Cartilage may not have significantly increased the height of theropod dinosaurs, like Tyrannosaurus, because they moved about in a hunched position, said Casey Holliday, a paleontologist at the University of Missouri and the study’s lead author.

But ornithischian and sauropod dinosaurs, like Triceratops and Brachiosaurus had a more upright posture and may have been taller than previously estimated. Brachiosaurus, thought to be about 42 feet tall, may have been at least a foot taller, the study found.

– Sindya N. Bhanoo, N.Y. Times.

More waffling from the dinosaur scientists; no surprise here. Now it turns out dinosaurs might have been a foot taller than previously thought due to all the soft cartilage between their bones, which somehow no one ever before realized might have been larger than the cartilage of other animals even though they’re F@#$ING DINOSAURS.

Is it me or are all the new changes to dinosaurs, especially since the Great Triceratops Caper, making them slightly more sensational? 13 horns? Ridiculously supersized head? A foot taller? This sounds to me like an industry wide make-good project to revitalize interest in dinosaurs after breaking our collective hearts with the news that triceratops never even existed.

You know how this ends, right? Jurassic Park. It’s really the only way we’ll ever know for sure what dinosaurs were like, and I, for one, welcome the idea. I mean, I read somewhere that dinosaurs might have had feathers. Like, all dinosaurs. They were the ancestors of birds, after all. How tremendously silly-looking would that be? And then how terrifying would it be when the power grid went down and those gigantic feathered beasts tore Newman apart?

Seriously, though: Regardless of how it played out in that book and movie, I’d totally be down for Jurassic Park. I discussed this with my buddy Jake not long ago, and we came to the conclusion that if it turned out that cloning dinosaurs and bringing them out of extinction meant the ultimate demise of humanity, well, so be it. We agreed that we’d gladly bow down to our new dinosaur overlords if it turned out theirs was the dominant species.

Are you on board?

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