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Your link is also excellent! I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulat
by KineticLensman 6y ago
Your link is also excellent!
I also think - when people ask- "but how did Tyrannosaurs manage with such stupid little arms" - just how well birds can manipulate objects (and in the case of some corvids, tools) with just two feet and a lipless pointy beak. Ever watch a parrot peel the skin off a grape? I've never managed that even with the advantage of opposing thumbs.
In fact modern birds are my favourite dinosaur-like things.
- Swizec 6y agoFunfact: birds aren’t dinosaur-like. They are dinosaurs. Theropods specifically
- KineticLensman 6y agoExactly. I love this and sometimes think of the running birds in my garden as little velociraptors (or should I now say Deinonychus?)
- catalogia 6y agoYet for some reason nobody appreciates when I label the leftover chicken in the fridge "dino meat."
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- sergeykish 6y agoYes! We buy dinosaur eggs and dinosaur meat from dinosaur farms, wild dinosaurs play around and crap on statues. World is wonderful.
- bitwize 6y agoNot just birds -- humans who were born with no arms learn to become dextrous enough with their legs and feet to where they can cook, paint, operate a computer and even drive a car almost as well as if they'd had all four limbs. T. rex got along just fine with its stumpy little kiwi-bird wings.