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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby Learned Nand » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:16 pm

CarrieVS wrote:Pterosaurs aren't actually dinosaurs. Just reptiles that lived around the same time as them.

Are pterosaurs reptiles?
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby Marcuse » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:17 pm

pterosaur, dinosaur

The clue's in the name.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby CarrieVS » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:20 pm

aviel wrote:Are pterosaurs reptiles?


Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur

Marcuse wrote:pterosaur, dinosaur

The clue's in the name.


'-saur' means lizard. It's actually a misnomer for dinosaurs and pterosaurs (and probably a lot of other things called _saur), which are reptiles but not lizards.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby D-LOGAN » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:21 pm

You tell 'em Ms.V. In fairness though at least pterosaurs were reptiles, I could give Zordo' a pass on that one, BUT MASTODONS AND SABRE-TOOTH TIGERS! Pffft, Rita repulsa was the real hero of that series!

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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby D-LOGAN » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:22 pm

Penguin

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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby CarrieVS » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:24 pm

Penguins are dinosaurs according to some definitions.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby Marcuse » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:24 pm

Well shit you're right. And someone on Wikipedia has a rage-boner for it as well.

Pterosaurs are often referred to in the popular media and by the general public as flying dinosaurs, but this is incorrect. The term "dinosaur" is restricted to just those reptiles descended from the last common ancestor of the groups Saurischia and Ornithischia (clade Dinosauria, which includes birds), and current scientific consensus is that this group excludes the pterosaurs, as well as the various groups of extinct marine reptiles, such as ichthyosaurs, plesiosaurs, and mosasaurs.[6] Pterosaurs are also incorrectly referred to as pterodactyls, particularly by journalists.[7] "Pterodactyl" refers specifically to members of the genus Pterodactylus,[8] and more broadly to members of the suborder Pterodactyloidea.[9][10]


Penguins are birds, therefore penguins are DINOSAURS!
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby Learned Nand » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:33 pm

CarrieVS wrote:
aviel wrote:Are pterosaurs reptiles?


Yes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pterosaur


This classification appears to categorize pterosaurs (and other archosaurs, like dinosaurs), as closer to birds than reptiles, which unsurprising given that cassowaries are, but for the tails, indistinguishable from velociraptors.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby D-LOGAN » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:33 pm

In fairness though, the names and classifications we have for animals are just .....words..... just noises we make in the air and markings we make on paper. These creatures existed millions of years before we coined the terms for them, the names we give them are whatever we want them to mean ..... in the end .....in the very end .....it's all just meaningless.....
naming animals, wearing trousers, not sitting on someone else's sofa while they're away, maranading in our own custard..... none of it means anything, it's all just a petty, species wide OCD complex, designed to convince us we're anything more than what we are ..... a temporary blip in the chain of meaningless events leading to inevitable enthropy .....
But at the same time, Plesiosaurs are definitely not dinosaurs and if anyone calls them one, I'll hit them with a frozen peacock!
(Some standards must be maintained!)
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby Learned Nand » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:41 pm

Classifications aren't arbitrary: they're useful for the purposes of determining ancestry. Linnaeus, who sort of invented biological taxonomy, had a personal slogan: "God creates, Linnaeus organizes."
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby D-LOGAN » Wed Jul 24, 2013 10:54 pm

Where will your precious Classifications be when the universe is nothing but an empty swirling void of endless darkness? And what if some mad giant squirrel or something lobotomises everyone on Earth one by one with a screw-driver, then none of us will even be able to understand classifications! What good will they be to us then?

No. NO! It's all just a waste of time, I say we all just sit here, in quiet, silently, forever and that's it. Anything else is just an act of indignant rebellion!
Or, if no one's into that .....charades? Either way is fine.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby Learned Nand » Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:01 pm

D-LOGAN wrote:Where will your precious Classifications be when the universe is nothing but an empty swirling void of endless darkness?

When all is void and darkness, when the stars have long since exhausted themselves, when the universe is cold and blank, when the most fundamental particles have decayed, and when the very fabric of existence has been stretched into oblivion, there shall be but one taxon: Nullus Nullus.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby D-LOGAN » Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:02 pm

...... well, he's got me there.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby 52xMax » Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:08 pm

D-LOGAN wrote:You tell 'em Ms.V. In fairness though at least pterosaurs were reptiles, I could give Zordo' a pass on that one, BUT MASTODONS AND SABRE-TOOTH TIGERS! Pffft, Rita repulsa was the real hero of that series!

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Well, didn't she create the Green Ranger with his dragon-zord? A FREAKING DRAGON! what's this, A Game of Thrones?

At least the original rangers were based on real animals.
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Re: Science: Mammoth Blood for the Blood God!

Postby CarrieVS » Wed Jul 24, 2013 11:40 pm

aviel wrote:When all is void and darkness, when the stars have long since exhausted themselves, when the universe is cold and blank, when the most fundamental particles have decayed, and when the very fabric of existence has been stretched into oblivion, there shall be but one taxon: Nullus Nullus.


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