Comment on Comparative anatomy

Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

• mineralfellow@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Footprints.

  popularmechanics.com/…/tyrannosaurus-trackways-re…

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  • Hupf@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Oh God imagine we’d actually found huge parallel footprints.

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    • moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Then we’d know Jesus was carrying the t-rex the whole time

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  • IAmTheZeke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    They were all made in clay-rich sandstone, which preserved the tracks so well that they have impressions of the scales on the skin of these dinosaurs.

    Oooo so we know for sure what the scale shapes are? Fascinating! Where is dino science on feathers currently? Did some dinosaurs resemble birds more than lizards? Sorry I’m late. Be wild if we had such impressions of feathers somewhere

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    • Graphy@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      I think a lot of modern birds have scales on their feet. I googled around since I was a bit confused by that sentence when I first read it

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      • IAmTheZeke@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        That’s true… I didn’t know we had more than bones though. Pretty amazing that we know exactly what those scales look like.

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• Lemming6969@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Likely footprint patterns

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  • Ilovethebomb@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Good point actually.

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• Not_mikey@slrpnk.net ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Kangaroos hop because they can store a lot of energy in there Achilles tendon and use that to propel them forward without using much energy. It’s good for covering long distances over flat terrain while using as little energy as possible , which is good for the Australian outback as they hop between small patches of vegitation separated by miles of desert. It’s not that good for ambushing or quickly chasing prey in a rainforest like the t rex is probably doing.

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  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Was gonna say, the tendon strength simply doesn’t scale like that, rexes are way too massive.

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    • CitizenKong@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      The probably pounced on their prey though when they were sure they would catch them.

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      • TheBat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        We saw that in the Attenborough documentary, Jurassic Park.

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• NegativeInf@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Probably something to do with strain on the body. Studies show T. rex couldn’t even run. Maybe a fast walk. Additionally, the way the muscles attach to the bones probably don’t support hopping.

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  • BudgetBandit@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The context of this comment is amazing.

    Imagine a creature, that died over 65 million years ago (earth was at the other side of the galaxy back then) and yet we can detect how the muscles attached to the bone

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    • rooroo@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      earth was at the other side of the galaxy back then

      Hoooly eff.

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      • Cypher@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Right now you’re orbiting the galactic core (well basically, its very close) at 250,000km/h +/- ~30,000km/h (Earths rotation of the Sun).

        And it still took 65 million years to complete less than half an orbit of the galaxy.

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• ChonkyOwlbear@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Skull weight alone would make hopping difficult. Their heads are huge.

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  • pyre@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    yep, the first thing I noticed was how tiny the kangaroo’s head and upper body is compared to the legs.

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  • TotalFat@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they tucked their huge heads and rolled around like rollerrats. Except huge.

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• PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Most likely the weight difference would be the biggest issue here.

  Same reason why to scale bug wings wouldn’t let you fly, that square cube law can lead to some very unfun conclusions where big beasties are concerned.

  Or some absolutely terrifying ones in Shin Godzilla’s case.

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  • turnipjs@lemmy.ml ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    SQUARE CUBE LAW MENTIONED

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  • Tlaloc_Temporal@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I wonder if babies and adolescents hopped around? There’s already the theory that T.rexs lived in family groups with adolescents catching lots of small prey and adults catching the occassional large prey and providing protection.

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    • Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      hopping like a kangaroo is unlikely, but it would probably make sense for them to move like modern birds of the same size and whatever is the most similar ecological niche.

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      • PhlubbaDubba@lemm.ee ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Chicky Hopping Baby T-Rexes Cannon!

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• Swedneck@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  first off AFAIK they don’t even have anything near the amount of muscle in the right places to try hopping, but even if they did manage it i’m pretty sure their legs would snap in half when they landed and then as the rest of the body met the ground they’d crack ribs and stuff as well.

  Imagine trying to jump around while wearing a dishwasher on your back, even if you’re monstrously strong in every part of your body it’s gonna fucking suuuuuuuuck

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• xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Hip anatomy? Structured more like a bird hip rather than a reptile or kangaroo

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  • wewbull@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I was watching a Carrion Crow hop around just yesterday. Fast movement was a hop. Slow movement was a walk.

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    • xx3rawr@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Well, think more grounded birds such as ratites and pheasants.

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