Questions tagged [dinosaurs]
For questions that have to do with dinosaurs, excluding their living avian descendants.
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Could a stegosaur-like creature become bipedal?
We think stegosaurs could go on their hind legs to get at treetops. Could something like this evolve into a biped? In addition, can you think of other scenarios for bipeds to evolve?
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Hypothetical selective breeding scenario question two?
Could one using selective breeding and artificial induced selective pressures breed a tree climbing Anole lizard to become something that resembles a gliding pterosaur from the Mid Triassic or early ...
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What would mammalian dinosaurs look like? [closed]
Here's a crazy idea: What if there were mammals that were designed similarly to dinosaurs? Similar proportions, similar accessories, maybe even similar size...
I was thinking of species to add to my ...
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Human vs Dinosaur conflict in post apocalyptic world [closed]
500 years post apocalypse, human society is based on small settlements surrounded by electric fences. This is because, during this time dinosaurs have returned to roam the earth.
These dinosaurs are ...
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Triceratops cart load
I'm designing a world where people and dinosaurs exist at the same time. I'm making it realistic (in the sense that it is more like Jurassic Park and not like The Flintstones).
Supposing you could ...
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How CAN a Wyvern be a Scansoriopterygid Dinosaur?
It's become a popular speculative evolution trope for the likeliest candidate of the mythological "wyvern" to be a Cenozoic family--if not superfamily--of scansoriopterygid dinosaur.
Now the first ...
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How Would Victorian-Era Firearms Fare Against Dinosaurs?
In a world that takes place during the Victorian era (1837-1901), how effective would period-accurate firearms be against something similar to a dinosaur? As a brief aside, I will accept weaponry from ...
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How to trap and kill a T-Rex-like creature?
The story: in a fantasy iron age world, a T-Rex-like animal (actually more like the size of allosaurus) has emerged from the forest and started killing people. The animal always retreats to the forest ...
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How to prove that “dragons“ spit fire?
Let's imagine there actually were dragons (dinosaurs) that spit fire.
How could that be actually proven if you've lived in a day and age like today, where these kinds of creatures are actually ...
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Why dwarf designer dinosaurs? [closed]
Set in the mediate future new gene splicing is the new game in the market, we took over an island in the pacific ocean and set up a a natural habitat for the dinosaurs free of any kind of human ...
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How could a medieval melee weapon slice through ankylosaurus?
Set in the early 14th century A. D. the sudden appearance of dinosaurs wrecked havoc on the world, no one know why but everybody raced to come up with powerful theories except for a particular group ...
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How could pirates reasonably transport dinosaurs in captivity, some of them enormous, across oceans?
In my novel, there is money to made in the capturing and selling of 'exotic' animals from a distant, jungle-covered continent, though for various reasons (notably that it is illegal under Roman rule) ...
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Plausibility of Star Trek's Voth
In Star Trek Voyager, the Voth are an intelligent, humanoid species of descendants of dinosaurs (hadrosaurs).
Paleontologists estimate, that up around 99% of species, that ever lived, died out.
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Could dinosaurs breathe modern air?
During much of the Cretaceous period, oxygen levels were substantially higher than they are currently, with estimates indicating that around 30% of the atmosphere consisted of oxygen. Obviously, this ...
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How would a medieval village protect themselves against dinosaurs?
In this world, dinosaurs are wildlife that usually don't bother people, but people still want to make sure they're safe from the occasional man-eaters or gigantic herbivores that want to eat their ...
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Would separate species of sentient dinosaur cooperate?
I’m planning on writing another story as well, but I’m further into the concept of this one.
It takes place in a fictional prehistoric age that combines elements from the Jurassic, Cretaceous, ...
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How would mesoamericans fight dinosaurs?
In my book series, there is a planet called Aztlan. The Aztlanians are essentially based on a mix of Aztec, Maya, and Inca cultures, with hints of Olmec, Nazca, and Mapuche thrown in.
For example, ...
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What is the likeliness other planets could develop saurian life?
I’ve seen a few sci-fi concepts about humans traveling to another planet and discovering dinosaurs as the dominant species. They often look quite unique but share unique features to the Earth ...
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Recreating Dinosaurs (or at least doppelgangers)
In theory organisms derived from birds through genetic engineering could resemble theropod dinosaurs. So my question is what animals would serve as the basis for the other two groups of dinosaurs (...
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Consequences of a creature with exposed musculature
In the video game Dino Crisis 3, a recurring boss that the player fights called the Australis (a bio-engineered human-Tyrannosaurus Rex hybrid) that has skin exposing the muscles of its body. An in-...
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Will the Dinosaur Empire Still Stand Strong If Chicxulub Hit Earth at the End of the Jurassic?
66 million years ago, the dinosaur empire was in its death throes when its final nail in the coffin came hurtling down from the sky. A clump of rock the size of Mount Everest smashed into the Gulf of ...
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What could be a plausible scientific explanation for a man who can transform different parts of his body into different parts of reptiles?
Laws that must not be broken and/or worked around:
Conservation of energy
Conservation of mass
Square cube law
Thermodynamics
No FTL
Essentially, I'm trying to make a character with similar abilities ...
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How big could dinosaurs get with super strength and durability?
On this parallel earth all vertebrates received the ability to efficiently produce super strong materials from readily available minerals/nutrients in the mid Triassic.
The specifics of these ...
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Dinosaurian Gamma Diversity
Gamma diversity is defined as the entire species diversity of a landscape or region. Assuming we have a region of 100 square miles of temperate deciduous forest inhabited by cretaceous fauna. How many ...
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Could dinosaurs have been discovered during the age of discovery? [closed]
Could dinosaurs have been discovered on the Americas during the age of discovery?
