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Dave Hone: belief

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

“My book on dinosaur behavior, this is just the kind of thing I’m talking about. So, the tyrannosaur trackways of a group of tyrannosaurs is, I think, four or five tracks total.”

— Dave Hone

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Dave Hone
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belief
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4 Sept 2025
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Lex Fridman Podcast

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…So, I’m pulling up some stuff here. First of all, shout out to Perplexity. Super awesome. It’d be great if you fact-check some of this stuff. So, fossil discoveries, including parallel trackways and bone beds containing multiple tyrannosaurs suggests these large predators sometimes moved and possibly hunted in groups. You as a person who wrote a book about the behavior of dinosaurs. Yep. Let me deconstruct that almost instantly. So, because it’s really easy. My book on dinosaur behavior, this is just the kind of thing I’m talking about. So, the tyrannosaur trackways of a group of tyrannosaurs is, I think, four or five tracks total. So, it’s like two from one animal, two from a second animal, and one from a third animal. That’s not the end of the world. That’s somehow how trackways form. You know, the rock’s broken up. They stood on mud and then they didn’t, whatever. Just to clarify, trackways means footprints of multiple, maybe steps?…

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