Styracosaurus vs Irritator

Welcome, ladies and gentleman, to my daily DinoFight. I always appreciate my loyal readers, but for those of you who are new, every day I pit two of the most formidable dinosaurs to ever exist against one another in a fight to the death (most of the time). Medium division, round 1, fight 12: Styracosaurus vs Irritator InGen File: Styracosaurus [img]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/275/3/b/confrontation_by_damir_g_martin-d27rxzs.jpg[/img] Code Name: Rhino Danger Level: Harmless unless provoked Height: 6 feet Length: 18 feet Weight: 4 tons Speed: Charges at 35 mph Diet: Various plants Weapons: Horns, speed Description: Styracosaurus is one of InGen's most popular dinosaurs. In the original park merchandise sold well and in the new park it will likely sell even better. Styracosaurus inhabits both Isla Nublar and Isla Sorna and females are the most common gender on Site A while males are on Site B, something that has led to a difference in numbers as well as other various things. The males are more easily preyed upon, being solitary, and thus have a smaller population. Females travel in herds with only one adult male and are harder to prey upon due to the herd's human-like care for one another. Styracosaurus are greenish brown with dark green or brown vertical stripes along their backs, tails, legs and faces. They are best known for having a huge array of threatening horns, with males having six long frill horns up to three or possibly four feet long and one nose horn up to three feet. Melanistic Styracosaurus have been recorded on multiple occasions and, despite once being fairly numerous around 1998, they are now endangered due to poaching by big game hunters who can sell their horns for well over five million dollars. InGen File: Irritator [img]http://www.nhm.ac.uk/resources/nature-online/life/dinosaurs/dinosaur-directory/images/%5Creconstruction/small/Irritator.jpg[/img] Code Name: None Danger Level: Low unless provoked or hungry Height: 11 feet Length: 30 feet Weight: 3 tons Speed: 28 mph Diet: Fish, small dinosaurs Weapons: Claws, bite Description: Irritator is a common spinosaur of Isla Sorna. It has a light green underbelly with a black back and a blue sail. In males the head crest is also a vivid blue and the color flows down over its eyes and colors its entire lower jaw. Irritator lives up to its name by displaying an annoying curiosity; it mimics other animals in actions and will follow them around for hours. It also will put its jaws around things to feel them, something that resulted in fourteen stitches for one handler. Their teeth are long and conical for catching fish and their claws are also long and sharp for spearing food and their arms, legs and neck are all heavily muscled. Irritator is one of the few spinosaurs that has lizard-like scales instead of bony scutes. It has an amazing swimming ability and amazing eyesight as well as good smell and hearing. FIGHT! As a bull Styracosaurus meanders down to the edge of the lake on Isla Sorna for a drink, a male Irritator sits in the shallows. The Styracosaurus doesn't notice it and steps into the water. The Styracosaurus simply snorts and starts drinking water when the Irritator makes itself known and growls. The Irritator fully submerges itself and comes from beneath the ceratopsian, slashing its side before swimming away. The Styracosaurus rears and stomps around, trying to crush the unseen attacker but it realizes the predator is gone. Forgetting about the threat it starts drinking again but it feels some teeth sink into its neck. Bellowing loudly the dinosaurian rhino starts pulling itself away from the attacker but the Irritator's conical teeth grip the ceratopsian and prevent it from being pulled off. When the Styracosaurus gets on to the sandy shore it starts shaking its head to get the Irritator off. The Irritator is thrown to the ground and the Styracosaurus rears up and slams down near the Irritator's skull in an attempt to kill it but the spinosaur dodges the feet, rolling from under the horned prey and standing up. It crouches in a tripod stance and hisses, one hand raised in an attacking posture. The Styracosaurus charges but the agile Irritator dodges and slashes its back open. The bull quickly turns around and runs towards the piscivore once more but the Irritator is prepared and dodges again, wrapping its arms around the Styracosaurus and biting its neck with its narrow jaws. The Styracosaurus runs around and drags the Irritator with it until the Irritator manages to get its leg around the panicking herbivore. Now riding it like a horse the Irritator holds on for dear life. Running at around 35 miles per hour the Styracosaurus starts to tire out and slows slightly due to the Irritator on its back. It sees a tree and charges towards it. The Irritator realizes what's happening and tries to jump off but before he can the Styracosaurus slams his body against the tree, sandwiching and breaking the Irritator's leg. The walking crocodile roars and falls off, tucking its snapped leg under its body. The Styracosaurus backs up and looks at the immobilized Irritator and starts to feel a bit of pity. The Irritator growls and the Styracosaurus knows the most helpful thing it can do now is put the spinosaur out of its misery. The Styracosaurus runs at the Irritator and sticks its huge horn through the carnivore's skull, piercing its brain and killing it immediately. The Styracosaurus pulls the limp dinosaur off its nose with the help of a nearby tree and walks away with a grunt as a pack of Compsognathus come to scavenge the corpse. WINNER: STYRACOSAURUS [img]http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2013/029/6/e/styracosaurus_b_n__w_by_damir_g_martin-d5t5s6q.jpg[/img] Are the ceratopsians unstoppable? While the Irritator did have the home habitat advantage, it didn't have the proper equipment to take on armored dinosaurs. The only hope the Irritator had was to flip the dino-rhino over and disembowel it. However, that proves difficult when you've never done it before and you have a broken leg. NEXT TIME: Afrovenator- The swift and deadly predator of cretaceous Africa Therizinosaurus- The giant and bizarre dinosaur from Asia with three foot long razor sharp claws What happens when these two meet at night in an abandoned InGen herbivore raising paddock? Find out next time on DinoFights! Questions? Comments? Suggestions? Predictions? Let me know and I'll respond as soon as possible!