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Once upon a time, a a mostly joking article put forward and interesting hyptothesis about the plates on a Stegosaurus's back. It claimed these dinosaurs didn't have the plates for defense against predators, or for display, or for regulating their body heat, and not even to make it easy for their own kind to recognize each other. No, what the article claims they were REALLY for was GLIDING in the air. And then we found a toy that "definitely" was made with this idea in mind. For reals.
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The Ogden standard-examiner. August 15, 1920, COMIC SECTION, Page 8, Image 32
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I know that theory wasn't being remotely serious, even back then, but I still love it for the sheer goofiness. Stegosaurus has been my boy since I was 4, and I'll take any win it can get.
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I really hope the kite came from a place of knowing that published gliding hypothesis and not just from the pun "Stego-soar-us"
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I think the plates flapped, like a train of a dozen giant bees. The stegosaurus would slowly rise from the ground, tip forward, and trundle forward at a jogging pace. During flight the stegosaurus was safe from predators not because it was fast, but because the sound of the flying behemoth would vibrate the air so violently that you could feel it in your bones.
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The kite exists purely because kids like stegosauruses. They don't need to be accurate.
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New theory: the plates could spin like a circular saw, giving the Stegosaurus two deadly weapons on its back.
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Every phrase up to the reveal is better than the last one lmao
34 | 0
Still somehow less silly than the "Dimetrodon pairing sail wings" conjecture... or the fire breathing Parasaurolophus.
111 | 0
Stegosaurus Gliding of off clifs tickled me pink
I haven't laughed that hard in a while
45 | 1
Imagine those plates undulating sideways like an anomalocaris LOL
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Thankfully the Stegosaurus in the movie People That Time Forgot doesnβt fly but merely helps the characters tow a crashed airplane.
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Yeah, that's why the tail had spikes, to slow it down once it reached the ground. Like an F-18 landing on an aircraft carrier.
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Just imagine a stegosaurus flying like the gronkles from how to train your dragon
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To anyone seeing this. You should definitely read some of Edgar Rice Burroughs old dinosaur books. They're wild, and very much a time capsule of what we thought dinosaurs were back then.
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That would be simply terrifying to see a Stegosaurus jump off a cliff and glide towards you!
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i'd imagine that this is part of a series of dinosaur kites with one for "all your favorites"--there's probably a tyrannosaur kite, too, for example
3 | 0
Boss: "Alright, new ideas for kite designs. Give me what you got."
Employee: "Dinosaur."
Boss: "Sure."
Employee: "What kind?"
Boss: "I don't care, you decide. Next idea!"
Employee, absolute Stegosaurus fanatic, beaming with joy: "Yes, Sir!"
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I assume they design the shape of the kite first based on whatever flies well, then make art to fit it. The stego is weirdly contorted to fit.
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You ever seen a kite of a Disney princess before?
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This has been one of my favorite off the wall hypothesis for decades. I'll periodically link to the original article when the subject of odd dinosaur hypotheses comes up on r/paleontology
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5 months ago
To be clear, the article was never proposing this as a serious hypothesis. We just thought it'd be fun to pretend it was.
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