Stegasaour is Jurrasic

[elbmc1969]

Right. You have arms.

 

[yosimitesam]

The speed of the Trex will depend on whether it's a Predator or a Scavenger.

Because something that big is not going to be an ambush hide and seek type.

So you would think as a Predator it would need to have some runner ability. If it's a scavenger then the average carcass goes 0mph so it be fine.

Good eating on a dead brontosaurus.

My only concern with the very large herbivores is they must be deforestation machines. They would strip a forest in no time.

Na. No need to worry. The main flaw in the Jurassic Park story is this: Even if they could "grow" dinos from DNA, due to the entirely different (by 60 millions of years) world of microbes in the present, they would have no natural immunity to the vast majority of the millions of germs they would inhale with every breath. They would all die in days or weeks. (The plants of this era would upset the herbivore tummies, too, and that part of the JP movie was at least partially correct; remember the big pile of poo?) The same would happen to us if we had a time machine and could go back to those times. Unless we were wearing some kind of "space suit" like what is worn in Level IV microbe research laboratories, we would succumb to nasty microbes that neither we nor our ancient hominid ancestors would have ever "seen", immunologically speaking. We would be "easy meat" for hideous infections very soon. Humans with compromised immune systems fall sick to microbes that the rest of us have complete immunity to. Imagine a whole world of millions of different species of microbes totally unknown to our genetic makeup. Just look at the results of COVID-19. We have been living with coronaviruses for millions of years, as they are one of the primary causes of the common cold. Time travel in any direction is not a good idea, unless one could receive about a million innoculations of different types before stepping into the Time Machine. (Although, Yvette Mimieux was so hot, I might consider it.) Remember what happened to the Martians in 'War of the Worlds' novel? H.G. Wells understood this even in his day.

 

[The Basket]

I remember a quote about time travel. Someone said they would go any time that had penicillin.

But remember... life uh finds a way.

I did read Jurrasic Park when it first came out but I can't remember the story now. That was like years ago. So er...I think it was about a dog called Lassie. My memory isn't what it was.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

When I'm depressed, I like to imagine a T Rex trying to put on a hat.

They evolved short forearms so that they wouldn't maim themselves while brushing their teeth.

 

[SaparotRob]

I never would have thought of that.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

I never would have thought of that.

You're probably better off that way

 

[Bucksnort101]

They evolved short forearms so that they wouldn't maim themselves while brushing their teeth.

I thought that's why cavemen invented these? Dino Dental Chews.

 

[SaparotRob]

How did T Rex open the package?

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

How did T Rex open the package?

"Open" it? T-rex simply ate it too.

 

[yosimitesam]

They evolved short forearms so that they wouldn't maim themselves while brushing their teeth.

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You should write a paper about this theory and submit it to a peer-reviewed palentology journal. I think you might be on to something.

 

[special ed]

I have found these rascals in my shop very early in the morning.

 

[Snautzer01]

Heyjjj that looks like the p-39 thread.

 

[SaparotRob]

With experimental engines to increase performance too.

 

[The Basket]

Why did the Trex have no artillery?
Cos he preferred small arms.

 

[The Basket]

The Allosaurus is a Jurrasic Trex style dinosaur but has longer arms.

So why would the Trex have short arms that have no purpose.

One possible is that the bite and jaws were the money and the arms grew redundant.

Would a bipedal creature be a better runner than a quadruped?

Next pearl of wisdom is the a pterodactyl wasn't a dinosaur. True story, bro.

 

[SaparotRob]

Close enough.

 

[Thumpalumpacus]

One possible is that the bite and jaws were the money and the arms grew redundant.

Interestingly enough, Dino.wikia.org has this to say about the arms:

T. rex arms are very small relative to overall body size, measuring only 1 metre (3.3 ft) long. However, they are not vestigial but instead show large areas for muscle attachment, indicating considerable strength. This was recognized as early as 1906 by Osborn, who speculated that the forelimbs may have been used to grasp a mate during copulation.[35] It has also been suggested that the forelimbs were used to assist the animal in rising from a prone position.[29] Another possibility is that the forelimbs held struggling prey while it was dispatched by the tyrannosaur's enormous jaws. This hypothesis may be supported by biomechanical analysis. T. rex forelimb bones exhibit extremely thick cortical bone, indicating that they were developed to withstand heavy loads. The biceps brachii muscle of a full-grown Tyrannosaurus rex was capable of lifting 199 kilograms (439 lb) by itself; this number would only increase with other muscles (like the brachialis) acting in concert with the biceps. A T. rex forearm also had a reduced range of motion, with the shoulder and elbow joints allowing only 40 and 45 degrees of motion, respectively. In contrast, the same two joints in Deinonychus allow up to 88 and 130 degrees of motion, respectively, while a human arm can rotate 360 degrees at the shoulder and move through 165 degrees at the elbow. The heavy build of the arm bones, extreme strength of the muscles, and limited range of motion may indicate a system designed to hold fast despite the stresses of a struggling prey animal.[36]

Tyrannosaurus

I had no idea the arms were that strong.

 

[yosimitesam]

The Allosaurus is a Jurrasic Trex style dinosaur but has longer arms.

So why would the Trex have short arms that have no purpose.

One possible is that the bite and jaws were the money and the arms grew redundant.

Would a bipedal creature be a better runner than a quadruped?

Next pearl of wisdom is the a pterodactyl wasn't a dinosaur. True story, bro.

And neither were the large marine reptiles: mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, ichthyosaurs, etc. They began their evolution somewhat before the dinosaurs, in the late Permian.

 

[GrauGeist]

All the Pterosaurs were reptiles.

*edit* just saw the post above, never mind

 

[The Basket]

I remember when I was young.

A gator park. Them saying Alligator were living dinosaurs.

Well yes but actually no.