Questions tagged [dinosaurs]
For questions that have to do with dinosaurs, excluding their living avian descendants.
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Edible Dinosaur meat
What would it take to have edible non-therapod dinosaur meat in a world where humans and dinosaurs have coexist since human civilization? Or would the human body or creativity find a way to eat ...
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Alternate Triassic dinosauriods
In a hypothetical alternate Earth where the Triassic extinction didn't occur, I envision dinosaurs taking to the trees to avoid the massive crocodile species that were prolific at that time (sorry for ...
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How large and tall can a bipedal, upright standing, mostly herbivorous therapod get? [duplicate]
I was originally gonna post this as one question with my previous one, but since these are two different topics I've decided to split them.
Previous question: What is the best Foot shape for a Bidepal ...
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What is the best Foot shape for a Bidepal uprighting standing dinosaur?
I'm working on a idea for a Gojirasaurus/Godzillasaurus species of dinosaur (a fictional dinosaur that was the dinosaur that would eventually become Godzilla due to the effects of radiation.)
The ...
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How could an ecosystem remain stable for millions of years?
I am trying to create an isolated microcontinent where Cretaceous era dinosaurs/and maybe flora (specifically somewhere like Hell Creek) continues to survive with relatively little evolutionary ...
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Train Engine Size
I've designed a world where dinosaurs have lived with humans since the advent of civilization. One thing that is key to the story is that they travel by rail a lot, mostly because that is one of the ...
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How effective could dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals be used for the USA Civil War? [closed]
In this world, dinosaurs and prehistoric mammals still exist and are used a lot in normal day actions, like farming, transportation, etc. So there is already a field of trained people who know how to ...
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What would different groups of dinosaurs be called if they still lived with humans? [closed]
In my world, dinosaurs live along with humans, so I'm wondering what groups of dinosaurs would be called. I was wanting something unique, but still specific. A pack of velociraptors doesn't sound the ...
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If humans were able to domesticate Azhdarchidae, would humans be able to get them Jurrasic World size?
If humans selectively breed Azhdarchidaes, would humans be able to make them absolutely massive? Could humans breed them to be able to carry a pilot and fly them?
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Velociculture viability (Los Raptors Hermanos)
Assume we managed to revive the famed velociraptor. The real one, which is the size of a turkey, not the movie version.
How viable would it be to breed them for human consumption?
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What could humans forage 75 million years ago in Laramidia (Western North America) and could the stuff I've found actually be plausible?
So first things first, I'm trying to put together a grounded cretaceous Western setting for a personal world building project. I'm aware of just how... Limited humans would be when it comes to diet ...
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impact of dinosaurs in architecture and settlement-building
The main idea is that a norse settlement and their surrounding is teleported to a late cretaceous north america; around 67 million years ago.
This settlement is large enough to have people of various ...
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Could cavemen domesticate the Tyrannosaurus Rex?
In pop culture, there are ideas that paleolithic humans and dinosaurs lived together. The Flintstones is the most famous example of this idea. This obviously wasn't the case in reality, but what if by ...
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Could intelligent parasaurolophuses form a primarily sound-based language?
I was thinking about how parasaurolophuses could make sounds using their cranial crests. Then I thought that if they were intelligent enough, maybe they could create a spoken (honked? bellowed?) ...
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Anesthesia dose for adult male T-Rex
This question is a follow up on How to do dental surgery on a T-Rex tooth?
I need to give an adult male T-Rex dental surgery and I don't want to risk any unexpected jaw movements while I climb inside ...
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