OK. Dinosaurs on amphetamines it looks like, alright. All the tails are strung straight out. Why? Well it turns out that this is some of the new thinking about dinosaurs, rather than slow, sluggish, wandering through swamps, we're fast, we're energetic, we're dynamic. Ok. We are physically fit and we are dinosaurs, alright. That's the idea. Actually the anatomical evidence seems to suggest this more. Again, the old idea was dinosaurs were part of an evolutionary sort of dead-end. Sort of, "Ah, they're good for evolution but the reason they died out is that they just couldn't cut it with mammals." Alright. I always hated that, because again, it's that mammal/bird bias. Alright. Alright, strung out tails, way out there. It looks like there's several things that perhaps suggest this is possible. One is they seem to have inter-locking vertebra in their tails that actually held them out like this. Two, for something like, oop, alright, we will look at the Hadrosaurs. What we have is a real good engineering sort of thing here, alright. We have counterbalancing on a beam, alright. And the idea is, Ok, here's your leg. Ok, we're drawing stick dinosaurs so, just go there. Here's your tail. Here's your body and head. Every thing is balanced on the center of gravity here. What we have is amazing design. Incredible design cause something like T. Rex is up to eight tons. That's a lot of weight to put on two legs. But what are we arguing about? We're arguing about facets of design. Design that paleontologist didn't see there before. And the more we look at these animals, we see that incredible design.
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