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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,442 Views)
magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

Oh my goodness. That Gigantopithecus really looks like an overly hairy middle aged man. That's horrific.
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magpiealamode
Feb 16 2017, 09:24 PM
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.
I can name one living species that can definitely grow longer than a blue whale, and another that debatably can, though the blue whale is still much heavier: the arctic lion's mane jelly has been recorded at lengths of over 120 feet. A bootlace worm was measured at 180 feet, making it arguably the longest animal ever, but that was a dead specimen that may have been stretched out to longer-than life lengths.

Back on topic, museum reconstructions of T. rex will sometimes put the teeth so that most of the root is exposed, thus making it look toothier. Last I heard the Field Museum in Chicago was still guilty of this, but I'm on the other side of the state and it's been a while, so I may be behind the times.
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Imperator Furiosa
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Mar 6 2017, 11:37 PM
Back on topic, museum reconstructions of T. rex will sometimes put the teeth so that most of the root is exposed, thus making it look toothier. Last I heard the Field Museum in Chicago was still guilty of this, but I'm on the other side of the state and it's been a while, so I may be behind the times.
Field Museum volunteer here, and yeah we're guilty of having pretty bad T. rex reconstructions. Sue's skeleton is absolutely wonderful but a lot of our displays featuring her just scream Retrosaur.

Case and point, one of the IMAX films we have: Waking the T. rex
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magpiealamode
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No good hero is a one-trick phony.

For some reason the eyes bother me the most...
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magpiealamode
Mar 6 2017, 11:52 PM
For some reason the eyes bother me the most...
They stare into your soul.
It's a whole 'nother level of discomfort.
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magpiealamode
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Every time I look at it it gets worse.
It's just, it literally isn't a T-Rex. Like it's so not correct.
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Honestly retrosaurs aren't just a problem with the Field Museum but most large museums in general. Started working over at Burpee and believe me there are plenty of outdated reconstructions of Jane. At least they're some plans to update soon enough.
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So I was reading a blog, and I happened to see a photo of a Noripterus forelimb. For a good couple of seconds I seriously thought that it was a hindlimb (the paragraph before was talking about pterosaur femurs) and that one foot had two legs coming off of it. Silly me.
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BossMan, Jake
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Now the series has some notable animals that are highly awesomebro but this one stands out to me as the worst
Edited by BossMan, Jake, Apr 3 2017, 06:01 PM.
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stargatedalek
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And yet still better than most megalodon depictions.
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kepperbob
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Feathereless Rex, and bipedal, spino fighting, in the intro of Attack on titan season 2, we're in 1017 and thid id a paleontological fail
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

Wait... did we even know about them in 1017?!
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Zoo Tycooner FR
Apr 4 2017, 02:48 PM
Wait... did we even know about them in 1017?!
I believe he means 2017.
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Zoo Tycooner FR
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#Lithopédion

I know , I was merely joking ;)
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stargatedalek
Apr 3 2017, 08:04 PM
And yet still better than most megalodon depictions.
At least it's not some great white clone that megalodon is usually depicted as.
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