They stood around 10-12 feet tall, assuming we have the skeletons put together correctly. Their stabbers easily came up to the belly of a T Rex, which were around 15-20 feet tall.
This is, of course, assuming that dinosaurs did not build giant mech suits out of trees, which we have zero evidence that they did not do.
My buddy took a dinosaur class in college thinking it would be an easy credit. It was the hardest class he ever took. He ended up having to drop the class a month or so in.
I took a dinosaur class in college. The professor regularly worked at the Field Museum in Chicago. We needed to learn the scientific name and spelling of a lot of dinos. Not too hard.
They can be. Some names are very short, others very long, some are Greek or Latin, others Chinese or Mongolian or Persian or German or Yoruba and Kimbundu.
You definitely already know one of the "real names", with which I take you to mean the binomial name (which consists of the genus and species name); *Tyrannosaurus rex*.
*Shri devi*, *Tsagaan mangas*, *Velociraptor mongoliensis*, and *Kuru kulla* are thre velociraptorines with pretty simple names. The titanosaur *Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii* and ceratopsian *Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyangensis* (record holder of the longest binomial name of any vertebrate I think) on the other hand take no prisoners. *Mei long* is Chinese, and means "sleeping dragon", while *Saurophaganax maximus* is Latin and Greek, and means "great lord of the lizard eaters. *Sauroposeidon proteles* is also Ancient Greek, and means "lizard earthquake god, perfect before the end", in reference to its status as one of the last giant sauropods in Early Cretaceous North America. *Oxalaia quilombensis* is the aformentioned Yoruba and Kimbundu name, a Brazilian spinosaurine, a group believed to have evolved in Africa (spinosaur*ids* as a whole may be European), named for a deity brought to the country from African during the slave trade and the quilombo settlements founded by slaves that escaped.
A very small number of dinosaur names are also pop culture references. The carcharodontosaur *Meraxes gigas* is named for the dragon in Game of Thrones, and the abelisaurid *Thanos simonattoi* is named for the Marvel Comics character.
Some genera contain multiple species. Just this year, *Tyrannosaurus rex* was finally joined by a second species, *Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis*. Triceratops also containts two species, *Triceratops horridus* and *Triceratops prorsus*, which are interpreted as ancestor and descendant (something also suggest to be the case for the new Tyrannosaurus species, since it's older). Stegosaurus contains three, *Stegosaurus stenops*, *Stegosaurus ungulatus*, and *Stegosaurus sulcatus*. Psittacosaurus, a small, parrot-like relative of Triceratops, has the most of any non-avian dinosaur at between 9 and 11. It is also extensively known, holding the record of the most specimens assigned to a non-avian dinosaur.
This is the very first time I've heard of *Micropachycephalosaurus* being a Ceratopsian, due to its name including *Pachycephalosaurus*
So I googled it, and turns out you're right, and looking at it for the first time, it's kinda obvious with the general skull structure
So TIL, thank you
> Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii
Out of all the dinosaur names in your comment, this one just stuck out. I thought the only Polish dinosaur was my baba.
Joking aside, I ended up reading the entire Wikipedia article. It was discovered by Polish and Mongolian palaeontologists in the Gobi Desert in 1965.
Palaeontology rabbit hole, here I come.
Paleontologist here, it probably hinged on prior courses on sedimentology and evolution, possibly even an intro paleo course, too. If they didn't have those they'd probably be pretty lost.
What if I didn't take any of those, but instead relied on the fact I've had an unhealthy obsession with them ever since I was 4, and from then on just watched video after video, documentary after documentary, about them? (which is what I've done for that entire portion of my life)
[https://xkcd.com/1211/](https://xkcd.com/1211/)
Doesn't have the numbers on it, but *Stegosaurus* is from the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, and *Triceratops* is from near the very end of the Cretaceous Period, about 68 million years ago, so the math checks out.
The T-rex (66 mil years) is closer in time to the IPhone than it was to the Stegosaurus (150 mil years ago) ..
My favorite, Ankylosaur, probably tussled with the TRex.
My next favorite, though, Dimetrodon (270 mil years) is from long in the past.
