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Best paleontology fails
Topic Started: Jan 11 2014, 01:18 PM (42,474 Views)
Mathius Tyra
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extremos
Feb 11 2014, 03:09 PM
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.
Actually, even in my kindergarten age. I already known that Trike and rhino are nothing involved. In that age, I thought that Triceratops is a rhino-like lizard. xD
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Stan The Man
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I have a classmate who seriously thinks this is accurate:
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And I'm in 8th grade.
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CyborgIguana
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Even my schoolmates would know how inaccurate that is! Though they think the JP Rex is accurate, its still miles ahead of that! xD
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Nerdasaurus

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CyborgIguana
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I have seriously met some people who think T. rex is the biggest dinosaur. It's fairly common knowledge that a few other theropods, some hadrosaurs, and most sauropods surpassed it in size (and in the case of sauropods surpassing it by quite a bit).
Edited by CyborgIguana, Feb 21 2014, 07:06 PM.
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Hammond
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@CyborgIguana: It's probably they haven't expanded themselves to the numerous of dinosaurs that they never heard or knew about.

couldn't hurt to educate.


although they won't care or they'll forget about it. :/
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CyborgIguana
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They could at least say the biggest was "Brontosaurus" (as most people I know do, except for these few I've already mentioned).

On another topic, I remember one time in my history class last year when we were watching a documentary about World War 1 and my classmate sitting next to me asked me if there were dinosaurs in the time of the war. It was such an outlandish thing to even ask that I first assumed he was joking, but later when he asked the question again I realized he, somehow, was actually serious. I felt awkward even having to explain to him that no, there were no dinosaurs in the early 20th century except birds, and that non-avian dinosaurs went extinct 66 million years ago and no human being had ever seen one. He then proceeded to ask "Well then, how do we know they even existed if no one ever saw them?"

And in my head I was like: >_<
Edited by CyborgIguana, Feb 21 2014, 11:28 PM.
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Similis
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Classic example of "Where you there?". That's just... sad.
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CyborgIguana
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It's just about the most stupid, circular argument anyone has ever used to question something we think we know.
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Similis
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Or rather something scientists have concluded using avaliable evidence and knowledge gathered by humanity. Well, some people prefer it simple and not necessarily scientific.
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http://sochamc.blogspot.com/2011/01/blog-post.html
Came across this thing, any quotes and some more comments on there deserve a place on paleofail.
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Similis
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That's one of the greatest trolls ever known to exist within the history of internet. Or just a sad case. I'm leaning more towards the former.
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CyborgIguana
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I already posted that a while back in this topic. Sad, just sad. He also used the fact that "no dinosaurs have been found anywhere near North America" as evidence against their existence. Most of the dinosaurs people are familiar with are from either North America, Europe, or Asia. He clearly has extremely poor knowledge on paleontology (or archaeology, as he calls it), so why does he expect anyone to take him with even a shred of seriousness? I've also noticed that many of these people haven't bothered to come up with an alternative explanation for the hundreds of fossil discoveries around the globe, besides the painfully lazy "Gawd iz testing us" argument.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Feb 23 2014, 12:16 PM.
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BossAggron
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Formerly Dilophoraptor

Not to mention every instantly recognizable dinosaur lived in what is now North America except for Velociraptor and Spinosaurus
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Thought this might be of interest.
Edited by CyborgIguana, Feb 25 2014, 02:48 PM.
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