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Jurassic Fight Club
Topic Started: Sep 5 2008, 09:03 PM (567 Views)
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Who here has seen Jurassic Fight Club on the History Channel?

I've seen one episode, and to be honest, I was very displeased by how they depicted Deinonychus as a scaly lizard rather than a mean eagle. I was disappointed because this is quite a recent show, and scientists agree that maniraptorans were covered with feathers. Deinonychus was in the same family as Velociraptor (which was proven to have feathers), so it wouldn't make sense to depict them as unfeathered beasts.

But anyway, what are your thoughts on this show?
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I've seen several episodes on Brian Switek's blog (Laelaps), and I was bothered by the non-fluffiness of the Deinonychus and that they considered Nanotyrannus to be a separate genus, rather than just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus, which is where the evidence points. In all, I'm not really impressed with the whole theme of the series, either, but who cares. I'm assuming it's oriented towards people with shorter attention spans who can be occupied by violence.
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I never saw it, but I can assume its just another crappy tv show made for entertainment rather than scientific accuracy
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When I saw the commercials I pretty much decided not to even bother watching it. Its just a channel's desperate attempt for more watchers and better ratings.
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They also depict dinosaurs as mean , dumb, and purely instinctive. They showed a Majungatholus ( which the still call it that :P ) eat her own baby after it died :( Now there is evidence that t- rex was extremely caring of it's young, I think that may have applied to Majunga and other large carnivores. Weren't many dinos intelligent and more bird like, this show depicts them as "cold-blooded" which they even call them cold-blooded andsavage fighting machines, which I personally don't think was the case at all.



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There are a lot of archosaurs that care for their young in one form of another actually. This can be seen in crocodilians and
I think it is geared towards short attentions spans. I've never actually watched it. I think dromaeosaurs look much better with feathers actually, it agrees well with their anatomy.
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