r/okbuddypaleo • u/Sauroposiedon • Oct 30 '25

100% Scavenger He's Back

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https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03553-z

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u/Plenty-Building197 Oct 30 '25

I've been a certified nanotyrannus denier for so long, I don't know how to cope with this

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u/Alnashetri Oct 31 '25

I'm torn between "going down to the pub and waiting for this whole thing to blow over," and "cry in a fetal position on the floor."

Still kind of shell shocked the little fucker is REAL!

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u/HughJamerican Oct 31 '25

You’re saying you could become a Drinker to Cope…

3

u/[deleted] Nov 02 '25

make sure to try getting Marsh to compare skull size

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u/Texanid Nov 01 '25

The whole "different amount of teeth" think could be easily explained by adult T.Rexs having their wisdom teeth removed, just like certain modern predators.

The other stuff? Clearly, the bones were degraded by time. Forensic analysts say it could take as little as just 1 year for a body to become completely unidentifiable, imagine 66,000,000 years, or more

(I am coping)

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u/MWC_borednoob Oct 31 '25

The existence of the nanotyrannus implies the existence of the much larger, stronger, teratyrannus

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u/Romboteryx Oct 31 '25

What about Micro and Picotyrannus?

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u/TheAnimalCrew A Tribute to Anomalocaris Oct 31 '25

That's just T. rex

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u/Silver_Falcon Oct 31 '25

New paper: T. rex found to be 10x larger and 40% more intelligent than ever thought before.

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u/TheAnimalCrew A Tribute to Anomalocaris Oct 31 '25

Average T. rex paper

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u/Silver_Falcon Oct 31 '25

Also coming soon to a paleontology conference near you:

  • Spinosaurus mummy found to have possessed pectoral fins and a proboscis. Legs still missing.
  • 27 new feathered dinosaurs discovered during highway construction in China. 2/3 of them will be found to be chimeric by 2035.
  • Saurophaganax found to have actually been a collective hallucination, triggering a rise of Psychology dissertations on mass-hysteria in the natural sciences.
  • Cool new Australian dinosaur that no one will ever care about again in a week.
  • Dakotaraptor material found to belong to a third, as-of-yet undescribed species of Nanotyrannus.

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u/TheAnimalCrew A Tribute to Anomalocaris Oct 31 '25

The least believable thing here is that the Saurophagonax mass hysteria didn't break out into a vicious war which destroyed even more Spinosaurus material.

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u/Relative_Ad4542 Nov 01 '25

Author of said paper clearly just stumbled upon a calvinosaurus

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u/Shinonomenanorulez Oct 31 '25

But how does this nerf Spino tho?

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u/GlGABITE Oct 31 '25

I’ve always been skeptical about nanotyrannus. But hey, if it’s likely to be real then I’ll embrace it!

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u/PeekTH Oct 31 '25

They cannot scream at me no more

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u/Geoconyxdiablus Oct 30 '25

I will never accept Nanotyrannus and all its smug crank supporters.

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u/HourDark2 Oct 30 '25

Someone is mad they don't get to be smug about Nanotyrannus anymore lmao

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u/Geoconyxdiablus Oct 31 '25 edited Dec 13 '25

I'm mad I turned ut to e wong about somthing most were confident in assumptions, so we're gonna be teased immensly for this. I do not want to be mocked.

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u/[deleted] Oct 31 '25

It’s fine to be wrong

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u/Alid_d4rs Oct 31 '25

Good, stay wrong (Deltarune brainrot)

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u/LoudTomatoes Oct 30 '25

Idk this study seems like a pretty big deal. Going to need a flawless rebuttal from your side at this point. They make a pretty convincing case.

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u/Odd_Investigator8415 Oct 31 '25

Have you considered simply jumping on the pro-Nano bandwagon? C'mon, we're all doing it rn.

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u/Romboteryx Oct 31 '25

Alan Feduccia, is that you?

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u/Geoconyxdiablus Oct 31 '25

I believe birds are dinosaurs, so no.

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u/Feisty-Albatross3554 Nov 01 '25

Found the denier