What did the T-Rex (a type of prehistoric dragon) use its little arms for?

[Gimmick Account]

I always thought they were for riding sandworms because that's fucking badass but youtube has been insistent on showing me videos on this subject lately for some fucking reason and APPARENTLY there are numerous far gayer theories

 

[AirdropShitposts]

Botched high fives.

 

[WinchesterPremium]

T-Rex arms where actually like three feet long so they're actually kinda huge.

So they probably use them to swing through the trees like a monkey that has a 3 foot long arm.

 

[Testacles Maximus]

Strangling giraffes.

 

[Open Window Maniac]

Pimp slapping.

 

[Cup Noodle]

They were mostly useless but the perfect height for jerking off brontosauruses. The t-rex would lull the much larger bronto into complacency by giving them hand jobs and just as the big fucker was reaching climax the t-rex would go for the throat.

 

[Gimmick Account]

I haven't been watching the videos thoroughly but my favourite serious theory I've heard is that they used them for cow tipping.
Like a t-rex would just fucking walk up to a stegosaurus or whatever and push it over

 

[Niggasaurus Rex]

Exclusively for throwin' up gang signs

 

[MrTroll]

The same thing we use our own tiny little arms for: to type racial slurs on the internet.

 

[MediocreMilt]

To push the severed goat-leg over the deactivated electric fence for dramatic effect.

 

[Dysnomia]

I haven't been watching the videos thoroughly but my favourite serious theory I've heard is that they used them for cow tipping.
Like a t-rex would just fucking walk up to a stegosaurus or whatever and push it over

I also read that the arms were just on their way out. South America was full of giant flightless birds with tiny vestigial wings during the Cenozoic. South America had dinosaurs with similar tiny arms. Carnotaurus looked like a thalidomide baby. South America has a fossil record full of weird dinosaurs and giant carnivorous flightless birds known as Terror Birds.

The extinct moa bird of New Zealand actually had no wings at all.

When you don't fly and get by on powerful legs your wings are going to start selecting smaller and smaller and possibly disappearing altogether unless you have some other use for them like balance or display.

 

[Least Concern]

That's just the way God made them, on the sixth day.

On the same day He also created Man, and Man sometimes hunted dinosaurs and used them as beasts of burden. They all died out around 1000 BC though.

 

[NOT Sword Fighter Super]

They use to make miles long T-Rex anus fisting chains back in the day.
Pretty much the only thing they're good for.

 

[murph]

They're only there for comic effect. Imagine one running, and how those little arms were pumping with that big T-Rex sharp toothed head. Evolution is mean, sometimes.

They didn't even get to be birds.

 

[Gimmick Account]

I also read that the arms were just on their way out.

Eh I dunno. They were relatively quite muscular and there's fossils with particular stress damage to the bones which suggest they were using them for something forceful, we just don't know what.
There's also the weird two-fingered adaptation they and their close relatives have: it's not like they were normal three-fingered theropod arms that were just vestigially shrinking away--they for some reason adapted to have two fully-developed claws.
Again I was only kinda half paying attention but apparently there's some guy who thinks this might have been to more effectively concentrate force if they were used to shiv niggas, while other scientists say no that's dumb because of the wrist angles or something.

Also FYI I don't think the cow tipping hypothesis has much support, also because of wrist bones for some reason. But that aside apparently the maths does work mechanically for them to be able to tackle common dumb idiot herbivores down, and they also have notably oversized feet for a theropod so they'd have a lot of ground purchase for judo shit, potentially.

 

[Mooger Meng]

Opening jars.
They failed at this, hence why they went extinct.

 

[theshitposter]

Imagine believing in the dinosaur conspiracy. What's next? Flat earth?

 

[Vingle]

Fisting obviously.

 

[RollerGator]

Picking their teeth clean. They didn't have tooth brushes back then.

 

[RadioactiveMonkeyMan]

Not a lot of people know this, but large theropods are all victims of thalidomide.