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.)
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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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Effect of Modern Firearms on Dinosaurs
Man vs Dinosaur. It is a relatively common trope in various Sci fi settings, most famously done in Jurassic Park. These depictions have always fascinated me. I have always been bothered, however, by ...
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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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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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Which dinosaurs could be domesticated?
I have heard that in order to be domesticable, the animal has to satisfy the 4 Fs:
Friendly
Fecund
Feedable
Family-oriented
Okay so let's narrow this down. All dinosaurs would fall under Fecund ...
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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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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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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?
I've reviewed the ...
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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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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 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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How to do dental surgery on a T-Rex tooth?
In my world, Dinohumania, dinosaurs and humans coexist. There are ways humans benefit from and utilize dinosaurs, mainly for industrial/laboral activities and heavy tasks. Humans try to maintain a ...
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Is it plausible for only living animals to be valid candidates for cloning?
So in my seting an alternate universe that's 67 million years "behind" ours, T. rex is on the brink of extinction early, with only 1 member left due to extreme overhunting by universe ...
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If a species keeps growing throughout their 200-300 year life, what "growth curve" would be most reasonable/realistic?
In my fantasy world, I have the suchians, a race of reptilian humanoids that live for 200-300 years and keep growing throughout their lives. I am wondering what a reasonable "growth curve" ...
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What would be the best way to kill an Albertosaurus with only stone age weapons?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albertosaurus
Going to have my male human protagonist kill an Albertosaurus with stone age weapons. However as this is in self defense I was just curious to know how ...
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What is the largest animal that a person could kill with stone age weaponry 66 MYA? What is the biggest one they can kill in self defense?
So basically two people are transported back in time to 66 MYA ago with just their clothes on their back, a month of rations and the time machine that sent them back.
They're going to spend the next ...
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How much territory would a 200-450 kilogram solitary Carnivorous Dinosaur need to survive in a jungle, forest, woodland or similar environment?
I’ll give you all some context here.
In, the story that I’m writing, two characters are investigating a scientist who is responsible for unethical practices or is not properly following known ...
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Would Dinosaurs be too stupid to persist in a modern world?
In the Jurassic Park movies dinosaurs are portrayed as super predators, but how would they realistically do in our modern world if cloned?
The 65 million years of evolution that separates us might not ...
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What would be the best time period, in the age of the dinosaurs to send two people back to for maximum survival?
I'll give you a bit of context and understanding. What's happened is that two people are investigating a scientist who was believed to be involved in suspicious practices and they end up discovering ...
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Defending against dinosaurs with an automatic shotgun that fires miniaturized anti-tank munitions
Like any reasonable billionaire, I want to breed dinosaurs on my private island - big ones. Like, T-Rex big. Of course, one needs a well-armed security force to guard such an endeavor, lest the ...
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How could I calculate the necessary power to kill a fictional beast?
Say we have a pterodactyl-wyvern or a huge dragon-anaconda, maybe something like a t-rex, or a sand-crocodile, or a slime--- you get the idea. Assuming one wanted to make a fictional manual with ...
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Could non-avian dinosaurs survive if introduced into modern world? [duplicate]
Lets say Jurassic park somehow came to existence and someone cloned dinosaurs genetically identical to ones of the past and tried to keep them in a zoo. Could the dinosaurs survive as is?
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How to estimate size of ketamin dose to sedate a T. rex.?
To mark the anniversary of our company we have decided to introduce to our VIP guests a once in a lifetime opportunity to get intimate with the dinosaurs, we will put the animal to sleep so the guests ...
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What can we eat in the late Cretaceous?
Suppose there is a team of explorers sent back in time 66 million years ago somewhere before the K-T event took place, the mission is to spend no more than 3 months to retrieve a blood sample from a ...
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Feasibility of this population of surviving dinosaurs
We assume the following for this scenario:
There is a kind of surviving non-avian dinosaur.
They live primarily in Congo Basin.
They evolved from a smaller, omnivorous kind.
