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Three dinosaurs in a trenchcoat (sopuli.xyz)
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"Researchers say the Tyrannosaurus Rex may have actually been three separate dinosaurs.", and there's a drawing of three dinosaurs put together as the shape of a tyrannosaurus rex
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[–] 30 points 9 months ago (4 children)

since nobody actually has an explanation yet I'll give my extremely unqualified one (aka, I was sent a tiktok like 2 weeks ago)

Basically they saw big T-rexes and little ones. They assumed the little ones were babies, but now new evidence has shown that they might not be related and they're just a similar looking dinosower

no idea what the third version is, the tiktok didn't go over that one 🤷‍♀️
I'll let someone else with more experience correct me lol

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  • [–] 6 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 child)

    This makes a lot of sense. Taxonomists are tasked with a difficult job organizing fossils into species. Its why there's like 7 definitions of species. Off the top of my head: shape (morphology), sex (interbreeding), genetics (differences in key genes) with the majority of them existing to categorize extinct species

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