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What Was It Like to Be a Dinosaur? (www.scientificamerican.com)

submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by storksforlegs@beehaw.org to c/science@beehaw.org

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[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "was"? RAAAWR!

[–] HumanPenguin 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RAAAWR

More like "buck bawk" peck peck

[–] mox@lemmy.sdf.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who's to say I'm not a corvid imitating a human imitating a t-rex?

[–] apis@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago

Yer a pterodactyl, Mox. A pterodactyl.

[–] hedge@beehaw.org 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A life that was probably "nasty, brutish, and short" would be my guess.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 6 points 2 months ago

Some of them must have been fairly long lived - they couldn't have grown that large in just a few years. Several species of whale live over a 100 years. And then we have the Greenland shark living possibly up to 500 years and although not massive, their ancestors must have done something right as their descendants are still here over 400 million years later. Or perhaps they were just very good at hiding.

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I don't see why it would be any worse than the average mammal life.

[–] averyminya@beehaw.org 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or a crocodile

[–] CanadaPlus@lemmy.sdf.org 3 points 2 months ago

Or a modern bird, at that rate.