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Post by Runic on Aug 21, 2013 4:40:55 GMT 5
I remember when my science teacher claimed Birds were evolutionary simular to lizards (not non avian dinosaur, lizard as in komodo dragon)
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Post by Deleted on Aug 24, 2013 15:42:44 GMT 5
I remember when my science teacher claimed Birds were evolutionary simular to lizards (not non avian dinosaur, lizard as in komodo dragon) Looks like someone believed the dinosaurs-being-lizards-myth way too much and took it way too seriously.
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Post by Dakotaraptor on Sept 29, 2013 16:17:37 GMT 5
Stupid media news about Triceratops being fake.
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Post by creature386 on Nov 5, 2014 21:18:10 GMT 5
Idiotic charts should also be mentioned. Asadas just posted this in a discussion with blaze: This trick is nothing new, but I still have to shake my head.
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Post by theropod on Nov 5, 2014 21:47:25 GMT 5
That actually doesn’t have to be a trick, it’s a normal way of making a chart if a high resolution is desired. But I guess some people are too dumb to look at what it is and just look at the colourful bits.
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Post by creature386 on Nov 6, 2014 19:16:41 GMT 5
Well, this would render the advantage of charts to numbers themselves a bit useless. Such charts should serve as an illustration of the relative size because the numbers can also be told in a text.
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Post by drone on May 30, 2015 12:53:19 GMT 5
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 9, 2015 6:11:25 GMT 5
As at least most active members here are aware, there are tons of people who overestimate Tyrannosaurus rex and its armament and/or claim misconceptions about how said armament functioned, compare its prey to those of other giant theropods (eg. carnosaurs) and assert that those of itself were supposedly deadlier than those of others, and all that same old mantric, fallacious crap and whatnot. Then there's this fellow I know on dA ( acepredator); except he's the exact opposite on this whole thing. I'm gonna be quite honest when I say that when given an inch on the whole " Tyrannosaurus'-degree-of-specialization-for-predating-on-heavier-animals" crap and yadayada, he goes a foot. Just check out some of his comments on the matter to see my point.
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 9, 2015 6:50:00 GMT 5
I agree. Is this guy on any other forums? Cause I have dealt with the exact kind of nonsense.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 11, 2015 0:25:20 GMT 5
^Well, to answer your question, I'm not sure.
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 11, 2015 2:14:53 GMT 5
Well I deal with guys who say that a tyrranosaurid can easily match a carnosaur in terms of sauropod hunting. He states that t.rex can and surely hunted alamosaurus cause it had armor and mostly because n his mind, whatever giga can do, rex can do better.
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Post by theropod on Jun 11, 2015 3:02:47 GMT 5
There are too many people like that. Strangely the reverse is much more rarely the case (though there are giga fanboys, those are mostly extremely stupid and ineffective ones that don’t have the stamina, leave the kind of impression or excert the kind of influence over popular beliefs that is common in major T. rex fanboys).
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 11, 2015 3:47:13 GMT 5
One thing I love is proving rex fanboys wrong, like how in the topic I posted on carnivora about t.rex and sauropod debate I and others showed legit evidence but, fanboys are stubborn and don't listen to proof that they don't agree with.
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Post by Infinity Blade on Jun 11, 2015 4:08:44 GMT 5
The guy I mentioned is the exact opposite of these aforementioned mule-headed T.rex fanboys. For example, he stated T.rex cannot kill *anything* larger than itself (that it can only kill things as large as itself; i.e. ~6t) by going overboard with "narrow gape and teeth blunted from years of crushing" or even "the muscles needed for a strong bite keeping the mouth shut". Earlier, he even went as far as to say that tyrannosaurids were poorly adapted to kill things not only larger, but similar in size to themselves, and more BS like that.
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Post by Deathadder on Jun 11, 2015 4:32:24 GMT 5
Wow he contradicted him self so many times.
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