{"id":68871,"date":"2026-05-24T18:23:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/68871\/"},"modified":"2026-05-24T18:23:12","modified_gmt":"2026-05-24T18:23:12","slug":"waarom-had-de-t-rex-zulke-korte-armpjes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/68871\/","title":{"rendered":"Waarom had de T. Rex zulke korte armpjes?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"Text-style__StyledParagraph-sc-43d59249-0 eGWrGl\">Waarom had de T. Rex zulke korte voorpoten? Naar de mini-armpjes van de dino wordt al tientallen jaren onderzoek gedaan. Wetenschappers denken het nu te weten.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"Text-style__StyledParagraph-sc-43d59249-0 eGWrGl\">Het heeft te maken met de enorme kaken van het dier, zeggen ze. Ze hebben meer dan 80 dino&#8217;s onderzocht die lijken op de T. Rex. Daaruit bleek dat bij verschillende dino&#8217;s de voorpoten steeds korter werden, en de kaken steeds groter.<\/p>\n<p>Jagen<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"Text-style__StyledParagraph-sc-43d59249-0 eGWrGl\">Deze vleesetende dino&#8217;s aten andere dino&#8217;s, maar die werden steeds groter. Daarom hadden de vleesetende dino&#8217;s (zoals de T. Rex) grotere kaken nodig. En die kregen ze ook.<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"Text-style__StyledParagraph-sc-43d59249-0 eGWrGl\">Hun voorpoten gebruikten ze steeds minder tijdens het jagen.<\/p>\n<p>Ze gebruikten hun kop steeds vaker om aan te vallen en hun armen steeds minder.dino-onderzoeker<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"Text-style__StyledParagraph-sc-43d59249-0 eGWrGl\">Langzaamaan werden de voorpoten daardoor steeds kleiner. Dat heet evolutie. Dan verandert een lichaam van een dier heel langzaam, om zich aan te passen aan de omgeving.<\/p>\n<p>Wist je dat&#8230;<\/p>\n<p data-testid=\"paragraph\" class=\"Text-style__StyledParagraph-sc-43d59249-0 eGWrGl\">Dacht je dat de T. Rex de kleinste poten had? Dan had je de Carnotaurus nog niet gezien. Dit familielid van de T. Rex had zelfs n\u00f3g kleinere armen.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/5x3x2848x1602-1024x576.webp\" class=\"ResponsiveImage-style__Image-sc-9240a86c-1 cqXqOk\"\/>Wikimedia Commons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Waarom had de T. Rex zulke korte voorpoten? Naar de mini-armpjes van de dino wordt al tientallen jaren&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":68872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[38],"tags":[27,26,25,15841,3500,39,41,42,17060,46,40,45,43,44],"class_list":["post-68871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wetenschap-en-technologie","tag-be","tag-belgie","tag-belgium","tag-dino","tag-dinosaurus","tag-science","tag-science-and-technology","tag-scienceandtechnology","tag-t-rex","tag-technologie","tag-technology","tag-wetenschap","tag-wetenschap-en-technologie","tag-wetenschaptechnologie"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@be_nl\/116630952785643616","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=68871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/be-nl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}