In many movies they show the tyrannosaurus rex running on its hind legs, but I was wondering…
…look at its body.
I can only think of one animal today that has similar body dimensions and that would be a kangaroo.
So now I am wondering if the T-Rex bounced around all the time.
I think it is time for my morning coffee.
Hopping is a very efficient form of locomotion, T. rex’s descendants do it, so I see no reason not to believe numerous dinosaur species hopped. I often use a doppelbock to get hopped up, but I wait until after 9:00am at the earliest.
If you want to get hopped up, I’d recommend an IPA or pale ale. You can’t get much less hoppy than a dopplebock and still have beer.
Very interesting thought indeed. Relative to the T-Rex, the Roo seems to have a shorter and more compactly muscular thigh, which might be better adapted to a life of constant hopping. Rex’s thigh looks more like that of Flo-Jo. The knee is not as incorporated into the musculature of the thigh, and might not, therefore, have the shock-absorbing potential.
But you’re absolutely right about the general body balance.
I wonder though, about the effect of 7 tons hopping. Maybe, even given a basic body type, there’s a size limit at which hopping loses its charm, both for the critter and the surrounding landscape.
Even with the bones we don’t have enough data to determine dinosaur musculature and locomotion. That’s why we need to create a dinosaur using dinosaur DNA with a Kiwi as surrogate. I mean the bird of course.
Maybe the weight would be an issue, but I still cannot help wondering if a T-Rex fight would look something like
or what a group of them would look like bounding over the hills like
this.
But with more biting.
Well naturally. There’s no evidence that dinosaurs shined their shoes.
Shoot, we don’t even know if they could spit.
http://www.animalsimulation.org/
http://www.animalsimulation.org/otherdata/twolegs/Hop_Cropped.mov
Some snakes seem to spit pretty well. On the basis that snakes are reptiles and Dinosaurs were reptiles, along with the fact that dinosaurs had some considerable time to evolve, I would not assume that Dinosaurs could not spit. Might even have spat venom! 
Dinosaurs were not Herps. 
This was my first thought. My second thought was that in my limited experience of roos, the Aussies could provide more info on this aspect, are usually hopping in wide open grasslands. I don’t think it’s such a good idea to hop around in forest and jungle, where I usually see T-Rex living in movies, where there are fallen trees and exposed roots. Besides looking at the animal, there is a need to look at the environment holistically.
I love the word holistically. Although I don’t have to know what all the aspects actually are, I recognize that there are multiple aspects. Lots of people don’t know what that word means and the need to provide an explanation adds to an argument like nobody’s business.
John Muir’s definition is the best for holistic. T. rex only existed due to the evolution of flowering plants, sorta sweet I guess.
I wouldn’t think that stealth was one of its attributes.
Didn’t really need stealth to sneak up on stuff that was already dead. 
Olfactory development did seem to indicate they were ground vultures.
it’s morphed into an eagle?
Andean Condor, or American Bald Eagle, Golden Eagles are real eagles, Bald Eagles prefer their food to be either considerbly less active or stealable from somebody else. Now ya know why Franklin wanted the turkey for the national bird.
Vultures are not thieves of nests or food. They are an honorable bird, unlike the less intelligent bald eagle.
They do stink though, I found a shot turkey vulture years ago just before Christmas, the closest vet I knew who could work on birds was sixty miles away. The bird defecated in the back of my gov. SUV after the first mile. Never really got rid of the smell. Bald Eagles don’t smell much better, they’ll also foot you in the face if they get a chance, vultures are much more polite.