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Nice chapter as always, looking forward to the next one. 

Maybe we could have tthat scene from the JP book with Lex. Maybe the kid could atcuaally ride the baby trike this time. Nice character development opprotunity.

Nice chapter 

Good chapter. Looking forward to the next.

Thanks everyone

There is no Current "Cheats" That I am aware of. 

There is the Developers Cheat, Which gives you about a million or so of everything. However, JPB Was really good at keeping it a secret.

In those pictures for the app, They used the Developer cheat.

Only Developers would know it. 

Now, if you know, JP is known for taking parts from the books and Mix and matching them out of order. 

Now, In the First JP, They actually had built a Baby Trike, As per the scene in which lex has a moment with the baby trike.

That scene was scrapped early in production, Leaving the Baby trike as an Unused Prop, And scene.

Colin Is most likely going to do the Lex and Trike scene in JW. 

I know carnosaur but, Tyrannotitian is still more robust and based off my estimates it is overal larger.

I'd say Tryannotitan, 55-45.

it works for a few seconds then it takes to the amazon thing i mentioned before. idk whats going on either

It works fine for me. I don't know how to fix it.

Mabye for "Ooh, aah". After all, that's how it always starts.

the link doesnt work for me. it comes up to a mostly blank page with links to amazon at the top

Nice find. Wonder how it will come into play.

Cool. I wonder how this petting zoo will come into play. Perhaps a chase scene involving some Raptors. 

Yea, more respect to old Three Horned Face!

Good, triceratops deserves more film time in the JP franchise

not much as opinion as scientifically backed fact, so here we go..

This Giant sauropod was estimated incorrectly.

In his paper Carpenter* says he simply scaled up Diplodocus c.'s vertebra to 2.7 meters. The only problem is that he used the dimensions from Seismosaurus for diplodocus's vert, but said the length of Diplodocus was only 26.25 meters. This small mistake of recording diplodocus's vert as 1.22 meters instead of .946 meters has lead to the widespread belief that Amphicoelias was 60 meters long and 120 tons in weight. In reality using carpenter's method with the correct numbers we get, 2.7/.946=2.864. 2.854x26.25 meters=75 meters long. Also 2.856^3=23.2. 23.2x12 tons=278 tons. 


A quote from Zach Armstrong on the subject. (note, he uses a 11.5 ton Diplodocus)

I’m not sure where Carpenter got his mass and length estimates–since he says he basically says he just scaled it up isometrically. A 2.7 meter tall vertebra is 2.79 (270 cm/96.6 cm=2.79)times as tall as the D10 in D. carnegii which means a length of 69.75 meters if D. carnegii was 25 meters long or 73.23 meters if it was 26.25 meters like Carpenter assumes. A resulting mass estimate should then be 247.38 tonnes (2.79^3=21.7; 21.7*11.4 tonnes=247.38 tonnes)!

And this is assuming it was the 10th dorsal! What if it was the 9th? Scaling the vertebrae, we get 270/94.6=2.85; 2.85^3=23.14; 23.14*11.4 
tonnes=263.79 tonnes! 

Adding intravetebral cartilage, which accounts for ~10% of the body lengths of most birds and reptiles, increases the dimensions even more. 

These estimates are backed by scientific methods, and are the best way we have of guessing Amphicoelias's dimensions. 

That's all we have of this thing, not even the bone, but a drawing of that bone lost 200 or so years ago. I find it highly problematic that we jump to make this animal "the largest animal to ever live" - and indeed that's what the math behind it shows, but off a vertebrate? come on. We have other giants based on way more decent remains...until we find more of this thing, the door remains open for another sauropod to take that title.

Ahhwww how cute...

Both have a slicing dentition, so bite force persay wouldn't play much of a role in this one at all, if any

Mapusaurus, based on what i've found on it recently, exceeded the length of Giganotosaurus, but was surpassed by it in weight by 1/2 tons.

But saying it was the largest carcharodontosaur because of this would be like saying it was the largest theropod.

The 1.3m femur of Mapusaurus probably belonged to an 11.3-11.8 metre specimen, while the biggest one is probably 13.6m. The femur of the Giganotosaurus holotype is similarly long, albeit apparently more slender than that of Tyrannotitan (the latter factor not really relevant), but is not from the largest specimen.

I think the paratype of T. chubutensis was roughly comparable to the Giganotosaurus holotype, perhaps slightly larger (in 12.4-13m territory). Unless it was considerably more robust in built, its probably not quite as heavy as sue, albeit longer. We really don't that much on this thing though, so there's no way to really tell(other then the fact its femur is more robus then that of the holotype giga, which may be species variation)

Equally sized animals, in the same family, in the same place, seperated by a couple million years or so...this is a close one..i'll say 50/50 until i find  something that changes my mind

@HHP -  Tyrannotitan, mapusaurus, and giganotosaurus are all in the subfamily Giganotosaurini, a small group of fairly robust carcharodontosaurs that ontain the most advanced South American species, which they found to be more closely related to each other than to the African and European forms. Coria and Currie did not formally refer Tyrannotitan to this subfamily,  but when a more detailed description of that genus was initiated, they discovered that it is very likely a basal Giganotosaurine. 

Allosaurus

Neovenator

Eocarcharia

Concavenator

Acrocanthosaurus

Shaochilong

Carcharodontosaurus

Tyrannotitan

Mapusaurus

Giganotosaurus

I'd say tyranotitan 60/40, because it seems more robust and stronger but who knows with so little fossils!

Ok this is a hard one.

i don't know who has a better bite force so I can't judge on that. I honestly think that its A 50-50 chance. Tyrannotitan is more robust and might be the stronger one, but the Mapusaurus will have its useful arms which can do a lot of damage. Being these two are very, very similar, I'll stand 50-50

I'd, say Tyrannottian 65-35 as based on MY estimates it was larger, stronger and more powerfully bulit then Mapusaurus. 

Well i think what happens to the hatchiling, is the male acrocanthosaurus return after weeks of hunting to find his nest ungaurded and not to far away his mates dead.

Nice fight, was rooting for acro, still good ;).

man, that was brutal, the poor acros.

Thanks! MrHappy, you'll have to wait and see...

Poor babies.

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Thanks!

What do you think about the end with the Acrocanthosaurus hatchlings?

Nice fight, I was rooting for Baharia. Brutal way to end the fight, to say the least. Nice job still. 

Not so surprisingly, I agree it could get bigger. On average, T.rex could be 12-13 meters long and 7-8 tons. At most, about 14 meters long and 9-10 tons.

Thanks Silver :)

Nice chapter, looking forward to the next. 

If what I think is going to happen happens, I'm rooting for Quake. 

I wouldn't be surprised if,they had Rex, kill spino. As they will probably get higher ratings if rex kills spino. Its kinda like shark weeks megalodon shows.

He's gonna die isy he?

nice chapter

DO IT

@Raptor 401. What tough times are going on 

I said that earlier Jhawkins. 

S-Rex, I know, but perhaps Spion had a bad day, or it was ambushed. There's all kinds of possibilities for how it could down. 

Nice. Don't know what else to say. 

Hahaha, Canosaur that is truly comedy gold!