Feathers?
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Isn't this a while thing? Where archeologists have drawn alternative interpretations of what dinosaurs could have looked like. I think there was a famous example, where red they got people to.draw a dinosaur from a hippo skeleton and the creature was really scary looking?
All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.
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Depends on the amount.
I'd rather fight against 1 hippo than the equivalent body weight in chihuahuas.
Okay, but would you rather fight a pack of Chihuahuas or an equivalent number of mini-hippos?
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I think even scientists from the 80's and 90's were able to tell where some connective tissue would have been. So while they got the skin wrong, the overall shape wouldn't be TOO far off. Also, Jurassic Park is what Hollywood thought dinosaurs looked like, not necessarily palentologists.
To me, this article feels more like "We have an extremely limited idea of the amount of knowledge scientists have. Here's what a bunch of animals would look like if they were drawn by an idiot like we believe palentologists to be." Like, some of those are clearly trying to deliberately get it wrong, like the house cat.
Then again, it is BuzzFeed. It's not like they base their "journalism" on anything except feels.
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Okay, but would you rather fight a pack of Chihuahuas or an equivalent number of mini-hippos?
Would the hippos be chihuaha-sized? Then, without question, the hippos. There's no way they can make sounds as annoying as an angry chihuaha, let alone a horde.
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A hippo would definitely be preferable. A fast and brutal death is preferable to getting your ankles bit out from under you by a thousand Chihuahua.
I don't think getting chewed to death is fast. I'd rather fight the chihuahuas 1000x
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True, that's why elephants hunt lions for protein.
Lion's eat Wathogs, Gazelle, Zebra and sometimes birds.
Giraffe and Elephants are likely to kill a lion.
Also an elephant's height is like 14 feet max. Brachiosaurus height was 50 feet.
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The largest land animal today is an african elephant which is 14 feet tall. Brachiosaurus was 50 feet tall. They would need to eat an order of magnitude more because the cost of mobility increases with weight.
Penguins, seals, and whales (and to a lesser extent hippos) can maintain this ratio because it gives them bouyancy while travelling in water.
Plus, Hippos and Elephants are actually pretty big boned.
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Would the hippos be chihuaha-sized? Then, without question, the hippos. There's no way they can make sounds as annoying as an angry chihuaha, let alone a horde.
Can confirm. We had an infestation of house hippos last year and didn't even notice them until half way through winter and realizing all of our mittens were missing.
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I don't think getting chewed to death is fast. I'd rather fight the chihuahuas 1000x
We are talking up to 2,000 Chihuahua that are determined to fight you at the cost of their lives. They will not get scared, they will not run, they understand it is you or them and there are 10,000lbs of them.
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There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.
Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
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Scary, but not a serious threat.
You can kick a Chihuahua pretty far, a hippo suffers from no such vulnerability.
New TV show ideas: how far can you punt this animal.
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There are markers on the bones based on fat weight. This wasn't known originally when creating the "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs though.
Are there new illustrations out there based on this? I wanna see the chub dinos!
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All Yesterdays is exactly this. The first half reimagines dinos from how we traditionally view them (leaning into things like feathers and a t-rex sleeping) and the second half reinterprets contemporary fauna based on their skeletons to demonstrate how wrong we might be about dinos. It's a great coffee table book.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
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Wait, people say "Jurassic Park Bullshit" dinosaurs?!
Even if they're inaccurate, they're my homies.
Also I'm referring to the 1990s Jurassic Park. I haven't kept up with modern versions.
Having kept up with the new ones myself, I can only recommend you don't.
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We are talking up to 2,000 Chihuahua that are determined to fight you at the cost of their lives. They will not get scared, they will not run, they understand it is you or them and there are 10,000lbs of them.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]According to Wikipedia, the Chihuahua weighs up to 3kg whereas an adult male hippo weighs 1500kg. I'm going to consider these numbers for our speculative (hopefully) fight and assume I'll be fighting 500 chihuahuas or 1 hippo. I found that
A Chihuahua’s top speed on record is 23.72 mph
and
Hippos are reported to reach 30 km/h (19 mph) but this has not been confirmed
This data seems important to determine the outcome of the fight, since either of them would likely outrun me and I'd be tempted to get to high ground in both cases. Additionally,
[Hippos] are incapable of jumping but can walk up steep banks
and
A Chihuahua can typically jump up to 2 feet high
so a high enough stage would probably be enough to stay out of reach. But if I must fight each one on their own terms, the hippo would probably choose the river, and the chihuhua would choose Chihuhua City, which I assume contains, like any city, high grounds of all sorts, putting me to relative safety. This is why I choose to fight 500 chihuhuas
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog_breed)
https://thechihuahuashack.com/how-fast-can-a-chihuahua-run/
https://chihuahuaguide.com/how-high-can-chihuahuas-jump/ -
New TV show ideas: how far can you punt this animal.
I can tell you from personal experience that I can punt an aggressive juvenile possum about 30ft(I think it was diseased?). Low bar, but any relevant data is useful.
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That skeleton is surprising - I just thought they had very slopey shoulders.
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According to Wikipedia, the Chihuahua weighs up to 3kg whereas an adult male hippo weighs 1500kg. I'm going to consider these numbers for our speculative (hopefully) fight and assume I'll be fighting 500 chihuahuas or 1 hippo. I found that
A Chihuahua’s top speed on record is 23.72 mph
and
Hippos are reported to reach 30 km/h (19 mph) but this has not been confirmed
This data seems important to determine the outcome of the fight, since either of them would likely outrun me and I'd be tempted to get to high ground in both cases. Additionally,
[Hippos] are incapable of jumping but can walk up steep banks
and
A Chihuahua can typically jump up to 2 feet high
so a high enough stage would probably be enough to stay out of reach. But if I must fight each one on their own terms, the hippo would probably choose the river, and the chihuhua would choose Chihuhua City, which I assume contains, like any city, high grounds of all sorts, putting me to relative safety. This is why I choose to fight 500 chihuhuas
sources
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippopotamus
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chihuahua_(dog_breed)
https://thechihuahuashack.com/how-fast-can-a-chihuahua-run/
https://chihuahuaguide.com/how-high-can-chihuahuas-jump/Philadelphia Zoo says male hippos can get up to 9,900lbs, so we are talking potentially under 2k Chihuahua.
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Okay, but would you rather fight a pack of Chihuahuas or an equivalent number of mini-hippos?
wrote on last edited by [email protected]House hippos are even smaller than chiwawas
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True, that's why elephants hunt lions for protein.
What? Can you source that? I’m extremely curious if that’s a real thing.
