Top Ten Most Annoying Things People in the Paleontology Community Say

1Flightless birds are downgraded dinosaurs


2Reptiles and birds that laid their eggs on the ground went extinct because mammals ate their eggs


3Carnivorans outcompeted other Cenozoic carnivores


4During the Great American Interchange, South American animals were outcompeted


5Feathered dinosaurs are not scary


6Every extinct large reptile is a dinosaur


7Crocodiles are living fossils


8Prehistoric animals were bigger because of higher oxygen levels


9Giant animals went extinct because they were too big


10Tyrannosaurus had an infectious bite


11There were giant insects bigger than people in the age of dinosaurs


12Placentals are the most advanced mammals


13Velociraptor was a scaly monster with cutting claws


14Mammals ate dinosaurs eggs


15Hadrosaurs were helpless predator fodder


16Dinosaurs had scales, not feathers


17Other giant carnivores can kill T. Rex


18Dinosaurs were dumb creatures


19Pterosaurs/pterodactyls are dinosaurs


20Plesiosaurs/mosasaurs are dinosaurs


21Troodon could evolve into humanoids


22Herbivorous dinosaurs were gentle giants


23Carnivorous dinosaurs were bloodthirsty monsters


24Mammoths and sabre tigers lived with dinosaurs


25Chickens evolved from T. Rex


26Spinosaurus was the ultimate apex predator


27Turtles are descended from dinosaurs


28Jurassic World is accurate


29Cloning dinosaurs would be completely unethical