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    Image of acrobatic rabbit acrobatic rabbit
    11/03/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    well i mean come on. it was named after a douchebag little wizard and his wizarding school. it's simply karma that it would be stricken.

    however, if they touch velociraptor vengeance will be swift. you hear me science?? swift, i say! i let you take brontosaurus and pluto. one more step... #paleontology
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    Image of korybing korybing
    11/03/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Oh god, it's Brontosaurus all over again. I gotta...I gotta sit down. #paleontology
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    Image of kylenalepa kylenalepa
    11/03/09

    @korybing: I dunno, at least the names of the dinosaurs that are now considered to have never existed aren't well known among the average person. I don't think I'm ever going to hear someone at the museum call a juvenile T. Rex a Nanotyrannus, but I guarantee that people will still be calling anything with a long neck a Brontosaurus for another 50 years, at least. #paleontology
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    Image of Srynerson Srynerson
    11/03/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    So Jack Horner is now the Neil deGrasse Tyson of paleontology? (I am glad to hear the Dracorex hogwartsia may be going away, however. That name is just fingernails on a chalkboard.) #paleontology
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    Image of PostMarque PostMarque
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    blood and ashes of the old ones, they keep killing Pluto. #paleontology
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    Image of manimatr0n manimatr0n
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Thank Science that damned hogwartsia dinosaur is gone. That is why you don't let children anywhere near real work. Otherwise, we'll end up with Jonassaurus Brotherrex and Hannahmontanadons. #paleontology
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    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/02/09

    @manimatr0n: Amen. That name made me embarrassed for paleontology. #paleontology
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    Image of PossibleCabbage PossibleCabbage
    11/02/09

    @Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: At least we now know that, now and forever, Wyoming is greater than Hogwarts.
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Edited by PossibleCabbage at 11/02/09 7:11 PM PossibleCabbage was starred PossibleCabbage was unstarred
    Image of braak braak
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Pachycephalosaurus is by far the best one. #paleontology
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    Image of rek rek
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Better to be reclassified than have the vote split against you, I say. #paleontology
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    Image of TransFat TransFat
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    These all exist on Pluto. #paleontology
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    Image of RoboBagins RoboBagins
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    It's about time this mess was cleaned up. #paleontology
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    Image of leicester leicester
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Nothing new - Charles Marsh described the Apatosaurs and Brontosaurus as separate genus' in the 1870's based on multiple fragment skeletons of juveniles and adults. The two were merged under the single Apatosaurus genus in the early 1900's. Specimens were also displayed with the wrong head (a composite based on Camarasaurus) for nearly 100 years before a more complete vertabrae/head fossil was found. #paleontology
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    Image of CSX321 CSX321
    11/03/09

    @leicester: I was amazed a few years ago when I read somewhere about how many tyrannosaur fossils have ever been found. It's a much smaller number than you would think, given the ubiquity of the species in our collective dinosaur consciousness.

    It's sometimes amusing the way scientists can extrapolate entire castles from a grain of sand, or species from a fragment of fossilized bone. I guess that's what Douglas Adams was satirizing in Hitchhiker's Guide with the "Total Perspective Vortex," which derived a model of the entire universe from a piece of fairy cake. (Is that what we call "angel food cake" in America?) (Edit...Ah, it's a cupcake.)
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    Edited by CSX321 at 11/03/09 7:53 AM CSX321 was starred CSX321 was unstarred
    Image of Super Moose Super Moose
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Jack Horner is infamous for deliberately trying to spoil all of everyone's dinosaur fantasies. #paleontology
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    Image of Daumier Daumier
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Are you saying I may have called it on #raptorex?

    And looking back at some of the discussion on that particular article, some people might end up eating their words =P
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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. promoted this comment Edited by Daumier at 11/02/09 3:43 PM Daumier was starred Daumier was unstarred
    Image of Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H. Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.
    11/02/09

    @Daumier: Don't dinosaurs taste like chicken? #paleontology
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    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Speaking of dinosaur misnomers, nothing pisses my daughter off more than the Black Diamond FunCheez (dinosaur shaped cheeses) commercial where the announcer calls what is clearly a Triceratops a Stegosaurus! You would think that in something that is directed at savvy kids they would at least try to get it right.
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    Image of nekoama nekoama
    11/02/09

    @it must be bunnies: Every time that commercial's on I make annoyed noises at the TV. Roomie thinks it's hilarious and that I'm a nerd. #paleontology
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    Image of ExtensionOfBob ExtensionOfBob
    11/02/09

    @it must be bunnies: Holy crap! Thank you! I just thought I was wrong...

    ...and I've never seen the commercial when I was near the internet to investigate. #paleontology
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    Image of TomSkylark TomSkylark
    11/02/09

    @it must be bunnies: They make dinosaur-shaped cheeses?

    ... I'm wondering how to re-balance my diet in light of the new mass quantities of dairy I'll be consuming... #paleontology
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    Image of CRRRUNK ... ಠ_ಠ CRRRUNK ... ಠ_ಠ
    11/02/09

    @it must be bunnies:
    Hahaha, I thought I was the only one who noticed that. #paleontology
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    it must be bunnies promoted this comment CRRRUNK ... ಠ_ಠ was starred CRRRUNK ... ಠ_ಠ was unstarred
    Image of it must be bunnies it must be bunnies
    11/02/09

    @CRRRUNK ... ಠ_ಠ: @TomSkylark: @ExtensionOfBob: @nekoama: My daughter is so happy that she is vindicated. Rawr! #paleontology
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    Image of Roklimber Roklimber
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    They've spared no expense. :) #paleontology
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    Image of Adah Adah
    11/02/09

    In reply to Your Favorite Dinosaurs May Have Never Existed
    Little Foot was real though, right? #paleontology
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