• frog@feddit.uk
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    If humans and dinosaurs existed at the same time, would they drive dinosaurs to extinction like humans did to almost every large land animal ever?

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        Man I wanna see that youtube dog grooming lady bathe a velociraptor. Bet they would look very cute in a happy hoodie while being blow-dried 🥺

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          The Juasic Park movies were complete wrong with the Velociraptors size, they were only right that they were smart and social animals, hunting in groups like wolfs. It was a misunderstanding, because the paleontologist, asked by the size, said 6 ft, but they meant from the head to the tip of the tail, not the height of the animal, like in the movie, which were not bigger than a turkey.

          Same as with the T-Rex following the car in the movie, the T-Rex couldn’t run so fast, the biomechanic calculation and the weight has shown, that the max speed of the T-Rex couldn’t have been more than ~15-20 kmh, he was probably more of a scavenger than a hunter.

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            Turkey-sized is totally fine with me, they make teeny tiny happy hoodies!

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      Some herbivores might have survived as domesticated livestock.

      Though if they tasted like chicken, all bets are off. We’d probably do to the poor bastards what we did to silphium.

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      Dinosaurs had tons of different sizes and niches. We didn’t extinct literally all megafauna - bears, elk, ostriches (literal dinosaur!) still exist and are so common that they’re often nuisances.

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      Unless some of 'em were smarter than us or they could out-reproduce our appetite, I would reckon so.

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    8 days ago

    Fun fact, this is why geese are so mad all the time.

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    Fuck this. I want to be primordial soup again.