Some things to take into account:
Assume they survived their extinction event
Assume they could survive on the ...
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Would a US marine teleported in the Cretaceous be able to survive a T-rex attack [closed]
A US marine fighting in the Middle East inadvertently falls in a hole that happens to be a time portal and is teleported in the Cretaceous era, 70 million years in the past.
Our Marine is equipped ...
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How could a plague that killed off the dinosaurs come back?
In my story, something pretty insane happens during the 3rd season.
The common conception was that an asteroid strike contributed to the extinction to dinosaurs, but unbeknownst to all it was not a ...
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How feasible is a man-portable firearm capable of incapacitating a large dinosaur with twentieth-century technology?
In the movie Jurassic World there is a scene where a specialised military response team engages the Indominus Rex, a genetically modified dinosaur said to be of comparable size to Tyrannosaurus Rex. ...
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What can power up an eco friendly Dino theme park?
My company has just taken over the North Sentinel Island to setup a Dino attraction, construction phase is in progress and we also managed to convince the local to move and settle somewhere else (by ...
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Would using thick glass wall be better than electric fence for my dino theme park?
My company has perfected its gene modifying technique.We can create life-sized hybrids of dinosaurs, with the exact appetite and behaviour as the original species (at least according to our advice ...
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How much land to keep a sauropod in captivity?
How large of an area in acres would a large sauropod (Apatosaurus) need to maintain itself while also not eating all of the vegetation within the area.
So basically how large of a forested area would ...
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Is it possible to film the meteorite impact that led to dinosaurs extinction? [closed]
A time traveler reporter team wants to film the meteorite impact that led to the extinction of dinosaurs. They are thinking to teleport somewhere on Earth surface 30 minutes before the impact and to ...
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Are the petroleum deposits correlated to the dinosaurs extintion?
I am designing an alternate world where the meteorite that caused the massive dinosaurs extinction never hit Earth.
I am stuck in one point: If the massive deaths of the dinosaurs worldwide never ...
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Viability of Scansoriopterygid wyverns
Scansoriopterygidae was a family of theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic, the most well-known member of which was Yi Qi. They are thought to have been arboreal insectivores, and ...
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Can a character raise a T-Rex from an egg and have it be tame?
So I'm writing a book series called The Weasel Sagas (link here if you want to know more about that). Anyway, there's this character named Santa Muerte (her birth name is Beth but that's a story for ...
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Strategy to capture a TRex alive?
For context : A squad hunters has been assigned to capture a Tyrannosaurus Rex for the grand opening of a new amazing zoo.
They will be sent to a location in Montana 66 million years ago using a time ...
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Is there any species of raptor that lived in areas with snow? [closed]
I'm writing a fictional story in wich scientists invent a time machine and they send a crew of people back to the past to test their invention. The crew goes inside, activates the time machine and end ...
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Could a tribalistic society domesticate dinosaurs?
I'm working on a fictional plot, here's how it goes:
A group of scientists go to explore an island that has recently been discovered. Once they get to the island they find dinosaurs. Yeah, dinosaurs ...
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Which dinosaur would have the highest chance of survival in modern times?
As a follow up question to
Could dinosaurs survive in today's environment?
I was wondering which dinosaur would have the highest chance of survival if it was brought back to life today and left ...
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Using dinosaurs as a mount
In a world where human and dinosaur co-exist, would it be a good idea to use dinosaur as a mount ?
More specific questions :
Is a dinosaur smart and docile enough to be ride ?
Which species of ...
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If humans descended from raptors rather than apes [closed]
In my scifi novel, all intelligent life eventually reaches what we might consider a humanoid form. Likewise, life on other worlds generally follows a semi-parallel evolutionary path, meaning that life ...
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Human Evolution if Dinosaurs never died off
Assuming there were no extinction level threats to the dinosaurs, and they never fully died off (and survived the following ice ages), how would this affect the evolution and technology use of humans ...
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How would a Bronze Age tribe arm themselves vs. dinosaurs?
In this world, a Bronze Age tribe hunts and is hunted by multiple species of large dinosaur. What bronze age weaponry would be utilized by these people for the purposes of combating these beasts, ...
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Reality Check: Megafauna and Dinosaurs
Could a planet support both large mammalian megafauna and non-avian dinosaurs at the same time?
My worry is that bigger mammals have progressively more trouble with dissipating body heat, whereas ...
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What dinosaurs could be domesticated?
I have heard that in order to be domesticatable, the animal has to satisfy the 4 F's:
Friendly
Fecund
Feedable
Family-oriented
Okay so let's narrow this down. All dinosaurs would fall under Fecund ...
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Could humans survive with dinosaurs?
So I'm still wondering if humans could survive with dinosaurs. There are some big problems I see. Here they are:
Food Production
This isn't so much a problem with planting and the plants growing as ...
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Are there any recipes involving dinosaurs I could try? [closed]
I know, I know, I love dinosaurs, but I have been curious of what the ancient chicken ancestors tasted like. are there any recipes I could try, and what ingredients would I need?
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How many zombie dinosaurs are there? [closed]
In my world, a combination of silly magic and technology have made all dinosaur/prehistoric animal remains come back to life. I'm assuming that this magic somehow makes the bones and other remains ...
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A ribcage capable of surviving the bite of a Tyrannosaurus Rex
What existing material (e.g. 410 steel, no unobtanium) and what thickness should the ribcage of a creature (of humanoid size and shape, let's say it's a genetically-engineered human) have, to survive ...
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Where to Keep Your Dinosaur?
Let's say I'm a secretive organization who's recently come into possession of two individuals of the genus, Giraffatitan (a sauropod similar to the more famous Brachiosaurus for those unfamiliar with ...
