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Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever

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Re: Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever

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Post by mavhc »

smabie wrote: post #44
sib wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Giraffes also reach up to eat. (They do look quite funny when bending down to drink, though!)

I used to live in Tanzania and over there, the trees are mostly shorter than the giraffes, but I'm sure they reach up to eat sometimes. I guess my point was that giraffes didn't evolve long necks to eat.

They have long legs to eat, and a long neck so they can still drink while having long legs

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11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #8

It could step over an elephant: https://paleontology.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/David-Att... from: https://paleontology.us/titanosaurus/

I'm familiar with many non-standard measurements, but neither Google nor my dictionary is able to tell me what's a "skipful".

Anyone would like to give me the definition in SI?

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Post by unwind »

Tade0 wrote: post #64
11thEarlOfMar wrote: post #8

It could step over an elephant: https://paleontology.us/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/David-Att... from: https://paleontology.us/titanosaurus/

I'm familiar with many non-standard measurements, but neither Google nor my dictionary is able to tell me what's a "skipful". Anyone would like to give me the definition in SI?

"Skip" is British English for "container" [1].

Of course they come in various sizes, so it means anything from 1.5 m³ to just over 6 m³. A very rough measure, in other words, which makes sense in context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_(container)

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otabdeveloper4 wrote: post #45
zappo2938 wrote: post #11

My first thought is to wonder how hard it would be to train

It was probably really dumb.

Sauropods heads are comparable in size to horses or cows, both of which are more intelligent than they are generally thought of as being.

Re: Dinosaur unearthed in Argentina could be largest land animal ever

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Post by shatnersbassoon »

unwind wrote: post #66
Tade0 wrote: post #64

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'm familiar with many non-standard measurements, but neither Google nor my dictionary is able to tell me what's a "skipful". Anyone would like to give me the definition in SI?

"Skip" is British English for "container" [1]. Of course they come in various sizes, so it means anything from 1.5 m³ to just over 6 m³. A very rough measure, in other words, which makes sense in context. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skip_(container)

"Skip" is actually British English for "dumpster"
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