T-rex seduction
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Jonluw said:They don't look sharp now. They probably did a few million years ago :/Ultratwinkie said:Wonder why no one mentions Stegosauruses....
They look like they'd be at least a little bit flexible, and they don't look sharp.
Maybe stego-ladies don't have the plates?
Maybe I shouldn't have said they don't look sharp.someonehairy-ish said:
They weren't sharp. Pretty much fact.
The spikes on the end of the tail were for defense. The plates on the back are too broad and thin to really be useful for anything like physical defense.
I've heard theories that the plates were actually fairly colourful, and used to attract mates, similar to birds of today, or that they could pump blood into the plates to make them suddenly light up, to scare away predators.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stegosaurus#Plates
At the very least, it's fairly certain that the plates were not used as a defensive weapon.
Crocodiles use the scale like plates on their backs as a form of heat reduction via blood vessels woven into the scales, plausible scenario?Jonluw said:
As for Dino sex it would be very hard to actually determine how they had sex since i doubt any soft tissue has survived to give them a better idea of their sexual anatomy
It's one of the hypothesises they present in that wikipedia article, but looking at related species makes scientists think there might not have been any need for it. We know the plates contained blood vessels though.Duskwaith said:
That's also an issue. That Daily mail article claims a t-rex penis would be 12 feet long, but we have never found any evidence to indicate what the size of a dinosaur penis might've been.
I guess the question one has to ask oneself: Is there a reason these animals should have evolved penises 12 feet long?
Tyrannosaurus lovin?
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1. Velociraptor, because I loved them in Jurassic Park when I was a kid (even though they where not like that in reality) but I still think they're awesome.
2. Erm I'm not sure.
3. If rule 34 was in place back in prehistoric times I imagine someone already tried this. All we need to do is find the cave drawings of it, if it did happen.
On topic
1. Velociraptor, because I loved them in Jurassic Park when I was a kid (even though they where not like that in reality) but I still think they're awesome.
2. Erm I'm not sure.
3. If rule 34 was in place back in prehistoric times I imagine someone already tried this. All we need to do is find the cave drawings of it, if it did happen.
Thats the Daily Mail though, they do tend to go for the more radical side of the spectrum whenever they can. 12 feet long would be excessive especially for the likes of a T-rex, would it be retractable or would it have a penis that would literally be around its ankles due to the relative hieght (to the hips) being 13ftJonluw said:
As for the scales, that doesn't leave much to work with.
That's what I meant. The Daily mail isn't exactly your go to source for dino anatomy.Duskwaith said:
The bone plates on the stegosaurus's back were neither sharp nor directly connected to its skeleton. They were more like sheets of plywood connected to its skin in terms of functionality.
I can't imagine bending them slightly to the side to get some lovin' done would be all that that difficult.
I wasn't aware that T-Rex's had fur...
I guess my favorite dinosaur would probably have to be the Triceratops.
I guess my favorite dinosaur would probably have to be the Triceratops.
From Wikipedia:Scrustle said:
"In 2004, the scientific journal Nature published a report describing an early tyrannosauroid, Dilong paradoxus, from the famous Yixian Formation of China. As with many other theropods discovered in the Yixian, the fossil skeleton was preserved with a coat of filamentous structures which are commonly recognized as the precursors of feathers. It has also been proposed that Tyrannosaurus and other closely related tyrannosaurids had such protofeathers. However, skin impressions from a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen nicknamed "Wyrex" (BHI 6230) discovered in Montana in 2002,[65] as well as other large tyrannosaurid specimens, show mosaic scales,[66] leading Xu et al. (2004) to speculate that the tyrannosauroids may have had different skin coverings on different parts of their bodies - perhaps mixing scales and feathers. They also speculated that feathers may correlate negatively with body size - that juveniles may have been feathered, then shed the feathers and expressed only scales as the animal became larger and no longer needed insulation to stay warm. They based this on the fact that as an object increases in size, its ability to retain heat increases due to its decreasing surface area-to-volume ratio. Therefore, as large animals evolve in or disperse into warm climates, a coat of fur or feathers loses its selective advantage for thermal insulation and can instead become a disadvantage, as the insulation traps excess heat inside the body, possibly overheating the animal. Protofeathers may also have been secondarily lost during the evolution of large tyrannosaurids like Tyrannosaurus, especially in warm Cretaceous climates.[67]
This theory was challenged by the discovery of Yutyrannus, a 9 meter (30 ft) long, 1,400 kilogram (3,100 lb) tyrannosauroid that preserved feathers on some widely-spaced body parts, indicating that its whole body was covered in feathers, but it is worth noting that it lived in a much colder environment.[68]"
Yeah, so they at least have reason to depict juveniles with feathers. Adults, on the other hand, are still a matter of speculation.
Anyway, favorite dino?
Probably Giganatosaurus (for being a huge-as-fuck therapod) or Troodon (for extreme intelligence and brain size)
As for sexing it up, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supersaurus would seem kind of awkward...
Yes.
Favourite dinosaur? And in sexual terms too?
Hmm... here we are, 2 birds (evolution pun) with 1 stone.
Hmm... here we are, 2 birds (evolution pun) with 1 stone.