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In the CSI episode "Crash and Burn," the suspect says, "I have to feed my fish. Clown loaches, tetras, angelfish..." when the aquarium clearly contains goldfish, angelfish, and a couple other species (possibly tetras in there somewhere). There are, however, no clown loaches — probably because they're best kept in groups of 5 or more, in tanks over 100 gallons, which the tank in the episode definitely was not.

In the Marvel Universe, humans apparently evolved around 1,000,000 BC. Needless to say, Homo Sapiens didn't emerge for at least another 650,000 years - though this is eventually nodded to by one of the Judgment Day (Marvel Comics) tie-ins, which states that a bunch of modern humans fell through a chronal rift at some point. Goofy Feathered Dinosaur: Feathered dinosaurs are portrayed as goofy, even though in reality a lot of predatory species had feathers. Starship Troopers. The bugs are referred to both as "insects" and "arachnids" throughout the movie. Apart from those being mutually exclusive terms, it's unlikely that alien creatures from across the galaxy would belong to any terrestrial animal class. The film also ignores the square-cube law that would make those giant bugs collapse under their own weight. A woman is cut in half at the waist in Hillside Cannibals; her intestines spill out of her lower half. Despite many season premieres taking place within minutes or even seconds of the previous season finale, hair has somehow managed to grow several inches. That's why they don't film entire scenes before the season is over. That way, the audience has a summer to "forget" what the characters looked like and will accept the changes with little fuss.As revealed in Chapter 124, Legosi isn't the only halfbreed in the series with the introduction of another hybrid character called Melon. A serial killing Leopard-Gazelle hybrid, who is forced to hide his heritage. What You See Is What You See": The femur being the strongest bone in the human body, there's no way Sheldon could've twisted it to make the lodged bullet fall out. Nearly the entirety of issues #3 and #4 of Marville is loaded with completely asinine science, with a particular focus on evolution. All to set up a joke that Wolverine was the first human, evolved from an otter. Although you can manage your own licensing directly with individual companies, this is be time consuming and complicated, with careful negotiation and some legal knowledge required. In the Syfy movie Robocroc, CGI sequences show how the film's nanite-infested crocodile has her physiology transformed, bit by bit, into that of Mechanical Lifeforms. One of the first such scenes shows her red blood cells being converted by the nanites... biconcave red cells without nuclei, which are found in mammals but not reptiles. Presumably, the writers figured audiences wouldn't recognize blood cells unless they looked like the sort humans have.

Xenomorphs can hatch from demons just as they can hatch from humans (although the resulting aliens will be slightly different from the standard version), and at least one hatches from a vampire despite a vampire being incapable of sustaining ‘life’ normally. In The Horror of Party Beach, a doctor explains that the monster is actually a dead human whose organs were invaded by aquatic plants before they had the chance to decompose, and calls the result "a giant protozoa." Protozoa are single-celled lifeforms, and "protozoan" is the word for describing one in the singular. Also, algae are not "aquatic plants". They're algae. But they're often referred to as aquatic plants, so that one gets a pass as " one character simplifying the truth to explain it more easily". The films state that the gaps in the prehistoric incomplete DNA are filled in with frog DNA. This facilitates the plot twist that they were able to breed in the wild, despite being manufactured as solely female, by changing sex like some frog species. This of course raises the question of why frog DNA was used instead of an animal more closely related to dinosaurs, like birds or reptiles. This is an invention of the film, because the original novel does specify that reptile and bird DNA was also used alongside frog DNA, but the film simplified this explanation, at the expense of realism.

And it eventually comes out that Legosi's mother developed scales similar to her father later in life that was the contributing factor to her suicide. Batman's physical capabilities are supposedly natural, without any artificial or supernatural enhancements, but his feats are greatly embellished. For example, he's able to bench press 1,000 lbs and fight for 28 hours straight. Even when Batman's feats are within the bounds of human achievement, they will clash with each other. The physiques required to be the best powerlifter, boxer and marathon runner are all completely different. Also consider that athletes who make record-setting achievements have carefully regulated their training for weeks or months beforehand to "peak" at just the right moment to perform. One cannot stay in a constant state of peak performance. Reign of Fire: A whole species consisting of thousands of females and only one male? It's actually not impossible in real life: Blue-Headed Wrasses (a fish) have a reproductive pattern where they live in large schools of females led by a single male. When the male dies, one of the females actually switches sex and becomes the new male. In the film, though, killing the male results in the extinction of the species. The method of cloning depicted, somatic nuclear cell cloning, would be impossible to undertake, even if the animals in question were still alive and not extinct for millions of years, due to the fact dinosaurs laid shelled eggs. Hence why this sort of cloning has only been achieved for animals with soft eggs (like fish and amphibians) or ones which give live birth (mammals), and no reptiles or birds have ever been successfully cloned. The theoretical method of "cloning" that could work for such animals (changing a host animal's germ line DNA to produce egg cells of a different species) is completely different. In The Predator, a major plot point hinges on Autism being treated as the next step in human evolution. On top of being quite cringeworthy Flawless Token, the premise is flawed for two major reasons: firstly that it hinges on the Evolutionary Levels fallacy, and secondly that the characteristics of the condition (troubled social interaction and impaired communication skills) work precisely against what evolution stands for (better adaptation to the environment and better chances to survive and reproduce, which in humans is parallel to social functioning, and humans are social animals - romance is one thing autistic people notoriously struggle with).

