Anonymous
7/3/2025, 8:14:54 AM
No.63931844
>>63929323
>interdasting. Does this account for fallen branches/underbrush? I guess in the right environment it could stay pretty quiet, but I see big feet on fallen branches being fairly loud.
1. Jurassic Park did them dirty; animals with soft feet are shockingly quiet in motion even if they're huge. I fully believe that, all other things being equal, a T-Rex could easily get within ambushing distance of a human and the human would be clueless until it charges.
2. What the fuck are you going to do about it anyway? Run away? Start shooting into the dark? If you can hear the T-Rex then you're already dead.
>>63931154
>Aren't a ton of fossils assumed to be creatures that got caught in landslides or fell into lakes and rivers?
>assumed
Anyway, yeah. The typical fossil - and the reason why there are so many found in former riparian and marine areas compared to everywhere else; it's easy to get buried in silt if you're in a marsh or on the sea floor - is the result of something dying, getting entombed in fine sediment and then getting sequestered in an anerobic environment while slowly - incredibly slowly - the various organic material gets mineralized and what's left is more-or-less a photo negative of the organism.
>>63931671
>>63931764
>>63931815
Preach. I sound like some asshole from leddit when I say it, but most people simply can't comprehend how abjectly terrifying arthropods large enough to prey on humans would actually be. They don't have the context.
>interdasting. Does this account for fallen branches/underbrush? I guess in the right environment it could stay pretty quiet, but I see big feet on fallen branches being fairly loud.
1. Jurassic Park did them dirty; animals with soft feet are shockingly quiet in motion even if they're huge. I fully believe that, all other things being equal, a T-Rex could easily get within ambushing distance of a human and the human would be clueless until it charges.
2. What the fuck are you going to do about it anyway? Run away? Start shooting into the dark? If you can hear the T-Rex then you're already dead.
>>63931154
>Aren't a ton of fossils assumed to be creatures that got caught in landslides or fell into lakes and rivers?
>assumed
Anyway, yeah. The typical fossil - and the reason why there are so many found in former riparian and marine areas compared to everywhere else; it's easy to get buried in silt if you're in a marsh or on the sea floor - is the result of something dying, getting entombed in fine sediment and then getting sequestered in an anerobic environment while slowly - incredibly slowly - the various organic material gets mineralized and what's left is more-or-less a photo negative of the organism.
>>63931671
>>63931764
>>63931815
Preach. I sound like some asshole from leddit when I say it, but most people simply can't comprehend how abjectly terrifying arthropods large enough to prey on humans would actually be. They don't have the context.