Why was T. rex such a big guy?

Why was T. rex such a big guy?

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  1. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Dinosaur really peaked in the late Cretaceous
    Too bad about the asteroids

  2. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Oxygen-rich environment + arms race against prey of ever-increasing size which has access to an abundance of food due to greenhouse atmosphere creating megaflora.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >Oxygen-rich environment
      >greenhouse atmosphere
      choose only one

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Both can exist at the same time anon

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          No, it can't. The earth only has a finite amount of oxygen in it, and either all of it is locked up in carbon dixoide or that carbon is buried in the crust and the oxygen can be free to be O2. Combustion engines are literally killing the entire planet.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >The atmosphere of the Earth 80 million years ago was discovered to have 50% more oxygen than modern air. Brenner and Landis found that for all gas samples taken from amber 80 million years old the oxygen content ranged between 25% to 35% and averaged about 30% oxygen. Cretaceous air was supercharged with oxygen.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              I don't give a shit what a bunch of oil company stooges say.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I hate fossil fuel shills but you can't just make shit up.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Nice concern troll, but basic chemistry renders your little "study" moot.

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            No oxygen is related to trees alive at any given era.

            https://i.imgur.com/VjKdN5d.png

            >The atmosphere of the Earth 80 million years ago was discovered to have 50% more oxygen than modern air. Brenner and Landis found that for all gas samples taken from amber 80 million years old the oxygen content ranged between 25% to 35% and averaged about 30% oxygen. Cretaceous air was supercharged with oxygen.

            That's because of giant trees or world trees.

            I hate fossil fuel shills but you can't just make shit up.

            Fossil fuels aren't even harvested from fossils and aren't made from dead dinosaur bodies

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >le devil's tower troother here to tell you about abiotic oil

              [...]

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            There is a shit ton of oxygen available at any time in earths history in the water of the oceans and other mineral deposits. And CO2 is not the only chemistry for greenhouse gasses. If the biosphere generates an excess of methane for instance, you liberate more oxygen and use that leftover hydrogen to make a more potent green house gas. Why are you like this?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Why do you deny the fact that anthropogenic climate change is real?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                I dont't. But what does that have to do with the climate 90 million years ago?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You obviously do since you question the fact that there was the same amount of CO2 and O2 90 million years ago.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                The amount of all the elements, oxygen, carbon, nitrogen etc. is essentially the same since the formation of the earth. But they can be sequestered or free in a gaseous form in different ratios for a number of different reasons. Such as being chemically bound in a solid or liquid or literally just buried underground. The composition and thickness of the atmosphere can vary wildly over the course of millions of years due to random geologic or living processes. It's not like the earth knows there has to be an exact amount of oxygen in the atmosphere and it can only swap o2 for co2 or something. Anthropogenic climate change is not caused by digging up co2, its caused by digging up just carbon. If for example humans decided to refine all the buried iron oxide into steel we would add a bunch of oxygen to the atmosphere but the climate wouldn't cool off. We would still have the same amount of co2 up there. So we would have both a hotter and more oxygen rich atmosphere.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Anthropogenic climate change is not caused by digging up co2, its caused by digging up just carbon.
                Which is burned to produce... CO2. Which removes oxygen from the atmosphere and ties it up with CO2, which heats the Earth at the same time we are literally running out of air we need to breath. There is no efficient way to untangle carbon from oxygen in CO2 without massive amounts of energy that would just put more CO2 back in the atmosphere. You cannot run from this, it is basic chemistry.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You do realize that Co2 in the atmosphere had plummeted to near critical levels over the 500 or so million years of carbon based lifeforms depositing carbon into the earth right?
                300 million year of shellfish extracting carbon from the cycle and depositing it into their shells, which then sink to the bottom of the sea had almost depleted carbon levels to the point where plant life could no longer be supported.
                For every kg of fossil fuels there are ten tonnes of carbon rich limestone in from sea life alone, deposited deep beneath the earth. Blasting that Co2 back into the atmosphere is good for biodiversity on this planet... but because some climatejews wanting return on their renewable tech since we kept on finding new fossil fuels, morons like you are propagandized into believing that the climate ca. 1870 is the not only the best climate, but the only climate allowed.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >no sources
                >all oil company propaganda
                Frick off.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Holy shit, no wonder the world is going to shit if toddlers like these are it's costodians.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                Frick off, you're functionally moronic if you believe that nonsense. Get therapy

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                If it is such nonsense, you should be able to easily refute any of the points being made.
                Has carbon not been lost from the system due to carbon based sea life over hundreds of millions of years?
                Is it false that plants do better if the atmosphere has carbon levels 2-3 times higher than today?
                Why is it true and good to claim that an arbitary point in recent history is the correct and "normal" climate levels?

                Go on then, should be easy for you to dismiss my concerns off the top of your heads since it is such nonsense.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >stop asking me for sources!
                shut up moron lmao, your entire personality is edgy contrarian and nothing more.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >your entire personality is edgy contrarian and nothing more
                YES
                What now ?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                He's right. Why does only 1850 have the "correct" climate? Noone can ever answer this question.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                because that climate is the one we survive best in moron

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >I LOVE BEING TOLD WHAT TO BELIEVE!

