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Dave Hone: belief

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

“Jurassic Park, unsurprisingly, has rather exaggerated it, so the one from, I think, Jurassic World is like twice the size it should be.”

— 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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…Well, so there was a very large marine reptile, Mosasaurus. Did T-Rex ever come across that? In theory at least, the really giant Mosasaurs are much bigger, in the same way that, unsurprisingly, whales are much bigger than terrestrial carnivores now. Jurassic Park, unsurprisingly, has rather exaggerated it, so the one from, I think, Jurassic World is like twice the size it should be. But some of these things were still, like, you know, 15, 20 meters. But yeah, some of them are absolutely giant. We had one dug up in the UK just a couple of years ago, and I got to see the skull of it, or a cast of the skull, and yeah, it’s about the same size as a T-Rex skull. If we take a ridiculous detour before we get back to science, what creature in the history of Earth would challenge a T-Rex in a fight, would you say? What……

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