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I'm very sad to say, I've never actually seen a dinosaur fossil in real life. I live in the south of Austria and the closest thing to a dinosaur fossil you can find here are some teeth and if I remember correctly a partial shoulder blade of a wooly Mammoth and a random assortment of Mastodon parts. We're not too big on dinosaurs.

REX FAN 684 - Hahaha! I thought you'd like that! It was a beautiful museum; though the section with all of the taxidermied animals was rather, um, creepy. Nevertheless, the Hall of Paleontology was ASTOUNDING! :)

Yes!!! Great fight; I was rooting for Yang! GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO YANG!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! THIS IS MY FAVORITE ONE OF ALL THE FIGHTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSS!!!!!!!! GO YANG!!!!

GIGADINO, REX FAN 684 and TYRANT KING - Out of curiosity, since I know the three of you are quite knowledgeable within the field of paleontology, what is the largest known specimen of Carcharodontosaurus? :)

Thanks guys! I hope I can find more time to complete Riders.

Ironic, I was just thinking about this. Yes, I don want to see it still.

Not really, when we have just 2 specimens, like in Giganotosaurus. We cannot size what average size was with 2 specimens, but we can say what max. confirmed lenght was (by giving a range, wich includes even smaller adults size)

Let's see...

I've only been to a travelling exhibit at the Cranbrook Science Center, the Field Museum (didn't see the dinosaur exhbit, but I might go back soon) and my local mueseum, which only really had a Tyrannosaurus skeleton.

I'd LOVE to see it happen! I'm still looking forward to it.

(About that picture... Who needs sleep anyway? Heh heh... :P)

I completely understand. But the maxses are even more unknown.

As I've already explained, using averages isn't wiser, as we don't know the average size ofa couple of animals from this list.

Not based on the new skeleton it wouldn't be. Keep in mind this new one is 40 percent complete(not too bad), but combined with Stromers and any other fragments, it would be 60 percent complete. Now, that's not an exact science, but it'd helpful.

I am ranking about semi aquatic. Many semi aquatic animals such as crocs are quite bulky and since spinosaurua is semi aquatic and clislet related to crocs it eouldwould be a fairly robust animal.

And TK, many aquatic/semi-aquatic animals aren't, so Spinosaurus certainly could be too. Mosasaurs for example were apex predators, but had somewhat slender designs...

That picture is disturbing..........

Well, giga you should have specified. And you should use averages in size lists cause it is more commonly used and better to understand.

rexfan,  many aquatic/semi aquatic animals are quite bulky. Spinosaurus certainly would be no exception.

long time no see HPP.

Very nice SR :)

REX FAN 684 - Oh, how neat! I'd have to say that the museum I've most enjoyed visiting is the Paris Museum of Natural History! I absolutely adore the manner in which the facility is laid out - and the propriators are exceptionally kind! I do hope you enjoy the images I've presented! :)

Thanks for telling your thoughts!!! I think if I get a goood amount of people wanting to read it I'lll continue it!

I was wondering what happened to Riders myself. I wouldn't mind seeing it personally :D

PS- this was in the wrong category, so I moved it for you :)

Ok, so technically I used the wrong term, but still. For one thing, Hartman also elongated the legs a bit. It's not quite as quadrupedal. Also, while a frontal view does help in determinging if an animal is robust, a side view can also help to a degree. These show how shallow the ribcage is. You can't fit a whole lot in that somewhat shallow area, so there'd be less weight there.

Firstly, it'z not my 9 t T.rex, it's Hutchinson's if anything, plus, I said 'a 8-9 t range', wich means that Sue is between 8 and 9 t , like Hartman's 8400 kg, not 9 t. A 13 m T.rex would be over 9 t, but simply there is no 13 m T.rex.

Where did I claim that those are averages? I never clamed that this list is base on averages.

Hiphopananomus, it's hard to determinate wich animal is the animals are based on incomplete specimens. We don't really know if Mapusaurus is more slender, as the femoral that are 83 and 87 % the thickness of Giganotosaurus' holotype comes from anima, wich likely were smaller than Giganotosaurus' holotype, so I'd assume an equal bulk, and therefore an equal size, at least as long as we have just fragmentary specimens.

Yeah, Tarascosaurus from Dinosaur Planet...

Actually one of my favorite dinosaurs and dinosaur documentaries, but no, not a D-Rex

Based on these skeletals(the first by Ibrihim and the second by Hartman), Spinosaurus looks pretty gracile...

But being gracile can be good in an aquatic lifestyle. It'd make the animal faster overall since it'd have less mass to move through the water.

Nice list! 

Although I myself few giganotosaurus as a larger dinosaur then Mapusaurus but that's just me. 

P.S my reason for this is because while Mapusaurus is Possibly (not confirmed) longer then giganotosarurus, Giganotosaurus appears more robust, which in turn would make it heavier.

The problem is we have just a small sample of specimens of some of the guys there, like Giganotosaurus. We cannot say what was Giganotosaurus average, it may have been 7 t or even as huge as 10 t.

betterletter, but you should have used averages Instead of max. 9.5 tons seems quite large. I normaly put it at 8.5 tons. It seems like 9.5 would be the weight of those undiscribed specimens of t.tex that are HUGE. Like rigbys t.rex, Celeste, and UCMP.

I actually used the largest specimens for them all. 

Why, why did you use the largest t.rex speciemen in the list? If you are gonna do that for rex you have to do that for all. You can't just put the largest individual for one species on the list but then use averages for all the other. And spino is larger then giga,carchy,mapu for reasons I stated like three times already. And please provide us with some evidence on why you think spinosaurus is so gracile.

There isn't any 13 m T.rex, Celeste is undescribed, the largest is still 12,3 meters long.

I think you missed Mapusaurus.

You obviously missed my point. Look at my list, I put Giga and Mapu at the same place because largest specimens are very fragmentary, and I gave a range rather than a superprecise estimate (like 13,2 m), because animal's proprtions are various. I never said that Giga is the largest, I put them at the same size. 9.5 t was only mentioned, because it comes from a scietific study, I never said that it's an average T.rex. An average T.rex is like the holotype, wich is between 6-7,5 t. I also said that a more reliable estimate for Sue is between 8 and 9 t. I used max. sizes, not averages, so, as the largest T.rex is Sue, I used Sue as my T.rex. Spinosaurus was called gracile by Andrea Cau, in his final post about new Spinosaurus. And my comparison with T.rex isn't flawed, all the animals have different proportions, not just T.rex. Also, Giganotosaurus holotype isn't 12.2 m, atleast according to Hartman, who put it at 12.4 m. However, the difference isn't great, and a such difference is almst nothing in a such big boy like Giganotosaurus.

Definitely the alpha Tarascosaurus from Dinosaur Planet.  Remember, there were enough leaks, and Trevorrow intentionally allowed them to occur, but with something as big as what D-rex might look like, she won't be revealed until a few days before the movie is released.