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You refuse to engage, you've been trained to disagree and hate those who stray from the narrative, that you are good to believe in it and those that don't are bad and you're not only allowed, but a virtious person to dislike them.
                You have been propagandized into, well an NPC. If you harbor a singular independant thought and your world view is indeed correct, you should be able to dispell my points off hand.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                He's right. Why does only 1850 have the "correct" climate? Noone can ever answer this question.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                When do the seas boil?

                because that climate is the one we survive best in moron

                This isn't even correct. Humans are tropical primates and survive best in tropical climates. So does most of the rest of life on Earth. Imagine wrecking the entire fricking world for polar bears and capitalism. God damn, moderns are sickening subhumans.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >Humans are tropical primates and survive best in tropical climates.
                Not really. Humans really do best in grasslands, savanna, and tundra. "Tropical" would imply something more heavily forested, which Humans do not dislike but will actively destroy in order to create its preferred biome.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >grasslands, savanna
                >these can't be tropical
                Why is every redditard so low information?

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >"Tropical" would imply something more heavily forested
                READ, homie, READ
                And "tropical" would also imply we thrive in only warm climates, when we ALSO thrive in cold ones. The one uniting factor between savanna and tundra? GRASSLAND.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                >tropical means "forest"

                Black person, nobody "thrives" in cold climates except Euphausia and the whales that eat them.

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                What is photosynthesis

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        >During the Cretaceous period some 100 million years ago, Earth was a greenhouse. There were no ice caps and sea level was up to 200 m higher than it is now, flooding large portions of continents and creating inland lakes and seas.
        >Rising carbon dioxide resulted in a significant increase in the greenhouse effect, leading to elevated global temperatures.
        >The Cretaceous Thermal Maximum was one of the most extreme disruptions of the carbon cycle in the past 100 million years.
        >It represented one of the most prominent peaks in the global temperature record of the Phanerozoic eon (last 538,000,000 years).

  3. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    GOD created them that way. Read the Bible and be saved by CHRIST.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      But what were his intentions when he did it?

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Mentally ill morons not welcome

      Go spend your welfare check on more schizo ads for me to block

  4. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Short guys don't get pussy. Be big to breed.

  5. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    uuuu

  6. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    I'm guessing they use that bulk to push rivals around. While allosaurids have strong forelimbs that they can use to "grapple" like komodos, T. rex just opted for weight.

    I think they got fat as they get older, and as sub-adults they're more agile.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      >I think they got fat as they get older, and as sub-adults they're more agile.
      Isn't this an actually known fact?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        What does it look like?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          Well it didn't look upside down, that's for sure.

  7. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    >2 different human skeletons
    Umm, sweaty, that's not very progressive of you

  8. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    american dinosaur

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      This. Ate all the other dinosaurs, causing the end Cretaceous extinction.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      https://i.imgur.com/h0YxrGx.jpg

      I'm guessing they use that bulk to push rivals around. While allosaurids have strong forelimbs that they can use to "grapple" like komodos, T. rex just opted for weight.

      I think they got fat as they get older, and as sub-adults they're more agile.

      I'm an American Dinosaur, so I’d just absorb it with my fat and muscle density caused by carrying all of my fat. Slowly, I would waddle towards you, my mutt genes desensitizing me to pain as you furiously flail your underfed claws into a gut rendered impervious as Ankylosaurus hide by a steady diet of Papa Jobaria’s and Argentinosaurus. With a roar to my Velociraptor, Spinosaur, and Nigersaurus ancestors I would turn my swollen neck skyward, and spread my hand nubs wide, the wall hitting your back as you shriek in sudden fear and realization before I grab you in the patented ‘Lagarto De Las Americanos Hug’ and stuff you headfirst into my drooling maw, biting down on your thin neck and shaking my head like a small mammal to end your suffering-filled existence. Then I would bread you, fry you, and consume you like a family sized bucket of tasty Kentucky Fried Cearadactylus.

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        Is this AI? What the frick is going on with those hands?

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It's obviously AI because the hands are fricked up and you can see the incomprehensible remains of a signature

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            >go to google
            >type in "nesmly t-rex art"
            >first result
            https://www.creativefabrica.com/de/product/t-rex-4th-of-july-3/
            Yes, it's AI, but the signature is real.

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              >unironically signing AI pictures

  9. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    Because T. rex was literally a spin off of a primitive bird and they get like that sometimes

    Or more accurately, birds a small theropod dinosaur, and the term "bird" being its own thing is an artifact of a primitive culture without an understanding of phylogenetics (like calling dolphins fish).

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      I genuinely LOVE how hard you try to derail dino threads. Not even one mention was made about birds and here you are trying to stir up shit with "UhM Tee Racks wuz actually a bird!!!! ". Anyways, here's your free (You) since you're so hungry for it.
      Birds ARE therapods though btw <3

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      my mans that is a chocobo

  10. 10 months ago
    Anonymous

    for you

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      Why does he wear the feathers ?

      • 10 months ago
        Anonymous

        If i pluck these off will you die

        • 10 months ago
          Anonymous

          It would be extremely painful

          • 10 months ago
            Anonymous

            Was getting extinct part of your plan?

            • 10 months ago
              Anonymous

              Of course!

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                You're a big bird

              • 10 months ago
                Anonymous

                (F)il(o)plume and b(r)istle feathers (you)

  11. 10 months ago
    Anonymous
    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      they come from a SLAMMED blood line

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      trianglemaxxing for sauropod hunting

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      That is significantly exaggerated.

    • 10 months ago
      Anonymous

      big lad

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