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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,444 Views)
Guilmon
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Rob Schneider herp de derp, rated PG-13!

This anime series called Dinosaur King kept mispronouncing "Saichania".
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

That anime has Deltadromeus swimming butterfly style.

The pronunciation of a name is the LEAST of its problems...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5KXzgeq1BuA
Perhaps this dinosaur denier fits in this thread too...

I think most people have seen this video anyway, but there's actually a large faction on Youtube that are conspiracy nuts and it is increasingly scary.
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the dark phoenix
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King of wonderlandia

NOW THAT TAKES THE CAKE!

If anyone could fail at this, it's that guy. Dinosaur fossils have been found for years, just people called them dragons or giants before they were scientifically studied and named decently.


So for paleo-fails.

Would papers taking forever to be shown be a fail? I mean, we basically figure things out before even the paper comes out or at least come close.
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the dark phoenix
Jan 18 2017, 05:12 PM
Would papers taking forever to be shown be a fail? I mean, we basically figure things out before even the paper comes out or at least come close.
Only the Utahraptor paper

No, the process of getting a paper peer reviewed makes sure that the paper isn't a palaeofail
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Acinonyx Jubatus
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I AM THE UNSHRINKWRAPPER!

My biology teacher misspelled "Theropod" in today's lecture.
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Ulquiorra
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the dark phoenix
Jan 18 2017, 05:12 PM
NOW THAT TAKES THE CAKE!

If anyone could fail at this, it's that guy. Dinosaur fossils have been found for years, just people called them dragons or giants before they were scientifically studied and named decently.
My thought exactly, should I mention that the skulls of dwarf elephants were once believed to be the skulls of cyclops, so I wouldn't be surprised if stories of dragons, came from misidentified dinosaur/marine reptile/pterosaur/ whatever fossils?
Edited by Ulquiorra, Feb 16 2017, 10:14 AM.
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magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

LIES.

LIES AND HERESY.

And that is just one example of far, far too many. I'm sure this man has been in this thread many times.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Aside from the bit about the blue whale being the largest animal (which lets be honest, it's unfair to expect anyone to think otherwise [especially when even its Wikipedia article falsely claims so]) there isn't anything I see wrong with that summary.
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stargatedalek
Feb 16 2017, 02:42 AM
Aside from the bit about the blue whale being the largest animal (which lets be honest, it's unfair to expect anyone to think otherwise [especially when even its Wikipedia article falsely claims so]) there isn't anything I see wrong with that summary.

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Toothed whales, like Orcinus, were derived separately from tenrecs, like Leptictidium.


I feel like this is definitely an issue.
Edited by BossAggron, Feb 16 2017, 09:17 AM.
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magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

What is the largest animal if not the blue whale?

Yeah the whole tenrec thing is very untrue (and I don't even think Leptictidium is a tenrec.) Not only does he group toothed and baleen whales separately, he calls the latter mesonychids and says they are descended from desmostylians. It may seem innocuous to those who aren't super well-verse in mammal paleontology, but this is absolutely contradictory to all other theories.
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In the 18th Century, 1774, oxygen was discovered. Why didn't previous cultures discover it...since they were breathing it, or give it a name, or paint some images of O2? I see, if the old tribes rooting around in the mud didn't mention it...it doesn't exist...right? If there's no such thing as oxygen...what are we partially breathing?
Is it possible that scientific research and discovery, along with the codification of the scientific process just happens to coincide with the development of the various rich guy societies? Didn't they exist before the scientific process came together? Isn't that what they call -- a coincidence? Isn't one of the human brain's features to draw links and conclusions where none exist?

Y'know, if you apply this mentality to something, does anything truly exist?
I like how a lot of dinosaur deniers use "they weren't discovered yet" as a main argument lol
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magpiealamode
Feb 16 2017, 09:42 AM
What is the largest animal if not the blue whale?
In terms of length, then Argentinosaurus can grow bigger. The length of the longest reconstruction of an Argentinosaurus (130 ft) exceeds the longest recorded length of a blue whale (110 ft).

In terms of weight, the Blue whale is still probably heavier, dinosaur weights are often, estimated weights (especially sauropods), although from what I can find, we are also yet to accurately weigh a whole blue whale.
Edited by Ulquiorra, Feb 16 2017, 11:03 AM.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

Oh yikes, I just skimmed that but god damn. Is he actually trying to suggest they started from two separate terrestrial lineages? Despite the presence of transitional forms?
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