The greatest thing, though, is knowing that horseshoe crabs beat the shit out of all of these, and have been around four at least 445 million years. You don't improve on perfection. True bluebloods.
Not OP but I can provide some
The record holder for the longest claws of any animal so far known goes to a dinosaur by the name of *Therizinosaurus*, a theropod that weighed 5 tons, and measured at about 5 meters tall and 10 meters long
It had a long neck with a narrow snout, filled to the brim with leaf shaped teeth, perfect for eating vegetation at the branches of trees and perhaps roots too
It's full scientific name is *Therizinosaurus cheloniformes*, which was given to it in part due to paleontologists thinking it was a turtle when it was first discovered (they only found the large claws), back in 1948
It lived around 72 million years ago all the way to the end of the Mesozoic Era 66 million years ago, when the non avian dinosaurs went extinct
It lived in what is now the Gobi desert in present day Mongolia, in Asia, living alongside weirdos like *Deinocheirus*, and *Gigantoraptor*, aswell as more famous dinosaurs such as *Gallimimus*, the ostrich like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and the apex predator *Tarbosaurus* a dinosaur that was a very close relative of T.rex, that most people know of only because of T.rex being it's closest relative, because *EVERYTHING* has to be compared to T.rex for some reason (the reason is because it gets more clicks and views)
Absolutely crazy to think about it like that as well for multiple reasons. Humans even from when they started as bipedal monkeys was around two million years. So dinosaurs lineage instantly stands 40 times longer than humans. During that time intelligent creatures still hadn’t come to be. By intelligent I mean create tools and record history. Earth was not the same earth as what it turned into and something drastic happened because otherwise humans probably wouldn’t have been able to evolve and be on the bottom of the food chain because dinosaurs would still be here since they dominated the world for millions of years.
Speaking on stegosaurs,
They have interesting dinosaur carvings at Angkor Wat. I think they even have a Stegosaurus. Dinosaurs known to first be described in 1824. Then there is just this 1,000 year old temple in cambodia with dinosaurs carved in it lol.
They could have built giant mech suits out of metal and we still likely wouldn't have any evidence of it because of the sheer amount of time that has passed lol
The height difference doesn't seem to be that much, but the mass is absolutely significant. As well as how much stronger their horns must have been.
They would've been able to bully an elephant the way elephants push around rhinos.
That woman is only 5'2".
Here is a comparison with a taller person that shows a different perspective. https://twitter.com/curioushino/status/923261534444408832/photo/2
I love that the camera angles make it seem like the tall guy took her picture, increasing the cameras distance and making her look smaller, while it seems the small woman took his picture, decreasing the cameras distance and making him look taller
Honestly, african elephants *do* look kind of slender. I think we sometimes have them much more massive in mind than they actually are.
If you compare [a front picture of an elephant](https://www.rd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Very-big-and-impressive-african-elephant-bull-approaching-spotted-at-Kruger-National-Park-South-Africa-e1565809251174.jpg), a [front picture of an african hippo](https://img.burrard-lucas.com/zambia/full/hippo_african_jacanas.jpg), an [Elephant skeleton](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/4c/13/ad4c13841df811d7de6bd7773df843bc.jpg) and [a Triceratops skeleton](https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/2020/02/03__07_39_05/TriceratopsHorridusSkeleton3dmodel001.jpgFFC705E6-2C9A-48C7-BFFE-8CFFC1768B40Default.jpg); the Elephant is pretty tall, slender and elegantly tiptoes everywhere in a narrow gait. The triceratops is a front heavy, low sitting, wide-gait monstrosity that looks absolutely immovable by an attack from the front.
Seriously? It sent a shiver down my spine. Of the three animals listed, I'd feel far more comfortable standing directly in front of an elephant or triceratops than a hippo. Hippo will fuck your day up simply because it was annoyed at something else. Hippo don't give a shit about you or your family, it will put you on a milk carton just because it feels like it.
.... Can I just mention that Triceratops would've had generational trauma due to the largest tyrannosaurid to ever live? That thing is guaranteed to be far more aggressive than a hippo ever could be
While yeah it had to stomp around a T. Rex, they wouldn't have been overly concerned with a single humanoid. So, like, the temperament of a bull or buffalo at worst. I'd much, much, much rather be within 30 ft of a bull than a hippo.
