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[–] 105 points 5 months ago (4 children)

Omg lol. Dinosaur scientists have been extinct for like hundreds of years.

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  • [–] 88 points 5 months ago (18 children)

    Op... Share the answer as well..

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  • [+] [S] 190 points 5 months ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (17 children)
  • [–] 122 points 5 months ago (12 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 70 points 5 months ago (9 children)

    Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Nothing stopping you from eating what's left

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  • [–] 12 points 5 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 70 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 22 points 5 months ago (5 children)

    Brachiosaurus wasn’t a mammal.

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago* (2 children)

    Correct. I'll change to Tetrapods.

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  • [–] 42 points 5 months ago (4 children)

    Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • [–] 37 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    It never occurred to me that dinosaurs would have to deal with tornados. Huh...weird

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  • [–] 14 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Also, imagine all the rainbows and eclipses they got to witness, but their brains were too small to appreciate either.

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  • [–] 30 points 5 months ago (3 children)

    Well, back then there was more oxygen in the air, which allowed tornados to grow larger.

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  • [–] 23 points 5 months ago (2 children)

    Hadrosaurus in a Hurricane? T-rex in a Typhoon? Centrosaurus in a cyclone?

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  • [–] 13 points 5 months ago

    Maybe we should ask a dinosaurologist!?

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  • [–] 6 points 5 months ago

    Like these poor giraffes, I guess πŸ₯Ίhttps://youtu.be/zX5cJJ8CyEw

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago

    The air was more dense back then. So tornados and hurricanes would have been stronger too.

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  • [–] 1 point 5 months ago*

    Old steam locomotive learned to fly in a tornado

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