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[–] Klear@lemmy.world 30 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Fun fact: we now know for a fact that many dinosaurs could swim, including T Rex! How do we know? There are footprints that get smaller and shallower as the dinos got deeped into the water, eventually reduced to just small scratches by the tips of their claws and eventually disappearing altogether. It looks something like this:

[–] Courantdair@jlai.lu 20 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do they know they weren't taking off? Maybe they were able to fly without wings!

Awesome fact btw

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Then there'd be one really deep print as they kicked off.

[–] yogurtwrong@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

But what if they had a organelle which generated helium and made them slowly float

[–] emergencyfood@sh.itjust.works 9 points 10 months ago

Hydrogen.

You can't generate helium unless you have a fusion reactor.

Actually, nuclear powered flying T. rex sounds cool, so let's go with it.