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What Was It Like to Be a Dinosaur? (www.scientificamerican.com)

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[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

What do you mean "was"? RAAAWR!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 months ago (1 children)

RAAAWR

More like "buck bawk" peck peck

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Who's to say I'm not a corvid imitating a human imitating a t-rex?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Yer a pterodactyl, Mox. A pterodactyl.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (2 children)

A life that was probably "nasty, brutish, and short" would be my guess.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 months ago

Some of them must have been fairly long lived - they couldn't have grown that large in just a few years. Several species of whale live over a 100 years. And then we have the Greenland shark living possibly up to 500 years and although not massive, their ancestors must have done something right as their descendants are still here over 400 million years later. Or perhaps they were just very good at hiding.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I mean, I don't see why it would be any worse than the average mammal life.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Or a crocodile

[–] [email protected] 3 points 2 months ago

Or a modern bird, at that rate.