crocs are still basal enough, they're fairly close to the presumed ancestors of dinosaurs.
birds are too far gone, but convergence could conceivably produce something that looks similar if the environmental pressures were exactly right. It won't happen, because those pressures won't be right, but it could.
If the correct answer is not sufficient no answer can be.
how about maybe they fucked immediately after hatching and then stored sperm for the next 20 years until they were ready to reproduce?
That answer is stupid and wrong, but is it sufficient?
what if they have 30 foot long prehensile penises? Or a pterosaur adapted to feed on sauropod sperm and then spread their semen like pollen to the females? Maybe they walked into lakes and the males spawned like salmon while the females absorbed random lake sperms?
what exactly is sufficient to you, oh crazy person?
If the correct answer is not sufficient no answer can be.
how about maybe they fucked immediately after hatching and then stored sperm for the next 20 years until they were ready to reproduce?
That answer is stupid and wrong, but is it sufficient?
what if they have 30 foot long prehensile penises? Or a pterosaur adapted to feed on sauropod sperm and then spread their semen like pollen to the females? Maybe they walked into lakes and the males spawned like salmon while the females absorbed random lake sperms?
what exactly is sufficient to you, oh crazy person?
my favorite idea is that the males were capable of ejaculating distances of up to a mile with pinpoint accuracy. You know, just shooting females right in the pussy with some high power cum shots.
A hardened plug forms as a spear like tip, encased within a dissolvable sack attached to the spear is 1 gallon of sperm. The male sauropod shoots this Sabot of sperm right in their pussy.
What if the eggs could absorb sperm and the dudes just blasted jizzum all over the eggs. Impregnating them and providing a sticky and protective barrier against giant ants, scavengers, and the elements.
or maybe the males spread sperm as a fine mist into the air like giant cum geysers. The females walked backwards into the cum cloud and absorbed sperm from the air?
so many possibilities
11 months ago
Anonymous
Someone should go on fiver and commision dozens of artists to draw how they think they banged.
https://i.imgur.com/PpZV94H.jpg
Also this dude's mum(
If the correct answer is not sufficient no answer can be.
how about maybe they fucked immediately after hatching and then stored sperm for the next 20 years until they were ready to reproduce?
That answer is stupid and wrong, but is it sufficient?
what if they have 30 foot long prehensile penises? Or a pterosaur adapted to feed on sauropod sperm and then spread their semen like pollen to the females? Maybe they walked into lakes and the males spawned like salmon while the females absorbed random lake sperms?
what exactly is sufficient to you, oh crazy person?
) took me on a hike to this spot and put on a VERY impressive show. It was a wonderful weekend in nature.
11 months ago
Anonymous
Kek'd
11 months ago
Anonymous
The joys of being on an anonymous forum. That weekend with ye mum lives rent free in my head btw.
11 months ago
Anonymous
>That weekend with ye mum lives rent free in my head btw.
she died before you were born, so the mental image is pretty funny to me too.
>the female of the largest mammal species is bigger than the male >the female of the largest fish species is bigger than the male >the female of the largest snake species in bigger than the male
I'm thinking female sauropods were larger than their male counterparts.
Selective pressure made them highly resistant to predation just by being huge and the long neck let them efficiently forage for preferred food without expending extra energy.
No. Eggs have a hard size limit at a little larger than Elephant Bird egg size because of gas permiability issues. But a 100 ton egg layer that lays 10 kilo eggs can lay a LOT of 10 kilo eggs. This is why Sauropod dominated ecologies have so many mega-carnivores able to co-exist, Sauropods were birthed in vast quantity and grew so fast that the land was thick with meat in a way that even people who experienced the American Bison boom of the 18th and 19th centuries would find difficult to comprehend.
Perhaps one in 10,000 grew large enough to be safe from Giganotosaurus and his ilk, but a mature female may have laid 500-1000 eggs per year for decades.
Higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere not only dramatically increased vegetative growth, but the greenhouse effect (I think the average global temperature was nearly 30 Celsius?) created an almost globally perpetual growing. Both of these qualities made unfathomably massive, fast growing, herbivores a viable way of life since they never knew scarcity or famine.
