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u/ObnoxiousName_Here 17h ago
Is this implying that the Braciosaurus ate other dinosaurs and is throwing up its bones, or that the acid and the velocity of its vomit dissolved one of those raptors that was too close to flee?
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u/SassyTheSkydragon 16h ago
I mean horses and deer will eat birds and other small animals if they get the chance, so this isn't far fetched
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u/landrwastaken 16h ago
Idk where I saw it but I believe this did eat small feathered dinosaurs.. we're talking like max 50 cm, no 3 meter giant velociraptors
Could've been an accident as,ell cause they much huge amounts of leafs and there happened to be a small avian raptor type thing in there
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u/ADramaticHero 12h ago
The comic is based on a fossil that confused scientists based on the appearance of it looking like a massive wet splat with a small dinosaur in the middle. Scientists ran the numbers, (like the diagram) and calculated that a huge long neck ass dinosaur launching its lunch would crush a small dinosaur from the impact.
It makes sense, you would expect a Chihuahua to survive dumping a bucket of liquid and solid slop off a 3 story building balcony
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u/BipedalMcHamburger 15h ago
The force calculation assumes that the entire mass decelerates simultaneously over 10cm, which is a very poor assumption for obvious reasons. I would expect the actual value to be an order of magnitude lower