Well, it could have been worse for mama Pteranodon. Could've shot to wound the parents, and proceed to smash their heads in AFTER doing that to the babies. I mean, I'm a lunatic, but not that bad, that's just plain terrible. 

I would never kill another person....... for no reason.

Well, that's alright, but promise me you would never shoot human babies. Seriously, human babies have souls... Humans in general... But regarding nature, nature is a bitch. To all animals. I mean with Lions, the male ones sometimes enter different packs and will brutally kill all the youngsters so they can have a chance to mate.

Poor mama Pteranodon...

Thanks, took me 5 minutes to make it look funny.

Um, I'm the type of guy who, if I'm outnumbered and have a large gun, even if it's young ones, will shoot anything and everything in sight. Assuming the babies would run off at the first gunshot, they're fine as long as local authorities find them before another bear. Just saying, nature is a bitch to the unprotected youngster. If anything, I'd be doing the babies a favour. 

Regarding your rabbit example, mama Pteranodon f*cked with the wrong rabbit.

It was funny.

Well what if was a BEAR!!!???? You still don't need to kill the babies. Sure I mean they would start pecking you, giving you extreme pain all over, but you can still spare them, I mean throw them off the rocks and let them glide to safety!!!
Also, just curious, what do you think of my long caption under the picture of the Pterodeactly whit Eric?

That wouldn't happen simply because one shot with said weapon and it's rabbit stew for dinner. The Pteranodons would be trying to tear you limb from limb, WHILE YOU'RE STILL A-F**KING -LIVE. So once again, trade off, give family of dinosaurs merciful death (well, the ones you put a bullet through), or get eaten alive. 

I am aware that this isn't serious.

Well it was just the mom who wanted to feed your children.What if you hunted a rabbit for your kids and the rabbit just killed all of you and tyour whole family?

This whole argument I am rbinging is just a joke, by the way. I'd kill the parents first chance I got and would kill the babies, if necessary.

Well 401, think rationally. Yes, in the scenario, I killed a family. They are all dead, so NONE of them will be emotionally scarred for life, AND they DID try to kill me, so you know, there's the trade off. That and I'm a friggin lunatic.

The third shot, I'm assuming that is a Deceased workers Helmet... (Y'know theres blood and a claw mark)

I don't really like these.

You can't give a guy a Bad ass hair style and Bike and throw it into the JP Series...

But Like I've been saying. Colin is treading on very dangerous Territory. 

I CANNOT WAIT UNTIL THIS FILM COMES OUT! It's gonna be incredible, I can just feel it.

And God knows how in hell's name they manage that...

no matter how roaches disgust and frigthen me if im ding i would eat them, chinese eat roches and rats and they dont seem to get sick

Well I don't know... And i would never eat roaches, I'd rather die

Not really, I mean 90% of the time Mr. Happy's first but soemtimes it's others.

¿why, like mr happy said its them or you?

if you are desperate you would eat anything even insects

(is it yust me or mr happy and i are always the first to coment on your topics)

Eat myself or dive from the place and hope I die peacefully.

in the spinosaurus scenario i throw all the food exept for 1 fish

what would you have done raptor?

Mr. Happy, but you killed an entire family!!!

Well catzilla, you do have some waffles and bagels...

Well 401, it's either me or them, and better them than me.

Awesome!

what, do uou have a problem in eating pterosaurs to survive?

Well that was a pretty relaxed response...

put the 8 pills on a fish then feed it to the father hoping it would poison him scince i only used one shot of the shotgun i would kill the mother with it and shoot 8 of the baby with the pistol and kill the other 2 babys by hiting them to death with the flash ligth from last time and put the 10 babys in the bag to cook them for food with a fire ive started with the car ciggar ligther

Well, that was quick... You seem to have no problem killing za babies...

Well, assuming the shotty was a standard 5-round pump, I've got three rounds of buckshot left in her. The Pteranodon picked the wrong fight.

Simple actually. Shoot the parents with the shotgun, whip out the pistol and shoot four of the babies. Four rounds left in the pistol, one in the shotgun. Now, for the last six, assuming they are scared sh!tless, beat them to death with the stock of the shotty and leave in search of gas.

@Carnosaur, abelisauridae as a whole did not possess either the longest dentition proportionally or the longest snouts. So the idea that rugops was so unique is invalid.

Note that carnosaurs and tyrannosaurs both were likely not scavengers for the most part.

If I may say so myself though, scavenger behavior seems to be mainly restricted to smaller carnivores overall. Although tyrannosaurids do generally possess a far better suited anatomy for scavenging than the former (they have a much higher capcity to crush bone as opposed to slice flesh and cause massive amounts of broad blood-loss), the large genera did not evolve and become dominant until the later Cretaceous after allosaurs became very much extinct (or at least very redundant).

