Billions of T. rex likely roamed the Earth, paleontologists report

[RudraCNG 15,506]

Too bad they got extinguished, but I wouldn't want to live with those creatures nearby 

[gothicdream 39,659]

This is soooo wild to me

 

[Reginald 13,841]

1 hour ago, FfFfFfFF said:

researchers estimate that some 20,000 T. rex lived at any one time and that about 127,000 generations of the dinosaurs lived and died. Those averages imply that a total of 2.5 billion T. rex lived in the species’ native North America, possibly as far north as Alaska and as far south as Mexico, over a two- to three-million-year timespan.

 127,000 generations of T-Rex.. that's mindblowing 

[sarahb 17,188]

30 minutes ago, RudraCNG said:

Too bad they got extinguished, but I wouldn't want to live with those creatures nearby 

Well you probably wouldn't for long anyway 

[CannaeDrive 3,412]

1 hour ago, RudraCNG said:

Too bad they got extinguished, but I wouldn't want to live with those creatures nearby 

But may be there would have been some way to tame and domesticate these beasts? 

We will never know unfortunately 

[PartySick 172,541]

1 hour ago, weed said:

That’s interesting, they dominated earth for sooooo damn long wow

Yeah, it's cool to think the last living T-Rex is closer to us on a chronological scale (66 million years) than it is to the first dinosaurs (230 million years ago, 164 million year gap). That's how stupidly long dinosaurs ruled Earth

[PartySick 172,541]

3 minutes ago, CannaeDrive said:

But may be there would have been some way to tame and domesticate these beasts? 

We will never know unfortunately 

We already have tamed dinosaurs

Most raptors are thought to have had comparable intelligence to their closest living relatives (birds/"avian dinosaurs") so I assume it'd be like trying to tame an ostrich with a crocodile's mouth and lion's claws

Jurassic World (I think that's the right movie) wasn't far off on having tamed raptors

Of course, for us to evolve in the first place the dinos had to die. Otherwise all the ecological niches would have stayed full and mammals would have never gone past the "rodent scurrying around dinosaurs' feet" stage.

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

1 hour ago, venuspop said:

omg girl I'm so sorry, who leaked it

those dirty astrologists looking up with their telescopes...

[venuspop 807]

2 minutes ago, Chromatislaps said:

those dirty astrologists looking up with their telescopes...

they really went on a mission to find Uranus  

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

1 hour ago, GreenDiamond said:

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girl, I was exposed, its already out in the open..so why not

[Chromatislaps 34,854]

Just now, venuspop said:

they really went on a mission to find Uranus  

at least they didn't shove up their telescopes yet

[Ronk 14,930]

2 hours ago, TheSlash said:

Strut it out, walk a mile, serve it extinct species style

They were party animals.

[Economy 52,854]

Within 15 miles on average? Thats really not that many then... many animals in many habitats its multiple within a mile

 

Granted these are big so there will always be fewer but still

[venuspop 807]

1 minute ago, Chromatislaps said:

at least they didn't shove up their telescopes yet

they're just getting ready to probe your atmosphere 

[FfFfFfFF 58,120]

53 minutes ago, PartySick said:

Yeah, it's cool to think the last living T-Rex is closer to us on a chronological scale (66 million years) than it is to the first dinosaurs (230 million years ago, 164 million year gap). That's how stupidly long dinosaurs ruled Earth

They all lived happily and ruled the earth until this fateful moment: