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Interesting chapter, looking forward to the next one. 

Interesting, and I too rememeber a topic being made about this big guy. May have been one of the guys over at Godzilla. 

Monsters Ressurected: Spinosaurus. 'Nuff said. 

Interesting post grrat to have a new dinosaur.

on the topic of who posted this first, I believe it was you Carnosaur, I,myself have not created a topic concerning this new giant.

Never heard of that. It sounds dumb.

Don't forget Paleocosmology! The theory of dinosaurs living in space!

Thanks for sharing this!!!

They wre stronger then other sauropods and were more adapted to their enviornent. They were outcompiting their competition.

30 feet I think.

good chapter. Think i may have forgot but how large is Demon, exactly? it seems he's a big animal just from the read

Prerodons picked up things with their feet.

Pretty bulky, yes. And indeed they were the largest sauropods we have a record of at the end of the Cretaceous period, pretty fascinating how this group thrived while the other families of sauropods went extinct

Liopleurodon(not a dinosaur but still) was upwards of 125 feet long and weighed just as much

Sauropods were brainless, walking walls of meat

Stegosaurs had a 'second brain' near their hips

They were indeed very robust ànd bulky animals, don't you think?

Allotitan I think posted it a month ago.

Nice! Glad to see the d.rex live.

Really? where?

Anyways, based on that scale bar this thing would have been between 12 - 14 meters, my measuring reeallly sucks. Anyway, a 13 or so meter Titanosaur would weigh in the ballpark of 35-40 tons, that's slightly conservative though

I think their skulls were very strong.

feel free to add other theories.

Don't forget the "Tyrannosaurus was a scavenger" hypothesis..

Carcharodontosaurids not being able to ram because their skulls may shatter is based on the fact that the Premaxilae and Maxila bones are relatively thin.. say, compared to that of Tyrannosaurus. This however, doesn't mean they couldn't ram...in fact Planet Dinosaur actually showed two male Carcharodontosaurus individuals engaging in a "head butting" behavior that could be plausible

We saw this on before but thanks! So how big do YOU think it was?

I never heard that one. It's so freakin stupid.

t.rex was a scavenger cause it weighed over six tons, yet a even larger spinosaurus was a macro predator according to jack Horner.

TYRANT KING - Oh, how fun! I remember an absolutely bloody terrible theory that suggested Tyranosaurus Rex circulatory system was so weak that it would have to stop moving every 20 minutes or so just to catch its breath and recover its strength! Not a very intimidating tyrant, don't you think? Thank you so very much for sharing this with us! :)

CARNOSAUR - I know exactly what you mean! That Monsters Resurrected episode that depicted the Spinosaurus killing a Carcharodontosaurus with one swipe of its forelimb after having lifted a 40ft Rugops in its jaws was utter nonsense! I personally find the new envisionment of the animal to be extremely interesting and far more elegant! :)

EVERYONE - I'm extremely pleased you enjoyed this bit of reading! Indeed, for those of you whom intend to purchase the issue of NatGeo, it is well worth the cover price! :)

The structure on its back is quite something, really.

While the spines were (relatively) close together - as in that of dimetrodon, they, as pointed out here, didn't a network of blood vessels coursing through them. This may or may not because of poor fossilization.

Something to note is that when Sereno and his team cut open a section of S. aegyptiacus' femur, it didn't have a marrow cavity. This is a feature we see in animals more accustomed to the water, rather then a terrestrial life style. Overall, it did seem S. Aegyptiacus was a more water bound animal rather then the terrestrial predator it was made out to be - I'm looking at you Monsters Resurrected.

But, this being said, A more aquatic lifestyle points to the animal being signifigantly heavier - not lighter - then its terrestrial counterparts

This was pretty interesting! Thanks for sharing this! I'll have to get the issue some time.

Interesting article

No problem Mystique. I'm happy to help.

What are you talking about? It's great!

Interesting find. Thanks for sharing this. 

Thanks for posting this Allotitan. I may need a few more to be posted by you, but I'm not sure at the moment. 

Thanks guys, I promise the next fight will be better. 

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when you say ends do you mean the tips. Cause I was talking about the whole jaws. They were not bulky like crocs or gators but hy hey were bulkier then gahrials.

Tyrant King read the message at the top

Mr.happy? He goes by mystique now. And he didn't even write this, allotitan did........

Very interesting. I plan to pick up this issue myself.

Nice fight. Knew spino would win.

Great job Mr. Happy! Was rooting for Spino.

I agree with stromer and you. Thank you for sharing this with us and I hope you post more articles like this one:)

My work here is done

*tips hat and walks out

JP CARNOTAUR - That was extremely fun to read! Excellent work! Thank you so much for sharing this with us! :)