Bones and tendon attachment points give us a clue as to their weight. Plus, no escaping the square cube law, they could only be so massive.
Earth seems to have topped out with the Blue Whale. Guessing the fatty pictured would mass more and not have the benefit of being suspended in water. :)
Maybe the asteroid impact actually changed the rotational speed of the planet and increased gravity. There, I just created a new theory.
What a shitty way to go that would have been for the dinosaurs and any other giant species. Imagine some ELE hitting humankind but sparing all the little people.
The current difference in apparent gravity between the equator and the poles is about 0.3%.
I think the centrifugal effect squares with angular velocity (plus the bulge of the earth would make the distance from the center of gravity ever so slightly larger), so maybe doubling the rotation speed would bring it up to 1.2%.
So maybe a measureable effect but probably not enough to actually overcome the biological limits on size/mass/weight.
You created a new hypothesis
Dinosaurs were pretty big already … but if this possible … they would have been honkin big!!!
There are almost certainly errors like this in current artists’ depictions. The penguin isnt the only skeleton that doesn’t look like the animal while alive.
Hippo skulls are wild without the rest of the hippo around it!
Also elephants, the trunk has no bones in it so it’s just a hole in the skull, I’m sure future generations will portray it but the single giant eye.
But honestly pretty much no animal looks the same as its skeleton because every animal has a lot of fat and connective tissue which just doesn’t get preserved. Really the only animal that looks the same as a skeleton as it does when it’s alive is the frog.
There’s theories that the Cyclops myth came about from ancient people’s finding fossil elephant skulls from the period where European Elephants were a species
(They went extinct in Europe 50,000-10,000 years ago)
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Its easier for the penguin to support the extra weight, but the dinosaur couldn’t lift their head.
I have a coworker who used this very meme to argue dinosaurs don’t exist.
Fairly relevant video from Your Dinosaurs Are Wrong: Air Hulks.
Fuck, now I can’t unconsider it.
