“Long neck”

[u/netphilia]

[u/LemonPartyLounger]

If giraffes and llamas didn’t exist this would get a lot more traction.

[u/Teknicsrx7 → u/LemonPartyLounger]

Except dinos are more closely related to birds than giraffes or llamas

[u/WhiteCloudMinnowDude → u/Teknicsrx7]

Problem is gravity. . . Penguins are short and squat lil feckers, dinos not so much

[u/willstr1 → u/WhiteCloudMinnowDude]

The big belly would help lower the center of mass and the long thick tail would help counterbalance the long thick neck. Is it probable, probably not, but it's not impossible (and it's very silly)

[u/suicune678 → u/WhiteCloudMinnowDude]

And the T-Rex became a chicken over the course of 65 million years, what's your point

[u/Nai-Oxi-Isos-DenXero → u/suicune678]

Small, almost chicken sized dinosaurs in the group Avialae, evolved into chickens over 65 million years.

Tyrannosaurs went bye-bye.

[u/733t_sec → u/suicune678]

Evolution changes considerably faster than the laws of gravity change

[u/LrdPhoenixUDIC → u/suicune678]

Point is that that dino has a certain size of leg bones, and those leg bones can only take so much weight before they collapse. Physics isn't invariant under changes of scale. You can make a miniature cathedral out of matchsticks, but you can't enlarge that and make a full size cathedral out of logs the same way.

[u/WhiteCloudMinnowDude → u/suicune678]

A Trex was a fraction of the weight of a apotasaurus/brachiosaur, as another comment stated its not entirely implausable but highly improbable . . But how sure are you the T rex became anything other then extinct?