T. rex

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• Contramuffin@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  I’m going to need context here

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  • randomsnark@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I came to the comments looking for context, but since nobody has sold it yet, did some googling. I believe this is the reference: news.sky.com/…/tyrannosaurus-rex-could-have-been-…

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    • saltesc@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      may have weighed roughly 15 tonnes instead of 8.8, and measured 15 metres instead of 12.

      I find that very hard to believe for a bipedal land animal. Hit age 3 and your knees and hips are just done.

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  • Lommy241@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Glad to see I wasn’t the only one who couldn’t understand this. Was worried I had a stroke.

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  • refalo@programming.dev ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Maybe they’re saying we don’t really know how big or small they got.

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• breadsmasher@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Does this mean that due to undersampling, we can only assume we have found the biggest fossils/skeletons/remains, and cannot know how big they could really get?

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  • Blue_Morpho@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    I think it’s the opposite. They’re saying that physical limitations on size exist (bone strength, lung capacity) even if you only found one skeleton. So significantly bigger TRexs aren’t possible.

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    • DaTingGoBrrr@lemmy.ml ⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      Not according to this post lemmy.ml/comment/12594857

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