If it’s strong enough to throw an F-150, that dino is fucked. Also, we barely know what lived in upland and interior environments, so who knows what adaptations they had. Most dinosaur fossils come from lowland settings near rivers and coasts where rapid burial was likely. There are whole ecosystems we’ve basically never sampled.
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.
fossilesque@mander.xyz 1 day ago
If it’s strong enough to throw an F-150, that dino is fucked. Also, we barely know what lived in upland and interior environments, so who knows what adaptations they had. Most dinosaur fossils come from lowland settings near rivers and coasts where rapid burial was likely. There are whole ecosystems we’ve basically never sampled.
cattywampas@lemmy.world 1 day ago
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.
abbadon420@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad
grue@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
Chicken, probably.
BoosBeau@lemmy.world 1 day ago
If it makes you feel better, you can eat my salad
OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app 21 hours ago
Chicken! Maybe turkey, but probably chicken or possibly another game bird, but probably chicken!
JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca 1 day ago
Nothing stopping you from eating what’s left
khannie@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
They’ve actually started figuring out some colours believe it or not. I’m see if I can dig it up…
C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz 21 hours ago
“dig it up”. I see what you did there
applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone 14 hours 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.
JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca 21 hours ago
Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.