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Hello! Welcome to a thread about paleontology, both the science of it and the politics! This is a thread to discuss anything that falls under the field of paleontology, defined by Wikipedia as "the scientific study of life that existed prior to, and sometimes including, the start of the Holocene Epoch (roughly 11,700 years before present)." This means motherfuckin' dinosaurs hell yeah!!!  But also any other ancient life, including Cenozoic mammals to the Cambrian explosion. However, this thread is also for discussing ongoing legal issues, court cases, or political disputes surrounding the fossils of ancient life, such as what happens when fossils are found on land belonging to Native peoples. You can also discuss scientific disputes surrounding ancient life, if that's your bag. But most importantly post pictures of motherfuckin' dinosaurs hell yeah!!! PS: the "Poo" in the title refers to coprolite which is the scientific name for fossilized poop. 
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Dinosaurs... are cool!!!
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Mar 31, 2020 23:19
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Roth posted:Dinosaurs... are cool!!!
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Mar 31, 2020 23:20
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Dinosaurs....suck!!! That's why they all died!
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Mar 31, 2020 23:21
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Julias posted:Dinosaurs....suck!!! That's why they all died! they didn't all die you numbskull, they live on as birds!!!
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Mar 31, 2020 23:30
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god must have really loved and hated the dinosaurs he created them first, gave them the world for hundreds of millions of years, then wiped them all out! what did the dinosaurs do to make god hate them?
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Mar 31, 2020 23:35
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What's y'all's favorite dinosaur, triceratops is a classic imo
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Mar 31, 2020 23:38
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PUSSY MASTER 007 posted:What's y'all's favorite dinosaur, triceratops is a classic imo Tho its technically a Synapsid, Dimetrodon is my favorite Its that big ol sail and that goofy grin
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Apr 1, 2020 00:14
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bedpan posted:god must have really loved and hated the dinosaurs 
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Apr 1, 2020 00:53
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i'd just like to say, gently caress algae. it burdened us with oil and also a breathable atmosphere
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Apr 1, 2020 00:55
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https://twitter.com/TetZoo/status/1243646412862173185?s=20 Dinos are cool hot take: ceratopsids like triceratops were opportunistic scavengers http://markwitton-com.blogspot.com/2015/02/controversial-ceratopsids-revisited.html 
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Apr 1, 2020 01:12
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paleo art or whatever was so fuckin mindblowing as a kid
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Apr 1, 2020 01:23
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i love dinosaurs
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Apr 1, 2020 02:08
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Wanted By Weed posted:they didn't all die you numbskull, they live on as birds!!!
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Apr 1, 2020 02:11
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after the corvid thread has its moment, this thread deffo needs some time up at the top
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Apr 1, 2020 02:13
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Daikloktos posted:Were dinosaurs taxonomically birds, or were they the lizard ancestors of birds birds are all descended from avialan dinosaurs, which were a kind of small therapod that figured out how to fly.
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Apr 1, 2020 02:50
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Daikloktos posted:Were dinosaurs taxonomically birds, or were they the lizard ancestors of birds birds are dinosaurs
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Apr 1, 2020 02:51
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 just for a quick frame of reference, here is a diagram indicating some major anatomical similarities between a large predatory therapod and a modern duck.
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Apr 1, 2020 02:57
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Atrocious Joe posted:https://twitter.com/TetZoo/status/1243646412862173185?s=20 Howdy, socially anxious paleontologist here! Also, Atrocious, are you Darren? Cuz you know me through the grapevine! I'm prob not gonna post much cuz posting gives me the agita, but I'm psyched about this thread!!!
