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Comment on A critical evaluation of Tianyulong confiusci – part 1 by Jura

Jura — Wed, 11 Apr 2012 01:29:38 +0000

Hell of a response there.

Comment on A critical evaluation of Tianyulong confiusci – part 1 by shannon

shannon — Tue, 10 Apr 2012 19:50:48 +0000

u are fuhking gay:}

Comment on New paper says dinosaurs were endomorphs. by Jura

Jura — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:47:22 +0000

True enough. Consider it fixed.

Comment on New paper says dinosaurs were endomorphs. by Will

Will — Sat, 03 Mar 2012 22:40:40 +0000

Paraceratherium was the largest land mammal, not the largest mammal. The blue whale gets that honor.

Comment on Bad-ass shield crocs, or: Another weird Mesozoic crocodyliform by Nick Gardner

Nick Gardner — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 22:39:42 +0000

Thanks for the plug! Glad you liked the paper and the name. :)

Comment on Dinosaur George can bite me! by rICHARD THE NEWT LOVERrICHARD

rICHARD THE NEWT LOVERrICHARD — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:48:40 +0000

As a person who studies many life sciences including paleontology for the shear love of knowledge,I understand the responsibility a person like George Blasing has to an audience and this requires he bring to the table only information that is considered currently acceptable to the scienctific community. I too do not have a PhD and I do not hold this against him. I have have seen his series before and always wondered who he was especially after I recognized how differently be portrayed scenarios which seemed very far fetched and as the earlier writer stated many of his statements were just plain incorrect. I’m shocked by the responces to his post because it shows the very serious defects in the way these “hopefully young” air heads think or more appropriately don’t think. “It’s only a tv show”… and the sick-minded who cannot think but have to cowardly call all kinds of obscenities at the poster. 1)Science is a serious business.People spend their entire lives trying to find the true way that this world works. 2)The efforts of these career scientists is totally disrepected when misinfor-mation is spread cloaked as fact. And when you have a public forum (calling itself “documentary tv”) putting out erroneous info, any sensible person in the interest of honest education would be upset. I do not know George Blasing.He seems, as I do, to have a genuine passion for the subject. But this cannot be justified . And the real indictment is with History Chan-nel who seems more interested with their alien programs to push as much nonsense into the caverness minds of highly uneducated Americans. No wonder we score so low on not only science tests but on almost all suject matter when it comes to comparison with other nations. The discovery channel,history channel and others have with a few exceptions (BBC programing),sold out on being a forum for true education. For many of you, thinking would be a refreshing change ..try it sometime!

Comment on Jurassic (Bites) Club by Andre Pierce

Andre Pierce — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 22:56:16 +0000

I couldn’t agree more. Jurassic Fight Club is a terrible program. It is inaccurate to the degree that you have to wonder if they’re lying deliberately. You need only look at the must fundamental “facts” as represented by the programs, such as the scaled graphs depicting animal sizes. Look closely and you’ll see that the numbers shown on the graphs don’t even match the scale represented. That is, a man that’s labelled as being 6 feet tall may be shown to be 2 squares tall on an a graph, but an animal depicted on the same graph may be labelled as 15 feet tall may be pictures as 7 squares tall (or 21 feet at the same scale).

I hate sensationalized crap like this. It’s insulting and detrimental to the hard work done by objective scientists, and is a disservice to us all. I not only believe the show should be discontinued, I think public retractions should be required and I only wish that there were criminal penalties that could be applied.

Comment on One more reason why David Attenborough is cool. by juanita

juanita — Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:02:06 +0000

You are the best animal lover, I am your fun, continue doing what you do and God bless you.

Comment on Turns out that plesiosaurs gave birth to live young. It’s about damned time. by Jura

Jura — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 04:28:32 +0000

Thanks for the heads up. I don’t see the problem in IE8 with a screen resolution of either 1600×900, or 1440×900. Resizing the window seems to work fine too. If you could let me know what version of IE you were using it might help narrow things down. Thanks.

Comment on Turns out that plesiosaurs gave birth to live young. It’s about damned time. by Jani Ally

Jani Ally — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 03:44:13 +0000

Hey just wanted to give you a quick heads up. The text in your post seem to be running off the screen in Internet explorer. I’m not sure if this is a format issue or something to do with browser compatibility but I thought I’d post to let you know. The design and style look great though! Hope you get the problem resolved soon. Cheers