I'm wondering the same about how many things died in the jaws of Stacey Abrams.
That’s why brontosauruses grew such long necks. Had to see over the sea of T Rexes.
With those tiny little arms I think the T. Rex were scavengers.
“2.5 billion over time”
Pfft, pikers. There are 7.5 billion humans right now all at once.
Maybe the T-rexes were held back by their teeny tiny forearms.
The Cretaceous Period lasted 80 millions years give or take. Why would 2.5 billion T Rexes be a stunning number?
Took three or four pieces of skeletons and extrapolated.
While it sounds like a large number, it’s only about 1/3 the population of humans alive today.
Now think about that from the standpoint of evolutionary theory. Supposedly these would have evolved from something else substantially different, and that process would have involved only a fraction of that population. The problem is that there are not nearly enough mutational resources in such limited populations for natural selection to work with to lead to substantial innovations. (If there were we’d be seeing some really interesting new life forms simply from the current generation of humans, for example.)
The problem gets even worse considering very small populations like many whales, which supposedly evolved very substantially over time. If I were still an evolutionist it’s the sort of thing that would keep me awake at night.
The horror! The horror!
Probably most of them are still around voting Democrat.
This sounds a bit like Howard Wolowitz’ calculation of how many single women were in LA area bars on any Friday night and his chances of scoring.
A little help here, I seem to have missed the part where the discuss the T Rex life expectancy and population curve data.
Where da feathers 🪶 🪶 🪶 ?
Where da feathers 🪶 🪶 🪶 ?
Where da feathers 🪶 🪶 🪶 ?
Fake News! ;)
You know how sometimes you wished you lived in simpler times, like maybe the 40’s after the war, or even as a sod-buster on the Prairie, kind of Laura Ingalls Wilder - without the smallpox, bloodthirsty Indians and your sister going blind? ;)
Of all the times to have lived in History, I wonder why nobody wishes they had lived during the Cretaceous period?
*SNORT*
Makes Jurassic Park look like a piker.
So, the real guess is between 2,000 and 200,000. Pretty much a SWAG.
Until now, no one has been able to compute population numbers ... and [someone] felt that it couldn’t be done.
First you take a SWAG, then you learn to multiply, and viola!!!, you're an expert!!! I wonder how much these people get paid for this "science".
That means there had to be at least 9 Trillion animals of prey just for their palate!!
(2.5b x 365 days)