👃🦖 What kind of "smelling" dinosaur-age world?

👃🦖 What kind of dinosaur world "smelled"?

When we imagine the dinosaur age,

We often think of ancient forest images.

A big dinosaur.

And a roar.

But there's one thing we never thought of.

The smell of the world in that era.

If we go back in time,

The smell we'll experience.

Probably very different from today's world.

🌿 1️⃣ Intense humid forest smell.

In many parts of the dinosaur world,

The climate is hot and humid.

The primitive forest is full.

• Large fern

• Cycus

• Ancient pine

The smell of fresh leaves.

Wet soil

And dense plants.

May resemble a tropical rainforest.

But much more intense.

🦴 2️⃣ smell of animal carcass.

In an ecosystem full of predators.

Animal carcasses are not rare.

Smell of broken flesh.

And bacteria in the soil.

Could be floating in the air.

Especially near water bodies or hunting areas.

Some kind of predator.

Maybe use these scents.

To find food.

🌊 3️⃣ the smell of mud and swamps.

Many areas in the dinosaur era

Is a floodplain or flooded area.

Muddy soil

Waterlogging

And rotten plants.

Create a unique smell.

Like today's wetlands.

But the size of the ecosystem

Much bigger.

🌋 4️⃣ sulfur smell from the volcano.

In some ages,

Volcanic activity occurs frequently.

Volcanic gas

Like sulfur.

Could cause some areas

Smells like rotten eggs.

Or the smell of hot ore.

This is the smell of the earth still "geologically alive."

🦖 5️⃣ the smell of giant animals.

Think of many tons of heavy animals.

Walk through the same area every day.

• Sweat

• Dung

• Food carcasses

All combined.

Could cause some areas

Smells stronger than we're used to.

Like a meadow with a lot of animals.

But on a larger scale,

🌍 A world full of senses.

For humans.

We use mainly eyes.

But a lot of animals

Including some kind of dinosaur.

May use "smell" to monitor the world.

The smell says

• There's a victim nearby.

• There are predators passing by.

• Or where are the carrion?

🧠 A world we never smell.

We may see fossils.

Or a dinosaur simulation.

But the world of that age

Not just images and sounds

It has

The smell of soil.

The smell of the forest.

And the smell of life.

That disappeared from the world a long time ago.

✨. End of chapter.

If we go back in time to stand in the Cretaceous forest,

The first thing we will recognize

Probably not a roar.

But is

The smell of the earth is still raw and barbaric.

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