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I quite enjoyed Drumheller museum. But then again I would go to Drumheller just to walk on the side-walk. This place is so famous for fossils, that they decided to represent to town by dinosaurs. Examples: The garbage cans have dinosaurs painted on them, statues of dinosaurs are absolutely everywhere and every where you look there is a dinosaur gift shop somewhere. The museum on the other hand is flawless though I don't quite care for the Sauropod's pose, it's head almost touching the large unnecessary lights on the roof. Being a fan a natural history I have never actually been to a official Natural History museum. But on that note Canada isn't exactly known for any kind of NaturualHistory, except for a few dinosaurs and that's about it.

I've only been to one or two museums, one of them only had a T. rex skeleton and the jaws of a Megalodon. The other, I really can't remember. I want to go to the history museum in Berkeley, but it really isn't a museum, more of a fossil storage and reahserch facility. But it does have the largest collection of fossils in the world, or at least one of the biggest. There is another Mueseum where I can't remember, but it has the dinosaurs dug up in Africa. Ie, Carcharadontosaurus, Spinosaurus, Bahariasaurus, Suchomimus, Deltadromeus, along with other things. I bet that is where someone could find a Phobodon skeleton, or at least some info on it.

I don't know. Maybe it was just a variant dinosaur. Just like how humans can vary greatly, maybe T. rex could to. It was one of the more advanced dinosaurs. If this is so, then i wonder why it doesn't apply to the other tyrannosaurs like Albertosaurus. A lot of their fossils have been found.

Yeah but Allosaurus lived all the way from western North America to Europe to Africa and it didn't even have this much variance.

You know, I think that Yangchuanosaurus, being a lot like allosaurus as in length and a having slightly shorter, more Abelisaur like skull, would have a considerable bite force on here too. And tyranotitan. It was a lot more tyrannosaur like than the other Allosaurs. It even had thicker teeth.

*applause* Amazing as always. The first brawl had more star power but this one had better fights.

Its like jurassic park three all over again. I'd pay to see that. Of course, I'd pay the entire think of jupiter to see a living dinosaur. Sigh, I can't do that, so I will just have to make the time machine. Quantum physics, watch out!

Yeah. Siamosaurus is not as heavy as Siamotyrannus, but has those classic spinosaur claws and arms. Siamotyrannus has sheer brute force and more powerful jaws. It'd be like Tyrannosaurus vs Spinosaurus scaled down.

I like to think of it as a tyrannosaur. If it is a tyrannosaur, then it is the only one that I can think if that lives in the same area of a Spinosaur. Siamotyrannus vs Siamosaurus. That would be a good fight.

It's known from poor remains. Hard to say. It was said to be a tyrannosaur at first, but it's validity as a tyrannosaur is questionable.

Amazing, but I thought that Siamotyrannus was a tyrannosaur.

Nice, a tyrannosaur won. Megaraptor vs Abelisaurus, eh? That fight could have happened in real life. Can't wait.

Environment may have played a role. T-rex lived as far north as possibly Alaska and as far south as Texas. Perhaps differences between males and females. That's my best guess.

When I was there last, I'm pretty sure it was a good 41 ft long at least, maybe 42 ft.

Good brawl. Can't wait for the next fight.

That is strange. Maybe one body part got big to make up for another part that was small. That's my best guess.

Unusual indeed. I tried for like ten minutes to come up with an explanation for this but I can't.

I'be never been to any museums. Sadly, I lack the time and money to travel. P.s. Peck's Rex got downsized considerably, didn't it? It's supposed to be like 38-40 feet now or something.

This is one of my favorite books... [img]http://ca.pbsstatic.com/l/18/0818/9780737000818.jpg[/img] It features a pic of the Carnegie's Allosaurus skeleton in it's original pose... [img]http://www.tms.org/pubs/journals/JOM/0806/figb.jpg[/img] Current... [img]http://intellectualgridiron.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/allosaurus_side1.jpg[/img]

Same, there are some museums out west and up in Canada I would not mind seeing.

That's pretty cool. I would love to be able to travel more than I do.

