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Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:47 am to RedRifle
too big to fit Noah's ark
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:48 am to RedRifle
Sounds pretty weird:
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But its enormous bulk also had a downside. Based on the width and strength of its skeleton, toppling over would likely spell death for such a heavy animal. “If you look at its really big ribs, there's no way they're going to withstand 65 tons of weight on top of them,” he said. “It would have been a catastrophic event in the life of a Dreadnoughtus if it fell over.”
However, it probably didn't do much walking around since its 37-foot-long neck could already provide access to a wide bounty of vegetation.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:48 am to RedRifle
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:48 am to RedRifle
Maybe it was a Brachiosaurus with Gigantisism
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:49 am to KingRanch
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Y'all think dinosaurs would have been good table fare?
There was a thing about a wooly mammoth they found frozen in Siberia a few years ago. They got hair and DNA samples, and they researchers said they couldn't resist tasting/eating a small amount of meat.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:49 am to TigerinATL
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No wonder Pangea broke apart.
Too soon.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:50 am to USMCTiger03
What! So it just laid there and ate!
This makes no sense.
This makes no sense.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:50 am to RedRifle
dat tibia
This post was edited on 9/4/14 at 9:51 am
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:53 am to Sir Drinksalot
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What! So it just laid there and ate!
This makes no sense.
Nah, it just didn't have to do too much walking around. Slow grazing, like that person in the buffet line with tennis balls on the bottom of their walker.
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:55 am to LSUBoo
I say these scientists are either
A. Full of shite
B. Are wrong about this animal
A gigantic dinosaur that could barely walk and died if it fell over seems not real to me
A. Full of shite
B. Are wrong about this animal
A gigantic dinosaur that could barely walk and died if it fell over seems not real to me
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:55 am to Phil A Sheo
Where does Kate Upton come in on this chart?
This post was edited on 9/4/14 at 9:56 am
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:57 am to RedRifle
I'm confused:
This 65 ton beast had a head the size of a horse's??
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Typically these long-necked, long-tailed dinosaurs (called sauropods) have tiny skulls, so those bones tend not to survive. For instance, Dreadnought's was probably about the size of a horse's head.
This 65 ton beast had a head the size of a horse's??
This post was edited on 9/4/14 at 9:58 am
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:59 am to RedRifle
the blue whale laughs at 65 tons
Posted on 9/4/14 at 9:59 am to Tiger1242
Well this dinosaur died due to getting caught in quick sand. Which is why it was preserved so well. And because it is so well-preserved, they have determined the size/weight. Due to the size it doesn't seem like a stretch to assume that it didn't move around that much. 
Posted on 9/4/14 at 10:01 am to When in Rome
What they're describing just makes no sense from a evolutionary stand point. What is the advantage of being built so that you can barely move?
Posted on 9/4/14 at 10:01 am to Bleeding purple
they couldn't have come up with a better name than dreadnuts?
Posted on 9/4/14 at 10:02 am to GEAUXT
Posted on 9/4/14 at 10:02 am to KingRanch
quote:
Y'all think dinosaurs would have been good table fare?
only in sushi roll style
Posted on 9/4/14 at 10:04 am to Tiger1242
From an evolutionary standpoint? Its size allowed it to easily ward off predators and it could survive on vegetation with it's 37 ft long neck. Genetic mutations cause the size, and its size then allows it to survive.
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