"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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[–] 33 points 9 months ago (3 children)

I mean, probably happens a lot that the bones of different dinosaurs end up next to each other.

Would it happen for every T-Rex fossil in the same way? Well, less likely...

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    I'm assuming the research more meant that there were 3 cryptic species lumped into what we today call t-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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  • [–] 23 points 9 months ago (2 children)

    Dibs on not being the butt muncher

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  • [–] 19 points 9 months ago

    It’s better than three trench coats in a dinosaur.

    RIP Neo, Columbo, and Inspector Gadget.

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  • [–] 16 points 9 months ago* (1 child)

    Alright. I admit it. None of us are actually a Tyrannosaurus Rex.

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  • [–] 14 points 9 months ago

    One's on the bottom, strong is he

    Two's in the middle, carrying Three

    Three's pretending not to be

    3 dinos in a trench coat!

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    "Think Vincent Adultman, but a t-rex!"

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

    With this drawing the tiny arms make so much more sense now.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Some power rangers Jurassic Park cross-over?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Aren’t all the good ones once you take the trench-coat off?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago

    Reads like devil man crybaby

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago* (1 child)

    I like that they got up from their bed, took out a peace of paper or opened up krita, drew it, polished it, sent to their phone via photo or email because plugging cable to pc and transferring is unironically harder due to the way android hides their file-system, and posted it.

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