Animal Crossing: New Leaf and its blatant misinformation

[Hermes888]

Does anyone else here play the Animal Crossing series? I played some Wild World a few years back, and I've recently gotten really into New Leaf.
In case you haven't played it, it's a game that takes place in real time, where each new day in the real world is a new day in the game. Each day, there are four fossils buried around town, which you can dig up and have the museum curator analyzed. There's not much scientific accuracy, but I don't mind changes to make the game more fun. It's not like it's trying to be educational... right?
The last fossil my museum needed was the skull of a Pteranodon, and after finally finding it and donating it, I took a look at the descriptive plaque.
"Pteranodons were a type of winged reptile, perhaps the ancestors of common birds. With their wings spread, they were about the size of a small airplane, but their bodies were very light. Strangely, they weighed less than 50 pounds, with wings made from skin, allowing for ease of flight."
Why have an informational plaque but not bother doing any decent research for it? While some of the other positions of the fossils or the information on the plaques might be outdated or inaccurate, this one takes the cake as the worst.
Shame on you Nintendo, no one should refer to pterosaurs as the ancestors of birds in the 21st century.

[tyrantqueen]

Does anyone else here play the Animal Crossing series? I played some Wild World a few years back, and I've recently gotten really into New Leaf.
In case you haven't played it, it's a game that takes place in real time, where each new day in the real world is a new day in the game. Each day, there are four fossils buried around town, which you can dig up and have the museum curator analyzed. There's not much scientific accuracy, but I don't mind changes to make the game more fun. It's not like it's trying to be educational... right?
The last fossil my museum needed was the skull of a Pteranodon, and after finally finding it and donating it, I took a look at the descriptive plaque.
"Pteranodons were a type of winged reptile, perhaps the ancestors of common birds. With their wings spread, they were about the size of a small airplane, but their bodies were very light. Strangely, they weighed less than 50 pounds, with wings made from skin, allowing for ease of flight."
Why have an informational plaque but not bother doing any decent research for it? While some of the other positions of the fossils or the information on the plaques might be outdated or inaccurate, this one takes the cake as the worst.
Shame on you Nintendo, no one should refer to pterosaurs as the ancestors of birds in the 21st century.

Oh brother

It could be the fault of the translators, rather than the original Japanese creators, but yeah, that's bad.

[CityRaptor]

Oh boy.

Seems like the Museum needs a better informed Curator. Something along the lines of "Did you know that I'm a Dinosaur, too?"

[Brontozaurus]

I noticed that too. I should fire the curator for using Dave Peters as a source of information. Alas I cannot.

[tyrantqueen]

I noticed that too. I should fire the curator for using Dave Peters as a source of information. Alas I cannot.

Since when did David Peters claim that pterosaurs were dinosaurs? He believes that pterosaurs are lizards, not archosaurs. I don't agree with his theories either btw, but I'm just saying.

[Brontozaurus]

Damn, got my palaeofails mixed up. I saw some blog claiming to show how pterosaurs evolved into birds and I must have lumped it and Peters together.

[fleshanthos]

Well. Pterosaurs could be dinosaurs, depending on what the first ancestral dinosaur was and when it appeared. Several features are shared, so they might be. Might not.
Check what Robert Bakker had to say on it, he presents some good observations.

[HD-man]

Damn, got my palaeofails mixed up. I saw some blog claiming to show how pterosaurs evolved into birds and I must have lumped it and Peters together.

You're thinking of Dr. Pterosaur/Doug Dobney's "Pterosaurs to Modern Birds" (which I recently wrote about: http://jd-man.deviantart.com/journal/SD-Good-semi-good-and-bad-dino-sources-351589315 ).

[CityRaptor]

Maybe it really is just a translation error. Checked the Wiki. Atleast one game points out that it was neither Bird nor Dinosaur.

Also how about making a "Prehistoric Animal Crossing"?
Who would win in a fight? Isabelle the Canis dirus or Kiki the Smilodon populator?