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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.

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cattywampas@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

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.

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- abbadon420@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad
  
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  - grue@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Chicken, probably.
    
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    RedAggroBest@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Every dinosaur I’ve ever eaten has tasted fowl.
    
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  - BoosBeau@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    If it makes you feel better, you can eat my salad
    
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  - OldGrayDog@fedinsfw.app ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Chicken! Maybe turkey, but probably chicken or possibly another game bird, but probably chicken!
    
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  - JoeyHarrington@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Nothing stopping you from eating what’s left
    
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    inari@piefed.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    Well, rocks is all that’s left
    
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    tomenzgg@midwest.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    And people doubt the hypercarnivore theory.
    
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- khannie@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
  They’ve actually started figuring out some colours believe it or not. I’m see if I can dig it up…
  
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  - C8r9VwDUTeY3ZufQRYvq@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
    “dig it up”. I see what you did there
    
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applebusch@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
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.

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JoeBigelow@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.

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Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
clearly this means there were sauropods with wings, who evolved to use tornadoes for transportation

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Einskjaldi@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago
You just do a quick laydown and tuck your head under your arms, and find a bit of dirt to hide behind.

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