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I was watching the show Ancient Aliens and started thinking about dinosaurs.
Really, they seem to me to be impossible.
Take trees. Think of the tallest trees. Were they as tall as dinosaurs? It seems that a being taller than trees by 40 or 50 feet would find it impossible to walk around.
For a human, it would be like having 2 foot high poles in the ground everywhere.
Really, they seem to me to be impossible.
Take trees. Think of the tallest trees. Were they as tall as dinosaurs? It seems that a being taller than trees by 40 or 50 feet would find it impossible to walk around.
For a human, it would be like having 2 foot high poles in the ground everywhere.
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@1 A lot of trees were more like palm fronds.
Depended on where they were. Our images of the past are created by what Did Get Fossilized, so we imagine it to be full of trees (coal/shale/etc imprints) but a lot of squishy things and areas where not much survived don't "appear" - they were there, but the quantity levels and actual sizes can't be extrapolated by the few fragments that fossilized or were preserved in amber or ice or lakebeds.
Depended on where they were. Our images of the past are created by what Did Get Fossilized, so we imagine it to be full of trees (coal/shale/etc imprints) but a lot of squishy things and areas where not much survived don't "appear" - they were there, but the quantity levels and actual sizes can't be extrapolated by the few fragments that fossilized or were preserved in amber or ice or lakebeds.
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