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Wait so in theroy does the T. rex bite not help?

Not every dinosaur was wiped off the face of the earth when the asteroid hit. It has been proposed that some hadrosaur species survived the KT even, and lived for a thousand or so more years. Which is truly fascinating. It's quite apparent they didn't survive for long, otherwise our fuzzy little ancestors would have become dino chow in a second.

It would cut the flesh and veins and arterys in the neck of rex

any animal biting another animal at the back of the neck would kill it. Giga didn't possess crushing dentary though, so it couldn't crush the neck vertebrate. It would, however, do enough damage via slicing wounds to kill the rex.

Yes I'm pretty sure

So would a giga biting in to a neck of a rex kill it?

Twice as much

Thanks!

Nice chapter!

That much would snap bone like a twig, but yet again anything over a few hundred pounds would do that. a five ton bit would pulverize bone with ease

How much damage would that cause compare to 3 tons?

Yep

6 and a half tons

"The force exerted at one of T. rex's back teeth would have been between 7,868 and 12,814 pounds-force (35,000 and 57,000 newtons). This force would be akin to having a medium-size elephant sit on you."

7,868 and 12,814 lbs translates to between 3.9  and 6.4 tons. As far as  i can see, that's the only mention of bite force numbers in that article

WAIT!!! sorry I just messed up 13000 pounds 4 times more than previously thought! How many tons is 13000 pounds?

@ dynamosauruas are you on carnivora??? 

Link isn't working

Here's one post, thers many others though, http://www.livescience.com/18718-trex-strong-bite.html

Predator X- I said Crocodilians. Alligators have a bite force very similar to that of the salt water croc, and as it is the biggest species of crocodilian living today, i used it to scale.

Regarding rex bite force, i've seen estimates as high as twenty tons. Frankly, that's a whole lot of bull(Stress in the skull would cause it to fracture, predominatly the maxilla) i haven't seen that nat geo article yet, but i'll go do some digging. I usually put its bite force in the 4-9 ton range

But, doing the math on a fourteen foot american alligator(Alligator Mississipiensis) with a bite force of 2,125 pounds, A 42 foot Deinosuchus would have a bite force of approximately 6,375 pounds.

Ya I heard that to it is awesome

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Deinosuxuscus is an alligator 

Nice start. Looking forward to the next chapter. 

Crocodilians have the strongest bite force at parity then any living animal today. Salties have a bite measured at close to two tons of force, and that came from a seventeen foot long individual i believe. Now, scaling up the seventeen foot croc, a forty two foot deinosuchus would have a bite force of roughly 7 tons; which puts it on par with that of Tyrannosaurus.

I think one group of animals you passed over is the megalosaurs, the larger species(Torvosaurus, perhaps the synonomous Edmarka) have higher jaw mechanic then those of the tyrannosaurs. And indeed, , mechanical advantages calculated for Eustreptospondylus and Dubreuillosaurus (both preserve more skull elements) are comparable if not higher than that of T. rex (Sakamoto, 2010). But like  it has already mentioned, T. rex has other features that indicate that it had larger, stronger bite overall. The megalosaurs, once the larger species have an overall determined bite force, could rival that of the tyrannosaurs.

Good job with this! thoroughly enjoyed reading it. Looking foward to the next

THANKS! and i'm looking forward to it

Good job. Was rooting for Titanoboa. Rooting for Deinonychus next time.y

Nice. I'm making a story to

Deinonychus deinosucus same thing 

Errrrr... Curse auto correct.... I meant dinosuchus.

If you meant "Deinosuchus," the 8 ton crocodile, then yes, it's plausible that it had a higher bite force than Rex. If you meant "Dienonychus," the 400 pound Raptor, then I'm going to ask that you stop doing drugs. 

I can see how you made the typo, it would be easy to not notice it right away. 

Oh, thought you guys might find this interesting. apprantly some scientists say Dinsuchus had a stronger bite then Tyrannosaurus. I'm not sure, I think its possible but, not likely.

It is. They probably died out soon after, because otherwise how would the mammals rise to power?

good fight rooting for titanaboa

Thanks guys!

Interesting I wonder how long dinosaurs really lived

Wow so some Dinos survived the KT extinction

I heard it had a strong bite and I believe that

Nice fight! I was rooting for the Titanoboa.

Rooting for Dienonychus next round.