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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,475 Views)
Okeanos
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CyborgIguana
Feb 10 2014, 09:18 AM
Bite his head off, UT2! ;)
His name is PrimevalRaptor ;)

Guys, calm down. When you get to the point where you want to kill them then you seriously need a time out. He's just a misinformed kid who refuses to listen to people about his love of "monsters". If I wanted to kill every person like him, I'd have to get rid of half my school. I think you're diving into this too much. There's thousands of people like him, especially on YouTube. He's not going to learn, he doesn't care, I doubt he even has an interest in the animal itself, just the scaly monster it's associated with. Just leave him alone.

At the moment it sounds like you're being a bit snobbish.
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CyborgIguana
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Sorry, I meant PrimevalRaptor. In my defence, I was obviously exaggerating. Of course I don't actually want to kill him, what do you think I am? Some kind of psychopath? He just pisses me off with his deliberate ignorance and rudeness towards those who try to argue with him.
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I know you didn't literally want to kill him, but you "jokingly" say you have fantasies of killing him, for... what? Doing as other misinformed people do, believing that all dinosaurs were scaly monsters. So do a lot of children, but you don't go around saying you want to kill them, do you? I understand that his attitude isn't great, but it's still going too far to laugh and joke about murdering someone because they don't like feathers on dinosaurs. It just isn't necessary.

It annoys me to see people thinking that because they are "pro-feathers" and a "Feather Nazi" that they are therefore superior in all Palaeontological arguments. You do know more in this case (although my 7 year old cousin knows more than this guy) but I find this attitude, which I've seen dotted around this area of the forums, to be quite annoying.

I am in no way defending his views, anyone who knows me knows I love fuzzball dinosaurs as much as you guys, I'm just saying you're taking it a step too far.

And now the rant is over, I vote we get back on topic

Edited by Okeanos, Feb 10 2014, 02:05 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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Agreed. So yeah, paleontology fails, who has some to share?
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Furka
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Well I remember the time me and a friend of mine wrote up a list of dinos and the modern animals that came from them just based on anathomical similarities. So we had Giraffatitan being giraffe's ancestor, same with Protoceratops/warthog (because of those bony things near the cheek) and Carnotaurus/great horned owl (because of the horns looking like the tufts on the owl's head).

Of course we knew it was just a joke without sense, but it still makes me smile when I think about it.
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CyborgIguana
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The sad thing is there are a lot of people who could probably be fooled by those false ancestor-descendant relationships.
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Mastodon28
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Stabbing Woodpecker

Furka
Feb 10 2014, 02:12 PM
Carnotaurus/great horned owl
I don´t think too many people would be fooled by that :P
Edited by Mastodon28, Feb 11 2014, 03:32 PM.
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CyborgIguana
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You might be surprised.
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extremos
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Where's Mr Pig?

MrGorsh
Feb 10 2014, 02:54 AM
Remember that people who hype about raptors being 'pack killers' of large dinosaurs aren't reasonable. They think of raptors as of JP monsters. In reality, dromaeosaurids, even though stocky for paravians, weren't built to tackle prey 10 times their weight. When you see a 'pack' of 70kg Deinonychus attacking a 2-ton Tenontosaurus, you can see how desperate these carnivores are and can also predict how many bones will be shattered that day.
♫ Bones will be shattered
necks will be wrung
You'll be beaten and battered
from racks you'll be hung
You'll die down here and never be found
Down in the deep of Goblin Town! ♫
Anyways, that lady in the Geology Museum in that Field Trip I made and that I told you guys about, I'm willing to tell the story again if you guys wish... ;)
Edited by extremos, Feb 10 2014, 03:51 PM.
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Similis
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You know we want you to tell it. There's no need to be uncertain. :P
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Sheather
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Thank you for the set, Azrael!

IDK if I said this here before, I probably did and forgot, but when I was 12, I knew someone who thought rhinoceroses were dinosaurs. He was 14.
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extremos
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Where's Mr Pig?

MrGorsh
Feb 11 2014, 02:18 AM
You know we want you to tell it. There's no need to be uncertain. :P
It's because I had already told it before and thought that perhaps you would still remember it...
Basically she didn't know a single thing about Dinosaurs, she said Mesosaurus was a Dinosaur, she said that Dinosaurs appeared in the Carboniferous, that perhaps Triceratops lived from the Jurassic to the Cretaceous (She didn't know when it existed), and many other things.
And she was head paleontologist...
Also Sheather, he thought Rhinos were Dinosaurs, when he was 14? I mean I used to think Triceratops was the rhinos's "grandfather", when I was 5, and he thought Rhinos were Dinos? That reminds me of Kindergarten...
Teacher (With Triceratops puppet): Hello children! I'm the Rhinoceros!
Young me: THAT'S THE RHINOCEROS'S GRANDFATHER!
Teacher: Ok, I'm the Rhinoceros's grandfather!
Not to mention the fact that, whenever I drew a drawing (In Kindergarten they'd write down the meaning of our drawings in the bottom of the paper because our drawing skills weren't the best :P) with pterosaurs they wrote "Pterodaptyl" in it.
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Still pretty smart for a 5-year-old, I'd say. The average kid of that age would've just went along with it, since when you're that young "all grown-ups are right". So maybe you didn't get the evolutionary relationship of ceratopsians right, but at least you knew it wasn't a rhino. xD Anyway, I can't believe that a PALEONTOLOGIST would say the things she said (plus AFAIK no single genus of dinosaur lasted more than a few million years, so it would be almost impossible for Triceratops to appear in the Jurassic and survive to witness the K-P extinction).

@Sheather: Does he still think that? He seriously needs a visit to the zoo!
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Where's Mr Pig?

CyborgIguana
Feb 11 2014, 03:29 PM
Still pretty smart for a 5-year-old, I'd say. The average kid of that age would've just went along with it, since when you're that young "all grown-ups are right". So maybe you didn't get the evolutionary relationship of ceratopsians right, but at least you knew it wasn't a rhino. xD Anyway, I can't believe that a PALEONTOLOGIST would say the things she said (plus AFAIK no single genus of dinosaur lasted more than a few million years, so it would be almost impossible for Triceratops to appear in the Jurassic and survive to witness the K-P extinction).

@Sheather: Does he still think that? He seriously needs a visit to the zoo!
Yeah I'd never believe in a teacher rather than in my beloved Paleoworld :love:
Even though Paleoworld never said Triceratops was the grandfather of the Rhinoceros, and only mentioned Triceratops in their Pre-Historic Rhinoceros episode. It was I who misunderstood it.
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I'm dying to see those teachers you mentioned label Mark Witton's illustrations as "Pterodaptyl". xD
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