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Apr 1, 2020 03:02
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GCU Quelle Suprise posted:
I will appreciate literally anything you post, paleontologists are doing God's work
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Apr 1, 2020 03:05
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Wanted By Weed posted:I will appreciate literally anything you post, paleontologists are doing God's work I'm better at photos than words so I'll dig up some cool ones for this thread 
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Apr 1, 2020 03:07
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Wanted By Weed posted:I will appreciate literally anything you post, paleontologists are doing God's work
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Apr 1, 2020 04:30
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GCU Quelle Suprise posted:Howdy, socially anxious paleontologist here! Also, Atrocious, are you Darren? Cuz you know me through the grapevine! please let me know if anything is wrong in the op or needs to be added, tia
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Apr 1, 2020 05:23
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I miss the feeling of walking to the library on summer vacation and staring at the illustrations in a gregory s paul book for hours  is it true that t. rex had a large frontal ribcage thing that made him barrel shaped, unlike the sleeker versions we've seen since the 80s or so? e: i am a good 20 years behind on dinosaurs btw
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Apr 1, 2020 05:38
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My homepage: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Largest_prehistoric_animals
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Apr 1, 2020 09:13
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Is it true that many of the species we thought were distinct are actually just one species at different phases of life? And that the skull shapes of an individual could change a lot in the course of their life, or vary a lot between males and females? I remember reading that somewhere many years ago
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Apr 1, 2020 09:22
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I remember reading that something as well-known as triceratops could have been just a juvenile chasmosaurus IIRC I haven't been able to find any reference to that since reading it a few years back and if wikipedia is a guide to general consensus I'd say triceratops is definitely its own thing i would imagine the real problems exist for species that are identified based on like two bone fragments or whatever
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Apr 1, 2020 09:31
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Apr 1, 2020 09:41
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not sure why those things remind me of james carville
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Apr 1, 2020 10:03
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I wonder if the next dominant species will do a bunch of nerd poo poo with our bones
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Apr 1, 2020 12:58
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Trumps Baby Hands posted:I wonder if the next dominant species will do a bunch of nerd poo poo with our bones I hope they draw weird pictures of us based only on our bones that probably don't actually look like humans really did.
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Apr 1, 2020 13:02
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:I hope they draw weird pictures of us based only on our bones that probably don't actually look like humans really did. While most depictions of humans show them with a thin layer of fur, recent discovery of human fossils at extreme latitudes suggest that humans actually had much thicker coats than other primates
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Apr 1, 2020 15:17
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it's brontosaurus not "apatosaurus" you loving libs
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Apr 1, 2020 15:31
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Dinosaurs are good
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Apr 1, 2020 15:34
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The dinosaurs started an advanced civilization and left earth for the delta quadrant where they became racists
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Apr 1, 2020 15:34
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Flavius Aetass posted:I remember reading that something as well-known as triceratops could have been just a juvenile chasmosaurus IIRC Torosaurus not Chasmosaurus. Most folks would agree with Triceratops being its own thing but its an interesting argument. twoday posted:Is it true that many of the species we thought were distinct are actually just one species at different phases of life? Its not super common but yes (trilobites, "branchiosaurs" are two that come to mind). quote:And that the skull shapes of an individual could change a lot in the course of their life, or vary a lot between males and females? I remember reading that somewhere many years ago (I'm also a paleontologist, and I know of a few others at various stages of their careers on the forums)
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Apr 1, 2020 15:39
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GCU Quelle Suprise posted:Howdy, socially anxious paleontologist here! Also, Atrocious, are you Darren? Cuz you know me through the grapevine! lol I am not Darren. I love the guys twitter tho.
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Apr 1, 2020 16:14
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ShallNoiseUpon posted:I hope they draw weird pictures of us based only on our bones that probably don't actually look like humans really did. i remember a cool art series that tried to depict how modern animals like cows, wolves, etc. would look if the same rules and liberties dinosaur artists took were taken with them
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Apr 1, 2020 17:08
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Dr. Killjoy posted:i remember a cool art series that tried to depict how modern animals like cows, wolves, etc. would look if the same rules and liberties dinosaur artists took were taken with them All Yesterdays
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Apr 1, 2020 17:11
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Bilirubin posted:Torosaurus not Chasmosaurus. Most folks would agree with Triceratops being its own thing but its an interesting argument.  we must go longer
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