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[–] [email protected] 74 points 1 month ago (4 children)

To ruin the joke i learned recently that oil comes exclusively from dead marine life 🤓

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 month ago

but that T-Rex served as a marine

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

That's super cool I had no idea!! Does anyone have fun sources to start with?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

TIL, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That t-rex was a swimmer 🏊

[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Fun fact: we now know for a fact that many dinosaurs could swim, including T Rex! How do we know? There are footprints that get smaller and shallower as the dinos got deeped into the water, eventually reduced to just small scratches by the tips of their claws and eventually disappearing altogether. It looks something like this:

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 month ago (1 children)

How do they know they weren't taking off? Maybe they were able to fly without wings!

Awesome fact btw

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Then there'd be one really deep print as they kicked off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

But what if they had a organelle which generated helium and made them slowly float

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago

Hydrogen.

You can't generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.

Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let's go with it.