Dream 🦕 Big

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Imgonnatrythis@sh.itjust.works · 103 pts · 144d (4 replies)

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

swab148@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 12 pts · 144d (2 replies)

At least!

BambiDiego@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 144d

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

Tja@programming.dev · 5 pts · 144d

Millions of hundreds, some of them!

MidsizedSedan@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 144d

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

RustyNova@lemmy.world · 87 pts · 145d (18 replies)

Op... Share the answer as well..

fossilesque@mander.xyz · 187 pts · 145d (17 replies)
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cattywampas@lemmy.world · 122 pts · 145d (12 replies)

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.

abbadon420@sh.itjust.works · 70 pts · 145d (9 replies)

Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad

grue@lemmy.world · 37 pts · 144d (1 reply)

We know for a fact that at least one dinosaur tastes like chicken.

RedAggroBest@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 144d

Every dinosaur I've ever eaten has tasted fowl.

BoosBeau@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 145d

If it makes you feel better, you can eat my salad

JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 145d (4 replies)

Nothing stopping you from eating what's left

inari@piefed.zip · 7 pts · 145d (2 replies)

Well, rocks is all that's left

JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 145d (1 reply)

Better set the table, we got work to do

TheAsianDonKnots@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 145d

I’ll get the sweet tea.

tomenzgg@midwest.social · 4 pts · 144d

And people doubt the hypercarnivore theory.

OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app · 6 pts · 144d

Chicken! Maybe turkey, but probably chicken or possibly another game bird, but probably chicken!

khannie@lemmy.world · 28 pts · 145d (1 reply)

They've actually started figuring out some colours believe it or not. I'll see if I can dig it up... Edit:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration

There's a decent video on that page too.

C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz · 18 pts · 144d

"dig it up". I see what you did there

applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 12 pts · 144d

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 · 6 pts · 144d

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

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 143d

clearly this means there were sauropods with wings, who evolved to use tornadoes for transportation

Einskjaldi@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 144d

You just do a quick laydown and tuck your head under your arms, and find a bit of dirt to hide behind.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 65 pts · 145d (6 replies)

Nearly all tetrapods 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 aortic arch above 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.

ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 145d (5 replies)

Brachiosaurus wasn’t a mammal.

Semi_Hemi_Demigod@lemmy.world · 54 pts · 145d (1 reply)

Yes but a brachiosaurus is still a fish

Klear@quokk.au · 14 pts · 145d

Hell yeah, fuck paraphyletic groups.

Diddlydee@feddit.uk · 13 pts · 145d (2 replies)

Correct. I'll change to Tetrapods.

Photonic@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 145d (1 reply)

I wasn’t gonna say this but since you’re making changes anyway: the recurrent laryngeal nerve doesn’t go around the heart but around the aortic arch and the great arteries.

Monument@lemmy.sdf.org · 9 pts · 144d

Meh, I’ve seen better arteries.

MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 145d (4 replies)

Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.

halfeatenpotato@sh.itjust.works · 27 pts · 144d

....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.

ForgottenUsername@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 144d (1 reply)

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

And you know what Lemmy is better.

toynbee@piefed.social · 5 pts · 144d

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

far_university1990@reddthat.com · 3 pts · 144d

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

Spez ist ein Hurensohn.

Cethin@lemmy.zip · 27 pts · 145d (3 replies)

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

MonkderVierte@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 144d (2 replies)
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Cethin@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 144d (1 reply)

No, bulls didn't exist then.

Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de · 3 pts · 143d

bull is a generic term, there were absolutely bull dinosaurs. Like there was at least one species of herbivorous dinosaur that lived in herds and had strong sexual dimorphism.

tiredofsametab@fedia.io · 20 pts · 144d (2 replies)

Hadrosaurus in a Hurricane? T-rex in a Typhoon? Centrosaurus in a cyclone?

JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 144d (1 reply)

In a Norwegian Dutch accent?

Skv@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 144d

Well zhen zhere izh no pleasing you.

OpenStars@piefed.social · 11 pts · 144d

Maybe we should ask a dinosaurologist!?

Zerush@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 144d

Old steam locomotive learned to fly in a tornado