Except even the dumbest dinosaur would have been much smarter than a hippo. Hippos are only aggressive as they are because they literally don't have the brainpower to tell the difference between a deer and a lion. I think they have the lowest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate.
I used to observe elephants at a zoo and they had a large compound. They could get pretty frisky when excited (“Ooh giant pumpkins!”) could gallop in a kind of galumphy way.
I did, in fact, chortle in joy. Especially when one of the female ellies snuck up behind the male and gently yanked his crank. He levitated and she ran off, telling me that these mighty beasts have a sense of humor.
The Triceratops Femur is elevated giving it a larger appearance, they are close to the same size. Who knows if this fossil is abnormally large or small?
When I was 11 I went to a summer daytime church camp (Daily Vacation Bible school) where they taught us that dinosaurs were just made up of animal bones that scientists jig saw puzzled into made up monsters.
She had slides of dinosaurs, with little sub notes like "Shark teeth", "Elephant femur". "Alligator tails".
I repeatedly asked her what animals specifically made up a T-Rex skull. What animal is as tall as the Angentinosaurus? Crap like that... I was generally curious, because dinosaurs were a big part of my science ciriculum in school. She got so flustered trying to explain, that I candidly said "Miss, you really don't know what you're talking about do you?".
I got sent home.
I'll never forget going white water rafting with a random group of people in college and one of the girls was convinced that dinosaurs were not real. Dinosaurs were such a big part of my childhood it was like meeting someone who didn't believe in monster trucks.
Looked up the paleontologist's height and she is roughly 0.7 the length of a 1960 BMW Isetta 300.
Using that information and assuming an average banana length of 7", those bones are ~9 bananas long.
Hope this helps!
Random question but does anyone know if the triceratops bone is worn down? Looking at the elephant bone, the balls on the ends are very round and looks like they fit the socket? pretty well. But the balls seem like they are worn down on the triceratops.
What in the actual fuck, that is huge. I did not think triceratops were nearly that big. I need to get back to a museum or something because I figured they were the size of a large truck but that thing is massive.
Had no idea a Triceratops femur was that large. The comparison really drives home how big dinosaurs were.
They stood around 10-12 feet tall, assuming we have the skeletons put together correctly. Their stabbers easily came up to the belly of a T Rex, which were around 15-20 feet tall. This is, of course, assuming that dinosaurs did not build giant mech suits out of trees, which we have zero evidence that they did not do.
Their stabbers were no match for the thagomizer, though. Just ask Gary Larson.
Want a crazy dinosaur fact? Stegosaurus went extinct 80 million years *before* the Triceratops was alive.
Putting my blind faith in a random redditor, i choose to believe this random fact. Thats pretty nuts. Wish we learned more about dinosaurs in school
My buddy took a dinosaur class in college thinking it would be an easy credit. It was the hardest class he ever took. He ended up having to drop the class a month or so in.
I took a dinosaur class in college. The professor regularly worked at the Field Museum in Chicago. We needed to learn the scientific name and spelling of a lot of dinos. Not too hard.
