Comments on: A Miniature Dinosaur Celebrity http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/05/a-miniature-dinosaur-celebrity/ Where Paleontology Meets Pop Culture Sat, 22 Dec 2012 16:48:38 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: Herman Diaz http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/05/a-miniature-dinosaur-celebrity/comment-page-1/#comment-6450 Herman Diaz Thu, 24 May 2012 05:26:21 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7836#comment-6450 @Dan Peterson Seriously, what's your problem? You're always complaining about Switek's blog posts, either nitpicking every little insignificant detail or (in this case) putting words in his mouth: 1stly, if you actually knew what you were talking about, you'd know that Switek isn't a paleontologist (The "About Brian Switek" page isn't that hard to see) nor has he ever claimed to be; 2ndly, Switek didn't say anything about KK's accuracy nor did he say anything about JP at all. In other words, you're just complaining for the sake of complaining & thus wasting everyone else's time. @Dan Peterson

Seriously, what’s your problem? You’re always complaining about Switek’s blog posts, either nitpicking every little insignificant detail or (in this case) putting words in his mouth: 1stly, if you actually knew what you were talking about, you’d know that Switek isn’t a paleontologist (The “About Brian Switek” page isn’t that hard to see) nor has he ever claimed to be; 2ndly, Switek didn’t say anything about KK’s accuracy nor did he say anything about JP at all. In other words, you’re just complaining for the sake of complaining & thus wasting everyone else’s time.

]]> By: Dan Peterson http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/05/a-miniature-dinosaur-celebrity/comment-page-1/#comment-6383 Dan Peterson Tue, 15 May 2012 21:35:28 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7836#comment-6383 Ironically, the "terrifying carnivorous swamp creature" brontosaurus of King Kong is probably more accurate than the "cowasaurus" purely vegetarian brachiosaurs of Jurassic Park who ignored the little kids feeding them branches. Every biologist knows that virtually every, mostly vegetarian bird is still ominivorous, and won't hesistate to eat any animal, grub or insect they are able to swallow, so why wouldn't this be the same for their archosaurian cousins? And why is it impossible for a Brontosaurus to wade in the water once in a while? Elephants get to wade even though they are not aquatic creatures, so why would any paleontologist believe a brontosaurus couldn't? If anything, King Kong was way ahead of the scientific literature of that period, in that the brontosaurus proved to be an active land animal chasing down small creatures. If it were real, I am sure those Brachiosaurs of Jurassic Park would have loved gobbling up those soft little packets of protein that we know as 'children', that so temptingly dangled in front of them. Sometimes the comments made on this blog are so ridiculous that it is hard to imagine they are supposed to be made by a serious paleontologist. Ironically, the “terrifying carnivorous swamp creature” brontosaurus of King Kong is probably more accurate than the “cowasaurus” purely vegetarian brachiosaurs of Jurassic Park who ignored the little kids feeding them branches. Every biologist knows that virtually every, mostly vegetarian bird is still ominivorous, and won’t hesistate to eat any animal, grub or insect they are able to swallow, so why wouldn’t this be the same for their archosaurian cousins? And why is it impossible for a Brontosaurus to wade in the water once in a while? Elephants get to wade even though they are not aquatic creatures, so why would any paleontologist believe a brontosaurus couldn’t? If anything, King Kong was way ahead of the scientific literature of that period, in that the brontosaurus proved to be an active land animal chasing down small creatures. If it were real, I am sure those Brachiosaurs of Jurassic Park would have loved gobbling up those soft little packets of protein that we know as ‘children’, that so temptingly dangled in front of them.

Sometimes the comments made on this blog are so ridiculous that it is hard to imagine they are supposed to be made by a serious paleontologist.

]]> By: Doug http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/2012/05/a-miniature-dinosaur-celebrity/comment-page-1/#comment-6366 Doug Mon, 14 May 2012 18:15:17 +0000 http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/dinosaur/?p=7836#comment-6366 I think that's what a dinosaur zombie would look like. I think that’s what a dinosaur zombie would look like.

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