like Club miss being from the Jurassic or Caudiperyx being from the Jurassic Then in ZT2 they didn't try much harder, why the couldnt add more extinct foliage, make proper lists for the Zoopidea family trees or make more accurate looking animals or late last out them in accurate biomes (Utahraptors in boreal forests XD) is beyond me. I mean come on atleast try or say you gave a crap, they honestly rushed it to much in order to appease a younger audience Ok venting over lol EDIT: ok firsts off look at this video's upload date...good? Now this channel specializes in studying animals of all kinds...just...just listen to what they say about Quetzalcoalus please? :,( https://youtu.be/9KOb8fw2mAg Edited by BossMan, Jake, Jul 16 2016, 12:43 AM.
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| Imperator Furiosa | Jul 16 2016, 07:15 PM Post #519 |
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Chaos Theory
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I feel like the designs in ZT1 were more accurate for the time compared to those in ZT2 though, and we knew less about the ecosystems than we do now so a few of the mistakes are more forgivable. As for ZT2 the designs were just so off, we had evidence by then that the raptors and other related theropods were feathered, but we only had two fully-feathered dinos and one with partial feathering. Not to mention some of the animals just looked ugly (American Mastodon anyone?). Yeah ZT1 had no feathered dinos except Caudipteryx and had a fully bipedal and terrestrial Spino but they looked better than the naked Deinonychus and mohawked Utahraptor. |
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| Ulquiorra | Jul 30 2016, 07:22 PM Post #520 |
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Apart from calling it a bird, did he pronounce it Quetzal-KOALA-tiss. That's not the only one with a pronunciation I had an issue with, Basilosaurus, the way he first pronounced it, almost rhymed with megaloceros, although he did pronounce it right the second time he said it, and how he pronounced sarcosuchus, it almost sounded like he had pronounced it with a "h" between the second "s" and the "u". He said Meganeura were "as big as birds", erm, seems a bit vague, considering birds come in a huge variety of sizes. If he had said something like as big as hawks or as big as crows, it would've given a more detailed size comparison. Considering he only mentioned Basilosaurus by it's genus name, not the exact species, he failed to mention it's remains have been found in Egypt and Jordan. Although I assume he is referring only to B. cetoides. Also, is Basilosaurus really the ancestor of modern day cetaceans? if not then this guy needs to do more reasearch. Edited by Ulquiorra, Jul 30 2016, 07:25 PM.
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| Incinerox | Jul 30 2016, 08:10 PM Post #521 |
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti
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That's a Quetzalquality video clip right there... |
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| Mathius Tyra | Jul 31 2016, 10:46 AM Post #522 |
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life
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![]() More like a lovechild between Koolasuchus and some kind of Rauisuchid... |
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| Anas Platyrhynchos | Jul 31 2016, 12:25 PM Post #523 |
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The Quacky Canine
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![]() I have seen similar things before.... On the side of the road Also.. ![]() Oh god....the eyes |
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| Paleodude | Jul 31 2016, 07:29 PM Post #524 |
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ex-Krampus
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As stupid as those cards were I still collected them furiously and most of the info on the cards themselves were fairly accurate for the time. But for the art, what do you expect from a company that also did cards fir Bigfoot, Smaug, and even an unlicensed Godzilla card. Let's not forget this publication disaster;
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| Cheshire Litten | Aug 2 2016, 07:33 PM Post #525 |
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The Eyes that follow you in the Alolan forests
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Using King Caesar as a comparison is both a complement to the inaccurate yet feathered raptor and a insult to King Caesar, but i can see the resemblance. Edited by Cheshire Litten, Aug 2 2016, 07:34 PM.
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