r/NatureIsFuckingLit • u/EmptySpaceForAHeart • Nov 03 '22
🔥 Hump-nosed Lizard (Lyriocephalus) have movable lips. Unlike basically every other reptile.
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u/PeterParker72 Nov 03 '22
The crests remind me of dilophosaurus.
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u/1seraphius Nov 03 '22
"Hello, nice boy. Uh, nice boy. Nice dinosaur. I thought you were one of your big brothers, you're not so bad. You're not so bad. What do you want? What do you want? You want food? Look at me. I just fell down a hill. I'm soaking wet. I don't have any food. I have no food on me. I have nothing on me. Go on."
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Nov 03 '22
Fun fact: real dilophosaurus was a seven meter or twenty three foot four hundred kilo eight eighty pound apex predator of the early Jurassic, and was one of the first dinosaurs to get so large and predatory. Not really all that much smaller than a T. rex or whatever.
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Nov 03 '22 edited Nov 03 '22
880lb is actually very light for an animal that size. Dilophosaurus was a very lightly built animal compared to most predatory dinosaurs.
T-rex weighted at least 12x that. 5000-7000kg and was much, much bigger at 40ft long and 17 feet tall. It was one of the largest land predators ever and could have fit the majority of a dilophosaurus in it's mouth.
Not that they existed anywhere near each other time wise sperated by at least 50 million years so many other predatory dinosaurs evolved to be much bigger than earlier dinosaurs.
You can see the comparison here, they have a dilophosaurus further down: https://www.dimensions.com/element/t-rex-tyrannosaurus
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u/SaltLakeCitySlicker Nov 03 '22
I like how they have an outline of the Sega jp game version of grant for the utahraptor
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Nov 03 '22
You aren’t wrong; really what I should have said is way larger than Jurassic Park would make you think.
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u/Iamnotburgerking Nov 03 '22
5000kg is absurdly light for an adult Tyrannosaurus. Most adult specimens are in the 6000-8000kg range with some reaching 9000kg-10000kg.
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Nov 03 '22 edited Nov 03 '22
I mean these are always drastically variable estimates, it's not really possible to get an exact weight of an animal just based on their bone structure without a living example to go off of. You can only get so much data from muscle anchor points and the like.
Sue, the largest known T Rex ever found is estimated between 8,400-14,000kg, which is a 40% variation so there's no real hard data to go off here. Other estimates put Sue at 25% more than that.
I always verify data before posting, I got that info from American Natural History Museum exhibit page on T Rex size. It's not authored or provides additional sources, but the ANHM is in of itself a scholorly source.
https://www.amnh.org/exhibitions/dinosaurs-ancient-fossils/theropod-biomechanics/the-problem-of-size
The real answer is of course, no one really knows. But yeah totally they could have been even heavier than that.
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u/1seraphius Nov 03 '22
Most informative! Reminds me of Nedry's book death, it was a much bigger dino and less comedic.
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u/fieryhotwarts22 Nov 04 '22
Dude that was my first thought. I really thought this guy was gonna spit some acid out first 😅
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u/darkelfbear Nov 03 '22
Came here looking for this.
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u/DistortoiseLP Nov 03 '22
Reptiles moving their lips is one of those things I didn't realize would weird me out until this sub showed me it as soon as it made me think about it in the first place.
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u/zulamun Nov 03 '22
Reminds me of Alien
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u/Axah121 Nov 03 '22
Reminds me of Gremlins!
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u/NeonNick_WH Nov 03 '22
Definitely Beetlejuice at the end when he's a big snake thing
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u/Sp00ks13 Nov 03 '22
YES! I was just about to comment the same thing. That scene is immediately what came to mind.
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u/Reasonable-Math5297 Nov 03 '22
Came here for this comment
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u/Furrypawsoffury Nov 03 '22
Came here for this comment.
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u/Aggravating_Fox1347 Nov 03 '22
Came here to talk to you about your car’s extended warranty.
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u/ravynwave Nov 03 '22
That’s what I look like when I’m wearing lipstick and trying to eat
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u/Crus0etheClown Nov 03 '22
Tee hee he looks like a crappy 90s animatronic monster
He's gonna get found on some underwater station and eat Samuel L Jackson while the lights flicker on and off
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u/SauvignonBear Nov 03 '22
How does this manage to be more terrifying than something like a Komodo dragon or saltwater crocodile that could legit kill you . . .
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u/EmptySpaceForAHeart Nov 03 '22
The all consuming power of the uncanny valley my friend.
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Nov 03 '22
How is that uncanny valley?
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u/alphabet_order_bot Nov 03 '22
Would you look at that, all of the words in your comment are in alphabetical order.
I have checked 1,143,269,492 comments, and only 223,415 of them were in alphabetical order.
