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• MutantTailThing@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  How’s he gonna operate the stick with those lil’ arms though?

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  • Tudsamfa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Same way he’s getting around those back plates and thagomizer:

    Life, uh… finds a way.

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  • stupidcasey@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Idk, yo mama managed.

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    • 87Six@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well, yours was a little stick in little hands…

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  • Klear@quokk.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Their arms were about the same length as human arms. I don’t see any issues with that picture.

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    • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      So you’re saying Its more “where is he gonna put that thicc dino ass”

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• baropithecus@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

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• GandalftheBlack@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought this was about the grass until I actually looked at the dinosaurs in the picture

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  • mnemonicmonkeys@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Huh, yeah the grass is also inaccurate

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• Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Are we sure dinosaurs didn’t have F15s?

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Yes but only because McDonald Douglas didn’t exist yet. If you do find evidence of them having jet aircraft we might be able to invalidate some patents under prior art.

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    • Kolanaki@pawb.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      afaik, patents don’t care about that. You can even patent things that don’t exist.

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• mkwt@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If that’s a Tomcat, where’s that lizard’s RIO?

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• plyth@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What made evolution accelerate that dinosaur evolution took so long, but turning little mammals into humans was fast?

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  • Denjin@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Mass extinctions promote rapid expansion and diversification of surviving species into newly available niches.

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    • chatokun@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      There’s also a Hypothesis iirc that this rapid expansion also lowered our life span. Longevity Bottleneck Hypothesis though I think this one includes dinosaurs hunting mammals, and maybe Disposable Soma Theory.

      Huh, the second one could probably be used to explain elves in fantasy: long life, low reproduction rate.

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    • betahack@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      imagine the roach empires that will rise once we do ourselves in

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  • stormdelay@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    A large meteorite

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  • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    From the last dinosaurs to the first humans was 66 million years, it wasn’t that fast.

    What is weird is that humans are so intelligent. It’s much easier to evolve big teeth and ripping claws to make you the dominant species then it is to evolve a highly complex brain.

    It can’t have been the extinction of the dinosaurs that had that impetus because by the time the first proto humans were around any effects of the asteroid impact would have long since dissipated. So there must have been some other threat that arose that was dangerous enough to require us to evolve to survive it, but was slow burning enough that it gave time for that evolution to happen. It also left no evidence.

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    • vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I think theres growing consensus that tool use itself led to us becoming more intelligent, basically the group of great apes that humans and chimps came from that led to humans started to use tools at increasing rates which caused a feedback loop. Tools allow better resource exploitation while conserving energy and gaining more energy this basically caused evolution to throw everything into the dump stat that is intelligence which further worsened the feedback loop.

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    • mika_mika@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      It’s because Ancient Aliens came and gave us knowledge to speed up the growth of our early civilizations.

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• kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.

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  • Fedizen@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Hold on. Dinosaurs might of had like some kind of post communist utopian society. They might have been more culturally developed than humans.

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    • echodot@feddit.uk ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I tried asking a geologist this question once and just got a funny look.

      But let’s say for the sake of arguement that dinosaurs did have a civilisation, if that civilisation was on the level of mediaeval technology then would there be any evidence after millennia and an asteroid impact? If we’re talking about houses made of wood and roads made of cobblestone and no refined metals, would we be able to tell?

      There’s an idea that they may have been prior civilisations but they will wiped out and never left any evidence. It would certainly explain why humans are so much more intelligent than the rest of the animals. We aren’t actually special at all, we are just the latest iteration of biological inevitability.

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    • a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      New conspiracy theory just dropped. Capitalists killed the dinosaurs to hide what communism can accomplish.

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    • kibiz0r@midwest.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.

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• saimen@feddit.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  What about this?

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