The flowers in Ophelia don't all bloom at the same time. The reason for this is that Millais painted them all from nature over a few months.The Spleen from Mystery Men is an in-character example, as he named himself for an organ that has nothing to do with his Fartillery superpower. As a lead-in to some trivia about prairie dogs, the narrator of 50 Outrageous Animal Facts speaks of how mammals can sometimes be found in large groups. As he talks, shots of animal crowds appear on screen, including a beach full of walruses, a field full of wildebeest, and... a lake full of flamingos. Large groups of mammals, right... Cadance is rendered infertile by the pillar that falls on her and causes her to miscarry. An impact strong enough to cause that much damage to the female reproductive system would realistically cause much bigger problems than just sterility. And that's not even getting into the matter of the stillborn child staying in her room for the rest of the season; decomposition isn't even brought up in the slightest. In Tokyo Shinobi Squad, one of En's first displays of the Technique of Remembrance is memorizing an entire petabyte of information. Computational neuroscientists estimate that the brain can only hold anywhere between 1 terabyte to 2.5 petabytes, meaning that En would already be halfway to maximum capacity at best without taking any of his other life experiences into account. Hand Waved by the supernatural nature of ninpo techniques.

They don't eat multiple prey the size of a human being one after the other. After consuming a meal like that (which can take hours), the snake will find a secure location where it will remain immobile for months to digest its food. Mice live a very short life — 3 years at the most, but in Cinderella (2015) Gus Gus and Jacqueline are shown to have long enough lifespans to witness Cinderella growing up from a little girl to a young woman. Eleventh Hour likes to screw up cloning (at least the clones are born as infants and not carbon-copy adults with complete memories). In the first episode, Jacob Hood insists that cloned pregnancies are more dangerous to the mother carrying the clone and that you need the "real scientist" at the birth, when in fact a cloned infant poses no more threat to the mother than an in vitro pregnancy, which is scarcely more risky than a natural one (and in fact the mother's health is only in jeopardy if her own body is incapable of carrying a pregnancy; if the baby is unhealthy it will simply miscarry). Then in a later episode, he makes the claim that clones are born genetically the same age as the original that they were copied from (so even though they look like babies, their genes are actually adult or even geriatric), stating that the telomeres which break off each time a cell replicates are severely shortened. However, scientific research measuring telomere lengths has proved this to be false; the developing embryo somehow "knows" how long its telomeres should be and resets them to this length with the enzyme telomerase. Island City a 1994 made-for-TV movie, had the few remaining regular humans living in a small enclave surrounded by animalistic mutants. The mutants were called 'recessives' because the trait was inherited that way. One of the characters was — get this — HALF RECESSIVE, with all the increased strength and toughness but without the bestial aggression and reduced intelligence. Also, the inhabitants of the city wore colored crystals making their genetic status clear, to prevent the wrong kind of couple forming and producing the wrong kind of offspring. That would be fine, except there were THREE colors (should only be 2, carrier or not) and people were forbidden from mating with anyone whose crystal was a DIFFERENT color (should be, 2 carriers may not mate). Time limits – every agreement should have a time limit imposed, after which the license expires. This means that if they do a bad job with your work, you are under no obligation to continue: and if they do a good job, you may be able to negotiate a higher royalty for the next agreement period. Time limits can build trust between partners.The premise of the movie (and the book). If the amber-preserved blood was any more than 1 million years old, the DNA would have been irrecoverably decomposed, no matter what it was preserved in. Cloning extinct species from before 1 million years ago is impossible. Also, if the DNA were available, we have absolutely no idea how to turn that DNA into a viable dinosaur egg in the same way just having a cake recipe can't conjure a cake into existence. You'd need complete information about how the oviducts of that particular species operated even to get started, and we don't even have any fossils of dinosaur oviducts, let alone a clue as to their gestational duration, average internal temperature, etc, as well as the fact no compatible germ cells could possibly exist for animals extinct for over 65 million years.