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RaptoRex, that means so much to me!  Thanks!  Maybe some day it will be published, but for now, keep reading it on this forum.  

If you think it was so good now at the beginning, the rest of the story should be even better!

I'll be reading Mr Happy!

I have that system, and I've played that game at a friend's house.

Maybe it's just an excuse for him to play video games, haha. Interesting find though.

I hope you enjoy my next story as much as I enjoy this one, I'm going to start posting on the 13th.

The same could be said for T-rex hunting Alamosaurus(up to 100 ft and 80+ tons in some cases). So, T-rex could take on sauropods like Giganotosaurus, plus well defended prey like Triceratops and Ankylosaurus.

I'm glad you enjoy it Rex Fan and Mr Happy.  

That's a good image, yes, very appropriate for the situation.

Nice. Good chapter.

Oh, and I think this is appropriate for this post...

Animals always go for the easiest source of food. They'll kill an Argentino if they have to, but most of the it's safer and easier to do it the other way.

I..... mean these story i cant even describe it it was so good it it was deserved in a novel.

Good job. I really enjoy this story.

Or they were used for all the reasons said. Mating, getting up after sleeping, battle, and anything else. If T-rex had those arms(which were strong for their size), it probably used them whenever it could.

o yeah, and i want those three with a machine gun in their back! so if i went to afganistan i could shoot those taliban, and riding a quetzalcoaltus

Orrrrrrrrrrr, strength in numbers. Giga was a pack hunter, a trait seen in most Allosaurs. The pack would attack from the sides, and with any luck, the Argentinosaurus would bleed out before it killed them all. It would take power, yes, but it would also take power for a Rex to take down a Trike.

Actually, Gigas probably didn't kill the Argentinosaurs (unless they were young or sick). They probably just chased it while biting off chunks of flesh to eat.

You're telling me this doesn't look a little weird?

look it on giga  point of view. if they want to take down an Argentinosaurus. which is 20 times Bigger Than triceratop, the giga really need to used a lot of power. also the argentino moved in herd that can reach up to 30 induvidual. they need a strategy to seperate and kill it, and that need a lot of intelligence and agileness.

I think the arm were mostly used to help in copulation, but also for close encounters with some prey animals.

The males should have used their arms to help stabilize their mates during copulation, to keep in contact with her, but also maybe to keep her from falling flat on her face.  The females might have used them to make sure she didn't fall as well, as she was below her mate the entire time while mating.

The second use stems from this theory:  for large prey, T.rex probably did not simply grab hold of its prey and bite down.  I don't care how strong a T.rex's skull was, it's body weight could still deliver more force when coupled with its bite.  T.rex might have actually tackled its large prey to the ground with the help of its jaws to make sure the prey was in an indefensible position.  Once the T.rex was on top of it's prey, those arms would have stabilized at least part of the prey animal so T.rex could kill it quicker.  

In both cases, the T.rex had to get extremely close to another creature, which could just as easily spell disaster for it if the situation goes against its favour.

actually, the Guan-Long. it is not pretty weird. the early tyrannosaur is actually had long arm, the short arm of the tyrannosaur is developt at the early cretacoeous periode. and the Guan-Long lived in the mid Jurassic Period.

My hypothesis is that they used them for display and for help carrying carcasses.

Proably for holding on during mating, and likely to help get itself up after laying down.

I know, and thanks, worked hard on it.

You got that right. It was originally an FBR Bonus Fight I was suppossed to do, but after FBR started slowing down, I lost a little interest in writing it. But you did a great job with it. FBR quality in my book :)

I asked for a suggestion, you gave me one, and I delivered.

I liked it. Then again I told you about it, haha. Still, you took my idea and gave it life :)

Speaking of Ceratosaurus and Dilophosaurus, I actually did a fight between the two. I think it was a successful post.

I see 9 meters as the max. I usually estimate it to be 8 meters long, but that's me. Either way, 1.5 tons is a little light for a 30 foot Ceratosaurus. 2 tons at least would be more likely :)

Exactly, fun until someone takes it too far. That's happened many times actually, too many times.

@deltadromeus they've found fossils indicating ceratosaurus got to be around 30 feet, even if it's one specimen i think it's pretty accurate.

I'll update it as soon as possible :)

Debates can always be fun as long as people don't go off the deep end ;)

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Alrighty then, was a fun debate nonetheless :)

i kind of agree with Rexfan. id rather have a quetzalcoaltus, utahraptor and a Kelenken Guillermoi ( largest species of Terror Bird, so just you know )

If i want to have a prehistoric animal for pet, i'd rather picked the Quetzalcoatus. if we want to traveling a lot we can ride it (For the Explorer). its cheaper compared to planes, cause we just have to brought some fish or stop near a coast for the reptile to feed.

Sinornithosaurus, it probably did have a network of veins and arteries to carry blood throughout it, so you're right, there would be more too it. But with a hump being pretty unnessary in its environment and the fact that a neural spine was found bitten in half, I feel safe in saying that the odds of it having a sail are about 80-85 percent with a hump being about 15-20 percent at most.

Ceratosaurus is certainly one of the most underrated dinosaurs I know. Aucasaurus and Tarascosaurus are up there too.

Thanks guys, and your welcome ;)

I'm going with these three...

Ornithocheirus

Deinonychus

And a Terror Bird

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