T. rex's big tail was its key to speed and hunting prowess

University of Alberta ^ | November 15, 2010 | Unknown

[decimon]

Tail draggster ping.

[Brookhaven]

So T-Rex would have been a great tennis player.

[sinanju]

This would mean T-Rex’s massive tail rarely touched the ground. Never when he was moving.

[Flag_This]

Wasn’t Bob Bakker all over this in the late 80’s?

[Signalman]

What’s this nonsense that T-Rex died out 64 million years ago? I saw a movie of one romping around with Raquel Welch back in 1Million B.C.

[decimon]

So T-Rex would have been a great tennis player.

How would you like to see that leaping the net towards you?

[Brookhaven]

I’m still waiting for someone to get it. Sometimes I think my jokes are too obtuse.

[Patton@Bastogne]

no ... acute ...

[chopperman]

I would think that a TRex would get around much like a kangaroo.

[decimon]

Sometimes I think my jokes are too obtuse.

Shirley Knott. Obscure, maybe.

[decimon]

I would think that a TRex would get around much like a kangaroo.

Tons of hop.

[SunkenCiv]

Sometimes I'm mistaken for a big fat troublemaker. I am kinda chubby...

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[SunkenCiv]

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[decimon]

I am kinda chubby...

And with a tail to tell?

[colorado tanker]

You tryin' to start a riot???

[SunkenCiv]

“Hey, nothing’s over until *we* say it is. Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor? ... Marmalard? Dead! Neidermeyer?

“Dead! Bluto’s right. Psychotic, but right.”

[SunkenCiv]

I wonder how this whole tail discovery fits with T-Rex mating (speaking of tails to tell).

[M Kehoe]

T. rex's big tail was its key to speed and hunting prowess

No, not to speed or hunting, but to it's balance. Sheesh.

I should have been a paleontologist.

5.56mm

[decimon]

I wonder how this whole tail discovery fits with T-Rex mating (speaking of tails to tell).

So scary that he'd turn tail and run.