Submitted 2 weeks ago by mmmm@sopuli.xyz to science_memes@mander.xyz
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since nobody actually has an explanation yet I’ll give my extremely unqualified one (aka, I was sent a tiktok like 2 weeks ago)
Basically they saw big T-rexes and little ones. They assumed the little ones were babies, but now new evidence has shown that they might not be related and they’re just a similar looking dinosower
no idea what the third version is, the tiktok didn’t go over that one 🤷♀️
I’ll let someone from !science_memes@mander.xyz with more experience correct me lol
This makes a lot of sense. Taxonomists have a difficult job organizing fossils. Its why there’s like 7 definitions of species.
Also evolution (common genetic pool) and ecology (common niche, environmental pressures and behaviour).
Dibs on not being the butt muncher
Dibs on being the middle one. Eating ass AND having my ass eaten? Don't threaten me with a good time!
This person gets it.
It’s better than three trench coats in a dinosaur.
RIP Neo, Columbo, and Inspector Gadget.
The size of Mike’s ass seems pretty variable lately.
One’s on the bottom, strong is he
Two’s in the middle, carrying Three
Three’s pretending not to be
3 dinos in a trench coat!
"Think Vincent Adultman, but a t-rex!"
The dino centipede
The dinopede.
With this drawing the tiny arms make so much more sense now.
dinosaur centipede
I like that they got up from their bed, took out a peace of paper or opened up krita, and drew it. Then polished it. Then sent to their phone via photo or email because plugging cable to pc and transferring is unironically slower due to the way android hides their file-system, and posted it.
I would have scanned it on the flatbed scanner hooked up to my desktop. Get off my lawn.
Some power rangers Jurassic Park cross-over?
What’s this …the Jurassic centipede?
Reads like devil man crybaby
Aren’t all the good ones once you take the trench-coat off?
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
I mean, probably happens a lot that the bones of different dinosaurs end up next to each other.
Would it happen for every T-Rex fossil in the same way? Well, less likely…
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net 2 weeks ago
I’m assuming the research more meant that there were 3 cryptic species lumped into what we today call t-rex
Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 weeks ago
Oh yeah, that was my assumption, for sure, too. I was just playing devil’s advocate for the trenchcoat theory, because it’s funny.