Triceratops not a dinosaur species after all.

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Re: Triceratops not a dinosaur species after all.

#21  Postby Horwood Beer-Master » Sep 05, 2013 9:38 pm

pensioner wrote:Feathered T-Rex some one is taking the piss. next you guys will be telling me that birds are dinosaurs, or something like that.


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Re: Triceratops not a dinosaur species after all.

#22  Postby theropod » Sep 05, 2013 10:47 pm

The specific group of theropods were Maniraptora ("hand snatchers"), a clade of coelurosaurian dinosaurs.

I dare make no comment on Jack H and his ideas.

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#23  Postby Horwood Beer-Master » Sep 06, 2013 9:38 am

theropod wrote:...I dare make no comment on Jack H and his ideas...

You almost make him sound like some kind of mafia boss! Have bad things been known to happen to members of the American palæontology* community who get on his bad side? :ask:




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Re: Triceratops not a dinosaur species after all.

#24  Postby theropod » Sep 06, 2013 10:38 am

Horwood Beer-Master wrote:
theropod wrote:...I dare make no comment on Jack H and his ideas...

You almost make him sound like some kind of mafia boss! Have bad things been known to happen to members of the American palæontology* community who get on his bad side? :ask:




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No, it's just not something I don't like do in a public format.

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Jack's notion about purely scavenging T. rex has been shown to be wrong, and there are other areas where his ideas don't match up with the evidence.

Lack examples of a particular species of dinosaur as a baby is not good reason to propose there were none.

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