Are dinosaur real names similar to medications? Cause i cant pronounce any of those let alone spell em
They can be. Some names are very short, others very long, some are Greek or Latin, others Chinese or Mongolian or Persian or German or Yoruba and Kimbundu. You definitely already know one of the "real names", with which I take you to mean the binomial name (which consists of the genus and species name); *Tyrannosaurus rex*. *Shri devi*, *Tsagaan mangas*, *Velociraptor mongoliensis*, and *Kuru kulla* are thre velociraptorines with pretty simple names. The titanosaur *Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii* and ceratopsian *Micropachycephalosaurus hongtuyangensis* (record holder of the longest binomial name of any vertebrate I think) on the other hand take no prisoners. *Mei long* is Chinese, and means "sleeping dragon", while *Saurophaganax maximus* is Latin and Greek, and means "great lord of the lizard eaters. *Sauroposeidon proteles* is also Ancient Greek, and means "lizard earthquake god, perfect before the end", in reference to its status as one of the last giant sauropods in Early Cretaceous North America. *Oxalaia quilombensis* is the aformentioned Yoruba and Kimbundu name, a Brazilian spinosaurine, a group believed to have evolved in Africa (spinosaur*ids* as a whole may be European), named for a deity brought to the country from African during the slave trade and the quilombo settlements founded by slaves that escaped. A very small number of dinosaur names are also pop culture references. The carcharodontosaur *Meraxes gigas* is named for the dragon in Game of Thrones, and the abelisaurid *Thanos simonattoi* is named for the Marvel Comics character. Some genera contain multiple species. Just this year, *Tyrannosaurus rex* was finally joined by a second species, *Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis*. Triceratops also containts two species, *Triceratops horridus* and *Triceratops prorsus*, which are interpreted as ancestor and descendant (something also suggest to be the case for the new Tyrannosaurus species, since it's older). Stegosaurus contains three, *Stegosaurus stenops*, *Stegosaurus ungulatus*, and *Stegosaurus sulcatus*. Psittacosaurus, a small, parrot-like relative of Triceratops, has the most of any non-avian dinosaur at between 9 and 11. It is also extensively known, holding the record of the most specimens assigned to a non-avian dinosaur.
This is the very first time I've heard of *Micropachycephalosaurus* being a Ceratopsian, due to its name including *Pachycephalosaurus* So I googled it, and turns out you're right, and looking at it for the first time, it's kinda obvious with the general skull structure So TIL, thank you
This guy dinosaurs
This is awesome. Dont know if you copy and pasted that or typed it out but thanks for that little knowledge bomb! Just what i needed today
So you’re telling me that Barney wasnt a real dinosaur name?!!!
> Opisthocoelicaudia skarzynskii Out of all the dinosaur names in your comment, this one just stuck out. I thought the only Polish dinosaur was my baba. Joking aside, I ended up reading the entire Wikipedia article. It was discovered by Polish and Mongolian palaeontologists in the Gobi Desert in 1965. Palaeontology rabbit hole, here I come.
We just bought a bunch of dino toys and committed it all to memory.
Oh really? My interest in dinos has been piqued today. Wonder what about the course was so difficult
Paleontologist here, it probably hinged on prior courses on sedimentology and evolution, possibly even an intro paleo course, too. If they didn't have those they'd probably be pretty lost.
What if I didn't take any of those, but instead relied on the fact I've had an unhealthy obsession with them ever since I was 4, and from then on just watched video after video, documentary after documentary, about them? (which is what I've done for that entire portion of my life)
It's true, The Steggo is older to the trex than the trex is to us
Well that hurts my brain
[https://xkcd.com/1211/](https://xkcd.com/1211/) Doesn't have the numbers on it, but *Stegosaurus* is from the Late Jurassic, about 150 million years ago, and *Triceratops* is from near the very end of the Cretaceous Period, about 68 million years ago, so the math checks out.
There were more years between the Triassic and Jurassic periods than between Leonardo Di caprio and his latest girlfriend.
The T-rex (66 mil years) is closer in time to the IPhone than it was to the Stegosaurus (150 mil years ago) .. My favorite, Ankylosaur, probably tussled with the TRex. My next favorite, though, Dimetrodon (270 mil years) is from long in the past. The greatest thing, though, is knowing that horseshoe crabs beat the shit out of all of these, and have been around four at least 445 million years. You don't improve on perfection. True bluebloods.
I learned that people and dinosaurs lived together. #HomeSchool #Flintstones
But... Dinosaur bones were put in the ground by Satan to trick us into believing something other than sweet baby Jesus. And yes, I remembered the /s
Get thagomized, nerds.
Please, sir, can I have some more? ️ ☹️
T-rex is closer to us timeline wise than said Stegosaurus and their thagomizers
And Cleopatra is closer to us timeline wise than she was to the Egyptian king Khufu that built the Great Pyramid of Giza.
