How do dinosaur philosophers know top running speeds?

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I saw a video comparing a bunch of dinosaur speeds, but I can’t seem to find any logical explanation of how this was discovered? Is this even real?

I’m very confused and can’t seem to wrap my head around any of this. We have never SEEN dinosaurs in action and (to my knowledge) only discovered bones. So how does any of that add up?

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We can have a really good idea about what kind of musculature they had based on the bones we have and the muscles of their closest living relatives.

Similarly from all that stuff we can figure out about how much they probably weighed.

If we know how strong/their muscles are/how much energy they can put out/how much force it would take to break their bones and how heavy they were, it’s a simple matter of solving the physics, since 1 kg of matter is 1 kg, doesn’t matter if it’s muscle, fat, or bone.

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