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Ever Smell T-Rex's Breath?
Jim Hawkins writes "Well, in case you never have the chance of getting up close and personal with a T.Rex, Dale Air, a company who 'nose' its smells, has recreated Tyrannosaurus Rex's breath for London's Natural History Museum. Seems people made a stink about the rotting flesh smell that would exist on T-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
Still waiting for that cure for cancer.
Supposedly it smells a lot like T-Rex ass.
It's been there since 2001.
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I'm sure this has been there for several years - in fact I saw it when I was in London and I've since emigrated! I heard that the smell they recreated was actually a lot tamer than the original would have done, since obviously they didn't want people keeling over or being sick - so the smell they have there is more like vaguely rotting cabbage than the stench of rancid meat. Certainly when I saw it it didn't smell all that bad.
guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth
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Well it is in England...
And I'm English before anyone gets upset
And what aroma would that be? Luser eaten by a t-rex?
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"-Rex's breath - guess someone forgot to tell him to brush his teeth."
I used to catch beared dragons when I was a kid. They didn't have bad breath (that I can remember) but if they bit you the bacteria on their teeth could be nasty.
Yes, they do have the fart smell. It's listed as "Flatulence #9668" in their catalog.
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I wonder if small opportunist creatures cleaned the T-Rex, like Egyptian Plovers clean crocodile teeth and various fish eat the parasites on sharks.
I recently saw a very interesting program on Discovery that hinted at T-Rex actually being a scavenger, not a hunter.
They had several interesting theories to back this up. For example, T-Rex had a very bad center of gravity for one thing. This coupled with the fact that it's arms were so small meant that it would not pick itself back up if it fell. This meant that T-Rex probably didn't run because it didn't want to fall. It probably walked everywhere and in walking, the only food it would be able to catch would be already dead food.
Other reasons that pointed out it's "scavengaristic" diet where things like it's olfactory senses. Porportionally it is the same size as a vulture.
So, the theory that it ate already rotting flesh would greatly contribute to it's problems with halitosis!
The firm is testing an aroma dispenser which plugs into a computer and is controlled from the keyboard.
"Say you've got help desk staff who are getting tense and frustrated -- they can press a button to get an aroma to help calm them down," Knight said.
A case mod with a built-in bong would work much better.
T-Rex breath turned out so accurate and so revolting, the curators instead opted for a milder swamp smell to evoke the creature's natural habitat.
Revolting is beleivable, but accurate? Do we really know enough about T-Rex's to say that the synthetic breath that was created was accurate? What bacteria lived in the mouth? Did the saliva have antibodies to protect open wounds around the mouth from bacteria and infection? What was the pH of the saliva? These all affect breath . . .
There are lots of unknowns that make me think that the journalist's use of the word accurate is more than a little presumptuous. . .
I don't think I would be particularly interested.
If you are really curious, leave a kilo of raw hamburger sitting on the kitchen counter for a couple of weeks, while you go on vacation. Your house will be filled with the lovely aroma of T-Rex breath upon your return.
My rights don't need management.
Not exactly. His parents reminded him every morning, but with those short arms...
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> He's such a vain beast.
Obviously he's a Mesozoicsexual.