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[Slappers Only]

Sorry, but my dinosaurs will never have feathers.

 

[Loxley]

Then:




Now:



And you know what? Little Foot will always be real in my heart you bastards.

 

[jett]

This ones still disputed right?

I'd like to see a T-Rex with feathers.

Indeed, I believe the arsenic "fact" was heavily discredited.

 

[Kabouter]

WTF are East Timor, Kosovo and Montenegro?
Next: SOUTH Sudan??

Well, Montenegro certainly doesn't belong in that list, since Montenegro has been independent before.

Besides, we shouldn't forget the unrecognized independent states! States like Transnistria.

 

[Hitokage]

yep, if we used the same criteria to allow Pluto planet status, we'd have to allow many many others.

It's not even that. Of all the objects that orbits our Sun, which ones are the truly big players gravitationally speaking? Only eight.

Before we were just happy to find stuff to name.

 

[davepoobond]

so dinosaurs are just birds with teeth...

i think thats a bit more terrifying than huge lizards.

 

[Riposte]

so dinosaurs are just birds with teeth...

i think thats a bit more terrifying than huge lizards.

Not only will they eat you, they will shit you out on your car windows.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

the fuck is this shit?

 

[water_wendi]

But working on the pyramids might not have been so bad after all. While it was still hard work to construct the massive monuments, recent research has shown that the workers were more likely skilled masons who had the right to leave whenever they wanted. Evidence to back this claim is supported in the fact that the workers had their own tombs right beside the pyramids. Egyptologists point out that someone that low on the social ladder would never have been buried so close to the pharaohs.

Maybe they were buried near the pharaohs so they could be servants in death? They buried lots of other shit with the pharaoh for that kind of thing, right?

 

[Tntnnbltn]

Deal with it.

 

[Oozer3993]

http://listverse.com/2011/02/22/top-10-dinosaurs-that-arent-what-they-were/


The dinosaur facts, very interesting read.

Oh hell no:

Today, almost all paleoartists draw Velociraptor, Deinonychus and many of their relatives covered in feathers, more similar to large chickens than to overgrown lizards.

Come on science there must be some small iota of coolness still in the 'raptor.

the fossil record confirms that it was a deadly killer; a fossilized Velociraptor was found preserved in the act of stabbing the throat of a Protoceratops with its killing claw

Childhood memories ever so slightly restored.

 

[Summary Man]

From the link in the OP:

My six-year-old self will never accept that second picture. Raptors looked like they did in Jurassic Park, no exceptions.

 

[Dreams-Visions]

Deal with it.

NO.

fuck you.

 

[brianjones]

he got feathers? thats some bullshit

 

[bone_and_sinew]

To me dinosaurs will always have scales. They look fucking terrible with feathers.

THEY'RE STILL SCALEY TO ME DAMMIT

 

[Scrow]

personally i think feathered dinosaurs with splashes of vibrant colour are kinda cool

 

[Sobriquet]

http://listverse.com/2011/02/22/top-10-dinosaurs-that-arent-what-they-were/


The dinosaur facts, very interesting read.

That was fascinating

 

[Coeliacus]

I... don't understand. I was taught about the Southern Ocean in Aus high school. What is the big deal?

WTF are East Timor, Kosovo and Montenegro?
Next: SOUTH Sudan??

Umm... East Timor became independant from Indonesia 9 years ago, and Indonesia itself has only been a big 'united' country since world war 2. From the wiki:

Independence from Portugal, Indonesia²
- Established 1702
- Declared November 28, 1975
- Restored May 20, 2002

This was a big thing on our side of the planet at the time.

 

[UltimaPooh]

Dinosaurs don't have feathers as we would think they are more of a quill, feather, hair hybrid.

Also Velociraptor's are also much smaller than their Jurassic park counterparts.

 

[Boss Doggie]

We never called it Southern Ocean, we always call it Antarctic Ocean.

 

[Synth_floyd]

Ldo. Humans are that special. God created us. Evolution doesn't exist. This fact didn't change from what I learned in school in Tennessee.

