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• RustyNova@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Op… Share the answer as well…

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  • fossilesque@mander.xyz ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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.

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    • cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      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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    • applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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    • JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.

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• Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    At least!

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    • BambiDiego@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well I was born in the 90’s and they weren’t around then so it tracks.

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Millions of hundreds, some of them!

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  • MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Are you sure? I opened up YouTube yesterday and saw a dinasour right there.

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• Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Nearly all mammals 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 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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  • ohulancutash@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Brachiosaurus wasn’t a mammal.

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    • Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Yes but a brachiosaurus is still a fish

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    • Diddlydee@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’ll change to Tetrapods.

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• MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

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  • halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    …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.

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  • ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    I’m a late Lemmy joining only after the blackout cos fuck reddit and fuck spez.

    And you know what Lemmy is better.

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    • toynbee@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I’m just glad you were able to remember your username!

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  • far_university1990@reddthat.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Please not actually fuck spez, not need more offspring in world.

    Spez ist ein Hurensohn.

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• Cethin@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That’s bull.

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• Megaman_EXE@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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  • Nangijala@feddit.dk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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    • Tja@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Nu-uh, I have it on good authority that rainbows were invented by a guy in a boat with some animals or something.

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• OpenStars@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Maybe we should ask a dinosaurologist!?

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• RivverRavven@beehaw.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Like these poor giraffes, I guess 🥺https://youtu.be/zX5cJJ8CyEw

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• Ultrathor@hexbear.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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

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