Timeline for Are humanoid hind legs compatible with reptilian tails?
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| Mar 6, 2023 at 16:32 | vote | accept | Ichthys King | ||
| Feb 21, 2023 at 21:43 | comment | added | Robbie Goodwin | Why might they not be? | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 20:07 | comment | added | David | Do they really need to be exactly humanoid legs? Therapod dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus Rex and Velociraptor were bipedal and had (presumably reptilian) tails. | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 16:29 | history | edited | Daron | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2023 at 16:05 | comment | added | user458 | If you're fussy about the biology, upright creatures don't have tails. But readers don't usually care. There's about a dozen questions in the form "Can my biped have a tail?" For this specific version, the lizard pelvis is categorically different than the mammal pelvis. That's probably why there's no upright lizards. | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 10:39 | comment | added | Ian Kemp | It doesn't matter. You're building your world, you get to make the rules. That means if you want humanoids with lizard tails, go ahead and make them. The physics of how this works is detail irrelevant to your world. | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 4:24 | history | edited | Victor Stafusa | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2023 at 1:03 | answer | added | John | timeline score: 12 | |
| Feb 21, 2023 at 0:17 | history | became hot network question | |||
| Feb 20, 2023 at 17:10 | answer | added | Daron | timeline score: 19 | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 17:09 | comment | added | JBH | The presence of a tail is believable (see human vestigial tails). However, when you ask, "is there an alternative muscular structure?" there obviously isn't one in Real Life. That means developing a fictional skeletal structure and developing ligaments and musculature. Are you asking us to do that for you, or are you stopped in your worldbuilding efforts with a specific problem? This Q might be too broad (and the title Q is misleading, it should be "How to design human musculature to allow a reptilian tail"). | |
| Feb 20, 2023 at 16:15 | history | asked | Ichthys King | CC BY-SA 4.0 |