Thread 16736283

What exactly was the point of these tiny arms on dinosaurs?

>>16736283 (OP)
>furry trex

>>16736296
Look lets not focus on its skin and focus in on the tiny arms

>>16736283 (OP)
probably left over remnants from whatever it evolved from before it turned into that I would imagine

>>16736283 (OP)
To jack off

>>16736283 (OP)
They redirected calorie expenditure into their overall body plan of being a giant walking set of jaws.

>>16736283 (OP)
Natural selection kept the hands and did not hide them completely, most likely due to aerodynamic balance.

>>16736283 (OP)
Think of how long it took for that evolution to occur, millions of years?
Then how long has it been since they went extinct?
Whew the span of time is mind boggling

How else would they wave at their frens?

>>16736283 (OP)
Nature is supposed to have a point to what it does?

>>16736461
You're joking but it's entirely possible they were used to communicate if they hunted in packs (this is still debated) or maybe during mating season.

>>16736283 (OP)
Could be they were useful when they were young and just left over.

>>16736283 (OP)
they were merely for "u mad?" factor

An attempt at evolutionary NEVER GOON sequence that failed miserably.

They were about the size of the arms of a large body builder but five times as strong. Not great for combat but certainly useful around the Jurassic kitchen.

>>16736283 (OP)
>What exactly was the point of these tiny arms on dinosaurs?
It shows, that a Tyrannosaurus rex is fantasy/fiction, instead of reality/fact.

>>16736283 (OP)
jacking you off for quick cash.

>>16736283 (OP)
>the point of these tiny arms on dinosaurs
to rub female during sex

>>16736283 (OP)
There was no point to them. It was simply something that they barely used, so it gradually become destroyed due to the action of entropy upon the genetic code.
Note however that T-Rex is a poor example of vestigial arms. They weren't, truly. We know that because we know examples of dinos of lineages a whopping 30 million years younger than T-Rex with truly useless arms (pic is a later cousin species of what I mean)

So for T-Rex, who opted to keep the arms, it means they weren't completely inert and useless

>>16738374
>30 million years younger
30 million years OLDER

>>16738374
>naruto running pose
impressive

>>16736283 (OP)
I suppose this assumes that the arms couldn't not lengthen/enlargen

>>16736283 (OP)
Those tiny arms show, that a T-Rex is "fake and gay".

>>16736283 (OP)
Someone couldn't find the arms so they pasted on a random set from the same site.

Vestigial but remained because it probably helped during mating (the T-rex would finger and tickle the females cloaca to make it wet before entering)

>>16738374
>who opted
the didn't "choose" to though...

>>16736283 (OP)
>point of these tiny arms
for holding corn on the cob, its favorite snack

>>16736283 (OP)
Those tiny arms can still btfo a grown man in a arm wrestling contest. I think they had a use, we just don't know.

>>16736283 (OP)
communicating via sign language.

>>16736283 (OP)
Lowly losing arms to become snakes

>>16736283 (OP)
I would bet (based on nothing but my own speculation) that they were probably proportionally larger in infant trexs and then just didn't grow along with the rest of the body. Maybe useful in self defense before size made claws irrelevant, or perhaps for newborn balance, or as a means of interacting with their environment.

Actually after checking the Trexs ancestor the Guanlong exhibited proportionally larger arms in juveniles.
Then again that's also true of most babies including humans, idk.

I don't think we actually have a (real) baby trex skeleton though.

>>16736314
>evolved

Jesus fuck. Science proved this shit was wrong decades ago lol. Holy fuck anon

>>16741805
* gang signs

>>16742551
What are you talking about, mongoloid?

>>16742551
Why is this board full of these retards?

>>16742551
>science proved this shit was wrong
>>16743105
>mongoloid
>>16743139
>retards

Welcome to the dumbest, most stubborn and idiotic website in existence. But you can say the Nword over here.

>>16740682
Go watch some more kurzgesagt you popsci nigger, breaking down how evolution works for the really slow ones for the 9000th time. I guess you are a fan of such content.

they had wings attached to them