2024-05-13 19:50:36
Spinosaurs, gigantosaurus, carnotaurus and T. rex are among the largest animals ever found on the planet. EDWIN BUTTER / Edwin Butter – stock.adobe.com
DECRYPTION – Theropods, of which birds are the only descendants, were among them the largest two-legged animals that have ever populated the earth.
What do the T. rex and the canary have in common? They both belong to the large family of theropods, these bipedal dinosaurs of which birds are the last representatives on earth. New work carried out by the paleontologist from the National Museum of Natural History, Romain Pintore, and published in the journal Paleobiology, allow us to understand the biological mechanisms which allowed certain representatives of this group to reach masses of several tonnes and to make them the largest bipedal animals in the entire history of life.
The theropod group is extremely diverse. It has more than 10,000 species, including the famous T. rex and the velociraptor. Scientists’ interest in the bipedalism of these animals is not new. It was therefore long thought that these dinosaurs stood vertically, like us, carelessly letting their tails trail behind them, a bit like a…
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