Feathers?
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I approve of friend-shaped T-Rex.
Sure..."friend." I think upon meeting one, you would find how friendly the worm finds the songbird.
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They probably have some fat as well, but penguins are mostly insulated by their special feathers, which are adapted to prevent the cold water from actually reaching the skin.
They definitely do but my point was that the actual volume is from the fat so they are very much fat chonkers. The feathers are laid on top of each other to be waterproof so they don't really make up volume. You can check the pic below for reference (I am not sure how to add embed sorry).
I am not sure which would he primary insulator but fat definitely helps a lot and pretty commonly found in other animals for the same purpose. You can also see some featherless penguins in zoo are given cute little jackets lol.
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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.
they can base muscle attachement based on the bone marks, and scars, they can extrapolate weight from there.
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Isn't it primarily fat rather than feathers?
penguins do have one of the densest feathers per square centimeter of any bird.
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Obligatory All Tomorrows mention, one of the most existentially terrifying works of speculative scifi I've ever read, drawn by the same paleo artist.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]Watching that before bed gave me a weird dream that fucked me up for a few days
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They definitely do but my point was that the actual volume is from the fat so they are very much fat chonkers. The feathers are laid on top of each other to be waterproof so they don't really make up volume. You can check the pic below for reference (I am not sure how to add embed sorry).
I am not sure which would he primary insulator but fat definitely helps a lot and pretty commonly found in other animals for the same purpose. You can also see some featherless penguins in zoo are given cute little jackets lol.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]their circulatory system is also pretty adapted for them, thier blood vessels usually can do countercurrent exchange of heat, rete mirabilis, this is common in cold adapted creatures. so they technically dont lose heat when it goes near the skin surface.
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there used to be a 6ft+ tall prehistoric penguin.
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Hippos are also deceptively docile looking creatures
wrote on last edited by [email protected]i think its them being deceptively fast on land they can outrun humans, consider they technically cant swim under water, they just are capable "running" in the water because thier bone density allows them to sink.
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i think its them being deceptively fast on land they can outrun humans, consider they technically cant swim under water, they just are capable "running" in the water because thier bone density allows them to sink.
Well it's also that they're highly aggressive animals that will attack (and kill) pretty much anything that gets just a little too close for their comfort, despite looking cute and cuddly.
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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?
*Paleontologists
Archaeologist study humans in the past and sometimes our evolutionary ancestors through remains and material culture
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Well it's also that they're highly aggressive animals that will attack (and kill) pretty much anything that gets just a little too close for their comfort, despite looking cute and cuddly.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]they are very fast on land for looking like a cumbersome blimp for weighing 3000-7000lbs.
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Penguins without their feathers are still pretty chonk, and decidedly penguin-shaped.
Their feathers (adult feathers, anyhow) are actually rather short but their coverage is extremely dense. The feathers make them waterproof, not insulated. Their thick skin and layer of fat is what makes them coldproof.
It looks like me looking at myself in the mirror after a shower.
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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.
2000 chihuahuas would turn on each other way before getting to your ankles. At least 85% of them would be fucking.
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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.
Sauropods had hollow bones and air sacs all throughout for lightweight structural support. You can't just compare sizes and assume similar density as elephants or other large mammals.
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Sauropods had hollow bones and air sacs all throughout for lightweight structural support. You can't just compare sizes and assume similar density as elephants or other large mammals.
That lends to my notion that a fat Brachio would be unsustainable.
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God they're bad.
But I loved the super-military dino they had trained that would attack someone if you pointed a rifles laser at them.
Like - you're already pointing a gun at them.
you're already pointing a gun at them
Yeah, a gun with dinosaurs for bullets.
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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.
Before my local pub closed, there was a friendly paleontologist who would pop in from time-to-time.
My favourite thing was to go up to her and say "So in Jurassic Park...", which always prompted an impromptu lecture about dinosaurs, what Jurassic Park (any of them) got wrong, and whatever else she was thinking about, which was always super interesting.
Last thing I learned about was heated Discord debates among her colleagues about dire wolves.
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Penguins are technically dinosaurs.
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Penguins are technically dinosaurs.
Dinosaurs are technically penguins
