bonus fun fact: analysis of t-rex footprints show that their feet had padding that muffled their footsteps meaning they could be extremely quiet and very sneaky when they wanted
I'm not sure if it's still true or not but I remember in Jurassic fight club they had explained that the pads helped pick up vibrations aswell, helping it detect nearby prey
It definitely has the best looking T. rex design I've seen in modern media and its pretty good. Its heftier. It doesn't have any feathers (but few hair-like nearly invisible spurs at most), its teeth aren't visible, it has lips, its brow crests look good (some reconstructions make them look like tumors rather than crests but this series didnt), not shrink-wrapped. Only thing it was missing, was its tongue being flat and immobile like crocodiles. The only inaccuracy that stood out to me was just that it had a moving tongue similar to mammals and birds, but it shouldn't. Immobile tongues likely made it more efficient to bite things without it in the way or crushing it. It also didnt show how T. rex is thought to have eaten Triceratops, but first removing the head away from the body, to get it out of the way (frill and horns) then eat the rest. It PP instead had the T. rex try to dig behind its neck to eat without removing the head first. I hope in the future, they could maybe add those missing minor details in.
T Rex was like a mix between a very big eagle and a very big Ostrich. And those don't look like cutting teeth (carion) but grabbing teeth ( live prey).
This is still a topic of debate, but there was evidence of enamel on their teeth which would have decayed if they didn't have "lips". They also have sockets on their jaws which are present on lizards which don't show their teeth. However this is still up to some debate, and Jurassic Park came out in the 90s and was relatively accurate for it's time (it suggested an asteroid impact as well as a dinosaurian origin of birds before those ideas were generally accepted), so at the time it could have gone either way. Unfortunately because Jurassic Park was so successful that even though it was scientifically progressive for its time, the general public's image of dinosaurs crystallized around it and never moved on (downward facing arms, scaly raptors, legally blind T. rex, etc).
@@WaterbottlecheetoWhile we can't be directly sure whether it had a preference for a diurnal or a nocturnal lifestyle, the large size of _T. rex's_ eyes and the fact that it's heavily reliant on vosion based on CT scans on braincase means that it at least had really good low-light vision, and based on modern predators it most certainly would have exploited that IRL.
There's no direct evidence supporting the notion that _T. rex_ is diurnal either, if anything the large size of _T. rex's_ eyes and the fact that it's heavily reliant on vision based on CT scans on braincase means that it at least had really good low-light vision, and based on modern predators it most certainly would have exploited that IRL.
