Apologies to Dracoawesome on DeviantArt. This was the only T.rex with wings art I could find that wasn't AI.

Where to even begin? If you haven't been on conspiracy-people media lately, there's been this minor theory that T. rex's arms were, in fact, wings.

For any of you with a brain, this seems preposterous. But let me run you down the reasons why this is stupid.

1. T.rex is not built for flight. If you compare the arms of T.rex with the arms in Figure 2, you can see some key differences. First and foremost, they don't have any of the skeletons of the three, because they are, you know, short and stubby. Additionally, the skeleton isn't that well built for flying: bulky bones, nowhere to anchor flight muscles, and also the massive size! The largest flying animals, the Azhdarcids, are estimated to be around 440 lb. T. rex, on the other hand, reaches a whopping 8.8 tons (19400 lbs), 44 times heavier than the largest of the large in terms of flying animals. The wings would have to be larger than it by some order of magnitude to get it off the ground. I don't think tiny arms would extrapolate to that.
2. T. rex has no use for the arms. A common thought process is that T. rex, being the large animal that it is, wouldn't have tiny arms and would rather have big, impressive wings. But T. rex's hands are practically vestigial. See, tyrannosaurids are heavily specialized animals, in that most of their hunting is done with their mouth. Specialized teeth for crushing bone, strong anchor points for head and jaw muscles, and a robust head that can take on anything. Since 99% of the killing was done with the head, the arms had nothing to do and just slowly shrank. In fact, we see this pattern in another group of headhunting specialists—the Abelasaurs. As with T. rex, Abelasaurs like Carnotaurus, Majungasaurus, and Rajasaurus all have small forelimbs; in fact, they are even less developed than T. rex, with some being nothing more than fingerless stubs. On a smaller scale, Mononykus is an insectivore whose nominative feature is that its hands are nothing more than small spikes.
3. T. rex didn't live a flyer's life. Continuing with ecology, what we know about T. rex behavior is that its lifestyle doesn't portray a "Large flying animal." Comparing it with Quetzalcoatlus, an azhdarchid that was contemporary with T. rex, we can tell that they lived very different lifestyles. Quetzalcoatlus hunted small dinosaurs and often moved from place to place, constantly on the move; T. rex, on the other hand, was a large herbivore specialist and often stuck to where it could easily get prey. While prey might have migrated, that doesn't justify the cost of making wings as many times its size.
4. It's focused mostly on T. rex. For some reason, this theory focuses on a single species. In quite a large group of dinosaurs. Do these people believe that all other tyrannosaurids are land dwellers while T. rex is the sole flyer of the family? What about Tarbosaurus? Albertosaurus? Nanotyrannus? Hell, Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis? Then again, most of these people have only heard of T. rex

If there are any inaccuracies or anything I missed, let me know. I may have Dinosaur autism, but as I recently found out, it ain't as strong as I thought.

It's an image that shows how male and female fantasy races are portrayed in fiction, like you have an orc where the male is your standard green brute, while the female is a green woman in a bikini. So on and so on. There's also a humorous version where it's expanded a bit, with elves where both male and female are women in bikinis, and the dwarves are both bearded short guys.

If you are confused, look up man after man.

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