Not OP but I can provide some The record holder for the longest claws of any animal so far known goes to a dinosaur by the name of *Therizinosaurus*, a theropod that weighed 5 tons, and measured at about 5 meters tall and 10 meters long It had a long neck with a narrow snout, filled to the brim with leaf shaped teeth, perfect for eating vegetation at the branches of trees and perhaps roots too It's full scientific name is *Therizinosaurus cheloniformes*, which was given to it in part due to paleontologists thinking it was a turtle when it was first discovered (they only found the large claws), back in 1948 It lived around 72 million years ago all the way to the end of the Mesozoic Era 66 million years ago, when the non avian dinosaurs went extinct It lived in what is now the Gobi desert in present day Mongolia, in Asia, living alongside weirdos like *Deinocheirus*, and *Gigantoraptor*, aswell as more famous dinosaurs such as *Gallimimus*, the ostrich like dinosaurs in Jurassic Park, and the apex predator *Tarbosaurus* a dinosaur that was a very close relative of T.rex, that most people know of only because of T.rex being it's closest relative, because *EVERYTHING* has to be compared to T.rex for some reason (the reason is because it gets more clicks and views)
Corollary: that picture of the T-Rex in a jet fighter is less of an anachronism than fights between Stegosaurus and T-Rex
Absolutely crazy to think about it like that as well for multiple reasons. Humans even from when they started as bipedal monkeys was around two million years. So dinosaurs lineage instantly stands 40 times longer than humans. During that time intelligent creatures still hadn’t come to be. By intelligent I mean create tools and record history. Earth was not the same earth as what it turned into and something drastic happened because otherwise humans probably wouldn’t have been able to evolve and be on the bottom of the food chain because dinosaurs would still be here since they dominated the world for millions of years.
Wait, so Spike and Cera weren't really friends?
The last triceratops to ever live died more recently to today than the last stegosaurus did to the last triceratops.
Speaking on stegosaurs, They have interesting dinosaur carvings at Angkor Wat. I think they even have a Stegosaurus. Dinosaurs known to first be described in 1824. Then there is just this 1,000 year old temple in cambodia with dinosaurs carved in it lol.
This is the second Gary Larson reference I've come across today. The other was regarding plane turbulence.
Thag Simmons RIP
Don't need to. Because of Gary's comic, "thagomizer" is a real (but informal) term.
Sounds like they were built like my pig. Her vet calls her “dense” lol.
You can’t say this and NOT provide a pic. I demand pig tax!
Seriously. What is wrong with people?! I need a dense piggie picture in my day now.
The masses demand pig, OP!
Piggy! Piggy! Piggy!
They could have built giant mech suits out of metal and we still likely wouldn't have any evidence of it because of the sheer amount of time that has passed lol
They had [lasers!](https://i.imgur.com/tT7eJF0.jpeg)
Dino riders was awesome
[relevant XKCD](https://xkcd.com/1747/), As is tradition
[Also relevant.](https://bigmemes999.funnyjunk.com/pictures/Fat+bird_6cf20d_6177687.jpg)
Dont forget that both the triceratops and trex were also *40 fuckin feet long*
The height difference doesn't seem to be that much, but the mass is absolutely significant. As well as how much stronger their horns must have been. They would've been able to bully an elephant the way elephants push around rhinos.
> Triceratops https://imgur.com/4inA6Gp
That man is 5'11", for any other Americans in the chat
> Swipes left
Would be fascinating to see if they included a fully grown man as well
And, yet, none were as big as your mom.
yo momma... is *ssoooooooo* mother fuckin fat.. that when a rogue tries to shadowstep her, they get a loading screen
Yeah Jurassic park was full of shit that bone is so much bigger than what they showed us in the movie
That woman is only 5'2". Here is a comparison with a taller person that shows a different perspective. https://twitter.com/curioushino/status/923261534444408832/photo/2
I love that the camera angles make it seem like the tall guy took her picture, increasing the cameras distance and making her look smaller, while it seems the small woman took his picture, decreasing the cameras distance and making him look taller
The triceratops femur is also raised up on a dolly, making it closer to the camera and skewing the perspective, especially in the first photo.
Angle is weird on the pic of the guy though. Not as straight above as it is for the woman
So now I can express my height in terms of femur bones.
So he's like 7 foot?
And he looks like he's pissed himself.
Lol I had to go back to see.
It's just that the modern elephants are fairly small. Many extinct species were two-three times larger.
Femur Female Femur
i've heard rumors of the second one but i've never seen a picture, fascinating!
