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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:I'm not trying to speak for the person but maybe they meant trilobite?? Dr. Breen: Would we model ourselves on the trilobite?
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Elukka posted:From what I've skimmed sources I don't think any contrivances about atmospheric oxygen or whatnot are needed to make the math work on them flying. I know there have been some suggestions that they'd have been flightless, but I don't think that's the mainstream view, and for a terrestrial animal it just looks incredibly fragile and ungainly. Competent at moving on land, perhaps taking prey on land, sure, but this very lightweight and incredibly specialized form for a purely terrestrial animal? Anyway on the topic of flying check out this time some idiot thought Stegosaurus could glide. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/the-fantastic-gliding-stegosaurus-107838636/ 
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Mumpy Puffinz posted:dinosaurs got real tiny They're actually 2-3 meters tall. Also paleontologists recently discovered that their diet consisted solely of people who called them small.
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Stegosaurus used their plates as charcuterie boards. Massively popular at wine tastings.
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Knormal posted:... on the topic of flying check out this time some idiot thought Stegosaurus could glide. Readable original article: https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/lccn/sn85058393/1920-08-15/ed-1/seq-32
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Tree Bucket posted:Nothing on earth today has wings that are used for flying and running; they're such radically different forms of movement with such different stresses. 
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Lol @ the bat-giraffe body plan being most feasible
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If only the winged giraffes hadn't been so tasty we could of still seen them majestically flying over the Africans plains to this day.
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It also seems like bat-giraffe would be excellent at climbing, which probably happened a lot in an age where 200 foot trees were common. Also I have my own  theory that were were a lot more cliffs, because no ice age to flatten terrain, only Grand Canyon-esque water erosion everywhere. Maybe bat-giraffe didnt run things down to hunt, but it had to sprint off cliffs to fly 
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redshirt posted:What if we are the dinosaurs?? We are more closely rated to Dimetrodon than any of the dinosaurs, including the seagull.
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it does seem pretty funny that earlier paleos didn't draw a connection between some of the bones they were finding and modern birds. just assumed everything was a large, modern, armor-plated lizard of some variety.
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Probably have purple hair and piercings now. Buncha posers.
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Tree Bucket posted:I just... I can't picture quetzalcoatlas flying. It's only marginally more difficult than picturing a flying giraffe. Nothing on earth today has wings that are used for flying and running; they're such radically different forms of movement with such different stresses. I know your last comment is kind of a throwaway but yes, higher oxygen levels are exactly why we had 4 foot long dragonflies millions of years ago. XYZAB fucked around with this message at 00:20 on Dec 25, 2023 |
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Buce posted:it does seem pretty funny that earlier paleos didn't draw a connection between some of the bones they were finding and modern birds. just assumed everything was a large, modern, armor-plated lizard of some variety. Wikipedia posted:Biologist Thomas Henry Huxley, known as "Darwin's Bulldog" for his tenacious support of the new theory of evolution by means of natural selection, almost immediately seized upon Archaeopteryx as a transitional fossil between birds and reptiles. Starting in 1868, and following earlier suggestions by Carl Gegenbaur,[6] and Edward Drinker Cope,[7] Huxley made detailed comparisons of Archaeopteryx with various prehistoric reptiles and found that it was most similar to dinosaurs like Hypsilophodon and Compsognathus.[8][9] The discovery in the late 1870s of the iconic "Berlin specimen" of Archaeopteryx, complete with a set of reptilian teeth, provided further evidence. Like Cope, Huxley proposed an evolutionary relationship between birds and dinosaurs. Although Huxley was opposed by the very influential Owen, his conclusions were accepted by many biologists, including Baron Franz Nopcsa,[10] while others, notably Harry Seeley,[11] argued that the similarities were due to convergent evolution. Art from 1916: 
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Yep, some of the most famous Victorian paleontologists were vehemently against the idea that birds could be dinosaurs for some reason and used their influence to successfully bury the idea until it was independently thought of in the 1970's. I think the prevailing line of thought at the time was birds and mammals were both warm-blooded and covered in something, so birds must be more closely related to mammals than reptiles, despite the bones of birds and dinosaurs having so many similarities.
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Haptical Sales Slut posted:Probably have purple hair and piercings now. Buncha posers. Dino has gone Woke!
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Knormal posted:Yep, some of the most famous Victorian paleontologists were vehemently against the idea that birds could be dinosaurs for some reason and used their influence to successfully bury the idea until it was independently thought of in the 1970's. I think the prevailing line of thought at the time was birds and mammals were both warm-blooded and covered in something, so birds must be more closely related to mammals than reptiles, despite the bones of birds and dinosaurs having so many similarities. It's purely an arbitrary labelling decision based on where you place a marker, same as why pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs
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What does "He's my friend and a whole lot more" mean, exactly?
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What does "He's my friend and a whole lot more" mean, exactly? It means it's not all about you Don't be horny for Denver
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What does "He's my friend and a whole lot more" mean, exactly? You don't have to jack off to everything
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Teriyaki Hairpiece posted:What does "He's my friend and a whole lot more" mean, exactly? I thought it meant that he was a complicated saurian; like, he has family and friends and hobbies across several species, and a wide range of lived experience on which to draw. This dinosaur contains multitudes, you dig me? I dunno what you meant by it, though 
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Elukka posted:So here's the weird thing: They did! The idea that dinosaurs and birds are closely related in some way is as old as evolution. Then for some reason it was forgotten for a century. The clear relation between Archaeopteryx, of which a preserved flight feather was found in 1861, and other dinosaurs, was used as an argument in support of this wild new book called On the Origin of Species. well that's pretty interesting
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MrQwerty posted:You don't have to jack off to everything 
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Outrail posted:Dinosaur In Name Only I enjoyed this, thank you.
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redshirt posted:Dino has gone Woke! Gotta love it when literal dinosaurs aren't conservative enough for modern chuds.
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Asterite34 posted:Gotta love it when literal dinosaurs aren't conservative enough for modern chuds. Dino from the Flintstones? He was already woke and purple dude. Even in Season 1.
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Well theres a solution in desperate search of a problem.
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Lmao a sub the size of a hotdog
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Salt Fish posted:Edward Drinker Cope Nah, the head's on the correct end
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