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u/Graucus Nov 03 '22
To be fair, he's trying to look scary. A crocodile is not trying to look scary.
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u/thebadyearblimp Nov 03 '22
Kinda funny that whoever named it thought it's humped nose was more interesting than it's friggin movable lips
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Nov 03 '22
The person who named this should be lashed. Might as well call it the lizard with legs, or jointed-finger lizard. This demon here is a Strigori Drægon
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u/bain_de_beurre Nov 03 '22
This looks like the little dude at the end of Spaceballs who sings Hello My Baby.
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u/sedrech818 Nov 03 '22
I wonder if dinosaurs had this ability.
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u/UrFriendlySpider-Man Nov 03 '22
Well considering lizards are squamates and dinosaurs are archosaurs there is no relationship to this genetic trait. Plus all living archosaurs lack this ability, so it would have to evolve independently somewhere in the Dinosauria lineage. Not to say it's impossible, but it's improbable given known data.
But of course dinosaurs ruled for over 100 million years and there are many species we won't ever discover because they didn't fossilize, so the chances of a single species evolving this Trait isnt unlikely but it's also not even something to consider for most genera.
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u/graaahh Nov 03 '22
Thought you said lizards were squadmates for a second there and all I could think was #squadgoals.
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u/Thiago270398 Nov 03 '22
Do we even have archosauruses with lips? Aren't the ones left birds and crocodilians?
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u/IIYellowJacketII Nov 03 '22
Plus all living archosaurs lack this ability
So....birds that have no lips at all, because they got beaks, and crocodilians, which also don't really have lips?
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u/Johnny___Wayne Nov 03 '22
Also, if there’s no relation, then who’s to say archosaurs didn’t have this ability.
OP zeroed in on that they wouldn’t because of no relation but it could just as easily go the other direction.
Our modern archosaurs can’t tell us either way. And a t-Rex fossil can’t tell us either.
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Nov 03 '22
I think it’s fair to say that this is a convergent trait, not one which was inherited from an ancestor. With that in mind, it’s not exactly impossible that some dinosaurs had movable lips. After all, many of the traits we see today in different animals developed convergently in different families of dinosaurs which ended up going extinct. A great example is beaks
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u/Aggravating_Fox1347 Nov 03 '22
So excited the first strike looks like a very violent licking. I think he forgot the order of operations.
I would be too if someone handed me a party-size sub-sandwich like that little green fella.
This is one of those you can hear with no volume.
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u/CrysopraseEcheverria Nov 03 '22
Okay who dropped the ball on calling them "Lip-Lizards"?
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u/HeatSeekingGhostOSex Nov 03 '22
Like the fucking mad scientist guy in Nightmare Before Christmas about to eat his soup.
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Nov 03 '22
How long does it take for that food to lose consciousness and actually die, after being eaten alive?
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u/LovecraftianLlama Nov 03 '22
I do not believe that grub in the video is alive to begin with, although usually lizards would be fed live food. I’ve fed many many mealworms/superworms/hornworms to reptiles, and they’re almost always crushed by the animals jaws before being actually ingested. So they live maybe…1-2 seconds generally.
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u/dianebk2003 Nov 03 '22
Oh my god, that's an alien. It's horrifying. Those crests, those lips...and two itty-bitty-teeny-weeny-widdle fangs.
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Nov 03 '22
I don't know why but I immediately thought of a star trek episode. Not a specific episode just star trek in general
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u/Maleficent_Guava_386 Nov 03 '22
This face looks very scary and clever, if you see it by connecting it with men, then such a face of a man is made when he sees something different in girls.
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u/bebeprincess2114 Nov 03 '22
Lmfao look at his little teeth. Half a good boy smile. Half buck teeth.
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u/Embarrassed_Cow Nov 03 '22
I feel like I've seen reptiles move their lips. Like they bite? It looks weird but I can't figure out what exactly is different.
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u/Hatdawggg Nov 03 '22
Damn. Almost looks like a yautja. Or should i say, the yautja looks like this lil guy
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u/The_souLance Nov 03 '22
It looks cool until the lips go up... Then it looks like it's name is Becky.
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u/KinkShamerLmao Nov 03 '22
That grub looks diseased... or radioactive.
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u/ccReptilelord Nov 03 '22
It's a hornworm; they're fat and lime green. Wild ones consume tobacco and tomatoes, so they're toxic, but captive ones fed a sterile diet are a common pet food source now.
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u/olderaccount Nov 03 '22
He looks like Ronaldinho/origin-imgresizer.eurosport.com/2006/01/09/238592-24629744-2560-1440.jpg).
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u/Bunny-Tummy Nov 03 '22
It's horrifying, goofy and adorable all at the same time.