Omg lol. Dinosaur scientists have been extinct for like hundreds of years.
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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Are you sure? I opened up YouTube yesterday and saw a dinasour right there.
At least!
Millions of hundreds, some of them!
Well I was born in the 90's and they weren't around then so it tracks.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
....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.
I'm a late Lemmy joining only after the blackout cos fuck reddit and fuck spez.
And you know what Lemmy is better.
I'm just glad you were able to remember your username!
Please not actually fuck spez, not need more offspring in world.
Spez ist ein Hurensohn.
It never occurred to me that dinosaurs would have to deal with tornados. Huh...weird
Also, imagine all the rainbows and eclipses they got to witness, but their brains were too small to appreciate either.
Nu-uh, I have it on good authority that rainbows were invented by a guy in a boat with some animals or something.
Actually, rainbows are bridges to the gods. Sorry, to burst your bubble.
Op... Share the answer as well..
If it's strong enough to throw an F-150, that dino is fucked. Also, we barely know what lived in upland and interior environments, so who knows what adaptations they had. Most dinosaur fossils come from lowland settings near rivers and coasts where rapid burial was likely. There are whole ecosystems we've basically never sampled.
You just do a quick laydown and tuck your head under your arms, and find a bit of dirt to hide behind.
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.
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.
Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad
We know for a fact that at least one dinosaur tastes like chicken.
Every dinosaur I've ever eaten has tasted fowl.
If it makes you feel better, you can eat my salad
Chicken! Maybe turkey, but probably chicken or possibly another game bird, but probably chicken!
Nothing stopping you from eating what's left
And people doubt the hypercarnivore theory.
Well, rocks is all that's left
Better set the table, we got work to do
Iβll get the sweet tea.
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.
"dig it up". I see what you did there
Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.
Maybe we should ask a dinosaurologist!?
Hadrosaurus in a Hurricane? T-rex in a Typhoon? Centrosaurus in a cyclone?
In a ~~Norwegian~~ Dutch accent?
Well zhen zhere izh no pleasing you.
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.
Brachiosaurus wasnβt a mammal.
Yes but a brachiosaurus is still a fish
Hell yeah, fuck paraphyletic groups.
Correct. I'll change to Tetrapods.
I wasnβt gonna say this but since youβre making changes anyway: the recurrent laryngeal nerve doesnβt go around the heart but around the aortic arch and the great arteries.
Meh, Iβve seen better arteries.
Well, back then there was more oxygen in the air, which allowed tornados to grow larger.
That's bull.
No, bulls didn't exist then.