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By the way, when Stardust pulled off HER prank, I did that just to show how WEIRD she was.

About Tyrannosaurus swimming, it could using its legs and tail, plus holding its top half above the surface, but it probably could only swim in shallow water.

Mmm hmmm. Hope your looking forward to it!

Yay!

Okay, to settle the Tyrannosaurus thing, it probably will be eliminated in like Round Two or Three. Don't worry, I assure you it will not be killed by a Spinosaurus. I'm avoiding this at all costs. Rex will be in the battles, but not the winner. It'll be killed by something legit, like a Triceratops, Ankylosaurus, Giganotosaurus, etc. The series will be fantastic, but I need help placing pictures. They won't show up on the publishes document. :'(

By the end of the month. A week or two to be exact! :)

Very good. Looking forward to the next

Thanks AI, wanted to take an original point of action for my fights! Quite excited as well.

Okay, I see, when will it be posted?

Fraid not. I meant themes, not specific posts. Sorry, but I have a feeling, you'll like this Quite. A . Bit.

Will it feature my story!?

One of your best yet! Great work, and I look forward to working with you as an artist for carnosaur!

Summary of Project X:

Project X is a one of a kind post, that will mash all different kinds of posts together, it is a one of a kind event 65 million years, in the making. Welcome, to Project X...

Looks good.

Top secret. Something that Im working on with Carnosaur and RexFan. It is something BIG. VERY BIG. Youll just have to wait and see...

Okay...

What is Project X, though?

Thanks!

Very good!

I wasnt really rooting for anyone, but great fight!

Thanks guys. But look forward to it all! And im very excited to draw for you!

Good! I was voting on Sucjomimus!

Thanks guys. This is one of my favourite ending to a fight in MS, and tomorrow is one of my favourite fights of Round 1, Allosaurus vs Siats.

Looking forward to all of it.

Chapter 6 should be posted sometime today

Amazing that you will incluid art of members of this site  :D

Great news! Can't wait :)

Congrats Acro and Primal. Can't wait for the fights as well Carnosaur.

Good fight. I was rooting for Suchomimus.

Nice chapter.

Yes!!! Suchomimus won!!! Great fight.

Awesome! i can't wait to start :) For a fight, how about Epanterias vs Giganotosaurus?

great fight.

RexFan, Won't you posted the Special Episodes, i Suggest :

" Southern Menace "

It's Around 100 MYA At S.America, The Place Filled with Giants like Argentinosaurus And Been Terrorized By Giganotosaurus and Megaraptors

" African Slayer "

it's Around 120 MYA In Africa Where Giats like Suchomimus And Spinosaurus Compete with Sarcosuchus For Abundant Of Prey

I Don't really like Stardust........

She kind a.......... Annoying. My Favourite Character was Obviously, raptor401.

So...I like your way of thinking, however it seems there is some lack of knowledge regarding taxonomy and evolutionary biology. Attention: longer text is coming ;).

The "experts":

I do not know which "experts" you are talking about, but since the discovery of Archaeopteryx it was clear that dinosaurs were very related to birds.

Reptile, bird or dinosaur?

Here we have to take a look at modern taxonomy. Today species and genera are classified as "clades", which are always part of bigger clade, which is the clade of their ancestors. Let's take a look on the taxonomy of the dog:

The dog (Canis lupus) is a member of the clade Canis (its genus), which is a member of Canidae, which belongs to Carnivora...

And now a greater look at the pigeon, a bird.

Pigeons (Columbidae) --> Psittacimorphae --> Neornithes --> Aves (birds) --> Coelurosauria --> Theropoda --> Saurischia --> Dinosauria --> Archosauria --> Diapsida --> Reptilia

So birds are in a cladistic view in fact dinosaurs and reptiles. But we have to distinguish between "classic" reptiles and the clade reptilia. The allocation of vertrebrates in the five main groups fishes, amphibians, reptiles, birds and mammals is antiquated, the classic reptiles (turtles, snakes, lizards, crocodyles) are in fact paraphyletic, which means they don't have the same ancestor. Crocodyles for example are more related to dinosaurs and birds than to lizards and snakes.

The clade reptilia (synonym Sauropsida) covers a big bunch of clades e.g. the "classic reptiles" and their ancestors, ichthyosaurs, pterosaurs, dinosaurs and therefore also birds.

So, you are right. Dinosaurs aren't very similar to classic reptiles, because they weren't one. Indeed the classic reptiles aren't a homogenous group themselves. But they are all part of the bigger clade reptilia, which exists since the Carboniferous.

Similarities between mammals and some reptilia:

It's right there some similarities between different mammals and reptiles (I now use reptile as a synonym for reptilia). But this doesn't mean they are very related, in fact they are only similar on the first look, take a second (anatomical and genetics) you can easily see the differences. After modern scientific opinion (and proven through fossils and genetics) the cladistic classification of mammals is the following:

Mammals --> Therapsida --> Synapsida

Synapsids themselves are the sister taxon of Reptilia, which means they had the same ancestor. Both clades evolved during Carboniferous-Permian. So how can we explain these optical similarities? It's a phenomenon, which is called convergent evolution: different species evolve similar attributes in a similar environment. A good example are wings. Birds, bats, pterosaurs and insects evolved wings. All wings have a similar shape (aerodynamic reasons) but have completely different origins. Birds use feathers (originaly scales), bats and pterosaurs a membrane skin, insects chitin. So you can explain the mutuality between ichthyosaur-dolphin, elephant-sauropd etc. more an similar ecological niche than a factual relationship.

So these should be the main points. As references nearly every modern specialized book for biology.

(No offence ;) )

I like to see sub-adult Rex vs an adult Spinosaurus.

Thank you!

Not to burst your bubble here (or be rude), but Team Rex members seems to slam Team Spino members a lot. 

And yes, I do believe that some Rex fans make stuff up, but so do  some Spino fans.

Honestly, (and sadly) I've never even played the first one. I've seen gameplays though, and it looks good.