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I really like the Abelisauridae. Of those, Carnotaurus, being my favorite.

Coolest are the Dilophosauridae and their decendents.

In my callculations, instead of giving one predator an advantage over the others by giving them somthing as inconclusive as pack hunting. In my personel opinion predatory dinosaurs more than likely lived in small family groups, the two parents mated for life, and the young shadow the parents until they are old enough to go find a mate and claim terittory for its family. And I make these conclusions by looking at modern predatory birds, which almost all species mate for life.

I have a question would the albertosaurus be in packs, like some evidence suggest or would the be lone wolf ? Because if they where in packs they would have a great chance of surviving with all the larger carnivores instead of being alone.

Deinocheirus is definitely the coolest guy out of there.

i actually think ceratopsids are some the coolest. my favorite being nasutoceratops

A new image from prehistoric Kingdom showing the male rex in a forest background.

Plese delete, duplicate.

I cant tell wether or not your trying to be a smartass, or a sore loser at this moment.

@JHAWKINS Thank you!

Yeah I feel the same.

Spino wasn't really low to the ground, moreso it was top heavy. Most of its weight was located directly in front of the hips, after all.i'd to point out this doesn't make the animal unbalanced, as this is countered by its extremely long tail. same goes for Oxalaia. This is the thing with your comparison though happy; This is tarbosaurus, not tyrannosaurus. T. bataar was significantly smaller ten its north american relative. This is indicative it was shorter overall too, so the neck probably wouldnt have been in biting range. oxalaia, though smaller, is in all likelyhood a species of spinosaurus; where as tarbo is a different species( despite common belief. Z. magnus was closer to t.rex then tarbo is) this is shown in its slender body type.

Tarbo in yellow.

There's really nothing to sugest spino( or oxalaia for this matter) was an obligate quadrupedal animal. Not much of the forelimbs have been found, and it isn't clear if they could be used in supporting its weight.

Anyways..

Looking at Tarbo's skull, it's clearly not as heavily built as tyrannosaurus'. The snout is thinner, and the teeth are more blade ike rather then "railroad spike- esque"

This suggests T. bataar wasn't adept at crushing at its bigger north american counterpart.

Oxalaia had conical teeth that were perfectly suited for gripping. This means that when it got its teeth around a prey item; even a rival predator, it wasn't going to let go. This is where its forelimbs come into play -- they can be used in aiding to pin or subdue a struggling animal. At the very least, create very large gashes. If Oxalaia can control the head with its forelimbs, and secures a neck bite, this fight is over. it won't have any issues rearing up, big mammalian carnivores(e.g. ursines, felids) commonly rear up to use their forelimbs in inter & intraspecific conflict

LORD OF THE SPINOSAURS - I know what you mean! Regardless, I am very much enjoying this dialogue between the two participants - very compelling information is being disclosed! :)

Damn it! I am seriously urging to say something!

If Oxalaia was proportioned like Spinosaurus, it would have been rather low to the ground. The following image is Rex and Spino.

Rex and Spino are similar in weight, though Spino may be a ton or two heavier, yet Rex is substantially taller if you remove the sail. Assuming Tarbo and Oxalaia are proportioned similarly, the neck would appear to be a rather easy target. Assuming Oxalaia would be reared up a bit and facing Tarbo head on, it would likely be able to rear up quickly and get a slash in. However, it doesn't seem like it would be able to easily or effectively get a bite in. The claws could do some damage, yes, but the neck and head are also long, and may not be used as effectively as you think. Oxalaia could have easily slashed something that was beside or underneath it, and something it was biting, but if it wasn't biting it, it wouldn't be able to get something in front of it.

DANIELOSAURUS  great pic!!

Also yh i think its a teaser. But to be honest i dont care what it is. id love just 10 seconds.  I JUST WANT SOMETHING!!!!!

BUZZING THO

LATEST I HEARD WAS FROM PPL WHO HAVE BEEN TO FLORIDA RECENTLY.

They have expanded to the right of the jurassic section in  universal IOA. BUT here is the bad news:

Its for Skull island (KING KONG) due to built with in the next few years. If its the 3D simualtor as in california it will be fantastic but at the same time frustrating as the room it is taking is the only place they can expand  jurassic too. Universal have taken no chances. This being because harry potter is the other side and is a huge area of space which can not be taken away. 

GOOD NEWS:.... It is not all bad news!!!!! In california universal there is plenty of room at the jurassic section, believably meant for any expantion if the movie is a huge sucess!!!! fingers crossed it is and we may have a jurassic world extention. Hopefully something awesome like a mosasaur lagoon like the JAWS ride!! would be class.

or sets like in the movie to walk around in. Like the alleged main street and new vis centre!!

to be fair you were right with a lot of things PADEN. except the hammond death date . 98 is mentioned.

