Omg lol. Dinosaur scientists have been extinct for like hundreds of years.
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Op... Share the answer as well..
There are whole ecosystems we've basically never sampled.
This drives me crazy. Along with the fact that we'll probably never know about the various colors and fleshy structures that these animals had.
Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad
We know for a fact that at least one dinosaur tastes like chicken.
Chicken! Maybe turkey, but probably chicken or possibly another game bird, but probably chicken!
Nothing stopping you from eating what's left
Well, rocks is all that's left
They've actually started figuring out some colours believe it or not. I'll see if I can dig it up... Edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration
There's a decent video on that page too.
Yeah I was gonna say, one of the defining features of the large sauropods was a low body density due to the air sacks in their huge necks and hollow bones. Those adaptations were likely required to achieve their size. So you have a really big animal with relatively low density and high surface area, that thing is going right up into the sky and getting smashed to bits when it lands.
Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.
clearly this means there were sauropods with wings, who evolved to use tornadoes for transportation
Nearly all tetrapods have a laryngeal nerve that goes from the brain stem to the larynx, but doesn't go straight for the few inches, instead travelling down the neck to go around the aortic arch above the heart. It's a throwback to when we were ocean dwelling and had gills much closer to the heart.
In giraffes this nerve takes a 15 ft detour.
In something like a brachiosaurus which had a neck around 30 ft long, this would be a 60ft detour.
A great proof of evolution, of making do with what is there and adapting.
Brachiosaurus wasnβt a mammal.
Yes but a brachiosaurus is still a fish
Correct. I'll change to Tetrapods.
I wasnβt gonna say this but since youβre making changes anyway: the recurrent laryngeal nerve doesnβt go around the heart but around the aortic arch and the great arteries.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
....yes. but I also straight up didn't notice this was a screenshot from reddit until I read your comment.
I certainly care about sources, but far less when it comes to shitposting.
I'm a late Lemmy joining only after the blackout cos fuck reddit and fuck spez.
And you know what Lemmy is better.
Please not actually fuck spez, not need more offspring in world.
Spez ist ein Hurensohn.
It never occurred to me that dinosaurs would have to deal with tornados. Huh...weird
Also, imagine all the rainbows and eclipses they got to witness, but their brains were too small to appreciate either.
Well, back then there was more oxygen in the air, which allowed tornados to grow larger.
No, bulls didn't exist then.
Hadrosaurus in a Hurricane? T-rex in a Typhoon? Centrosaurus in a cyclone?
Like these poor giraffes, I guess π₯Ίhttps://youtu.be/zX5cJJ8CyEw
The air was more dense back then. So tornados and hurricanes would have been stronger too.

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