Raz Science question: Why no tiny Dinosaurs?

Started by Razgovory, February 23, 2012, 09:49:38 AM

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The Brain

Quote from: alfred russel on February 24, 2012, 12:43:18 PM
Quote from: The Brain on February 24, 2012, 12:20:34 PM
Why aren't you a scientist?

When I was in school the scientist path promised harder classes, many more years in school, and then crappy pay. On the plus side I could look smart whenever topics regarding dinosaur physiology came up, but at the time I didn't think that outweighed the horrors of a biochemistry class.

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Yes.  For some of us though, it is only a difference of degrees.  grumbler and PDH were old when we began this journey.
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crazy canuck

Quote from: Peter Wiggin on February 24, 2012, 03:23:45 PM
We're slowly evolving from angry young men to bitter old ones.

Speak for yourself, I came here fully formed as old and bitter.

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Razgovory

Quote from: garbon on February 24, 2012, 03:58:13 PM
And some of us have been bitter since birth.

Maybe your mom shouldn't have drank much pale ale during the pregnancy.
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Queequeg

Generally speaking AR is right, but I think that one of the dinosaur's primary advantages was the way their hip was constructed; two legs directly underneath the body with a then-unrivaled degree of freedom of movement, allowing for greater dexterity, the evolution of two-leg locomotion, and after a certain size an erect posture makes a lot of sense.

In comparison, all the truly tiny vertebrates I can think of today-rodents, lizards-have a sprawling posture. 
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Siege

I want to have the last word in this thread.


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Quote from: Siege on February 26, 2012, 11:22:45 PM
Dinosaurs never existed.

serious question, what do you think fossils are? a test of faith, a misundertanding?
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