The sequals are irrelavent to the first film. The only reason we have a backing story is because hammond tells malcolm at the beginning of TLW. so really we can bypass the sequels as if they dont exist in relavence to the new film.

Dont get me wrong though. Wu could have spent the last 10 years on site B doing research and it could be included . but all i meant is that JW doesnt HAVE to tie in to the sequels to make sense.

SAYING THAT I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW WHERE THAT STUPID SPINO CAME FROM AND WHY THE RAPTORS HAVE FEATHERS . ( DIFFERENT VERSION MAYBE)

I WASNT DISRESPECTING ANY COMMENTS BTW

But them, a second Syrah cones from same direction the first Utahraptor did. He is even bigger and mire expierienced then the first. He sees the horrific scene and sees the dilo eating from his fallen rival. He stomps his feet to male his presence known. The dilo looks up and they both roar and charge.. The Utah collides head on and knobad back the dilo then bites the neck. Breaking it. He has avenged his brother.

@Paden

Well, Avengers 2 released a trailer, a couple of weeks ago, although its being released in may.

Also found this https://www.facebook.com/video.php?v=911661022179443&set=vb.771727832839430&type=2&theater Its the swedish Universal pictures.

still a trailer, a teaser trailer... but a trailer...

Well, What's it counting down to? 

Also... It's not a Trailer, Trailer would Infer that there it's just some Weeks from Release, Or is around a minute to five minutes long. 

It's a teaser. 

We're far enough in production that that's what it should be./

There's a fair chance it will get an Upgrade/update, As it hasn't been touched sicne 2001 with the JP3 Update, And little fixes here and there, And the Closing of Dinosaur encounter in 09 ish.

I'd personally hate to see them loose the Jurassic Park... There's a good chance that they'll keep the JP Logo and some of the aspects, While maybe Updating some of the Rides.

There was a post on here months ago, 

They are to be updating all the rides and Visitor Centre for the Films release. 

The Dilo still enraged and with an overabundance of adrenaline in his system begins thrashing his body and head more and more violently until he frees his snout, and seeing it as his closest target bites down with all of his force on the raptors hand/arm. Then begins to violently thrash and yank the raptors hand/arm and then there’s an audible “POP!” as the raptor screeches in pain and his arm goes limp, the Dilo gives the arm one more good tug and the raptor lets go of him and stumbles dazed by the pain and shock. The Dilo takes this chance to wright himself, upon seeing his rival in such a pitiful state he musters all of his strength and charges bowling over the raptor who now lies on the ground in an even more confused state. The Dilo doesn’t drag out the raptors death, he begins slashing, biting, and clawing the already mauled side of the raptor and proceeds to disembowel his adversary and leaving the parts of the corpse that he didn’t eat at the edge of his territory as a warning to any other predators who would dare cross into his territory.

It probably will. All the others did so why wouldn't this one.

I hope it gets an upgrade. Last time I was there it was starting to look pretty rundown.

The raptor now uses last bit of strength and throws off the dilo then bites his neck then pubs him to the ground and puts his hand over the snout of the dilo and puts his foot in his side and contiues to bite even harder.

When I said "half the size," that was a reference to weight, not length, as length is a poor method for size (Giga and Rex being similar in weight, despite Giga being a few feet longer, for example would be a poor way to justify saying Giga was larger, even if Rex was slightly heavier, therefore larger, but that's a different debate). And maybe not twice as big, but a substantial weight difference.

Was not aware of the size reduction of Ekrix.

Interesting scenario with the African plains reference, but perhaps not the most accurate. The crocs were heavier than the lions, and would kick a lions ass in or near water. Oxalaia however, was half the weight of Giga, give or take of course.

Most likely, given the choice, Oxalaia would retreat from its larger neighbour. If it came down to no choice do or die, sure, it would take the Giga on. If it's going to go down, may as well go down fighting, and maybe it'll surprise itself, and it will surprise Giga, and possible escape with its life. I'm not sure about you, but if I had to fight some guy damn near twice as big as I am, I'm ditching first shot I get.

I know, a crushing bite force isn't 100% effective. Almost nothing is 100% effective. However, a crushing bite force does cause trauma, which is still pretty bad and is going to hurt like a SOB for a bit. Slashing however, will sting for a while and is arguably better for quick attacks, but once the bite hits, damage is going to be done. In the case of Stan, possibly what happened was he was knocked unconscious by the bite, so his opponent had no reason to continue fighting and left, therefore defeating Stan. A crushing bite force isn't a 100% kill rate, but it is still a useful weapon to have, and would likely cause the opponent to back off after a good bite or two.

The Dilo rolls with the face slash, while it saves the Dilos eye, deep geshes now run along his face and they are steadily trickling blood. The Dilo now enraged dosnt feel as slow or the amount of pain hes in anymore, he charges with his newfound strength as the raptor goes at him again he comes from above with a bite enveloping the raptors neck in his jaws and uses his toes claws too tear open the raptors side injuries even more.

the stronger raptor rips free and kicks the dilo away but not befor slashisng thedilos eye.

