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| TAXESbutNano | Jul 31 2017, 08:15 PM Post #46 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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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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| IIGSY | Jul 31 2017, 08:17 PM Post #47 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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Did jurassic robber flies hunt parasaurolophus? Technically, there is no evidence against it. |
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Projects 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. Quotes Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things All African countries can fit into Brazil
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| TAXESbutNano | Jul 31 2017, 08:19 PM Post #48 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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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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| Ivan_The_Inedible | Jul 31 2017, 08:21 PM Post #49 |
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There are some who call me... Spencer.
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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. rex jokes. 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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Quotes are a thing Who will know? My Projects
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| TAXESbutNano | Jul 31 2017, 08:24 PM Post #50 |
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I'm going back to basics.
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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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| IIGSY | Jul 31 2017, 08:24 PM Post #51 |
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A huntsman spider that wastes time on the internet because it has nothing better to do
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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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Projects 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. Quotes Phylogeny of the arthropods and some related groups In honor of the greatest clade of all time More pictures Other cool things All African countries can fit into Brazil
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| Yiqi15 | Jul 31 2017, 08:27 PM Post #52 |
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Prime Specimen
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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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| LittleLazyLass | Jul 31 2017, 08:33 PM Post #53 |
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Proud quilt in a bag
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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. |
totally not British, b-baka! You like me (Unlike)I don't even really like this song that much but the title is pretty relatable sometimes, I guess. Me What, you want me to tell you what these mean? Read First Words Maybe | |
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| Newark | Jul 31 2017, 09:11 PM Post #54 |
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Zygote
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YixianBirdBeast, Tyrannosaurus is an archosaur, not a squamate. |
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| HangingThief | Jul 31 2017, 09:56 PM Post #55 |
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| Tartarus | Aug 1 2017, 12:52 AM Post #56 |
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Prime Specimen
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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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| Holben | Aug 1 2017, 02:16 AM Post #57 |
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Rumbo a la Victoria
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We'll wrap it up here, I think. |
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Time flows like a river. Which is to say, downhill. We can tell this because everything is going downhill rapidly. It would seem prudent to be somewhere else when we reach the sea. "It is the old wound my king. It has never healed." | |
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