Why does the estimated top speed of tyrannosaurus rex keep getting slower and slower? I remember circa 2003 when it could do 64 km/h, now it's only 28 km/h? What changed?
>>16806528Every adjustment to science made by anyone born between 1946 and 1964 will revert to priors within a decade or two after the last of them they die off. They are beautiful, caring people in general but as scientists horribly narcissistic and demented.
>>16806528Spinosaurus fanboy fudd
>>16806535Why are fashion trends always designed to cyclically make your daughter's friends look like exactly like your female high school classmates? This is disturbing and needs to be viciously looked into by the current fashies in our government.
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>>16806528Dinosaur reconstructions have changed.In the 70s and 80s, the trend was to basically make them big featherless birds. Light weight and fast, hot blooded.By the early 2000s, that was still the paradigm, but the move was to go further in giving a lot of them feathers. Almost totally treating many like big birds, particularly in the Coelurosauria.Today, particularly for large carnivores and herbivores, the trend is to make them heavier and bulkier. Taking inspiration from crocodiles and komodo dragons. This move results in predators that are bulkier and more fleshy, but necessarily slower and less active. This is fed into by some discoveries that traits we thought were unique to avian dinosaurs were actually widespread, which means that traits like being birdlike among the coelurosauria probably weren't as emphasized as previously thought.
>>16806528It turns out, to no one who thinks about it for more than a minute, that six ton carnivorous animals would generally be slow and stompy while mostly being scavengers. >be you, fast AF allosaurus>you and your bros just ran down the finest camptosaurus>feasting.mpg>a mighty faggot appears, all six tons of greedy bastard>clomps up to the kill, shews your pack away>watchagunnadoaboutitbuddyThis is a much better survival strategy at that size than trying to run down or ambush prey.
>>16806528T-Rex wouldn't run but instead just hopped around like a tweety bird
Yous tellin me tee rex lookin like a motherfuckin fat ostrich?
>>16806528>T-Rex walked on 2 legsWRONG
>>16806528They dont actually know what the body mass of any of these creatures was actually like.
>>16806528Size estimates were revised upwards recently when after decades and decades they realized that maybe their sample set was too small. >>16806992>le scavengerOutdated and deboonked, it only had to be faster than it's prey.
>>16806992>to no one who thinks about it for more than a minuteHe says as he repeats a disproven theory that never made sense to begin with
>>16807498>>16807556Cool, what was it's predatory style?
>>16807957It's prey never saw it coming because the T-Rex moonwalked 24/7
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>>16807086>h-he's fast!!
>>16806528Dinosaur speed estimates are utter bunk. It's impossible to say anything for sure with no soft tissue.
>>16807957goats and lawyers
>>16807957Ambush most likely
>>16808495>day 3>the hadrosaurs haven't noticed my giant fat ass in the bushes yetMaybe they were semi-aquatic and ambushed like crocodillians?
>>16807086Oh shit. Is this real?
Is /sci/ the board to talk about things like dinosaurs and other early life? I wasn't sure if it was this board or /his/ to post it on
>>16809340/an/ is where most of the dino talk is but there’s a couple resident schizos that always ruin it
>>16806992>this animal was a scavenger>never mind the fact it was the only large predator in its ecosystem so there was nothing else to steal prey off>never mind the fact that large obligate scavengers don’t exist>never mind the fact that there are healed rex bites on herbivore fossils so we know they were alive when attacked>>16808759Luckily size doesn’t make predators bad at ambush
