They did not fight each other for 100 billion years. It was about 180 million years, which is just as impressive considering it’s actually true, and the billions figure is just exaggeration.
I knew that 100000000000 figure was misleading!!!!
They were fighting eachother before earth existed. The Transformers cartoons from the 1980s suddenly make sense now.
I just watched a long form video on the difference between war and conflict, and how we can’t really call many animal conflicts ’war’.
And then how some animal conflicts, like ant and chimp wars really are war. It was pretty cool.
Since some dinosaurs species were around for a very long time, I wonder whether they did wage war? They had plenty of time to develop culture and more than enough to hate each other. Maybe war really never changes.
eta: and as mum to a young dino enthusiast back in the day, I hope they were that complex cuz that’s groovy. Still hip to please that little boy, lol.
Is “long form video” a term now? 🎬🦖🦕🎦🍿
Generally its anything over 45ish minutes (aka feature length). Its been a term longer than "short form video" has been iirc.
That sounds cool as fuck. Mind sharing?
And keep in mind there weren't just large beasts, but small ones as well. People tend to focus on the big ones, because they are most impressive, but they came in the full range of sizes. Just imagine how alien our planet looked compared to what we are used to now.
And the birdies you listen to when they chirp and throw seed to are still them.
And then u tell them that birds are dinos too, and it's like BAM! Head bust 🤯🤯🤯
Do we really know that they fought eachother though?
Maybe they were all like super chill and held hands and sang songs and stuff.
Well, we know they ate each other. Fossils with bite marks and fossilized poop with bones prove that.
Also that's the way life works. Life eats life all the way down until you reach the base layer that eats sunlight
Since life doesn't like being eaten out usually means a fight (though humans have become great at tricking animals so they don't get a chance to fight)
War isn't right though. We don't know enough to know whether they warred
Afaik, it's been suggested that they sang in a manner similar to modern birds
Many didn't have hands or their arms were to short. Also, Kumbaya was written many decades after the astroid hit earth
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