https://youtu.be/yJw1WUXIFG8
that doesn't look very scarymore like a 3 meter chicken
>>16832045have you ever seen a chicken go to town on a mouse?a 3 meter chicken would be horrifying
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>>16832069>My ancestor
>>16831978cute
>>16831978What is the difference between a nanotyranus and a velociraptor? The velociraptors in Jurassic Park looked like small t-rexes.
>>16831978What's the evolutionary purpose of athrophied arms that can barely do anything? I get the neck and the jaws do must of the work, but it wouldn't hurt to have arms to hold the prey (or carcass, whatever) as you eat it
>>16832229Was of energy.
>>16832229Smaller arms are less likely to get bitten off
>>16832229https://youtu.be/hJnz8BsBlLo?si=mo2Kt1Ra6t6cLG5C
>>16832229>I get the neck and the jaws do must of the workyou answered your own questionalso Trex's arms WERE functional. we know they were functional because they were proportionally way more muscular than they would be if they served no purposeIf you want to see extreme arm reduction look at abelisaurids.
>>16831978>its fucking realHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA kek imagine how good it must feel for the nanotyranus truthers seeing this after years of being labeled crazy and conspiracy theorists and how it was obviously just a juvenile trex kek
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
>>16832612>you were right BUT FOR THE WRONG REASONS! This was a win for SCIENCE™
>>16831978No dinosaurs is real.
>>16832144The actual velociraptor would have been a much smaller creature that lived in late Cretaceous Asia; the movie velociraptors are based on the larger deinonychus (which are from North America circa 115 to 90 million years ago) but for the book & movie they decided the velociraptor name was catchier. Nanotyranus, assuming this updated research is valid, would be larger yet than the deinonychus the JP raptors are based on, and more closely related to the big Rex. It also would have lived in North America tens of millions of years after deinonychus, circa 67 million years ago.
>>16833534To add some size context; the largest velociraptors would have topped out at like 20 kg. The biggest deinonychus would have been like 100 kg. The nanotyranus would have been much larger, estimates as high as 1,200 kg for adults of one of the species. T. Rex adults could easily go past 8,000 kg.