The one in Baltimore was certainly nice. Especially the Tyrannosaurus and Giganotosaurus skeletons. But the Carnegie has more variety overall. As far as large theropods go, they have two tyrannosaurs, an Allosaurus, and a Ceratosaurus. Plus numerous herbivores like Diplodocus, Apatosaurus, Triceratops, Stegosaurus, etc. [img]http://phenomena.nationalgeographic.com/files/2013/03/tyrannosaurus-carnegie.jpg[/img] This is the first skeleton discovered. It's the one that they used to describe Tyrannosaurus in the first place. It's commonly seen in pictures pertaining to T-rex and is the pic used on Wikipedia. This is how they originally mounted the skeleton. [img]http://media.npr.org/programs/atc/features/2005/mar/dinohall/trexfull-cc4bbc6a7c2056f3b8b64e51e3828bf90e96f013-s6-c30.jpg[/img] This skeleton has been on display for over 100 years! PS- In the picture in the original post, the Rex on the left is Peck's Rex.

What about the one in Baltimore? Is there a picture of the first discovered T-Rex?

Yeah, that's a nice museum. I wanna go there too. Feel free to ask me about the Carnegie. I know more about it than most probably do ;)

Can't say for sure. One I would love to see is the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller Alberta. They have an exhibit dedicated to Albertosaurus, and they have Black Beuaty, a T-Rex that was stained black during fossilization. [img]http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/images/blk-beauty-gi.png[/img] [url=http://www.tyrrellmuseum.com/]Here's their website[/url]

Sorry the first pic did not work. It was the outside of the museum. [img]http://www.pittsburghstaycations.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/carnegie-museum-of-natural-history-300x199.jpg[/img] [img]http://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/01/76/6a/1b/carnegie-museum-of-natural.jpg[/img] It also has a Paleo Lab where you can watch scientists prepare fossils. [img]http://weirdandcoolstuff.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/dscn2221.jpg[/img] The museum also has numerous other exhibits along with the dinosaur one, which is called Dinosaurs In Their Time. Other major exhibits include Hillman Hall of Minerals and Gems, Alcoa Foundation Hall of American Indians, Polar World: Wyckoff Hall of Arctic Life, Walton Hall of Ancient Egypt, Benedum Hall of Geology, and Powdermill Nature Reserve, established by the museum in 1956 to serve as a field station for long-term studies of natural populations. It also has a great exhibits featuring prehistory Ice Age animals and sea reptiles.

Spino FTW. That is all.

62 - Dac 38 - Rex Rex would need to get past those ridiculously big spikes befopre killing Dac.

Yeah, just a keratin sheath, like raptor claws. It's always possible, but not definitive.

I've always wondered about that. It's possible and the skull suggests it but none of its relatives did have fully keratin horns.

Perhaps, but no other ceratopsian had keratin horns. They all had horns with a bone core. Pachyrhinosaurus was not a primitive ceratopsian, so it'd be strange for it to have a totally different kind of horn than other advanced ceratopsians.

True. But Pachyrhinosaurus actually probably did have horns. If you look at the bosses on its skull the very closely resemble rhino bosses. It could have had keratin horns.

Yeah, it may be distorted or something. The overall appearance of the animal is also really hard to judge. Ceratopsians have so many frill and horn arrangements. It could have 3 horns like Triceratops or none like Pachyrhinosaurus.

Can't wait for it

True. But not many things other than a ceratopsian can make a footprint like a ceratopsian. Judging from relatives it would have been between 38 and 48 feet long, really depending on how much of the footprint had caved in and what you scale it from.

Cool. I think the reason Ceratopsipes was excluded should be because the only evidence of it are it's footprints. It is very hard to say how big the track maker was, what it looked like, etc. just based on the tracks.

We may find out in season 3. If Tyrannosaurus beats Shantungosaurus and Dacentrurus beats Allosaurus, we have a fight on our hands!

Looks like Dacentrurus replaces Stegosaurus. So now we have Allosaurus maximus taking on Dacentrurus in season 3!

60- Rex 40- Dac Tyrannosaurus would have a slightly easier time fighting Dacentrurus then something like Ankylosaurus because it's not as heavily armored, but it would still not be an easy fight.

I'd say about 50-50