Let's kick things off with a mini theory.

You know every Jurassic Park movie features dinosaurs chasing humans all over the place looking for a snack?

Yeah, probably wouldn't happen, especially when you're talking about the big boys like the T-Rex.

You see, T-Rexes are apex predators that need a daily caloric intake of 200,000 calories.

The average human body contains a little over 125,000 calories, which is pretty darn close to that 200K daily limit.

So at first, that would make it seem like humans are the perfect high-efficiency snack.

The power bar pick me up for a dinosaur.

Except there's one problem with that.

The human is going to run away.

Animals are primed to find the most efficient sources of food,

and considering that an adult

T-Rex topped out somewhere between 15 and 25 miles per hour while they run or 24 to 40

kilometers an hour any human with a halfway decent car is gonna be able to get away

man slow down a little I don't think so no Jeff Goldblum you you can listen to her you

don't got to go that fast must go faster and that's not even mentioning our ability to hide in small spaces.

A massive six-ton T-Rex being forced to hunt down a fleeing or hiding human would be hemorrhaging massive amounts of energy.

Suddenly, that high-efficiency snack has turned into a high-efficiency workout.

And if you're going to be spending those calories in hunting, the payoff is going to need to be much bigger. For proof of this, just look at other apex predators in the wild today. Both lions and wolves can go for almost a week or two without food before finally getting themselves a good catch, at which point they end up eating up to a fourth of their body weight in one sitting. Believe it or not, some crocodiles can go for a year without a meal

before they end up chomping down on half their body weight. That pattern holds for many large

modern-day predators, with these animals getting weeks or months worth of calories all in one sitting.

These are feast and famine animals. If they're going hard after a meal, well, it's got to be a big one.

A human just wouldn't fill that need for a T-Rex. Why hard after a meal, well, it's gotta be a big one. A human just wouldn't

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