The Juasic Park movies were complete wrong with the Velociraptors size, they were only right that they were smart and social animals, hunting in groups like wolfs. It was a misunderstanding, because the paleontologist, asked by the size, said 6 ft, but they meant from the head to the tip of the tail, not the height of the animal, like in the movie, which were not bigger than a turkey.
Same as with the T-Rex following the car in the movie, the T-Rex couldn't run so fast, the biomechanic calculation and the weight has shown, that the max speed of the T-Rex couldn't have been more than ~15-20 kmh, he was probably more of a scavenger than a hunter.
Dinosaurs had tons of different sizes and niches. We didn't extinct literally all megafauna - bears, elk, ostriches (literal dinosaur!) still exist and are so common that they're often nuisances.
there's a theory that life (metabolism) predates cells. which implies that the first living organism was an global spanning supercell bound be coastlines not cell walls. miss being there, miss LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
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rockerface@lemmy.cafe · 41 pts · 197d
Silly birbs, you never stopped being dinosaurs
sunoc@sh.itjust.works · 28 pts · 197d
T-rex when pigeons
Gsus4@mander.xyz · 20 pts · 197d
PS: these guys won an ignobel prize for attaching weights to the backs of chickens to make them walk like dinos
PPS: plus here's a video
frog@feddit.uk · 9 pts · 197d
If humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time, would they drive dinosaurs to extinction like humans did to almost every large land animal ever?
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 15 pts · 197d
Velociraptors would be nice pets, instead of dogs.
python@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 197d
Man I wanna see that youtube dog grooming lady bathe a velociraptor. Bet they would look very cute in a happy hoodie while being blow-dried 🥺
Zerush@lemmy.ml · 5 pts · 197d
The Juasic Park movies were complete wrong with the Velociraptors size, they were only right that they were smart and social animals, hunting in groups like wolfs. It was a misunderstanding, because the paleontologist, asked by the size, said 6 ft, but they meant from the head to the tip of the tail, not the height of the animal, like in the movie, which were not bigger than a turkey.
Same as with the T-Rex following the car in the movie, the T-Rex couldn't run so fast, the biomechanic calculation and the weight has shown, that the max speed of the T-Rex couldn't have been more than ~15-20 kmh, he was probably more of a scavenger than a hunter.
python@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 197d
Turkey-sized is totally fine with me, they make teeny tiny happy hoodies!
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 197d
Some herbivores might have survived as domesticated livestock.
Though if they tasted like chicken, all bets are off. We'd probably do to the poor bastards what we did to silphium.
Sidhean@piefed.social · 3 pts · 197d
Unless some of 'em were smarter than us or they could out-reproduce our appetite, I would reckon so.
rumschlumpel@feddit.org · 3 pts · 196d
Dinosaurs had tons of different sizes and niches. We didn't extinct literally all megafauna - bears, elk, ostriches (literal dinosaur!) still exist and are so common that they're often nuisances.
BC_viper@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 196d
Fun fact, this is why geese are so mad all the time.
DaddleDew@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 197d
Fuck this. I want to be primordial soup again.
darklamer@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 3 pts · 197d
MajorMajormajormajor@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 197d
Is this you?
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d
there's a theory that life (metabolism) predates cells. which implies that the first living organism was an global spanning supercell bound be coastlines not cell walls. miss being there, miss LUCA (Last Universal Common Ancestor)
village604@adultswim.fan · 1 pts · 197d
So, probably fungus then.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 197d
LUCA predates mushrooms, by Billions of years
village604@adultswim.fan · 2 pts · 197d
I meant like how there currently a global mycelium network.
I definitely used poor wording.
IAmNorRealTakeYourMeds@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 197d
we used to be like mushrooms. that's what they took from us 😔