My college anthropology course had to do a lot of background in basic biology, and the teacher tried to compress the entire evolution of life, from the Precambrian to the Cenozoic, into one lecture period. This resulted in some real kickers. He went straight from flying reptiles to birds, although birds evolved from actual dinosaurs, not from small, flying reptiles that happened to be alive when the dinosaurs were. He also covered therapsids after the dinosaurs, making it appear as though they were a more recent development, although the Earth's surface was dominated by largish therapsids that mostly went extinct in one great disaster at the BEGINNING of the age of dinosaurs. He conflated this disaster with the one that wiped the dinosaurs out, and implied that true mammals did not evolve until the Cenozoic, when it's been known that small mammals existed throughout the Mesozoic since we still thought ''Apatosaurus'' snorkeled in swamps. Oh, and his slide projections were so out-of-date, there were illustrations of hadrosaurs with literal duck-bills, and ''Apatosaurus'' snorkeling in swamps. Again, this is a COLLEGE. SCIENCE. COURSE. Paleontology may not be his particular field of interest, but he should be able to get the basic timeline in order.

This troper has a few. For instance:

His mother insists that ''Spinosaurus'' looks just like a ''TyrannosaurusRex'' with a sail. Hmm... I think they're just a bit different... (first pic is Spino, second is T-rex).

Also, he has a 2006 encyclopedia on prehistoric life (this one here). Having noticed several inaccuracies in it, I typed them all up on Microsoft Word. '''''IT TOOK SEVEN FREAKIN' PAGES TO LIST THEM ALL.''''' Such anomalies include naked raptors, swan-necked plesiosaurs, "''Anatosaurus''" and "''Stenonychosaurus''" (both of which were renamed in the eighties or nineties), ''Teratosaurus'' as a dinosaur (thought to have been a land crocodile since the eighties) and tail-dragging dinosaurs of all sorts. Remember, '''''THIS IS A 2006 ENCYCLOPEDIA.''''' By the way, this review sums up the problems quite nicely. I'm seriously considering sending a letter to the editor.

His father insists that glyptodonts were reptiles.They're ''[[CriticalResearchFailure mammals''.]] Said father also has a tendency to confuse ''Coelophysis'' and ''Deinonychus''.

A brain teaser I submitted to Braingle.com was rejected because ''the editors thought that BAND was correct''. If you don't know what the problem is, see the "Real Life" folder on the trope's main page. Albertonykus, you'll be glad to know I quoted your blog several times in my rebuttal.

He has a Creationist dinosaur book which is actually quite accurate by evolutionist standards. However, one flaw remains: TyrannosaurusRex ''is shown with three fingers.''

This troper has a tendency to runt into paleo-idiots on a regular basis, the same way he runs into the FanDumb folks of the {{Transformers}} fandom. Recently, I had a clash with two ''JurassicPark'' haters, both of whom utterly loathed StevenSpielberg, but loved the original novel and ''JP III''. One of them had such a hard time trying to accept the notion that there were feathered dinosaurs, he refused to take notice of the evidence I showed him, and went on to ramble about how "the Jewish are taking over the world, so dinosaur pages on {{Wikipedia}} can't be trusted" (even though I linked him to other sites as well). Another nut, this time ''a freaking college professor'', claimed that birds have nothing to do with dinosaurs, they are more like mammals, and that only qualified scientists should ever be allowed to be fans of paleontology.

And, of course, I've also had the usual "But raptors ''did'' have feathers" discussion in real life. The other person had ''JP'''s dinosaur images burned so hard into his mind that he refused to accept the feathers, even after already having read a manga in which raptors were portrayed with fuzz. He firmly argued that they were scaly even in the manga, but after checking the comic itself, was astonished to find that his mind somehow erased his memories of the fuzzy raptors and replaced them with scaly ones.

Not to forget, one of my high-school Biology books had an illustration of what they labeled as a "''Brontosaurus''". This was a fairly recent edition, printed in '08 or '09!

And on the same message board that the "birds have nothing to do with dinosaurs" collage prof. posts in, I have encountered yet another curious individual, who proposed his idea (which overlaps greatly with YouFailBiologyForever) that dinosaurs didn't go extinct, but they might be actually living under the earth, swimming in magma. He was upset that others rejected the notion. And no, he wasn't just trolling, he was completely serious.

What. The. Hell.

My mum and sister think dinosaurs are lizards, even when I have to tell them otherwise.

This troper, a palaeontologist, was asked in all seriousness by a friend how cavemen managed to hunt dinosaurs. He wasn't even a creationist, either!

One of this troper's classmates asked our theology teacher whether or not Jesus lived with dinosaurs. And he was dead serious.