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T-Rex an herbivore?

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A lone Triceratops wanders through the forests of the late Cretaceous, grazing for shrubbery. He looks up as a sudden shake of massive footsteps echoes through the woods. It is a Tyrannosaurus Rex, lumbering towards Triceratops. But then, Rex stops at a tall tree full of large, flat leaves. He closes his massive jaws around one branch and slides his head down it, his teeth catching leaves to eat. The Triceratops turns his back and continues grazing, unthreatened, as the Rex gorges itself on its leafy snack. NO. Just, no. How did that segment strike everybody? An aquaintance of mine read an article that states that, because of T-Rex's "weak teeth, useless arms, and ill-proportioned, stubby legs," it was a herbivore. Furthermore, the article stated that most, if not all specimins of T-Rex found have had green on their teeth. This article had my aquaintance convinced that T-Rex was in fact an herbivore. Can you believe this???!!! Obviously, I don't buy any of this, and I wanted to open up this thread to see just what kind of reactions this article brings about. Please, everyone, Team Rex or not, defend the Tyrant King from this blasphemy!

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May I ask who wrote this. I want to send my Compys with Rugers to kill them. T. rex a herbivore? Disproportionately stubby legs? Weak teeth!?!? Just who do these people think they are.

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You don't mess with delta and his dinosaurs and escape... with your life...

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I also wonder who wrote this... it sounds like a bunch of BS to me.... lets look at a paleos view.... steak knife teeth, neck muscles for ripping, can run 40 miles an hour, fierce pack hunter predator.... Some dumb jeronalist who may be high.... Herbivore, dulled teeth , dulled senses, "herd" animal, runs about 4 mph.... THIS IS CHUCK WAGON HORSE sh- sorry got ahead of myself their.... But in all honesty It could either be a joke article (sigh we've seen them before on here) or a complete dolt whose missings some screws and doesn't know what a dinosaur is.... I wouldn't believe it.... most prey animals just don't have the build or look like t rex...

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Whoever wrote this obviously does not know what a T-rex is! Weak teeth? [img]http://www.aaskolnick.com/fieldmuseum/sue/trex.teeth.jpg[/img] I don't think so! These things are like rail-road spikes! Stubby legs? [img]http://www.badcoe.com/images/tyrannosauruspic.jpg[/img] No way. These legs are strong, powerful, and capable of propelling even an adult Tyrannosaurus at speeds of nearly 25 miles per hour! Useless arms? [img]http://farm7.staticflickr.com/6081/6024978348_27d7aee567_o.jpg[/img] They may not be the arms of Allosaurus or Spinosaurus, but these things could still lift some 450+ pounds and had some sharp claws. Even if T-rex did not use it's arms, plenty of modern day predators don't use their front legs and they are successful hunters(wolves). Whoever wrote this has probably never seen a dinosaur skeleton in his life and has a brain smaller than a Stegosaurus'!
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The paleontologist who wrote that doesn't know enough anatomy to have kids with his wife- Levine. But seriously, I don't necessarily like T. Rex but it was definitely a carnivore.
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I agree with all the above. I just can't believe this guy is actually convinced that Rex ate plants! NO ONE thinks that! I asked him who wrote the article and he couldn't remember; probably some friend of Jack Horner... ;)

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Why would that not surprise me? You can see Rex as it should be in The Fight To Survive. Chapter 5 was just posted ;)
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Oh, and this guy is an idiot that deserves to be eaten by a T-rex! [img]http://www.badhaven.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/jurassic-park-t-rex-8.jpg[/img]
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So obviously this article was written by a hippie. The entarance to where the guy works probably looked like this: [img]http://digitallydelicious.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/hippie.jpg[/img] If T-Rex's teeth were weak, then so were Spino's arms. Delta, the compys are mine, you have the machine gun velociraptors.

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Leuitenant 9097, arm all guns, especially these [img]http://www.myconfinedspace.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/space-t-rex-with-gatling-gun-arms-700x394.jpg[/img]

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That should take 'em out. I would say that's overkill, but were talkin about eliminating hippies here.

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SGT Paden first class reporting what are my orders?

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Not sure. Go undercover and infiltrate Hippie Headquarters, then take out each one of them with a suppressed Desert Eagle.

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If T-Rex was a herbivore, then how do you explain HEALED BITEMARKS on Edmontosaurus and Triceratops skeletons? And the CRUSHED BONES in T-Rex coprolites? Anyway, gotta give the hippies credit for this one.

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That Edmontosaur specimen is feature in the Denver Museum. The one with the healed vertabrae
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That's the museum you volunteer at, right? If it is, that's so cool!

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Hippie HQ INFILTRATED... Charges set, turrets set to deploy on my mark..... Spec. Op raptors in helis ETA 2 minutes.... you've got the honours sir.... give the command...

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I thought maybe you could just give 'em their weed and make 'em jump off a cliff or swim in shark water. Anyway, when you're ready.

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The Helis best be Apaches, or else it'll be 50 push ups, or a week without pizza, your choice.

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Fire at will. If there is anything left, I will go in their descised as a hippie. Long hair don't fail me now.

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