Bobbing their heads at every step. How ridiculous must have that looked if it was the case.

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    4 months ago

    What I’ve never been able to wrap my head around is how did they use their tiny arms, and for what?

    Only thing I can think of is that they might have used them to brace themselves on the ground while leaning down past their balance point to eat. Doesn’t seem like a very useful thing to have arms just for that though

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        4 months ago

        Man, I decided to do just that, and it was almost exactly what I thought (minus the technical words): if a velociraptor can do a metric fuckle of damage with their two hook-toes, a T-Rex with 2 of those on each hand can fuck something up, presuming it’s close enough (which, as the T-Rex head/bite-force, and distance from the jaw suggests), would have been pretty frequently.

        Even if each claw only did a little damage, that’s still a lot of blood loss throughout the conflict, and the T-Rex would be more likely to win.

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      4 months ago

      They weren’t actually tiny, they were about a metre long. But they do seem out of proportion.

      They were very muscular and ended in very sharp talons, so pretty deadly.

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      4 months ago

      I had thought the recent understanding was they were likely small wings, like emus or ostriches, to help with balance. Angled back instead of forward.