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Apr 5, 2022 · T. rex’s short arms may have lowered risk of bites during feeding frenzies. A new hypothesis suggests that the T. rex’s short arms may have evolved to avoid injury during communal feeding, particularly to prevent accidental or intentional amputation caused by the creature’s powerful jaws and teeth. Over the two decades paleontologist ...
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When the great dinosaur hunter Barnum Brown discovered the first T. rex fossils in 1900, he thought the arms were too small to be part of the skeleton. His colleague, Henry Fairfield Osborn, who described and named T. rex, hypothesized that the short arms might have been “pectoral claspers” — limbs that hold the female in place during copulation. T...
Padian’s hypothesis has analogies in some fearsome animals today. The giant Komodo Dragon lizard (Varanus komodoensis) of Indonesia hunts in groups, and when it kills prey, the larger dragons converge on the carcass and leave the remains for the smaller ones. Maulings can occur, as they do among crocodiles during feeding. The same could be true of ...
Nov 7, 2017 · A new discovery shows that the arms of a T. rex may have been more useful than previously suspected. In addition to the practicality of the T. rex’s arm length, Stanley explained that the ...
Oct 17, 2022 · T. rex's arms were too short to help it hunt and kill. These huge dinosaurs used a "puncture-pull" method of bringing down prey, in which T. rex would bite "big chunks out of them, ripping ...
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Apr 2, 2022 · When famous dinosaur fossil hunter Barnum Brown discovered the first Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils in 1900, he thought its arms were too short to belong to the skeleton. His colleague, Henry Fairfield Osborn, who first described and named this specimen, argued that the short arms may have been “pectoral claspers,” or limbs that hold females in place during copulation – which is analogous to ...
Jan 26, 2013 · No! So the evidence that T. rex has short arms comes from observations of fossils and the assumptions about those fossils (eg. they actually represent parts of formerly living things and that bones next to other bones represent their order of attachment in the real organism). Ken Ham and AIG have published numerous books with recreations of ...
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May 4, 2019 · The most likely explanation for T. Rex's oddly proportioned arms is that they were exactly as big as they needed to be. This fearsome dinosaur would quickly have gone extinct if it didn't have any arms at all -- either because it wouldn't be able to mate and produce baby T. Rexes, or it wouldn't be able to get back up if it fell to the ground ...
