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- 24 Maj 2024
Dinosaur autism, if we all pool together our love for them they may just live again - Just get on the floor, the raptor has already opened the door
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- 10 Sty 2022
I’m hooked on this channel, particularly this series. This single creator has done more to build upon the Jurassic Park cinematic mythos than the total shitfest that is Jurassic World.
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- 16 Gru 2019
Im very excited to discover this thread! Autism incoming:
One thing that I have contemplated on for most of my life is understanding just how many dinosaurs were actually alive at a given time. I really think the populations were much lower than we generally envision. I say this because of the food supply that would have been available for the herbivores.
This especially applies to the large sauropod dinosaurs as a small herd of something the size of Brachiosaurus would consume all plant life within miles just to survive a week. If there were thousands even hundreds of these large animals at one time in a given region, all plant life would be gone and destroyed in a very short time. I really think the food supply alone points to a much smaller overall population than many think.
What are yalls thoughts in this?
One thing that I have contemplated on for most of my life is understanding just how many dinosaurs were actually alive at a given time. I really think the populations were much lower than we generally envision. I say this because of the food supply that would have been available for the herbivores.
This especially applies to the large sauropod dinosaurs as a small herd of something the size of Brachiosaurus would consume all plant life within miles just to survive a week. If there were thousands even hundreds of these large animals at one time in a given region, all plant life would be gone and destroyed in a very short time. I really think the food supply alone points to a much smaller overall population than many think.
What are yalls thoughts in this?
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- 8 Paź 2024
This is an interesting thought and a good point. I don't know much about paleontology, and even less about paleobotany, but weren't most plants back then also a lot bigger? At least at their fully grown size. I wonder if the atmosphere supported faster growth of plants too.
I wouldn't be surprised if herbivores had some kind of multiple-stomach-system like cows and deer do today. So they could theoretically get more nutrients out of the food they ate.
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- 15 Maj 2024
I also think they weren't many around. I remember reading that plants back then were huge because the CO2 levels of the planet were also high, so maybe it was uninhabitable for a lot of things, or maybe the long necks and giant sizes of some dinosaurs had something to do with staying at a certain altitude so they could breathe better.
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- 10 Sty 2022
The world of the Mesozoic was wildly different from ours, especially the climate. It was really hot throughout that entire era, and there were lots of major geological changes over that entire span of time. There were only a few short glacial periods in the span of the late Permian to the Eocene-Oligocene transition, and the Earth was otherwise in a persistent hothouse climate for hundreds of millions of year. Once Pangaea fully broke up in the Early Jurassic, all the conditions for life to thrive were present on Earth.
I could absolutely believe there were significant herds of sauropods roaming the Earth because there would be plenty of predators to challenge their dominance over an ecosystem, especially the egg-eaters. Of course we’ll never really know, especially since fossilization is so rare.
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- 24 Lip 2019
I think that you get caught on dinos at a young age, and that seemed to pass me by.
Paleobiology seems pretty cool.
Paleobiology seems pretty cool.
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- 14 Gru 2022
Anamalacrois is my favorite silly prehistoric creature. They're just so goofy.
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- 24 Maj 2024
Time to give some appreciation for the Dilophosaurus.
They're neat.
They're neat.
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- 21 Kwi 2021
Cryolophosaurus is better.
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- 11 Lut 2017
Cotylorhynchus is a strong competitor. That fucker is a living four legged chungus meme.
Well, not living anymore, but you know.
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- 10 Sty 2022
Azhdarchid pterosaurs are the real deal. Hatzegopteryx is my favorite flying reptile. So brutal to think that once there was an island filled with flying, giraffe-sized monsters that ate anything that moved.
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- 24 Maj 2024
....No.
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- 29 Sty 2021
One thing I like about toucans and hornbills is that they converged on a very similar beak to pterosaurs
Dilophosaurus, Cryolophosaurus, Monolophosaurus and Ceratosaurus are the four great crested kings of the jurassic. Each one with a very different head crest.
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- 24 Maj 2024
I was so disappointed when I was a kid and I read that Dilophosaurus didn't really spit venom.
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- 6 Lut 2023
Iirc the reason why Dilophosaurus was given the venom spitting ability in the Jurassic Park novel is because at the time it was written it was thought that Dilophosaurus had an unusually weak bite force for an apex predator and the venom was Michael Crichton’s way of explaining how it hunted in spite of that limitation. Not sure what the consensus is now.
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- 30 Maj 2024
My favorite prehistoric animal is OP's mom.
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- 19 Lut 2020
Prehistoric Isle 1930 is a cool game because you learn scientific facts about dinosaurs while you play