Portal talk:Paleontology

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Selected images[edit]

Looking through the selected images section of the portal, about half of them all have the same caption: "Kolihapeltis sp. (Morocco; Devonian) A trilobite at Melbourne Museum.". I don't know enough about the inner-workings of the portal to fix the problem. Can someone look into this? Thanks --Kevmin (talk) 23:15, 27 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

It looks like you've already started fixing them yourself. It looks like you're doing a good job. Thanks for helping out! Abyssal leviathin (talk) 04:12, 28 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Still has the problem. I don't know how to change this sort, either- nor do I have the time currently. CFLeon (talk) 20:16, 19 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Too many dinosaurs![edit]

I think that more time should be spent expanding the non-dinosaur articles in the project! Half of all paleo articles don't even cite sources!--76.112.48.72 (talk) 23:37, 2 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed, but non-dinosaurian taxa are much harder to find information for than dinosaurs, and they lie outside the primary field of expertise of the vast majority of our members. Abyssal (talk) 00:16, 3 July 2009 (UTC)[reply]

DYKs[edit]

The list of DYKs is updated as of 01:04, 11 August 2015. Abyssal (talk) 16:23, 22 September 2015 (UTC)‎[reply]

Notice from the Portals WikiProject[edit]

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Portal icon[edit]

The icon used for this portal in articles currently shows a photo[1] of an inaccurately mounted Allosaurus skeleton in tripodal pose. This should be replace,d anyone know how? FunkMonk (talk) 08:18, 23 September 2018 (UTC)[reply]