Dinosaurs were even taller, scarier than we thought

The icon of a mammoth dinosaur towering above its incapacitated target just got a little bite more frightening , as it turns out dinosaur had thick layers of cartilage between their bones that added up to an extra 10 % of summit .

Casey Holliday , a prof of anatomy at the University of Missouri , excuse how his squad made this lurid determination :

“ Our study of the arm of modern - day congenator of dinosaurs shows that dinosaur were significantly marvelous than original appraisal . The ends of many dinosaur ’ long bones , which admit leg finger cymbals such as the femur or tibia , are rounded and raspy and lack major articulating bodily structure like condyles , which are bony acoustic projection . This indicate that very buddy-buddy gristle formed these structures , and therefore the joints themselves , and would have added significant height to certain dinosaurs . This subject field put up new datum into how and why reptiles , and mammals , such as homo , build their articulation with such dissimilar amounts of bone and gristle . ”

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