Post by thetyrantlizard on Jan 28, 2008 9:37:51 GMT -5
Heh, if I do succeed in my plans to set up my own toy dinosaur line many of the figures will 'resemble' the dinos in WWD, CbSM, and Walking with Beasts. (I won't be doing synapsids ;D )
Evidence for scales - scales from other dinosaurs such as carnotaurus, pelecanimimus, juravenator, edmontosaurus, tyrannosaurus, etc.
Evidence for feathers in dinos - mostly "fuzz" that under the microscope are revealed to be actually collagen fibers. Said fibres are similar to those found on an ichthyosaurus, so unless ichthyosaurs are also birds the feathered dinos don't exist.
What about caudipteryx and archaeopteryx?-- they are birds. Microraptor--I think it's a fake. The original specimen (most of the media don't mention this, but I did read part of the original paper) was 'found' by a 'farmer' in 'Liaoning', which should raise everyone's eyebrows, and the writers of the papers themselves had to remove many portions of the 'microrpator' that were found to be spurious--including the head, and some of the wings. They left some of the microraptor intact, but I took one look at it and said that there is an old farmer who is proficient in Chinese calligraphy who is chortling at the gullibility of Western foreign devil scientists ;D
Also, while most paleontologists do accept the birds are dinos theory, prominent ornithologists don't. I hope I won't be faulted for relying on the word of people who study actually birds for a living
;D over the assertions of, say, Jack Horner, who can't even understand the implications of long serrated teeth and powerful jaws in a tyrannosaur, or Kevin Padian, who held back pterosaur locomotion studies by his now disproven claim that pterosaurs could run on two legs while on the ground. How quetzalcoatlus was supposed to drag 20-ft wings while dashing through the Cretaceous landscape escapes me.
Evidence for scales - scales from other dinosaurs such as carnotaurus, pelecanimimus, juravenator, edmontosaurus, tyrannosaurus, etc.
Evidence for feathers in dinos - mostly "fuzz" that under the microscope are revealed to be actually collagen fibers. Said fibres are similar to those found on an ichthyosaurus, so unless ichthyosaurs are also birds the feathered dinos don't exist.
What about caudipteryx and archaeopteryx?-- they are birds. Microraptor--I think it's a fake. The original specimen (most of the media don't mention this, but I did read part of the original paper) was 'found' by a 'farmer' in 'Liaoning', which should raise everyone's eyebrows, and the writers of the papers themselves had to remove many portions of the 'microrpator' that were found to be spurious--including the head, and some of the wings. They left some of the microraptor intact, but I took one look at it and said that there is an old farmer who is proficient in Chinese calligraphy who is chortling at the gullibility of Western foreign devil scientists ;D
Also, while most paleontologists do accept the birds are dinos theory, prominent ornithologists don't. I hope I won't be faulted for relying on the word of people who study actually birds for a living
;D over the assertions of, say, Jack Horner, who can't even understand the implications of long serrated teeth and powerful jaws in a tyrannosaur, or Kevin Padian, who held back pterosaur locomotion studies by his now disproven claim that pterosaurs could run on two legs while on the ground. How quetzalcoatlus was supposed to drag 20-ft wings while dashing through the Cretaceous landscape escapes me.