Furthermore, the animal had a couple physiological adaptations that permitted this insane growth. One was it was cold-blooded; gathering ambient temperature to heat and cool it's body, it didn't have to expend calories on heating it's massive body. Sauropods, despite appearances, also had hollow bones like a bird that were filled with air-pockets; making them significantly lighter without compromising strength or durability.
>High CO2 and warming increased plant growth
first time in 15 years I've seen an intelligent answer on this topic here.
if you want to go a bit deeper consider that increased plant productivity due to high CO2 and longer growing season resulted in nutrient dilution, making the plants LESS nutritious per volume despite there being a lot more to eat.
So our sauropods had to eat a lot more plant mass to survive than modern herbivores, meaning they had to get much larger to digest all that less nutritious plant food they were consuming.
>NTA
Would it be possible for Sauropods to have extremely efficient intestines and multiple stomachs to eat less yet accrue more energy? I just got my mind blown by hollow boned Sauropods.
It's hard to tell how efficient they were for sure since all those secrets lie in the meat, and we don't have that. In general, though, efficiency is usually harder than volume and comes after a species has reached the biggest size its niche can support.
pretty much the only thing we know about sauropod digestion is that they had a crop like a bird that was full of rocks to grind up the plants they ate.
also they took massive creamy shits.
how many stomachs they had is unknown, they may have been hindgut fermentators and engaged in coprophagy, or they may have had multiple stomachs for foregut fermentation. They didn't really have the teeth for chewing cud though.
>the greenhouse effect
Foolishness
Earth was inside saturns plasma sheath, warming the planet uniformly and as a byproduct causing earths gravity to be less
Electric universe stuff. Einstein is a hack
You mean the safire project?
Yea they did it, it worked and they are operating under a new name with the same project now
Naturally trying to discuss this with any npc is nearly impossible
Thunderbolts project is still active, great resource
>why was this allowed
The developers realized their mistake and changed the rules though
What modern day reptile can converge on the same evolutionary pathway as archosaurs?
archosaurs probably
birds and crocs are too derived now. none of them would be able to evolve to resemble the most basal archosaurs.
crocs are still basal enough, they're fairly close to the presumed ancestors of dinosaurs.
birds are too far gone, but convergence could conceivably produce something that looks similar if the environmental pressures were exactly right. It won't happen, because those pressures won't be right, but it could.
Can't let those tall tree leaves go uneaten
No one answered my question sufficiently last time. How did these big bitches have sex?
The question was answered almost immediately. Most likely side by side or possibly with some mounting like an elephant.
>sufficiently
If the correct answer is not sufficient no answer can be.
how about maybe they fucked immediately after hatching and then stored sperm for the next 20 years until they were ready to reproduce?
That answer is stupid and wrong, but is it sufficient?
what if they have 30 foot long prehensile penises? Or a pterosaur adapted to feed on sauropod sperm and then spread their semen like pollen to the females? Maybe they walked into lakes and the males spawned like salmon while the females absorbed random lake sperms?
what exactly is sufficient to you, oh crazy person?
Dude, lmao.
Are there fossilized dino dongs?
my favorite idea is that the males were capable of ejaculating distances of up to a mile with pinpoint accuracy. You know, just shooting females right in the pussy with some high power cum shots.
A hardened plug forms as a spear like tip, encased within a dissolvable sack attached to the spear is 1 gallon of sperm. The male sauropod shoots this Sabot of sperm right in their pussy.
What if the eggs could absorb sperm and the dudes just blasted jizzum all over the eggs. Impregnating them and providing a sticky and protective barrier against giant ants, scavengers, and the elements.
kek
or maybe the males spread sperm as a fine mist into the air like giant cum geysers. The females walked backwards into the cum cloud and absorbed sperm from the air?
so many possibilities
Someone should go on fiver and commision dozens of artists to draw how they think they banged.
Also this dude's mum(
) took me on a hike to this spot and put on a VERY impressive show. It was a wonderful weekend in nature.
Kek'd
The joys of being on an anonymous forum. That weekend with ye mum lives rent free in my head btw.
>That weekend with ye mum lives rent free in my head btw.
she died before you were born, so the mental image is pretty funny to me too.