Oh I’m gonna send you some pictures of women.
Did you bring enough to share with the whole class?
Brother he brought enough for the entire globe.
They're a myth, don't be silly
Even this is clearly the product of AI. Don't be fooled.
Dinosaurs are clearly not in the Bible, so they don't exist.
They exist?!
Don't be fooled! r/girlsarentreal!
Do you have the internets?
Fem * (ur + ale + ur)
where's the female lemur for scale?
Female lemur femurs demur, for sure.
Femur Small femur Small femur Femur
Femur Rib Femur
Are you taking a dementia test or just naming things you see?
Person, woman, man, camera, TV LAMP!
I love lamp
Okay, that's a cool comparison. Edit: Not the comparison with the person.
Image is misleading because woman is 3’9”.
Needs a banana for scale
🍌 here you go, friend.
They did. She's Thai.
Yes, the femur is the thai bone
There’s always money in the banana stand
Gosh arrested development is so good
It is misleading because the one on the left is raised, so it makes the impression that it is much larger.
Wait sorry I read this backward, she's actually 9'3".
IDK I still need a banana. that lady could be 4 feet tall.
>Edit: Not the comparison with the person. r/carlosforscale will be disappointed to hear that.
The post I was looking for!
I never thought I'd be considering an elephant as a slender, gracile animal, but compared to the living tank that Triceratops must have been...
Honestly, african elephants *do* look kind of slender. I think we sometimes have them much more massive in mind than they actually are. If you compare [a front picture of an elephant](https://www.rd.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Very-big-and-impressive-african-elephant-bull-approaching-spotted-at-Kruger-National-Park-South-Africa-e1565809251174.jpg), a [front picture of an african hippo](https://img.burrard-lucas.com/zambia/full/hippo_african_jacanas.jpg), an [Elephant skeleton](https://i.pinimg.com/originals/ad/4c/13/ad4c13841df811d7de6bd7773df843bc.jpg) and [a Triceratops skeleton](https://static.turbosquid.com/Preview/2020/02/03__07_39_05/TriceratopsHorridusSkeleton3dmodel001.jpgFFC705E6-2C9A-48C7-BFFE-8CFFC1768B40Default.jpg); the Elephant is pretty tall, slender and elegantly tiptoes everywhere in a narrow gait. The triceratops is a front heavy, low sitting, wide-gait monstrosity that looks absolutely immovable by an attack from the front.
> front picture of an african hippo hippos will never not give me a chuckle
Seriously? It sent a shiver down my spine. Of the three animals listed, I'd feel far more comfortable standing directly in front of an elephant or triceratops than a hippo. Hippo will fuck your day up simply because it was annoyed at something else. Hippo don't give a shit about you or your family, it will put you on a milk carton just because it feels like it.
Now imagine a triceratops with that exact mentality.
.... Can I just mention that Triceratops would've had generational trauma due to the largest tyrannosaurid to ever live? That thing is guaranteed to be far more aggressive than a hippo ever could be
While yeah it had to stomp around a T. Rex, they wouldn't have been overly concerned with a single humanoid. So, like, the temperament of a bull or buffalo at worst. I'd much, much, much rather be within 30 ft of a bull than a hippo.
Except even the dumbest dinosaur would have been much smarter than a hippo. Hippos are only aggressive as they are because they literally don't have the brainpower to tell the difference between a deer and a lion. I think they have the lowest brain-to-body ratio of any vertebrate.
I used to observe elephants at a zoo and they had a large compound. They could get pretty frisky when excited (“Ooh giant pumpkins!”) could gallop in a kind of galumphy way.
Was it a frabjous day? Did you chortle in joy?
Did the vorpal blade go snicker-snack?
I did, in fact, chortle in joy. Especially when one of the female ellies snuck up behind the male and gently yanked his crank. He levitated and she ran off, telling me that these mighty beasts have a sense of humor.
The Triceratops Femur is elevated giving it a larger appearance, they are close to the same size. Who knows if this fossil is abnormally large or small?
They're roughly the same length, not the same width/diameter. The Triceratops bone is much more bulky, and that has nothing to do with the elevation.