The image matches a bit better, yet the upper jaw seems a bit more square than the LEGO model.

^ You're so lucky! :)

I believe that they will make a few small modifications, and maybe add an attraction or two.

Both the raptor and Dilo are tireing from a drawn out battle and blood loss, at this point the Dilo realises this fight needs to end soon. While chargeing the Dilo brings all of his wepans to bare and as the two collide the Dilo uses his smaller size and agility to his advantage. So as the raptor charges right into him he rolls with the collision and gets to the side of the tired and slower raptor, rakeing his claws across the raptor side and biteing down and yanking on the raptors arm.

Good points, however...just a few things..

Being a Spinosaur, and being half the size of the largest predators in its area, while similar to others in size, it would likely have, like its larger cousin, Spinosaurus, stuck around rivers and ate fish most of the time

The G. carolinii holotype was ~12.6 meters, 6.5-7.2 tons. The dentary, of the paratype(only fossils for this creature, suggests an animal approx. 6.5% larger. However, we can not explicitely state this because individual variation is a very likely scenario here. But, i digress. By my calculations, this animal would be 13.0 -13.3 m, 7 - 7.5 tons in weight. So, a median between the two ( 12.8 m; 7 tons) is a perfectly rounded number. So, it could be twice as large, but there isn't anything conclusive to prove this.

Ekrixinatosaurus was significantly smaller then previously thought. Basing off of scorpiovenator, we get ~7.4 m, 1800 - 2000 lbs. Fractionally the size of O. quilombensis. The only real threat to O. quilombensis was G. carolinii, and even then perhaps it wouldn't serve much of a threat. It was, in all likelyhood, the apex predator of the estuarial water ways and rivers. Competition between the three for resources is something i equate to the savannahs of africa; Giganotosaurus being the lion, Oxalaia being the saltwater croc, Ekrixinatosaurus being the hyena. These three species interact quite frequently, and compete for resources. That scenario is just imo, though.

However, during the mating season, territorial disputes, and fights for food, there would have been competition with other Tarbosaurus. Same for Oxalaia, but Tarbo may have had battles with more fatalities or critical injuries if it came down to a battle because of the higher bite force, capable of crushing bone

A crushing bite isn't a 100% killing rate. Stan, for example, survived bites that went straight through his brain case. Face biting in tyrannosaurus rex is a well documented phenomenon -- and the wounds healed, indicating that they survived these bouts.

"Examination of museum collections has revealed four specimens of Tyrannosaurus rex that bear tooth marks made by large, carnivorous dinosaurs. Because Tyrannosaurus is the only large carnivore known from the Late Maastrichtian of western North America, we infer thatTyrannosaurus made these tooth marks."

...The marks are interpreted as feeding traces and these fossils therefore record instances of cannibalism. Given that this behavior has a low preservation potential, cannibalism seems to have been a surprisingly common behavior in Tyrannosaurus, and this behavior may have been relatively common in carnivorous dinosaurs"

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0013419

^  bite marks on T. rex bones made by other tyrannosaurus. Some healed, others not. Canniblism, like in modern animals, was probably prevalent in T. rex as well as its asian counterpart, T. bataar. Does this mean that the large tyrannosaurs were the only ones to engage in such violent confrontations? certainly not. Moreso that we have more specimens of T. rex and kin then most other theropod dinosaurs.

And the big spinosaurs were certainly no exception. For example,piscivorious animals -- such as  american alligators, saltwater & nile crocodiles commonly fight with other predators in their realms

Cannibalistic as well..

So, i would say its safe to say that the larger spinosaurids( spinosaurids in general, really) didn't actively search for fights, but when confronted with no other options, would stand their ground & fight -- like the pictures i've shown above. 

Again, i re-iterate that just because we haven't found as much evidence of such encounters, doesn't mean they wouldn't occur.Additionally, we cannot say which species of theropod dinosaur is more aggressive then the other based on the fragmentary state of the fossil record.

then teh raptor falls opn the ground and they both roll down a hill biting,slashing,kicking. they finally reach the bottom where they both stand up and charge head on........

The raptor falling for the Dilo's feint bites for the head and neck, the Dilo uses this to his advantage and bashes the raptors head with the jagged and boney broken crest cutting the loose skin of the raptors jaws. While the raptor wails in pain the Dilo pounces the raptor slashing with its feet and latching onto the raptor with its claws and mouth.

the raptor then slashes him across the face and then bites the neck. intent on killing.

Though he cant dodge the toe-claw entirely, he manages to backstep forceing the raptor to drop his foot for stability and only leaveing a long but shallow slice down his stomach. And yanking his snout free from the raptors jaws, takeing many gashes to his snout, he cherges and lunges for the raptor but not meaning to bite it.