![]() Even the map itself is based on what we know of a real life location. This isn't walking over the past- this is walking inside the past, or at least as close a simulation of it as we can provide. Saurian is in part a celebration of this, using as much as we know about that world as we can to reconstruct it and place you right inside it. We are learning more and more every day about worlds that vanished tens of millions of years ago. They were living, breathing animals that walked the earth, and science enables us to learn ever more about them. And the idea that female Tyrannosaurus were larger than the males falls into this very category of preconcieved notions with no real grounding in the evidence. That, unfortunately, means that along the way preconcieved notions may be dashed to pieces along the by the evidence. Their names have nothing to due with the sex of the animal in life- as I noted, with Tyrannosaurus the only way we can tell is by the presence of medullary bone, and that tells us specifically that the animal was female and pregnant.Īs a community, we encourage people to learn everything they can about these animals, because we love them and consider them to be among the most fascinating animals to have walked the earth. I'm fine with giving dinosaurs a new modern look but please do not try to ruin and walk all over what I grew up with, alright? We don't know the sex of any those. To be honest it's like you're just saying things for the sake of it at this point. Originally posted by OmegaKiryu827:I'm not gonna say anything else and leave this here. Same goes with appearance, male animals do not always differ from the females in color. Male animals aren't always larger on average than female animals, and vice versa. But there isn't really anything to indicate it in Tyrannosaurus and Dakotaraptor, or their relatives. Due to the different sizes, you can expect the playable experience of the two genders to differ not just in breeding season but in day to day life.Īnyways, where we had evidence of potential sex-based size dimorphism, we went with it. This is in fact the case with, and reflected in, Anzu, where we have gone with the interpretation that the differently sized remains found represent male and female animals. but that dimorphism comes into play outside the breeding season as well as within it, since as any falconer can tell you the small males and larger females excel at hunting different prey. Keep in mind, modern birds of prey are indeed dimorphic. Same goes for dromaeosaurs, there is no evidence one gender was larger than the other (Pterosaurs, specifically Pteranodon, are another story and good example of what dimorphism might look like preserved in the fossil record, even if they are not part of Dinosauria). Frankly, there is no evidence for sized based dimorphism in Tyrannosaurus. Notably, Sue does not posssess this, and understandably it hasn't been located in many specimens. which also tells us it was pregnant at the moment it died. ![]() The only way we can tell if a Tyrannosaurus was female is by finding medullary bone. Originally posted by OmegaKiryu827:Female T-Rexes were larger than males. ![]()
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