Maybe we should ask a dinosaurologist!?
this post was submitted on 26 Mar 2026
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Omg lol. Dinosaur scientists have been extinct for like hundreds of years.
At least!
Well I was born in the 90's and they weren't around then so it tracks.
Hadrosaurus in a Hurricane? T-rex in a Typhoon? Centrosaurus in a cyclone?
In a ~~Norwegian~~ Dutch accent?
Well zhen zhere izh no pleasing you.
Fuck Reddit and Fuck Spez.
Please not actually fuck spez, not need more offspring in world.
Spez ist ein Hurensohn.
....yes. but I also straight up didn't notice this was a screenshot from reddit until I read your comment.
I certainly care about sources, but far less when it comes to shitposting.
I'm a late Lemmy joining only after the blackout cos fuck reddit and fuck spez.
And you know what Lemmy is better.
It never occurred to me that dinosaurs would have to deal with tornados. Huh...weird
Also, imagine all the rainbows and eclipses they got to witness, but their brains were too small to appreciate either.
Well, back then there was more oxygen in the air, which allowed tornados to grow larger.
Nearly all tetrapods have a laryngeal nerve that goes from the brain stem to the larynx, but doesn't go straight for the few inches, instead travelling down the neck to go around the heart. It's a throwback to when we were ocean dwelling and had gills much closer to the heart.
In giraffes this nerve takes a 15 ft detour.
In something like a brachiosaurus which had a neck around 30 ft long, this would be a 60ft detour.
A great proof of evolution, of making do with what is there and adapting.
Brachiosaurus wasnβt a mammal.
Yes but a brachiosaurus is still a fish
Hell yeah, fuck paraphyletic groups.
Correct. I'll change to Tetrapods.
I wasnβt gonna say this but since youβre making changes anyway: the recurrent laryngeal nerve doesnβt go around the heart but around the aortic arch and the great arteries.
Meh, Iβve seen better arteries.
Op... Share the answer as well..
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.
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.
Or what they taste like if you serve them with a side salad
We know for a fact that at least one dinosaur tastes like chicken.
Every dinosaur I've ever eaten has tasted fowl.
Chicken! Maybe turkey, but probably chicken or possibly another game bird, but probably chicken!
If it makes you feel better, you can eat my salad
Nothing stopping you from eating what's left
And people doubt the hypercarnivore theory.
Well, rocks is all that's left
Better set the table, we got work to do
Iβll get the sweet tea.
They've actually started figuring out some colours believe it or not. I'll see if I can dig it up... Edit:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaur_coloration
There's a decent video on that page too.
"dig it up". I see what you did there
Oh I never really thought about the fossil record being sedimentary, this largely aquatic and adjacent environments.
The air was more dense back then. So tornados and hurricanes would have been stronger too.