Triceratops not actually a seperate species

[wormwood]

I've never heard of Ankylosaurus fossils with healed bite damage on them. I suspect they had no actual predators. Certainly there were much easier pickings to be had.

Nature rewards the organism that expends the least energy to fill its belly and successfully reproduce. Nature also punishes predators that pursue dangerous game too often.

[Thlaylie]

I'm thinking I would enjoy running a time machine service back to the Jurrasic.

I would let Jack Horner ride for free MUHAHAHAHA!

Actually I would keep my time machine a secret and only take detractors of T-Rex as hunter back and post the vids on Youtube. I bet the Rexes are smart enough to wait for me to show up with lunch.

[salamut2202]

trex lived in the cretaceous. i think you should know that oh lord of time

[Enigma]

Aug 14, 2010 14:52:59 GMT Thlaylie said:

I'm thinking I would enjoy running a time machine service back to the Jurrasic.

I would let Jack Horner ride for free MUHAHAHAHA!

Actually I would keep my time machine a secret and only take detractors of T-Rex as hunter back and post the vids on Youtube. I bet the Rexes are smart enough to wait for me to show up with lunch.

And then everyone will see it as photoshopped and you'll lose all credibility.

[Thlaylie]

Youtube vids have credibility?

[salamut2202]

(please do not swear) yeah!

[Enigma]

Got me there Thlaylie...

[Thlaylie]

Sorry, I have never taken one seriously.

Example:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=9erlZnMekZ0&playnext=1&videos=N1Te4uAh2Ok&feature=grec_index

[eljefe]

Aug 13, 2010 14:18:21 GMT wormwood said:

I wonder how many mouthfuls of meat it would take a Tyrannosaur to get through the day?
Thinking about the size of its head relative to its body, It wouldn't need a lot of bites to fill its belly. If it could get close enough to put a bite on a living dinosaur, it'd most likely inflict a mortal wound. Komodo Dragons will bite an animal and let the bacteria from their mouths kill it over time, then sniff out the corpse and eat it. Tyrannosaurus may have had a similar methodology. Their remarkable noses would've aided in tracking the infected wounds of their prey.

another super predator is also known to attack in this method, although it does not have bacteria, it lets its prey bleed out to death before coming back for the carcass. Carcharodon carcharias is the nasty who kills by wounding prey and coming back later. it usually does it by coming out of nowhere in an ambush to save vital energy. whats not to say big bad rex did the same? all that mass to move must have cost a lot of energy and if it was as smart as i think it is, the rex picked and chose when to fight. Oh and my thoughts on predator vs. scavenger: lets try to relate this to human sensibility. if food is hard to come by and you have large need for nutrition would you rather have a hamburger left over from yesterday even though its cold, or would you rather wait around for a fresh burger off the grill with the cheese melting and all that good stuff? if you havent eaten for a couple days i don't think it would matter very much you'll tear anything up! and dont say you can compare human psychology to ancient animal behavior, were biological specimens too we have the same drives: eat survive and breed. we just have distractions other animals dont have

[Thlaylie]

Make sure you acknowledge that humans have created those other distractions.

[fastkangaroo]

not to sound like a geek hehe xxx, tyrannosaurus physical and mental skills back it up to being a predator with limited prey and was cut off from other theropods at the time with greater combat skills,

its binocular vision despite giving it depth perceptions trouble once spotted could lock on to prey, it had a large brain to support to ambush killer theory, and its other senses were perfect for hunting.


proof of this has also been found on fossils of edmontosaurus where a it shows attacks where wounds have been healing indicating it survived, meaning it was attacked.

but it was far to heavy, poor arm support, and bad stamma with slow cc movement means it would have been out matched by other theropods had they been around each other.

in short it was designed to kill hadrosaur's and only them as they were wat was common at the time and location.

Ouch my head hurts that was a lot of words lol, hehe xxx

[eljefe]

Aug 21, 2010 12:55:17 GMT Thlaylie said:

Make sure you acknowledge that humans have created those other distractions.

of course... i think it would be wierd to say the t-rex was an avid PSP system user

[vonryansleaper]

I would like to point out, that the Komodo Dragon's ability to kill animals shouldn't be entirely credited to the bacteria living in their mouths.

On the contrary, in 2009 it was discovered that Komodo Dragons actually produce and secrete venom from 2 glands located in their bottom jaws.

Who knows Tyrannosaurus, might have had venom as well (doubtful). It may have even had an incredibly slow metabolism, like crocodilians (the only living reptilian archosaurs), they could have feasted on a corpse, and then loafed around for 3 weeks. Rinse and repeat, there is no reason for them to have to actively hunt day in and day out.

[Thlaylie]

Sept 1, 2010 19:36:43 GMT eljefe said:

Aug 21, 2010 12:55:17 GMT Thlaylie said:

Make sure you acknowledge that humans have created those other distractions.

of course... i think it would be wierd to say the t-rex was an avid PSP system user

I meant the human described distractions in the post dumb ass.

Interestingly demonstrated primate defense/ passive attack though.

[fastkangaroo]

Chill out boys, its only a friendly debate. Theres no need for name calling like that thlaylie.