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Paleontologists Stunning Conclusion: 2.5 Billion T. Rexes Roamed North America Over the Cretaceous Period
SciTechDaily ^ | 4/15/2021 | UC Berkeley

Posted on 04/16/2021 1:18:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker

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Wow, think how many things died in the jaws of those monsters.
1 posted on 04/16/2021 1:18:06 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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"Wow, think how many things died in the jaws of those monsters."

I'm wondering the same about how many things died in the jaws of Stacey Abrams.

2 posted on 04/16/2021 1:23:37 PM PDT by cweese (Hook 'em Horns!!!)
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That’s why brontosauruses grew such long necks. Had to see over the sea of T Rexes.


3 posted on 04/16/2021 1:24:08 PM PDT by DannyTN
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With those tiny little arms I think the T. Rex were scavengers.


4 posted on 04/16/2021 1:26:39 PM PDT by Nateman (Keep Liberty Alive! Article V)
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To: cweese

Lots of pigs and cows and chickens have died in her mouth.


5 posted on 04/16/2021 1:31:07 PM PDT by entropy12 (Thanks President Trump for WARP SPEED availability of covid vaccines.)
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“2.5 billion over time”

Pfft, pikers. There are 7.5 billion humans right now all at once.

Maybe the T-rexes were held back by their teeny tiny forearms.


6 posted on 04/16/2021 1:32:02 PM PDT by Valpal1
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Why do you say that? T-Rex did not need arms to choke the prey. All that was needed was one bite of those 6” long dagger like teeth.


7 posted on 04/16/2021 1:33:48 PM PDT by entropy12 (Thanks President Trump for WARP SPEED availability of covid vaccines.)
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To: LibWhacker

The Cretaceous Period lasted 80 millions years give or take. Why would 2.5 billion T Rexes be a stunning number?


8 posted on 04/16/2021 1:33:52 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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9 posted on 04/16/2021 1:35:09 PM PDT by MacNaughton
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this means that some 2.5 billion lived and died over the approximately 2 1/2 million years the dinosaur walked the earth.

I guess they were just around at the end.

10 posted on 04/16/2021 1:36:08 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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There are 7.5 billion humans right now all at once.

Yeah but they are not all in North America. China+India = more than 1/3rd of humans currently alive. Try walking on the side walk in Mumbai downtown area in the evening.

11 posted on 04/16/2021 1:37:09 PM PDT by entropy12 (Thanks President Trump for WARP SPEED availability of covid vaccines.)
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Well, sure. I’m more amused by the over-hyped headlines that seem to head up every blog post.


12 posted on 04/16/2021 1:38:46 PM PDT by Seruzawa (The political Left is the Garden of Eden of Incompetence - Marx the Smarter (Groucho))
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” Had to see over the sea of T Rexes.”

What sea?


13 posted on 04/16/2021 1:39:23 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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Took three or four pieces of skeletons and extrapolated.


14 posted on 04/16/2021 1:39:46 PM PDT by SkyDancer (To Most People The Sky's The Limit ~ To A Pilot, It is Home)
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‘Course, if a thousand a year reached maturity each of those 2.5 million years, that’d be 2.5 billion right there. Maybe not an extraordinary total after all!


15 posted on 04/16/2021 1:41:38 PM PDT by LibWhacker
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Exactly !

Slow day at the Univesity news room maybe ?
Needed a wild sounding headline to end the week.


16 posted on 04/16/2021 1:43:23 PM PDT by Reily
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While it sounds like a large number, it’s only about 1/3 the population of humans alive today.

Now think about that from the standpoint of evolutionary theory. Supposedly these would have evolved from something else substantially different, and that process would have involved only a fraction of that population. The problem is that there are not nearly enough mutational resources in such limited populations for natural selection to work with to lead to substantial innovations. (If there were we’d be seeing some really interesting new life forms simply from the current generation of humans, for example.)

The problem gets even worse considering very small populations like many whales, which supposedly evolved very substantially over time. If I were still an evolutionist it’s the sort of thing that would keep me awake at night.


17 posted on 04/16/2021 1:43:24 PM PDT by EnderWiggin1970
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“With those tiny little arms I think the T. Rex were scavengers.”

There would be no need for jaws like that to pick up already dead animals lying on the ground. And with jaws like that, as with snakes, it would not need large arms.


18 posted on 04/16/2021 1:43:55 PM PDT by odawg
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Took three or four pieces of skeletons and extrapolated.
19 posted on 04/16/2021 1:45:01 PM PDT by TexasGator (Z1z)
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They had to procreate instead of masturbate because of the short arms. It’s science.


20 posted on 04/16/2021 1:46:15 PM PDT by cp124 (Government is 98% corrupt. )
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