Estemmenosuchus vs Ticinosuchus

Estemmenosuchus [img]http://www.arcadiastreet.com/cgvistas/earth/02_paleozoic/images/estemmenosuchus_mirabilis_portrait_1280.jpg[/img] Height: 6 feet Length: 13 feet Weight: 3,000 lbs Weapons: Horns, bite, size Speed: 10-15 mph for short distances Diet: Plants of any kind, maybe small animals or carcasses Description: Imagine a hippo as tall as a man. Now put moose antlers on its head. That would be fairly close to an Estemmenosuchus. Not technically a dinosaur, living millions of years before them, it still looked like it belonged among them. It was he size of modern rhinos, the second largest land animal in existence, so it certainly would have had little to no predators. Even if it did, they would have to pass its antlers, sharp teeth and thick skin. Ticinosuchus [img]http://science.nationalgeographic.com/staticfiles/NGS/Shared/StaticFiles/Science/Images/Content/fleeing-nothosaurs-983127-ga.jpg[/img] Height: 4 feet Length: 10 feet Weight: 600 lbs Weapons: Speed, bite Speed: 25 mph Diet: Smaller animals Description: It was about the size of your average modern day crocodilian, but it had long and powerful legs adapted for running on land, which it preferred over water (although it was capable there as well). Also not technically a dinosaur, it was a relative that lived alongside them in the middle Triassic period, perhaps occasionally preying on them. It had thick bony scutes on its skin, much like modern crocodiles do. Fight! It is dawn at at a stream on Isla Nublar, where a pack of Dilophosaurus have left a partially eaten dead Herrerasaurus and Plateosaurus. A Ticinosuchus bites off a piece of the Plateosaurus, carrying it to his swamp territory just a little ways down stream. He lays down in the grass, gnawing on the chunk of meat. While doing so, he watches the small stream passively, surveying the surroundings. He chews through the days old meat, thinking about going back later and dragging more down to his territory, but as he focuses back on the meat, he hears splashing and snorting. He looks up to see an Estemmenosuchus wading a little ways upstream. ***He munches on some underwater vegetation, meandering along in search of a larger amount of plants to feed on for a while. Just a little ways ahead, he sees a swamp separated from the stream, filled with food. He pulls himself out of the water, walking slowly to the marshy place. Squishing through the mud, he eats some weeds on his way down. He starts grazing on some underwater plants in the shallows, unknowingly having wandered into a Ticinosuchus' domain. *** The Ticinosuchus hisses at the Estemmenosuchus, to which he pays no attention. He tries again, this time louder, but the Estemmenosuchus simply snorts in response and continues eating. Ticinosuchus gets up and walks down to the bank, growling. The Estemmenosuchus pays little attention, knowing its bigger than whatever's threatening him. Having run out of patience, the Ticinosuchus crawls into the water and gives the Estemmenosuchus a bite on the flank. The Estemmenosuchus grunts and turns around, prepared to fight off whatever dared try to attack him. The Ticinosuchus let go and backed up to shore, but the Estemmenosuchus followed him. The Estemmenosuchus charged, but the Ticinosuchus dodged, being much lighter and faster. The Estemmenosuchus looked left and right, puzzled, failing to notice the Ticinosuchus behind him. Latching on to the flank again, this time harder, the Ticinosuchus is pulled into the water by the Estemmenosuchus where it tries to shake it off, bellowing in pain. The crocodile tries to roll and pull off a chunk, but its teeth can't penetrate the skin enough. It lets go for a moment, trying for a better bite, but the Estemmenosuchus capitalizes, spinning around and biting the crocodile in the side. He has a good grip, and proceeds to shake the Ticinosuchus, which breaks free after a few moments. Although wounded, he still can move and runs around the larger Estemmenosuchus, disappearing again to the beast's confusion. At first thinking he chased him off, he turns around to make sure. He walks back into the deeper water to feed again, but receives a surprise when the Ticinosuchus pops up from beneath and bites him in the soft underbelly. He struggles against the Ticinosuchus that tries to pull him down into deeper water, but has no footing. The Estemmenosuchus tries to kick at the crocodile, but being that they're in water, he packs little impact. The Ticinosuchus tries for the death roll, succeeding this time. He pulls off a piece of the Estemmenosuchus, gulping it down before biting again. He pulls the Estemmenosuchus into shallower water, where he takes his last breath, having drowned and bled out. After a long while, he hauls the carcass into the squishy mud. Although injured, he is delighted at now having a meal that will last him days. WINNER: TICINOSUCHUS Being a few million years more advanced, faster, and specialized for killing, Ticinosuchus had a slight advantage. The only thing that kept this battle from turning out like today's [url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-T6sGv7qL-0]Hippo vs Crocodile[/url]battle is the minuscule brain of the Estemmenosuchus, along with the long legs of Ticinosuchus. It changed the odds a bit. Questions? Comments? Think this deserves a revision? Let me know.