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Nice. I like the mixed herd of sauropods instead of just one species.

Nice post. Very interesting. Gotta say, if the Cretaceous extinction didn't take place, Rex had the potential to last for millions upon millions of years longer than it did. Maybe it could have been one of the longest lasting species the Earth  has seen (remaining unchanged I mean).

What I find really interesting is how big a brain T.rex had. One of the biggest compared to body size of any non-avian dinosaur!

Thanks MrHappy

Yeah were off topic lets go back to the point of the topic! :)

Don't forget predators don't hunt everyday. Plus they're heavily outnumbered by their prey.

An 3+ ton hadrosaur for example could probably hold a T.rex over for a few weeks. Plus there were probably hundreds of thousands of hadrosaurs as opposed to a few thousand T.rexes.

Anyways, this wasn't supposed to be about hunting in large theropods.

Oh yes all predators have disadvantages Giganotosaurus had a small brain and competition, T.rex had small arms and tough prey, Allosaurus had a small brain and other larger carnivores to deal with.

As usual, nice chapter and looking forward to the next. 

still all had disadvantages, or its prey would of gone extint, for example, giganotosaurus had some competicion in Ekrixinatosaurus, and it had a small brain

I understand :)

That's what I meant, just wasn't specific enough, it's not like there very different. :)

Yeah, I can agree with that(though I'm not aware of any hadrosaurs living with Giganotosaurus, though more primitive iguanodonts did).

Pretty much all apex predators are perfect for their environment, T.rex was perfectly evolved for taking on armoured prey and decently fast prey

It's the same for other predators heres some examples.

Giganotosaurus was fast and agile and fairly powerful prefect for taking on hadrosaurs , sauropods and the other large theropods in its ecosystem.

Allosaurus was big enough to take on stegosaurs and sauropods and was fast enough to get away from larger and stronger theropods in its ecosystem.

Then why have predators?

Anyways, this wasn't about T.rex hunting. This was about it's amazing array of senses and intelligence.

Its like a savana, lions arent alwhays sucsesfoul, drougths, floods, and climate changes keep the hervibore population undercontroll

Well if T.rex wasn't a good hunter, then what kept the herbivore populations in check? It was the only predaotr big enough and common enough to do it(raptors were too small and rare to make any real impact and Nanotyrannus may have been a young T.rex).

maybe, i think rex whas only succesfoul in hunting around 30% of the time

Short arms maybe. Not the fastest dinosaur out there(not bad for it's size though. A 7-10 ton animal moving 15-25 miles per hour ain't bad).

Don't forget it's prey was tough. Horned ceratopsians, armored ankylosaurs, giant sauropods, fleet footed ornithomimids, and long tailed hadrosaurs.

Imean rex must of had somesort of diadvantage against its pray, no predator is perfect

Since the only other two senses are taste and touch, I don't know how big a deal that'd be.

Considering all of that, Trex must of had a sort of disadvantage in other senses.

Sure thing :)

Pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

Thanks UCMP

Awesome chapter. Can't wait for the next.

See ya!

Good start. Looking forward to the next.

Glad to hear that Hipho :)

Amazing chapter as usual, looking forward to the next! 

See ya soon 401!

Thanks Catzilla.

First! great chapter rexyfan, looking foward to the next

Thanks Rex Fan And MrHappy!

Good start.

See ya in august! :)

To save me typing everything up twice, check out my post in THIS THREAD, about a Scified Site in the pipeline, The Scified MOC Community, aimed at Lego enthusiasts or MOCers...

Nice start, looking forward to more. 

HHA, yes, Rex is the "good guy" I guess. Wasn't Rex the "good guy" by the end of the original movie? Rex killed Gennaro and destroyed that Explorer, but she was still the "good guy" by the end of the movie. 

Looking forward to your return. 

JP CARNOTAUR - OH, now this is a very fun topic! I'd have to say that I believe the film will begin much like the first Jurassic Park - introducing the velociraptors. However, this time, it might actually reveal that the animals are loose on the isalnd rather than being held in captivity. Who knows? Perhaps the wild raptors might have a hand in undermining the park! :)