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Tyrannosaurus: The Force Awakens
Topic Started: Jul 31 2017, 05:12 PM (1,489 Views)
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Yeah, that moustache is bitchin'. Fantastic in-vertebrate you got there.

What if t-Rex's eyes were that colour? Would it affect its ability to ambush Parasaurolophus?
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Nanotyranus
Jul 31 2017, 08:15 PM
Yeah, that moustache is bitchin'. Fantastic in-vertebrate you got there.

What if t-Rex's eyes were that colour? Would it affect its ability to ambush Parasaurolophus?
Did jurassic robber flies hunt parasaurolophus? Technically, there is no evidence against it.
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Jul 31 2017, 08:17 PM
Did jurassic robber flies hunt parasaurolophus? Technically, there is no evidence against it.
That's a pretty good point there. We know of giant spiders and frogs, so logically robberflies ould be giant too. But would therir large size make them replace their fibres with scales?
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Jul 31 2017, 07:56 PM
Could we just lock the thread, now?

At this point I'm gonna have to agree with Yiqi now. Not only was this thread's creation unnecessary to begin with, it has gone on a roller-coaster of shitfest after shitfest that started with people trying to tell Yixian that some things aren't always what you wish them to be, and has slowly transformed into a festering pile of memes, bland even by my tastes, composed of Mario jokes, poetry, and shitty T.
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EDIT: And not surprisingly this post got ninja'd by even more bad jokes and spam.

So to any mod reading this: take my and Yiqi's advice and close this thread before it gets worse. It's already gotten to a point where I'd normally expect harsh warnings and thread perma-locks.
Edited by Ivan_The_Inedible, Jul 31 2017, 08:22 PM.
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Hmm, yes, it appears we have alienated our friend Yixian with our shenanigans. I shall depart this thread for greener pastures.
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Jul 31 2017, 08:19 PM
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Jul 31 2017, 08:17 PM
Did jurassic robber flies hunt parasaurolophus? Technically, there is no evidence against it.
That's a pretty good point there. We know of giant spiders and frogs, so logically robberflies ould be giant too. But would therir large size make them replace their fibres with scales?
I don't know, it depends on the climate I guess. A polar robber fly would be covered in feathers, but one that lived in hell creek would be covered in scales.
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Punga: A terraformed world with no vertebrates
Last one crawling: The last arthropod

ARTH-6810: A world without vertebrates (It's ded, but you can still read I guess)

Potential ideas-
Swamp world: A world covered in lakes, with the largest being caspian sized.
Nematozoic: After a mass extinction of ultimate proportions, a single species of nematode is the only surviving animal.
Tri-devonian: A devonian like ecosystem with holocene species on three different continents.

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Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups


In honor of the greatest clade of all time


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All African countries can fit into Brazil
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GOD FUCKING DAMN IT! SHUT UP! LOCK IT UP ALREADY!

Sorry about that. Let's just lock it up.
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Spamming caps yelling to lock the thread isn't going to make it happen faster than just saying it once. The mods are aware of the situation and are still undecided on what course of action will be taken on both Yixian and the threads.
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Jul 31 2017, 06:39 PM
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Jul 31 2017, 05:28 PM
My friend from facebook known as Bill Lovell says otherwise


And that is relevant how exactly? "Muh friend (given your past I'd debate how that label is thrown around) said so" isn't a good enough reason. I've seen you harass acquiantances on Facebook about the whole formation thing on the Paleoptology Discord and its allies too. One random person saying so doesn't make something right, especially if that person is completely unqualified. Are you sure you're even old enough to be a member here?
I am 24 and My friend uses Mark witton's article as proof of Tyrannosaurus being exactly like the lizard like childhood monster and He says all kinds of stuff like how Yutyrannus is there for Me despite Yutyrannus not being the most popular dinosaur ever Tyrannosaurus is the most famous dinosaur


YixianBirdBeast, Tyrannosaurus is an archosaur, not a squamate.

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Jul 31 2017, 08:13 PM
No stache beats the stache of a robber fly
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On the issue of whether T-rex was feathery or scaly it should be noted that neither case offers any support for "the giant scaly monster of childhood memories".
Even if it turns out T-rex was 100% scaly from top to toe it would not change the fact that:
-It still had a raised tail and was NOT a tail dragger.
-It was still an active endothermic hunter.
-It still had some "bird-like" features such as air sacs and some features of the skeleton.
-T-rex's integument does not give conclusive answers to the integument of its relatives (and yes, this means that things like a fluffy Nanuqasaurus are still possible regardless of whether or not there was any fluff on T-rex).
-There are still many other non-avian dinosaurs that most definitely did have feathers.
-Birds are still accurately classified as dinosaurs.

Honestly, the whole notion that a scaly T-rex would somehow drag palaeontology back decades is completely ridiculous. That it is supposedly a choice between fluffy T-rex and "the giant scaly monster of childhood memories" is an absurd false dichotomy. Even if T-rex was scaly it would still look quite different from olden days depictions and most pop culture depictions of the creature.
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We'll wrap it up here, I think.
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