The dinosaur room at the American Museum of Natural History. I found this exhibit fascinating. I used to come here when I was a kid when scientists believed that T-Rex stood upright on its powerful hind legs. In the past recent years, though, they have come to believe that T-Rex walked more parallel to the ground because musculo-skeletal physics doesn't support that it walked upright. Evidence of T-Rex tracks also gives no indication that its tail dragged on the ground behind it like
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
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The dinosaur room at the American Museum of Natural History. I found this exhibit fascinating. I used to come here when I was a kid when scientists believed that T-Rex stood upright on its powerful hind legs. In the past recent years, though, they have come to believe that T-Rex walked more parallel to the ground because musculo-skeletal physics doesn't support that it walked upright. Evidence of T-Rex tracks also gives no indication that its tail dragged on the ground behind it likeGodzilla in the upright model. So they re-constructed the bones to reflect the more recent understanding of the way T-Rex moved. Viscerally and aesthetically, I found this posture more appealing and credible.
The dinosaur room at the American Museum of Natural History. I found this exhibit fascinating. I used to come here when I was a kid when scientists believed that T-Rex stood upright on its powerful hind legs. In the past recent years, though, they have come to believe that T-Rex walked more parallel to the ground because musculo-skeletal physics doesn't support that it walked upright. Evidence of T-Rex tracks also gives no indication that its tail dragged on the ground behind it like
