Dave Hone

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Lex Fridman Podcast · #480 – Dave Hone: T-Rex, Dinosaurs, Extinction, Evolution, and Jurassic Park · 4 Sep 2025 podcast

And it's like, yeah, but if you're hunting...

something big that's not that quick either and so that's a misconception like when i'm talking about juvenile dinosaurs i don't mean just out of the egg and weigh a kilo like a juvenile triceratops can still weigh a ton and be the size of a rhino they're not that fast and again if you get a head start on them because as i said i suspect they're nocturnal

Because that's the other thing.

It's really hard to hide a T-Rex.

Even lions and tigers struggle to kind of hide in long grass.

When you're three and a half, four meters tall, you can't hide.

Maybe in a forest, but even then you're probably going to stick out and it's going to be hard to maneuver between the trees.

And we've got big Tyrannosaurs living in what we know to have been relatively open environments.

Maybe there's some stands of trees, but it's not like...

a woodland or a forest or anything like that.

So they're living in the open and surviving in the open.

So they've got to have a way of doing this.

And I think it's either or some combination of being nocturnal.

So it's relatively easy to sneak isn't quite the wrong word, but approach things to cut the distance down for your initial strike and then just running them down.

Because yeah, maybe a one-ton Triceratops or one-ton Hadrosaur is rather faster than you.

but if you've covered the first couple of hundred meters to get up to your top speed before they start running, then you're probably much closer to them.

And then will they exhaust faster than you'll keep going?

Well, probably not 100% of the time.

No predator's that effective.

But I suspect that's what they're doing.

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