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Post by creature386 on Mar 14, 2019 20:37:15 GMT 5
I just learned that there are actually people who believe they can live off nothing but sunlight, without having to eat or drink anything. Yes. Seriously. While I new of this before, Finn Bogumil's death shows this stuff is more dangerous than I thought. Are those people in a mental asylum? I know that many people do this and nothing against you personally, but I have a bad feeling with using mental illness as a casual insult. The stigmatization of it is one of the main reasons why such people don't seek health.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Mar 16, 2019 6:47:22 GMT 5
Oh no, that wasn't really an insult. I was more or less typing my immediate thought. Maybe I should've worded it differently.
Anyhow, I had a dream last night about eating grilled Megaraptor ribs, and I think that's pretty unbelievable
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Post by dinosauria101 on Mar 20, 2019 1:35:29 GMT 5
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Post by dinosauria101 on Mar 26, 2019 2:59:42 GMT 5
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Post by dinosauria101 on Apr 7, 2019 7:01:39 GMT 5
I think we need to cut those voters some slack. I think those who voted were under the impression that Mapusaurus was only 3 tonnes, considering that's what the OP says, (erroneous) comparisons to lions versus an elephant, and Mammuthus' size scale. So if they all thought the theropods had a combined weight of "only" 9 tonnes compared to a 22 tonne* elephant, I can understand their ambivalence to choose a winner. That said, if we do consider what appears to be a better mass estimate for adult Mapusaurus, the carnosaurs are the clear winners. Each one is more than capable of seriously injuring or killing the elephant by themselves, even if they get curbstomped one-on-one. Now imagine three of these things that not only weigh as much as the elephant combined, but also can't focused on all at one time by the elephant, making it all the easier for them to land bites, take out chunks, exsanguinate, disembowel, all sorts of nasty stuff. Only three African bush elephant-sized, large specialist theropods are needed to kill a 22t P. namadicus more often than not, if not just two. *On that note, I'd like to take this as the opportunity to note that this should be questioned more. The mass estimate rests on the estimated size of a femur fragment all the way from 1834. I'm not discounting it being valid, but again, think: one fragment that had its size estimated all the way from the 1800s (185 years ago to be exact). Is this really much, if at all, different from the snafu regariding Amphicoelias? Just noticed that edit right now, and I think I'd have to agree that even 2 are enough, as I've seen some Mapusaurus size estimates get over 8 tons. Anyhow, another thing that's pretty unbelievable IMO is that Taipan made this thread: carnivora.net/showthread.php?tid=4269On Carnivora for me without giving it a second thought, yet didn't make this thread: theworldofanimals.proboards.com/thread/1699because it was a 'weight mismatch', but the size difference in the 1st thread is 50 percent more than the one in the second. I think that's a prime example of his bias in this field.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Apr 7, 2019 16:42:46 GMT 5
Maybe after making one mismatch he didn't want to make another one?
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Post by dinosauria101 on Apr 7, 2019 23:11:04 GMT 5
I wouldn't call that 1st one a mismatch, rather a 70/30 win. That second one however, there isn't really a way for the mammoth to win (not a mismatch but a mismatch-like match, see the mismatches thread for the definition of that) I would bet good money he didn't want a Triceratops/dinosaurian victory. He's shown himself to be rather biased in this field.
*I know this post may sound like it's contradicting itself, but my point was to illustrate his massive bias
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Post by dinosauria101 on Apr 14, 2019 8:05:35 GMT 5
Today I learned that a gemsbok can beat a lion at parity. Wow
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Post by dinosauria101 on Apr 14, 2019 15:48:03 GMT 5
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Post by sam1 on Apr 14, 2019 17:46:58 GMT 5
Um..WHAT. Care to enlighten me? I see a slight mismatch in favor of the elephant but ironically, the poll there says otherwise.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Apr 14, 2019 18:55:31 GMT 5
Yeah, Taipan actually is that biased. He's very biased towards proboscideans against dinosaurs in general (see my other posts in this thread for more detail on the whole thing). I doubt he'd make that second link if I requested it though, because it's a clear-cut win for Mamenchisaurus.
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jul 25, 2019 19:46:08 GMT 5
Apparently crocodilians are so superior to monitor lizards that Indian gharial vs Megalania was made on the old site (yes, it really was)
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jul 26, 2019 9:26:18 GMT 5
Someone on a certain discord server I;m on thinks T rex beats Spinosaurus in 7 meter water!
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jul 27, 2019 2:42:39 GMT 5
There was Hippopotamus gorgops vs Sarcosuchus made on Carnivora when the 10 ton estimates were still considered valid
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Post by dinosauria101 on Jul 29, 2019 11:17:43 GMT 5
Animals Enthusiasts has DEINOSUCHUS vs colossal squid. Yes, you read that right.
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