UM-Bot Posted November 27, 2021 #1 Share Posted November 27, 2021 Strange tracks left by giant sauropod dinosaurs have been leaving palaeontologists scratching their heads. https://www.unexplained-mysteries.com/news/352993/mystery-dinosaur-tracks--did-sauropods-really-walk-on-two-legs 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted November 27, 2021 #2 Share Posted November 27, 2021 (edited) Maybe one sauropod was busy mounting another one, and so left only tracks of its hindfeet?? Edited November 27, 2021 by Abramelin 1 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jethrofloyd Posted November 27, 2021 #3 Share Posted November 27, 2021 They stood on their hind legs while reachig a tops of the trees? 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Abramelin Posted November 27, 2021 #4 Share Posted November 27, 2021 44 minutes ago, jethrofloyd said: They stood on their hind legs while reachig a tops of the trees? That should have left tail tracks too. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nnicolette Posted November 27, 2021 #5 Share Posted November 27, 2021 I thought we already knew that they stood up to get high leaves. At least they are always depicted doing this. Maybe they did it without putting thier tail on the ground. Probably used it for balance. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fred_mc Posted November 28, 2021 #6 Share Posted November 28, 2021 18 hours ago, jethrofloyd said: They stood on their hind legs while reachig a tops of the trees? Quote from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_in_Jurassic_Park : "The film inaccurately depicts the species as having the ability to stand on its hind legs, allowing it to reach high tree branches." 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nnicolette Posted November 28, 2021 #7 Share Posted November 28, 2021 16 hours ago, fred_mc said: Quote from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dinosaurs_in_Jurassic_Park : "The film inaccurately depicts the species as having the ability to stand on its hind legs, allowing it to reach high tree branches." Is it so inaccurate when pairs of sauropod footprints have been found? Didn't they say that the prints were somehow determined to be front feet? Maybe they did handstands. To reach farther with thier tail or something weird. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trelane Posted November 29, 2021 #8 Share Posted November 29, 2021 3 hours ago, Nnicolette said: Is it so inaccurate when pairs of sauropod footprints have been found? Didn't they say that the prints were somehow determined to be front feet? Maybe they did handstands. To reach farther with thier tail or something weird. I like the thought of that. Giagantic sauropods doing handstands. 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom1200 Posted November 30, 2021 #9 Share Posted November 30, 2021 On 11/28/2021 at 11:23 PM, Nnicolette said: Didn't they say that the prints were somehow determined to be front feet? Maybe they did handstands. To reach farther with their tail or something weird. On 11/29/2021 at 2:45 AM, Trelane said: I like the thought of that. Gigantic sauropods doing handstands. Go on you two - laugh about it. But constipation is a serious matter for us larger folk, and it must have been absolute agony for bronty-sore-ar$e. It's all the fault of trees, but in today's crazy woke world 'trees are good' and we're not allowed to criticise them. The fat dinosaurs were perfectly happy eating bran and ferns and other stuff that kept them regular, then these new-fangled trees evolved and displaced all the nice soft plants. Have you ever tried eating wood? So the dinosaurs had to switch diet but it didn't agree with them and they got all blocked up. What happens when dinos can't poop? They bloat up with methane gas. Methane is lighter than air so their tail-ends started to float. It was perhaps quite fun at first, but as they swelled ever bigger it became a frantic struggle to stay attached to the ground. In fact that's probably how they evolved into birds and dragons. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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