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You probably wouldn't say it to its face, but the famously fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex has long been the butt of tiny arm jokes. But new research could explain their hilarious hands, though it offers no guarantee it will stifle the giggles.
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... Then, the researchers compared the length of the forelimbs with the length and robustness of the skull in 61 theropod species.
Sure enough, the link between reduced forelimbs and skull robustness was found to be strong in five separate families of theropods: tyrannosaurids, abelisaurids, carcharodontosaurids, megalosaurids, and ceratosaurids.
Skull or body size alone didn't seem to correlate with forelimb size. Many of these predators grew into behemoths, but some stayed relatively small, even while packing a powerful head/tiny arm combo.
Stranger still, the team found that, across different lineages, the arms shrank by different proportions. In some cases, the whole limb shrank in tandem, but in others, some parts shortened more than others. ...
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Drivers and mechanisms of convergent forelimb reduction in non-avian theropod dinosaurs
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