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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,443 Views)
magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

Ulquiorra
Feb 16 2017, 10:32 AM
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.
Okay see I tend to be skeptical of those "longest reconstructions" especially with titanosaurs because we never have much in the way of fossil evidence for those (except in the case of Dreadnoughtus.) Either way I highly doubt Argentinosaurus reached the weight of the blue whale, there gets to be a point where its legs physically cannot support it anymore and these crazy huge reconstructions might be nearing it.

stargatedalek
 
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?


Yes, yes he is. And it's just the tip of the iceberg, he believes dogs are giant raccoons, mammals are archosaurians, and just wait till you see his pterosaur reconstructions. This is the guy who originated the "vampire Jeholopterus" theory.

To be clear, I am not making fun of him for being wrong. I'm also not automatically assuming he's wrong because he contradicts everyone else. My issue with this guy is that his research methods are extremely controversial and his results can never be reproduced by other scientists. Yet he claims to be a bona fide paleontologist and a surprising amount of people believe him, and when the other big names in the field call him out, he tells the world that he's been ostracized and no one is willing to hear him out. Peters contradicts everything science stands for and is a danger to education.
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stargatedalek
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I'm not slow! That's just my moe!

I know about his pterosaur stuff, but I didn't know he even dabbled in mammals.
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magpiealamode
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He's ruined investigated the whole tetrapod family tree, it seems.
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I'm not entirely sure what to say.
Edited by Turacin, Feb 17 2017, 08:33 PM.
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Formerly Dilophoraptor

#SpinosaurusIsAnActualDragon2K17
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magpiealamode
Feb 16 2017, 09:42 AM
(and I don't even think Leptictidium is a tenrec.)

Leptictidium isn't even a placental
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heliosphoros
Feb 19 2017, 12:17 PM
magpiealamode
Feb 16 2017, 09:42 AM
(and I don't even think Leptictidium is a tenrec.)

Leptictidium isn't even a placental
Are you sure? According to Wikipedia (what does Wikipedia know) they're eutherians, I thought all eutherians were placental but I am willing to accept that I may be wrong...
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magpiealamode
Feb 19 2017, 07:00 PM
Are you sure? According to Wikipedia (what does Wikipedia know) they're eutherians, I thought all eutherians were placental but I am willing to accept that I may be wrong...
Placentalia is the crown group, that is to say it only encompasses everything descended from the common ancestor of all modern placental mammals. Eutheria is the broader group that contains placentals and all mammals closer to them than marsupials. Leptictida are eutherians, but they are outside the crown group, and so aren't crown group placentals.
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This. Non-placental eutherians also tend to have features placentals lack, like epipubic bones (and therefore a "marsupial-like" reproduction)
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magpiealamode
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Ah I see. Thanks for the info.
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The first portrayals of Neanderthals were decidedly primitive and resembled australopithecines at first. Here's a cool article about that.

Additionally, the Piltdown man hoax. What a ride.

My anthro professor told us a story about how the first reconstructions of mammoths had their tusks installed upside down like the runners on a sled.

And this picture of Gigantopithecus. What.
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adehl
Feb 24 2017, 05:05 PM
The first portrayals of Neanderthals were decidedly primitive and resembled australopithecines at first. Here's a cool article about that.

Additionally, the Piltdown man hoax. What a ride.

My anthro professor told us a story about how the first reconstructions of mammoths had their tusks installed upside down like the runners on a sled.

And this picture of Gigantopithecus. What.
19th Century reconstruction of Neanderthal or Danny Vendramini's neanderthal-killer-ape. Can't tell the difference.

(I really should do a video debunking the idea, I had been itching to do it for a long time and at this point I feel like I'm haunted by it c: )
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adehl
Feb 24 2017, 05:05 PM
My anthro professor told us a story about how the first reconstructions of mammoths had their tusks installed upside down like the runners on a sled.
That's just the beginning...
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So apparently supersaurus had 2 large horns on the top of its head...
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Deliberate stylization isn't a failure.
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