And keep in mind there weren't just large beasts, but small ones as well. People tend to focus on the big ones, because they are most impressive, but they came in the full range of sizes. Just imagine how alien our planet looked compared to what we are used to now.

Do we really know that they fought eachother though?

Maybe they were all like super chill and held hands and sang songs and stuff.

I just watched a long form video on the difference between war and conflict, and how we can’t really call many animal conflicts ’war’.

And then how some animal conflicts, like ant and chimp wars really are war. It was pretty cool.

Since some dinosaurs species were around for a very long time, I wonder whether they did wage war? They had plenty of time to develop culture and more than enough to hate each other. Maybe war really never changes.

eta: and as mum to a young dino enthusiast back in the day, I hope they were that complex cuz that’s groovy. Still hip to please that little boy, lol.

They did not fight each other for 100 billion years. It was about 180 million years, which is just as impressive considering it’s actually true, and the billions figure is just exaggeration.

And the birdies you listen to when they chirp and throw seed to are still them.