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Shantungosaurus chase, mad max style
I have a scene where there's a Shantungosaurus chase in Mad Max style, except there's no such thing as motor technology and the closest thing to guns are portable repeating polybolos (scoprion ...
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How to weaponize the dinosaurs [closed]
If we had the ability to recreate dinosaurs; what technology would be required to overcome the hurdles of using them in modern combat?
The things that came to my mind was cryogenic storage to reduce ...
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Why didn't the military give T-rex clones a bigger more powerful arms?
In the near future we have the technology to clone prehistoric animals. Although it will not be the same as the original, certainly we can make a meaner version of it.
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How big animals could survive on an island the size of Madagascar
I've been making a story about an lost world island, roughly the size of Madagascar, (593.40 km²). I have currently estimated that I could have herbivorous animals up to 3 tons in weight (sauropods) , ...
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Would it be possible to mount a working minigun onto the saddle of a tyrannosaurid dinosaur?
My modern setting has these humanoids called the Degenerates whose culture draws inspiration from those of Indo-Iranian steppe nomads like the Scythians, Sarmatians and Parthians who fight as mounted ...
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Could dinosaurs survive in today's environment?
I've read some conflicting theories regarding ancient atmosphere (some say it had more oxygen, but others dispute it) being relevant to survival of large dinosaurs.
So my question is: is it ...
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is it possible in a given world to ride a triceratops and so how would it work?
I've been thinking about this world that's been in my mind and one of the things in it are drake knights which are warriors who raised and ride domesticate breed of triceratops like the war elephants ...
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A plausible scientific explanation for Late Cretaceous dinosaurs DNA to be preserved, and viable enough to be cloned (or closest recreation)
Worldbuilding, thank you for your time. I came to this site to ask a few questions and get advice, if possible, on a project I'm working on.
I have always been a fan Turok, Dino Crissis, Cage of Eden, ...
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How Would A Velociraptor Wear Clothes?
Technically the name of this question is a bit of a misnomer, as I'm not talking about just Velociraptor mongoliensis, but any dromaeosaur (or dromaeosaur-shaped creature I suppose). How would, ...
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Why a dromaeosaurid would evolve to lose its legs? (to become an Quetzalcoatl/Amphithere)
An amphithere is a dragon from some European mythologies is described as a feathered snake, long body and wings with feathers, so basically can be stretchily compared with some Quetzalcoatl ...
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How long should an egg-laying species of human size and intelligence gestate and incubate its eggs?
In my fantasy world I have a species of reptilian humanoids.
Their body mass, lifespan and overall intelligence is about the same as humans. This probably means similarly sized brains.
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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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If dinosaurs had a civilization, how primitive must it have been to leave no trace in the present?
I am thinking of, yes, a simple story with intelligent dinosaurs, but I am not interested (And I sincerely prefer) that they are not sufficiently advanced in my history to be comparable to modern ...
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Would dragons be less popular if their skeletons were as frequent as skeletons of dinosaurs?
Dragons are kind of a cult. They are very popular in movies, books and stories in general.
It feels that the dragons are only a better dinosaur. So I wonder, would finding their skeletons affect ...
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Trying to make cavemen and dinosaur battle [closed]
I'm trying to make a world with dinosaurs but with cavemen to fight them.
Which prehistoric weapons or ways to hunt are capable to slay the beast, like T-Rex
The most complete specimen measures up to ...
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If the Roman Empire in the Year 90 AD Found a Living Tyrannosaurus Rex, What Creature in Their Mythology Would They Most Likely Mistake It For?
I'm writing a story where a group of mischievous aliens teleport iconic creatures to inappropriate time periods. (Dimetrodons in colonial Germany, Pterodactyls in the medieval Ottoman Empire, ...
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Quadrupedal super predators [closed]
Could a quadrupedal carnivore reach similar sizes to that of large theropods. I know crocodilians technically count, but they're very low to the ground and have sprawled out limbs, so could a ...
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