T-Rex/Spinosaurus comparison

Tyrannosaurus did not necessarily have an oversized skull, just a very heavily-built skull. Spinosaurus actually had the longer skull of the two, although it was much shallower and thinner dorsally. I am talking about when spinosaurus is larger than tyrannosaurus, of course, as skull lengths are determined by an animal's size and head-body proportions.

Godzillasaurus, T. rex did have one of the biggest haeads proportionately. Spino did have a longer skull, but Size doesn't determine the animal's skull length. Take Giganotosaurus. It probable had a head of 6 feet while 46 feet long, but Spinosaurus only had a head of 7 feet at 60 feet long. 1 foot difference head, 15 foot difference body. There isn't that big of a jump with T. rex. Its skull is about 5-6 feet long, at 42 feet. Only one foot difference with three feet difference.

I wasn't talking about proportions; I was talking about an animal having a larger skull due to larger size. Giganotosaurus and carcharodontosaurus had paritcularly longer skulls proportionally than tyrannosaurus and spinosaurus, but that does not mean a bigger spinoaurid or tyrannosaurid will have a smaller skull. That is what I meant. Size does not determine proportions

Right, but you where sadeter body size deteremains skull length, and that's not exactly true either. Partially true, but not 100% spot on. 

Proportions and size both determine skull length. Size as a whole does not do so, but that in conjunction with head-body proportions does. An example would be a similarly-sized carcharodontosaurus and tyrannosaurus; the allosaur would have a much larger skull.

I'm with Delta on this one, and we all know each others opinions. I personally think that Spino maxed out at 60 feet, but averaged around 50 feet. I think Rex averaged 40 feet and maxed out at around 45 feet. Let's not get into overall size, we all have DIFFERENT opinions on this topic, and it was a bloody stalemate, which is why we decided to kill the topic.

So Rex vs Spino is dead, it's nice that you have your opinions, but let's not get into which is bigger, that's what pisses people off (not to mention getting the regulars to swarm the topic).

So please, no more Rex vs Spino. Sound good?

Did what I say there just go in one side of your brain and out the other? Its literally the comment before yours. We all know this stuff, and we have all stated it at one point what we think would happen. The only Rex vs Spino discussions that were posted recently are by people who signed up recently, but as I've said countless times, Rex Vs Spino is dead, it's a stalemate between members, so we stopped.

MrHappy is right. And also, why are so many people coming back to these older posts?

No idea. Probably because these are the first ones that appear.

Perhaps that's it.

Thank you, for both agreeing with this list, and not stating any opinion on which would win.

While I agree with what has been said, Rex vs Spino is dead. There's no other way of saying it. Team Rex and Spino would not give up on their theories (no matter how crazy), so we stopped discussing it. 

I see. You could always use the PM system. 

Okay, im almost to my breaking point, Godzillasaurus. And after what you just said about my comment just brought it much closer. That is NOT a fact by any means, that is your opinion. I state the obvious things a LOT on here but almost nobody believes them because they really cant let go of trex being thier childhood hero. Its a bit like how somebody can have a status they didnt deserve in the first place. People had already made a reputation about trex before spinosaurus ever came into the picture, which wasnt too smart in my eyes. As far as wieght and strength goes, look at some of my previous comments on this discussion and discussions before this one.

I'm sorry S-Rex, but you just brought ME to MY breaking point. Let's get this straight first, EVERYTHING IS OUR GOD DAMNED OPINIONS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can not say this enough, REX VS SPINO IS DEAD, DEAD I TELL YOU! YOU get pissed off at us when we say s*** isn't our opinion, and when people say something negative against Spino! and then YOU turn around and say you are "Stating the obvious," and that we can not "Let go of T-Rex being our childhood hero." "People had already made a reputation about T-Rex before Spinosaurus ever came into the picture, which was not too smart in my eyes." Well guess what? How the F*** were people supposed to know that a 60 foot long predator was going to be discovered years later? When you find a bipedal creature that is forty feet long and upwards of 7 tons, who the F*** expects to find something BIGGER!? You can have your opinions, and we respect that as long as you respect ours. Now then, I know that you HATE Rex, so I'm going to end on this: Just deal with it. More people like Rex, and that may never change, so deal with the fact that people have different opinions than you.

Don't bother Godzillasaurus, he won't listen. It's stating that Rex was stronger than Spino, he will see it as biased and BS. 

At trexes time, there were not many kinds of dinosaurs discovered yet! Of coure people should have expected something to be even bigger than it, its just that many people are too stupid to look at it that way! Im sorry for snappin at ya, but it was the way you had your wording. Just look back at your wording. I dont think ive ever seen you on this forum, but either way if i have or not, you have to make it sound as if its your opinion. I know i did the same you did and im sorry, ok? Today i just snapped for some reason. Now back to the subject, the reason i think the way i do of spino is because there has only been one skeleton found, partial at that, but it was enough to say it was at least 60 ft. in length. So that led me to believe that there were even bigger ones than that due to only being one skeleton found. Now you are not going to tell me that there werent possibly bigger ones than that for there only being one found right? And you have no idea that trex was more heavily built because again with the partial evidence of spino. Ill explain more of my reasoning in a profile text

I have an opinion of my own regarding the one fossil that was discovered. What I think is that the fossil found was the only one that was heavy enough to survive the Sahara for millions of years, and I believe that Spino averaged at 50-52 feet.

Sands change dude, wind blows at it and someone was fortunate enough to find a skeleton where the wind hand unearthed it, wieght would have little to do with it. Im sorry, it was you that made that comment, i didnt look at who posted it, i just assumed it was godzillasaurus. But im sorry about getting snappy, today has been a little pushy for me for getting ready for Christmas

The first(and only skeleton) of Spinosaurus implied a length of 46-50 ft. Only recently were estimates of 60 ft given!

Spino Rex, I've tried being the nice guy. Obviously that ain't gonna work. You wanna play that game? Fine by me! Pretty soon, all hell will break loose!

Holidays are really nice, but tough to get ready for :/

Sorry about that S-Rex. You kinda hit my breaking point with the "Stating the obvious" and "Childhood hero remarks.

I have a pretty high breaking point so you know you've pissed me off when I start to go off.

I'm the same way. I try to be nice most if the time, especially with Christmas just around the corner.

I think this image would be more fitting than the one you used.

That works too.

Like I said, I can be nice. But when you get me ticked off, it's gonna be a while till I cool down(and even then you'll probably wanna watch what you say around me).

I will then. Not sure what else to say, notice the sudden comment explosion. I think that my Utahraptor/Spino fight was pretty good.