>the female of the largest mammal species is bigger than the male
>the female of the largest fish species is bigger than the male
>the female of the largest snake species in bigger than the male
I'm thinking female sauropods were larger than their male counterparts.
>mfw the male sauropods were real tiny compared to their females and had their dicks on their heads
Selective pressure made them highly resistant to predation just by being huge and the long neck let them efficiently forage for preferred food without expending extra energy.
>just by being huge
were they born that big?
No. Eggs have a hard size limit at a little larger than Elephant Bird egg size because of gas permiability issues. But a 100 ton egg layer that lays 10 kilo eggs can lay a LOT of 10 kilo eggs. This is why Sauropod dominated ecologies have so many mega-carnivores able to co-exist, Sauropods were birthed in vast quantity and grew so fast that the land was thick with meat in a way that even people who experienced the American Bison boom of the 18th and 19th centuries would find difficult to comprehend.
Perhaps one in 10,000 grew large enough to be safe from Giganotosaurus and his ilk, but a mature female may have laid 500-1000 eggs per year for decades.
Imagine the sex (good luck because I can't).
i can only imagine they put their butts together and have weird long prehensile dicks that do the rest
Why is this allowed?
Because pajeet coders are cheaper than human ones.
Literally me
>why was this allowed
Higher carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere not only dramatically increased vegetative growth, but the greenhouse effect (I think the average global temperature was nearly 30 Celsius?) created an almost globally perpetual growing. Both of these qualities made unfathomably massive, fast growing, herbivores a viable way of life since they never knew scarcity or famine.
Furthermore, the animal had a couple physiological adaptations that permitted this insane growth. One was it was cold-blooded; gathering ambient temperature to heat and cool it's body, it didn't have to expend calories on heating it's massive body. Sauropods, despite appearances, also had hollow bones like a bird that were filled with air-pockets; making them significantly lighter without compromising strength or durability.
>High CO2 and warming increased plant growth
first time in 15 years I've seen an intelligent answer on this topic here.
if you want to go a bit deeper consider that increased plant productivity due to high CO2 and longer growing season resulted in nutrient dilution, making the plants LESS nutritious per volume despite there being a lot more to eat.
So our sauropods had to eat a lot more plant mass to survive than modern herbivores, meaning they had to get much larger to digest all that less nutritious plant food they were consuming.
>NTA
Would it be possible for Sauropods to have extremely efficient intestines and multiple stomachs to eat less yet accrue more energy? I just got my mind blown by hollow boned Sauropods.
It's hard to tell how efficient they were for sure since all those secrets lie in the meat, and we don't have that. In general, though, efficiency is usually harder than volume and comes after a species has reached the biggest size its niche can support.
pretty much the only thing we know about sauropod digestion is that they had a crop like a bird that was full of rocks to grind up the plants they ate.
also they took massive creamy shits.
how many stomachs they had is unknown, they may have been hindgut fermentators and engaged in coprophagy, or they may have had multiple stomachs for foregut fermentation. They didn't really have the teeth for chewing cud though.
>the greenhouse effect
Foolishness
Earth was inside saturns plasma sheath, warming the planet uniformly and as a byproduct causing earths gravity to be less
Electric universe stuff. Einstein is a hack
This level of well-poisoning basically proves the electric universe theory is true.
>Electric universe
Thats a concept I haven't heard of in a while. Did they actually went through with their fusion reactor or did they get ninjaed?
You mean the safire project?
Yea they did it, it worked and they are operating under a new name with the same project now
Naturally trying to discuss this with any npc is nearly impossible
Thunderbolts project is still active, great resource
>One was it was cold-blooded
You can't be cold blooded at that size, you can still be ectothermic though.
Back then the atmosphere and biotope were so different it was just another planet.
Why is THIS allowed?
They're aliens, they don't have to abide by Earth rules
there's no evidence these exist
it wasn't. That's why it's extinct.
They were around a lot longer than us
why would something that's cold blooded need an extremely efficient respiratory system?
because you lack reading comprehension
actually it wouldn't need an extremely efficient respiratory system.
that's something only warm blooded, highly active animals need.