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Post by creature386 on Feb 18, 2014 3:13:37 GMT 5
You would actually just need to post the image URL to show that you were right, too. Anyway, you can post a picture if you want (or coherent does so because he's active right now). That's cheating lol It was already solved, so that won't be cheating. |
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Post by coherentsheaf on Feb 18, 2014 4:23:17 GMT 5
Again an Apatosaurus leg bone? Or some other diplodocid, like Diplodocus itself or Barosaurus (as the intelligence in my last attempt has shown, this maybe isn't even a sauropod)? I so far had the worst record in this game, so I won't be surprised if I can't even guess this correctly. Nope. dont worry about your record. If someoe knows the answer he or she will guess. Otherwise most people wont say anything to avoid looking foolish. So the people answering are selfselecting towards right answers. Also I guss a lot of people cheat. |
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Post by Runic on Feb 18, 2014 5:28:19 GMT 5
I just keep quiet if I don't know.
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Post by theropod on Sept 28, 2014 3:47:44 GMT 5
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Post by coherentsheaf on Sept 28, 2014 4:14:34 GMT 5
Yeah that is right.
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Post by theropod on Sept 28, 2014 5:14:09 GMT 5
I know, I happen to have read the osteology  . Just tought it was time to revive this game (after all it’s somewhat educating as well as fun imo). btw regarding the "a lot of people cheat" and the worries about one’s record: • I assumed that one is allowed to use any tool available to a researcher looking at an uncaptioned specimen, i.e. consult the literature on the ad for confirmation once you’ve got a hypothesis etc.. So if you are not sure and reluctant to post a mere guess (not that anyone cared, just look at this thread! it’s full of wrong guesses), you can get confirmation, or at least reassurance. • However, using tools that only work when presupposing that there’s an image on the web defies the purpose of the game (even though it will probably work), since when you have a bone or lying in front of you you can’t assume to find the same pattern of pixels anywhere else. • Also I think the difficulty-criteria from my opening post are obsolete, after all a few tiny osteoderms from a varanid worked (although that was probably rather because I knew coherentsheaf well enough, rather than because I had a concrete idea of what varanid osteoderms look like. But hey, I do now!), and I sort of spat on my own rule when I posted those parietal fragments. Just do as Do these seem sensible? I’ll post a picture later. |
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Post by theropod on Sept 28, 2014 16:15:07 GMT 5
let’s try this:  What kind of bone it is should be quite obvious, but from what animal may be trickier. |
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Post by coherentsheaf on Sept 28, 2014 16:44:07 GMT 5
Brontomerus
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Post by theropod on Sept 28, 2014 18:13:30 GMT 5
Yup. Too easy apparently.
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Post by coherentsheaf on Sept 28, 2014 18:19:01 GMT 5
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Fragillimus335
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Post by Fragillimus335 on Sept 29, 2014 0:06:46 GMT 5
wallaby?
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Post by theropod on Sept 29, 2014 1:38:38 GMT 5
Kangaroo ( Macropus rufus). At first I thought some ungulate, because of the diastema but Fragillimus put me on the right track. Wallaby skulls (like this one→) seem to have a more gracile snout and temporal bar and larger orbits, and the back of the skull is more rounded in profile. |
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Post by coherentsheaf on Sept 29, 2014 14:26:24 GMT 5
yes thats right
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Post by theropod on Sept 29, 2014 15:51:19 GMT 5
 Thus time I'm really curious. Let's see whether we have any experts on this type of animal here... |
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stomatopod
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Post by stomatopod on Sept 29, 2014 16:15:52 GMT 5
Looks like a mix between a Micro and a Megachiropteran. A fruit eating Microbat?
Too. Many. Species. Of. Chiropterans.
Another guy of gal may have a more precise pick as I still do not have any pics.
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. Just tought it was time to revive this game (after all it’s somewhat educating as well as fun imo).
