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Actually I think is from te docu Dino Planet

Tarascosaurus

or Aucasaurus

although i find it kind of weird that megaraptor could survive a bite to the neck, a slam in the chest and being used as a crash-test-landing dummy all by a one ton animal while it took only a slash to the neck to kill acrovenator

rooting for the abelisaur but expected Megaraptor to win. good fight as always

Well that thing sucks.

My point is they DID NOT have a barrel chest. That's what I'm saying. And I'm not saying to size off of caimans, I was telling him the the skull base is similar. As for the gharial reference, around the same size as I was going off of averages not maximums. I work at our state AZA approved zoo. (along with at the dinosaur museum here. Biggest dinosaur museum in North America.) However, it still is 7-8 tons, not 9-11. The only "heavy part of Spinosaurus was its very dense legs and hips, which (according to my calculations) contribute for about a fifth the total weight. Still not Tyrannosaur sized, I'm afraid. 

If I had a mic, I'd drop it. Sorry for posting so late.

Hopefully. I'm also going to see it, and I believe more Sci-Fi fans would see another Sci-Fi movie over a fantasy movie.

That would be a really crappy D. Rex.

chris, you've been lied too...... And it is from dinosaur planet actually.

I know I have seen this before somewhere.

Indeed it isnt, its from a dinosaur documentary called Dinosaur Revolution, but a damn good documentary none the less.

REX FAN 684 - How very cool! I can't wait to finally get a look at the trailer! Thank you for bringing us this news! :)

I sincerely hope so. The new trailer sounds awesome!

Thank you RexFan684.

im not much of a hunger games fan but ill be eagerly awaiting the trailer when it hits online if this true

I can't wait for the movie to come out.

Well they did say it was going to be shown alongside Teh Hobbit 3 movie, and they want to put the trailer where most fans will see it. Strangely enough I think there would be more Jurassic Park fans seeing the Hobbit than the Hunger Games.

Upcoming movies im excited for:

Jurassic World (of course)

The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies

The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1

It'd be good for Jurassic World because a ton of people will be seeing Mockingjay.

Combine how epic the end of the trailer sounds with the fact that it's the Hunger Games, and it'll be a good weekend. 

I can't wait to see it myself. Like I said, it's just a thought, but certainly a possible one ;)

THAT would be perfect. I'm seeing Mockingjay the weekend after it comes out, so that'd be awesome. 

I agree with this list. The top 5 at least. Anything below that get's sketchy, but the animals chosen are certainly among the biggest.

If you want to add muscles, cartilagine, fat etc to Spinosaurus, you can give it to every Theropods in my list. Spinosaurus was long due to its long tail, the body alone is as long as T.rex's., so it wasn't particularry huge if compared to other giant Theropods.

Spinosaurus may seem gracile but as I said before it's bones are denser due to its partial aquatic lifestyle. And the fact that spino is so freakin huge, it makes if heavy. And I even if it was shrink wrapped as you say and would only add a few kilos, I would gave to disagree since the flesh ,scales cartilege, fat ,muscle and hide would add on a lot more weight then just "a few kilos".

But Spinosaurus appears to have been a gracile animal. It was that long mainly due the very long tail. Ibrahim et. al's model is shrink-wrapped, but a fully fleshed model would add to the animal only a few kilos.

But, it is semi aquatic which means the water will support more weight. And it may not have a deep chest,  but a wide chest and as I said about it being semi aquatic, it would have much denser bones which only add to the weight.

Spinosaurus appears to have a not deep chest, according to new remains, so the animal would haven't been as heavy as previously thought.

I love this list except for the fact that rex is first. It should be spino who is actually 15 meters and 11 tons which is bigger then the rex estimate plus 9.5 is not an average weight for rex. Please tell me why you think that.

@ carnosaur, pubic shaft? What is that?

9, 5. t estimate comes from Hutchinson et. al (2011), largest Mapu was 110 % the size of MUPCv-ch1, wich would put it at 13.6 m, but it's just a pubic shaft, so we cannot be sure. Take Sue and T.rex's holotype: the latter pubic shaft is larger by 5 %, but Sue is larger. There is nothing that can suggest us that Mapu is bulkier, if anything the bulkier one is Carch.  Bear in mind that Mapu's fibula is 83-87 % the width of Giganotosaurus' holotype, so it was likely skinnier than Gig, wich is bulkier Carch (Giga's torso is very deep, and its neural spines were high, so it likely supported an especially bulky body.

Thank you very much DinoSteve93 :)

Awesome, well done. I agree with this in big lines :)

Thank you very much ;) Compiling this list took a lot of research.

Nice list! I completely agree.

Thanks guys! Although I think Spinosaurus would win, I am glad to see some people siding with Tylosaurus, because that way I feel like I have made a good opponent for Spinosaurus that is actually fair, unlike T. Rex.

Both Zhuchengtyrannus and Tarbosaurus are around the same size as Suchomimus, but they're shorter, so I decieded to put Suchomimus ahead. I guess Tarbosaurus and Zhechengtyrannus are both #12 in this list.

I don't frankly understand why Oxalaia is considered so big. Sure, it was a big animal, but smaller than the clamed 12-14 m and 5-7 t. Oxalaia has likely got a 135 cm long skull, wich is even shorter than Suchomimus' 143 cm long skull (consider that this particular Suchomimus wasn't even an adult). As ths Suchomimus specimen is in the 11-12 m range (according to Scott Hartman), I think that everything between 11 and 12 m is reasonable for Oxalaia. It would be #11 in this list.

And thank you very much, of course ;)

Graet list and I almost fully agree. I think that Tarbosaurus, Zhuchengtyrannus and Oxalaia should also be in it.

Very good fight, was rooting for Tylosaurus, but it was still very enjoyable.