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TIL that as you increase your walking speed there is a point where walking any faster would take more energy than running (theconversation.com)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 3 days ago (1 children)

I once had a dream featuring a T-Rex hopping like a kangaroo and woke up thinking wait, how would we know they didn't do that? I guess this answers my question.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 days ago

They can tell from the bones where the muscles attached, and what movements they made. They could piece together an animal's walking gait just from that.

Looking only at a dead person's bones, one could deduce what sports they practiced, for example.