 

[UltimaPooh]

Ldo. Humans are that special. God created us. Evolution doesn't exist. This fact didn't change from what I learned in school in Tennessee.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7En0z2A38c

 

[Dead]

http://listverse.com/2011/02/22/top-10-dinosaurs-that-arent-what-they-were/


The dinosaur facts, very interesting read.

I knew the Spinosaurus was boss

 

[Orayn]

I blame most of this shit on the horrific plagiarism mill we call the textbook industry. That shit is awful.

This ones still disputed right?

I'd like to see a T-Rex with feathers.

More than disputed - It's not even established.

 

[JoshuaJSlone]

Ehh, got to disagree with all the "Pluto". That's not a changed fact, just a changed classification[/url].

 

[soundscream]

When did this happen?

 

[Trouble]

Greenland, not so big. Africa, fucking huuuuuuuge.

 

[Tntnnbltn]

When did this happen?

As long as I can remember?

 

[Regulus Tera]

.

Also the food pyramid being replaced by MyPlate...

2.0 fucking everything up

 

[Boss Doggie]

Yah, we're just used to calling it the Antarctic Ocean.

 

[Regulus Tera]

Yah, we're just used to calling it the Antarctic Ocean.

It will be renamed "MyOcean" in a few years.

 

[brianjones]

dinosaurs are incredible man

i cant believe a world where they existed and we didnt

its amazing

 

[Deku]

Pluto

This is the most important thing.

 

[soundscream]

As long as I can remember?

How old are you?

 

[Kaizer]

Mindblown at the dinosaur stuff.

 

[JordanLMiller]

that dinosaur stuff is awesome

 

[Regulus Tera]

Greenland, not so big. Africa, fucking huuuuuuuge.

This isn't exactly new.

 

[Amalthea]

Oh god, I remember pissing the everliving hell out of my teacher in the third grade when she (a creationist) had to teach us about dinosaurs.

I was always pointing out that her materials were outdated by about 30 years and when she picked a religious kid to discuss how the fossils were invented or "put" under the earth all other kids in the class ridiculed them for being so narrow minded.

lol

 

[Dennis]

WTF at "Southern Ocean"

Get the fuck out with that shit.

 

[Tntnnbltn]

How old are you?

22

 

[soundscream]

30 never seen that while in school or college

 

[Cartman86]

To be fair we don't know if T-Rex had even proto feathers for sure let alone full on feathers.

 

[LaserBuddha]

he got feathers? thats some bullshit

There are plenty of dinos that we don't think had feathers. I believe the listverse article mentions Triceratops as one. It goes into detail about scale patterns on it's skin, etc. AFAIK, they haven't found evidence that the T-Rex had them

This trend of depicting all of them with feathers is just people taking something too far, IMO.

 

[TripOpt55]

I had no idea about the Southern Ocean or this dinosaur stuff. I'm apparently out of the loop. I was going to say Pluto before coming in here.

 

[Tntnnbltn]

30 never seen that while in school or college

It's probably a cultural difference in part. I'm Australian.

With the Australian definition, there's no reason you'd call it the 'Antarctic Ocean'. I've never actually heard that term used before.

 

[soundscream]

The Southern Ocean

In 2000, the International Hydrographic Organization created the fifth and newest world ocean - the Southern Ocean - from the southern portions of the Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, and Pacific Ocean. The new Southern Ocean completely surrounds Antarctica.

There are 68 member countries of the IHO and membership is limited to non-landlocked countries. Twenty-eight countries responded to the IHO's request for recommendations on what to do about the Southern Ocean. All responding members except Argentina agreed that the ocean surrounding Antarctica should be created and given a single name. Eighteen of the twenty-eight responding countries preferred calling the ocean the Southern Ocean over the alternative name Antarctic Ocean so the former is the one that was selected.

So we get this BS cause the other 40 nations didn't give a damn to reply, LOL

 

[Walshicus]

I don't get this...

Edit: oh you're all bitching that its the Southern Ocean??

 

[Slavik81]

The Southern Ocean
So we get this BS cause the other 40 nations didn't give a damn to reply, LOL

Well, I could understand why. It's not like it actually affects anything.

 

[LaserBuddha]

I don't get this...

Find Waldo.

 

[TUROK]

How long until these facts are disputed?