It is possible that scavengers would need to fight other carnivores more often, but I would not consider them "better fighters", simply because animals of different specializations require very different qualities. I would definitely consider that tyrannosaurids were simply far better suited for fighting (face-to-face at least, where carnosaurs would be pretty much fucked with their much more gracile skull morphology), but whether or not scavengers were better fighters in general is unknown to me. Note, I am not at all implying that tyrannosaurids were primarily scavengers

About tyrannosaurid predation on ankylosaurs... Certainly ankylosaurus and its closest kin would be difficult to take down, especially in the larger genera. They were awfully squat in stance and were, of course, built like living breathing tanks. If I may say so myself, hadrosaurs would have been the primary food source for tyrannosaurids, as IMO they seemed far less dangerous in terms of weaponry than the ceratopsians and ankylosaurs (although their hind legs were quite large and probably very powerful, so they were certainly not defenseless. Aside from the fact that they were probably quite fast). But note that the largest tyrannosaurids too possessed very powerful jaws and a high capacity to crush bone, so whether or not they would be able to penetrate the thick osteoderms of the largest ankylosaurs, they were in no way ill-suited for the job, just as how ankylosaur armor seemed to have been designed for defense against such predators.

Simply, both the tyrannosaurs and ankylosaurs made crocodilians look like weaklings: the former had a much higher aptitude for actual killing (not to mention how their dentition was sharper-edged) while ankylosaur armor pretty much made crocodilian armor look like paper IMO (crocodilian armor was strong, but yet it only really protected the dorsum albeit maybe a little bit of the flanks and neck area).

@Carnosaur, actually, its rostrum wa not at all ideal for ripping and tearing. Its teeth weren't either. This animal was only adapted to grip, that is it. To have a snout really efficient at tearing, it would need to be either deepened or broadened (or in some cases, both. Such as tyrannosaurus). Spinosaurus has neither of these traits. Of course tooth shape isn't THAT great of an indicator here, as modern crocodilians too utilize torsion to feed, but broad-snouted species have, well widened snouts that can withstand that much pressure. Spinosaurus' snout, while certainly very strong, could not do this.

Also, the fish that spinosaurus took, while probably huge, were probably more in the 10-15 foot range at most for a common dietary item. A 20 footer like mawsonia, at least according to this size estimate, would probably be too much as a common food item (because remember, its snout was designed for tackling smaller animals overall, so one only a little bit smaller than its maximum size at around 50-55 feet in length or so would be ridiculous):

Mawsonia is a definite possibility (as spino was evolved to hunt things considerably smaller than itself), but I for one do not believe that it would have been a staple in favor of smaller and weaker fish. But I agree for the most part

@Dinosaur.Fanatic, either the sail (actually more-so of a muscular ridge) was beneficial or it wasn't. Based on its shape and overall positioning, it would do no more than provide simple "support" (for a lack of better words) in courtship (display), thermoregulation, or indimidation. It was not designed as a hinderance, but nonetheless it would be one if the creature was adapted to "chase down" larger terrestrial prey like in more typical theropod genera (ie. allosaurus or tyrannosaurus, as a basic example), but it obviously was not designed to do that. Furthermore, it would likely not be hunting fish this way either; most likely, spinosaurids would hunt with a simple "ambush" technique (all my theory), as their legs were not the longest and most powerful proportionally and the enlarged spinal column would likely prohibit this. Simply, spinosaurus is not going to be chasing down prey (regardless of whether it was terrestrial or aquatic), and would instead catch prey with quick, moderately powerful, penetration as opposed to what you would expect from more typical theropods.

And no, I do not believe the two were evenly-matched. There are so many problems with this idea; tyrannosaurus was downright the more heavily-built of the two and was, simply, far better designed for fighting and hunting large terrestrial creatures. At parity, the tyrannosaurus would dominate. The only real advantage in this case that the other has is its size advantage

Interesting.

Realisic and well done.

Interesting back story and good match up.

I personally enjoyed the movie because I wasn't comparing it to the other two movies in the sence of film making, but in the sence of a real universe. From this perspective the movie made more sence for just as in real life not every event that takes place is going to be amazing or mind blowing and the characters did well in the enviornment they were placed in. If I was in their shoes I would probably made similar desisions in order to try and survive. So while definatly not the best in the trilogy it was still pretty good.

@Godzillasaurus - I wasn't actually part of the group that proclaimed these topics dead; I did propose an alternative forum since it was causing some trouble.  However since this is my own thread and it is older, I figured it wouldn't be a problem. Please feel free to give your thoughts on the matter!

@Spinosuchus - Most animals do not develop body parts that hinder their movement.  If you are a believer of evolution/survival of the fittest, logically Spinosaurus would, over time, develop a spine that was in some way beneficial to its movement.  If the spine was a hinderance, it would have evolved out. If you are a believer in species adaptation, like I am, you would most likely believe that the sail would have adapted to be beneficial - not necessarily stream-lined, but not a hinderance. Seperate parts of an animal do not usually contrast in the way they affect an animal.

My original intent was to argue that Rex and Spino are evenly matched. I assume you are arguing Rex would win in a fight? 

@Carnosaur - Interesting speculation. I would respond that Dimetrodon's closer, thinner vertebrae supported a slimmer sail, while Spinosaurus' thicker, wider-spaced vertabrae supported a thicker, less fragile sail.

Good fight and nice description at the end.

Good fight and I was onAlbertasaurus's site in this fight.

Good fight and match up.

Thanks I E :D

*images posted by Thedinasaurman here.

Hey ScenicDegree605 :)

I will try to answer that. We are still working on the AI for our dinosaurs, when that has been said we are trying to make them self-aware and giving them a will to live. If they have a will to live, they will fight for their life and or their herd’s life.

Hope this answers your question else feel free to contact me.

/Morten Bormeth (Developer at Prehistoric Kingdom)

Sweet

Thank you, TheDinosaurMan!