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Latest comment: 18 days ago by FunkMonk in topic Include Mary Anning -- who found many of the early fossils (and knew what she had:)
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Saturnalia hyperlink
edit"Saturnalia" should be hyperlinked: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saturnalia_tupiniquim Hoegbert (talk) 12:00, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- Oh wait - I see that the scientific name is mentioned earlier in the article and highlighted Hoegbert (talk) 12:01, 11 December 2023 (UTC)
- [I put this here for lack of knowledge how to make a new topic heading.]. In this entire article about dinosaurs, there is no mention of Mary Anning, even though she gets a separate Wiki page for herself. Since she was the one who found a heck of a lot of fossils from 1812 into the 1840's, I'd think that today at least we could give her some of the credit she earned. JayWarner (talk) 23:26, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
Unexplained drop in page views
editCan anyone recall an edit somewhere which may have caused a drop of over 1,000 views a day for the past 11 days? By far the lowest daily totals since 2015. Thanks. Randy Kryn (talk) 01:53, 22 May 2024 (UTC)
Non-Avian Dinosaurs
editTrying to edit a big error in the first paragraph, but oddly the page keeps dropping to an error page, so perhaps someone else can? T. rex is an Avian Dinosaur. It is not a bird. Final sentence first paragraph is incorrect. Abdul Muhib (talk) 01:17, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- "Avian" literally means "bird". It is correct. Lythronaxargestes (talk | contribs) 01:49, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
- Can't quite see what you're referring to? The last sentence in the first paragraph refers to birds, living avian dinosaurs, and extinct non-avian dinosaurs, like the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Lamaredia (talk) 02:34, 26 September 2024 (UTC)
Include Mary Anning -- who found many of the early fossils (and knew what she had:)
editMary Anning was the one who found many of the fossils along the Lymm Regis coast area, and learned a great deal about them. At this late date, surely we can give her some of the credit for finding & analyzing them. After all, she also gets a Wiki page of her own. JayWarner (talk) 23:33, 30 October 2024 (UTC)
- She was very important to palaeontology as a whole, but she did not find any dinosaur fossils; she is famous for discovering various marine reptiles which are not dinosaurs, such as plesiosaurs and ichthyosaurs, as well as Dimorphodon. FunkMonk (talk) 00:25, 31 October 2024 (UTC)