{"id":25494,"date":"2022-10-27T10:27:46","date_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=25494"},"modified":"2022-10-27T10:27:46","modified_gmt":"2022-10-27T14:27:46","slug":"the-mystery-of-t-rex-and-its-tiny-arms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=25494","title":{"rendered":"The Mystery of T-Rex and its tiny arms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20221025-why-did-t-rex-have-such-puny-arms\">https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20221025-why-did-t-rex-have-such-puny-arms<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0T. rex<\/em> is almost as famous for its withered little arms as for its enormous teeth \u2013 they&#8217;re so totally out of proportion, they almost look like they&#8217;ve been plucked from another species and simply stuck on, in a throwback to the hilarious blunders of bone assembly from the 19th Century (such as the time <em>Stegosaurus<\/em>&#8216; signature diamond-shaped back plates were <a href=\"https:\/\/www.alamy.com\/stock-photo-ideal-american-landscape-during-the-jurassic-epoch-based-on-professor-57314234.html?imageid=DC03ABF7-E517-42B0-82F3-C6CA32A33B51&amp;p=75935&amp;pn=1&amp;searchId=fe3645911043048174487df7c56f7e10&amp;searchtype=0\">added to its tail instead<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You can look at his arms and say, well, these are ridiculous. They&#8217;re so different than anything around today, what is the point,&#8221; says L J Krumenacker, a palaeontologist at Idaho State University.<\/p>\n<p>With arms that might measure just <a href=\"https:\/\/www.universityofcalifornia.edu\/news\/why-t-rex-has-tiny-arms\">3ft (0.9m) long<\/a> on a 45-ft (13.7m) individual, this formidable carnivore&#8217;s hilariously small appendages have been a source of intense speculation ever since they were discovered \u2013 despite decades of studying them, to this day no one has any idea what they&#8217;re for.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20221025-why-did-t-rex-have-such-puny-arms\">READ MORE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/future\/article\/20221025-why-did-t-rex-have-such-puny-arms \u00a0T. rex is almost as famous for its withered little arms as for its enormous teeth \u2013 they&#8217;re so totally out of proportion, they almost look like they&#8217;ve been plucked from another species and simply stuck on, in a throwback to the hilarious blunders of bone assembly from the 19th Century (such as the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/?p=25494\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Mystery of T-Rex and its tiny arms<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":645,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1651],"tags":[434],"class_list":["post-25494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dinosaurs-and-company","tag-t-rex"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/645"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=25494"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25496,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25494\/revisions\/25496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monsffa.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}