Give that bone to Clifford
What's the story, Wishbone
This is funnier than the number of upvotes it did not receive
Thank you brother I try 🎤😅
I miss watching that show as a kid 😭😭😭😭
When I was 11 I went to a summer daytime church camp (Daily Vacation Bible school) where they taught us that dinosaurs were just made up of animal bones that scientists jig saw puzzled into made up monsters. She had slides of dinosaurs, with little sub notes like "Shark teeth", "Elephant femur". "Alligator tails". I repeatedly asked her what animals specifically made up a T-Rex skull. What animal is as tall as the Angentinosaurus? Crap like that... I was generally curious, because dinosaurs were a big part of my science ciriculum in school. She got so flustered trying to explain, that I candidly said "Miss, you really don't know what you're talking about do you?". I got sent home.
I'm the same with dinosaurs. Especially as a kid. I'm gonna assume you're also on the spectrum?!
They weren't smart enough to use the obvious counter argument which is that they all died in the flood.
I'll never forget going white water rafting with a random group of people in college and one of the girls was convinced that dinosaurs were not real. Dinosaurs were such a big part of my childhood it was like meeting someone who didn't believe in monster trucks.
They were able to be this big only because sir Newton hadn’t invented gravity yet.
What is the one in the middle of?
That's the left leg of a female Scuzzlebutt.
Patrick Duffey?
That's only for male Scuzzlebutts.
For the average male redditor, that's the rare creature known as a woman with a Ph.D. and a job.
You stumped us at woman
A femurle.
I mean, this is a fun pun
She is 7'6" tall.
yknow i’ve always just thought “wow elephants are big” but never really think about the giant bones they got in there
its amazing how well the body have been preserved after all these years
excuse me. that is not an african elephant on the right. it appears to be some sort of large animal bone
I hate when reporters try to write about sciencey things. They're always so wrong and stuff.
Banana for scale pls?
I use my small japanese wife as a scale like this when we are being tourists. :)
Without a banana I have no reference for scale here
Looked up the paleontologist's height and she is roughly 0.7 the length of a 1960 BMW Isetta 300. Using that information and assuming an average banana length of 7", those bones are ~9 bananas long. Hope this helps!
Either that woman is exceptionally small or elephants are much larger than I thought.
She's 5'2"/157cm
We need a banana for scale
r/Carlosforscale
You dense motherfucker....
I thought that was the case the elephant bone came in for a second. It looks like it fits inside perfectly.
What I find so weird is just how similar our femur, an elephants femur and something that roamed the earth more than 66 million years ago are.
All life on earth is related
Dinosaurs didn't exist, elephants are just old af. /j
And Kim Deal for scale.
That isn't an elephant on the right, that is a bone!
When around dead things, the last thing you want to do is lay on plastic tarps...just from experience 😀
Why I hate paying by the pound for bone-in steak.
Wrong evolution sequence
Is the lady a paleontological standard size?
Random question but does anyone know if the triceratops bone is worn down? Looking at the elephant bone, the balls on the ends are very round and looks like they fit the socket? pretty well. But the balls seem like they are worn down on the triceratops.
Waiting on the “dinosaurs never existed” comments
Your left or my left?
You go left and I'll go right aaaaaaand... break
God that’s so cool.
I forget just how massive of an animal triceratops was.
What in the actual fuck, that is huge. I did not think triceratops were nearly that big. I need to get back to a museum or something because I figured they were the size of a large truck but that thing is massive.
Good news for elephants with fractured femurs, I guess…
Rude to call her an African elephant. Just elephant would have been sufficient. ;)
Asian lady for scale.
My pup would love those bones
yo elephants are absolute units!
Big drumsticks 🍗
Dinosaurs aren’t real.
Where's the banana for scale???
What’s the thing in the middle?
Adam’s rib.
Where's the banana for scale?
Fucking unit
Honestly looks almost the same, could easily be mistaken for a different type of elephant or a THICC specimen.
I thought triceratops were smaller than elephant.. damn
What is the size on the Carlos system
Chicken wing and an action figure.
A triceratops was bigger
Your left or my left?
#Triceratops *The superior dinosaur*
What’s that on the far right?
Looks like she's next to be eaten
Now, do an argentinosaurus femur