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Post by ornitholestes on Jan 6, 2015 15:20:11 GMT
A wider (and proportionately shorter) torso is also stiffer by itself. Either way, the excess muscle power the animal could actually use wouldn’t have been greater, what musculature does in the torso (all the more the bulkier and more rigid it is) is bear the torso’s weight, not manipulate anything or serve for locomotion.
Mass concentrated away from the torso (limbs, neck, tail) is much more relevant for strenght, making this "bulky body=stronger" assumption a myth. In two animals of equal weight, a bulkier torso is, if anything a disadvantage for actual strenght because it means more mass is where it can’t be used.
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Post by Gojira5000 on Jan 6, 2015 21:38:05 GMT
The theory that Sinornithosaurus had venom is pretty awful.
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Post by Angilasuruda on Jan 7, 2015 13:14:09 GMT
The theory that Sinornithosaurus had venom is pretty awful. Unless I haven't researched hard enough about this thing, the thing that I have to say is, We or I don't know if Sinornithosaurus had venom or not
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Post by Gojira5000 on Jan 7, 2015 20:43:26 GMT
The theory that Sinornithosaurus had venom is pretty awful. Unless I haven't researched hard enough about this thing, the thing that I have to say is, We or I don't know if Sinornithosaurus had venom or not To my recollection, no hard evidence exists to suggest that Sinornithosaurus had venom; the teeth that Gong and his team used to suggest the idea were most likely pushed out of their sockets (a common preservation artifact in crushed and flattened fossils) and the grooves did not automatically mean venom production, as many theropods had grooved teeth. They also could not identify anything in the skull that would suggest any amount of venom glands, only the normal sinuses of the skull. Gong and his team's reassessment says they have fully articulated skeletons with the large teeth they said it had, but without any images it's impossible to know if they were actually as large as Gong and his team say or if they are in fact a result of post-mortem crushing and flattening. Basically, it's doubtful that Sinornithosaurus had venom, especially since no other maniraptoran does and it lacks the telltale signs of a venomous animal (spaces in the skull for venom glands).
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Post by Theropod on Jan 9, 2015 14:27:10 GMT
The theory that Sinornithosaurus had venom is pretty awful. Unless I haven't researched hard enough about this thing, the thing that I have to say is, We or I don't know if Sinornithosaurus had venom or not That is almost the very reason why the theory sucks
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Post by Rexog on Jan 13, 2015 17:30:10 GMT
7. The Oviraptor that Kidnapped its Own Eggs It is not actually ridiculous, it is an undestandable mistake, or maybe not even a mistake. I Dinosaur Planet, they show that Oviraptors was herbivore, but they stole eggs from other dinosaurus' eggs when it had the opportunity. I just hope I am not misinformed.
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Post by Rexog on Jan 13, 2015 17:36:45 GMT
ornitholestesI agree, although figures like 12 tons for Triceratops horridus would probably make it not that fast in comparison to other ceratopsians, but still potentially fast. Maybe so fast as a hippo, it's legs are so short proportionally, but they can run faster a human, aorund 40km/h. I wonder why humans are surpassed on speed by so many species.
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Post by es1001 on Jan 14, 2015 12:52:28 GMT
ornitholestesI agree, although figures like 12 tons for Triceratops horridus would probably make it not that fast in comparison to other ceratopsians, but still potentially fast. Maybe so fast as a hippo, it's legs are so short proportionally, but they can run faster a human, aorund 40km/h. I wonder why humans are surpassed on speed by so many species. Our body structure seems designed for long distance running, not very fast short sprints.
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Post by Ausar on Jul 20, 2016 22:37:46 GMT
The idea that Tyrannosaurus was anywhere near as slow, if not slower than an elephant is ridiculous. As is the idea that Saturn used to hover over the North Pole and allowed dinosaurs to get large by reducing Earth's gravity.
Edit: by extension, the idea that Tyrannosaurus was slower than sympatric ceratopsians and hadrosaurs (or even ankylosaurs!) is also laughable.
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