>Almost 6 meters tall
>Over 40 feet long
>Can weigh up to 12-13 tons
>Eyesight sharper than hawks (sucks it Jurassic Park)
>Bite forces strong enough to crush cars.


>Tiny baby arms
What did they mean by this?

>that image
Where are the feathers?

>>5018002 (OP)
who's they? are you talking about God who created those bones?

>>5018002 (OP)
>>Tiny baby arms
they were roughly the same size as ours but much stronger. The arms were small because they were likely not used in prey acquisition, so needed to stay out of the way, but retained some specific function that was close to the chest area; probably some combination of getting up off the ground, assisting when mating, and grooming other rexes. Might also have been useful in child rearing to give physical affection and/or commands. It's also possible that they did possibly assist in combat; most rexes have bite marks on their faces, but if a rex went under the belly the claws could gouge out an eye, which would be debilitating.

>>5018008
Kinda. They as in God or nature or the concept of evolution itself

>>5018002 (OP)
It means youre looking at a mon-max'd design

>>5018002 (OP)
I mean, if you do 99% of your killing business with your head, do you really need to have large arms? You might as well start shrinking them down until they’re as small as they can be while still being somewhat useful as arms. Thus making it easier to keep your body balanced and allow you to make your big fucking head even bigger.

>>5018017
evolution isn't real. we've had this discussion multiple times already.

>>5018026
And you lost it multiple times already

Evolution is a hard fact. It's not a theory. It's a fact. It happened, and it happens before our very eyes. The only people who don't understand this are retards that haven't gone through the history of life yet and have a strange bias towards a work of hebrew fiction that makes all these ridiculous claims
>jews were created before all other people and are the most important people on the planet (real history: emerged in the bronze age and were an irrelevant child sacrificing barbarian tribe until charlemagne)
>jews were enslaved in egypt (real history: ruled it and were expelled)
>the earth is a flat plane with four corners (fact: it's kind of egg shaped)
>the sun revolves around the earth, there is no space, it's a firmament surrounding the earth (space is real and heterosexual)
>the earth is 6000 years old (coincidentally slightly longer than jews have existed? it's 4.5 billion years old last i checked)
>there was a made up massacre of infants that literally never happened and was not recorded even by the alleged genocidal maniacs biggest critics
etc

dont get me wrong, god is real, but evolution is a natural consequence of the material world as it was created and set in motion by the demiurge (the big bang)

>>5018034
>Evolution is a hard fact. It's not a theory.
stop contorting words. a theory means nothing.

>>5018044
What do you think it means?

>>5018044
evolution was called a theory for political correctness in an awkward period of american history where people had not yet began rejecting the zionist narrative

americans taught young earth creation as fact and the book of exodus as history for most of the 20th century, while superior people like swedes had already accepted darwin as plain fact and rejected exodus as clearly ahistorical. all scientific evidence points to a cosmology similar to gnosticism, and a purely material world that runs off suffering and death.

>>5018052
it means "a conjecture with little to no proof". this is what the dictionary says.

>>5018055
gnosticism is heresy, i won't hear any of that crackpot hermit crap.

>>5018076
Gnosticism is just a fact at this point. Imagine an ideology that the church fears. An ideology that lead the church to slaughter entire villages in the south of france, men women and children alike. They do not fear it because it is different. The church friends with jews that literally hate christians and want to kill them. An ideology that is... truth. An a truth that refutes the decadent, warlike, material leanings of the vatican.

>>5018002 (OP)
Bite strength and jaw muscles in theropods were inversely related with arm musculature, it's the reason why by the cretaceous large theropods went with either big heads or big arms
But i imagine in no time you'll have someone claim that actually t-rex had massive forearms and the reason it's depicted with smaller ones is because of chinese tranny jews who alter the fossil record and ruin dinosaurs to make masculinity go extinct or whatever
This board really needs a literal nazi dictator janny like /tg/ used to have who will permaban you the second you post anything not related to animals and nature

>>5018078
gnosticism is heresy and pathetic fanfiction. God is not yaldabaoth and 50 different entities and whatever other horseshit it says. God is Jesus and Jesus is God. that's it, period. end of story.

>>5018086
Amazing. You're hallucinating about awesomebros on this board in the same way they hallucinate about tranny jew scientists, its shadowboxing with characters all the way down.

>>5018092
>source: the warlike, materialistic church that adorns its priests in gold and jewels said so
Right, and you can molest kids as long as you say sorry and really mean it.

>>5018055
No. It's called a theory in science when it's well supported. They mean different things. What we commonly call a "theory" is just closer to a hunch or guess.

>>5018002 (OP)
It must have looked fucking stupid without the fluff

Prehistoric animals are so fugly

>>5018092
>t. never read the bible

>>5018198
>awesomebros
The fact that you unironically use this redditor term makes it blatant how you were exactly the type of brownskin called out by the post

>>5018200
i'm not a papist faggot

>>5018034
>>5018026
Here's an idea; just do what Bob T Bakker did and embrace theistic evolution

>>5018002 (OP)
Lel what a babby armed extinct BITCH

>>5018291
And you're crying over a word because you knows I'm right and want to compensate lol

>>5018291
The fact that you can't dispute anything I said and need to cry over a word shows you know I'm right and just want to whine for the sake of whining.

>>5018002 (OP)
because it doesnt need its hands anymore, arms on a theropod are only useful in grabbing prey that is smaller than you, as seen in medium sized theropods, where as the giantitic trex, doesnt really want to be spending energy on small prey, its not worth it; the only odd ball with this is carnotaurus, which is about the size of an allosaurus, but its arms are really fucked up

>>5018198
>tranny saying this while another tranny in the thread is trying to argue that dinosaurs never existed because it doesn't fit with his jew propaganda
?

>>5018002 (OP)
no need to use arms when it has giant mouth and teeths

>>5018678
That sucks. I'll tell him to stop bullying you.

>>5018034
>dont get me wrong, god is real,
source?

>>5018652
>because it doesnt need its hands anymore
So why didn't they just atrophy away into nothing over the millions of years that the genus lasted? There are loads of reasons for them to lose their arms, but I can't see any convincing ones for retaining them. Birds do fine manipulating everything they need to with beaks. T. rex apparently had pretty sensitive lips, so it should have been even better at getting stuff done with its mouth. The mystery is not why didn't they have big arms, it's why did they have those specific arms rather than just nothing?
They aren't just vestigial either. They didn't shrink at all once they got to that size. They retained claws, and are obviously adapted to a specific (very limited) set of motions, with significant strength. Don't seem to be related to mating (no sexual dimorphism). Not big enough to help standing up. Grasping prey just doesn't seem useful enough to justify them.