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[–] Not_mikey 52 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Hate to be that guy and ruin everyone's fun but this is science memes, dinosaurs like that would not have there head up like that. They rarely raised there head above there shoulders.

According to Kent Stevens, computer-modeled reconstructions of the skeletons made from the vertebrae indicate that sauropod necks were capable of sweeping out large feeding areas without needing to move their bodies, but were unable to be retracted to a position much above the shoulders for exploring the area or reaching higher.

Yeah, that classic image of tall sauropods πŸ¦• is probably wrong. Also like someone else mentioned they wouldve probably lowered there head anyway to vomit.

[–] ikidd@lemmy.world 48 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

I'm impressed that you managed to misspell "their" every time there. The only correct spelling was in the quoted text.

[–] Noel_Skum@sh.itjust.works 13 points 1 week ago

+1 for consistency.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Like, I want to up vote the fact checking, but I want to down vote the careless grammar. I'm so torn.

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make a second account and do both.

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Make a new account and do two (three) pieces of work instead of no work for the same net result. πŸ€”πŸŽ±πŸ™‚β€β†”οΈ

[–] SirQuackTheDuck@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Exactly! Maximum effort for no result.

It's like a management position

[–] victorz@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

Well you got me there. And I bet it pays considerably more too.

[–] kamenlady@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

This and are we all ok with the vomit containing Dino Bones?

Edit: or this the bones of dinos killed by the puke force?

[–] bleistift2@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

So I went and stalked them. They largely ignore that β€˜their’ exists, which is amazing, since their texts are otherwise near-perfect English.

A few examples of their using β€˜their’: 1

[F]or the police to chase their had to be a reasonable suspicion […]

2

Their approval among there base of shias has only gone up since the conflict started

3

[…] let people know about their bias […]

[–] Meron35@lemmy.world 24 points 1 week ago

Actually, the science does not seem to be settled, with there being controversy about the specific neck posture.

Sauropod neck posture - Wikipedia - https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sauropod_neck_posture

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Same thing with giraffes.

It's a huge misconception of unrealistic biomechanics.

[–] lengau@midwest.social 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

That giraffe is drinking.

When they're not intentionally bending down to reach something low down like a water hole, they look like this:

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] lengau@midwest.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Look I can keep posting photos I've taken of giraffes all day. All you have to say is "please post more giraffe pics"

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Nice deep fake! You can't trick me!

[–] flames5123@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

Are you talking about puking or just how they hold themselves? Because if it’s the later, have you ever been to a zoo? They clearly walk around with their necks held at like a 60-45 degree angle up from their spine. We can look up pictures of this in modern day too.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Giraffes literally have a rubber-like band tht keeps their head vertical at rest.

So yes, they do.

[–] Comment105@lemm.ee 5 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Let me guess, next you're gonna claim the Egyptians already invented rubber bands to keep their brachiosaurs upright? Not falling for it.

[–] Neon@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago

Almost. They actually stole it from the Aliens that they enslaved to build the pyramids.

[–] spicehoarder@lemm.ee 7 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Do we even know if they were capable of vomiting?

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 3 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seeing how both us and birds can vomit, probably. I imagine that developed very early. If you eat something harmful, you're dead if you can't vomit. If you don't have the brainpower to identify safe and harmful things, you're pretty screwed.

[–] gens@programming.dev 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Didn' know birds can vomit. Horses can't.

Horses are probably the single most fucked up animal on the planet, with maybe the sole exception of Przewaski's horse. Seriously we fucked them up so badly, like im pretty sure if every dog was a badly fucked up as horses they would be a hybrid of American bulldogs, Bull terriers, and chihuahuas.

This is to say never use a horse as a barometer for anything when it comes to standard functions.

[–] Cethin@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 week ago

Huh. I might be totally wrong. I thought they could but I'm not really that knowledgeable on that.