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This post is about many dinosaur related things. I'd like you to just talk about dinosaurs in this post. What yo think, what you think of what I think, and criticism is okay, just please don't say your that someone is wrong, because the truth is, we just don't know, and these are opinions. 1. What is your favorite dinosaur design. Mine is the Giganotosaurus from Chased by dinosaurs. [img]http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130701134616/prehistrico/es/images/3/30/Giganotosaurus_Caminando_con_Dinosaurios.jpg[/img] 2. What is the most realistic dinosaur design in your opinion. Mine is Deltadromeus living in a small pack and hunting Ouranosaurus [img]http://dinopedia.ru/img/dinoid/deltadromeus/bg.jpg[/img] 3. I'm in the process or making a website called Infodino.weebly.com. Its not ready yet, and I'll tell you when it's up. 4. What do you think about Deinocheirus? I think its an Ornithomimid, and if it is, it would be 40 feet long, scaling off of the arms of a Gallimimus, who has arms 4.17 feet long. 5. Truth about Therizinosaurus. Therizinosaurus didn't have the longest arms of any theropod, it had the longest claws, and that gave its arm the great length. Yes it still had arms 7 feet long without the claws, but Deinocheirus has 10 inch claws on a total arm length of 8 feet. So, in total arm length, Deinocheirus wins. 6. My theory about size. I know that we haven't found the biggest of any dinosaur species. I bet there is a Spinosaurus that is at least a few inches longer than the one we found. A T. rex that is a few feet longer. A velociraptor that maybe made it up to 7 feet long. I think that each dinosaur we've found can be at least 1/8 longer than what we've already found. Except for Spinosaurus, there is a bigger one out there, but not by much. And my reasoning is that theropods just can't get much longer than 60 feet, or heavier than 11 tons. 7. Utahraptor speed. I think Utahraptor was a lot faster than it is given credit for. Compare it to other dinosaurs of the same size. A 26 foot Deltadromeus could probably hit 40-45 mph, and its 1 ton. Ceratosaurus, at around 2 tons, could hit 30 mph. These dinosaurs have legs that are around 2 feet longer, but are also much heavier. 500 lbs for 2 foot leg more for the legs is not a fair trade of. When (saber tooth) CAT scans where done on the skull of a Utahraptor, it revealed that it was a chase you down and hunt you predator like the other Dromeaosaurs. Plus, its prey could probably run 30 mph, and ambushing would be hard. I think that Tenontosaurus and Iguanadon lived more in the light forests and desert areas where their slightly more primitive jaws than the hadrosaurs could chew up rough vegetation and they could actually reach the branches of the trees. Lighter forests have smaller trees, which where still huge by our standards. This means that Utahraptor didn't have much cover, and being 25 feet long, it probably didn't live in dense forest anyways. Utahraptor would have to be far away if it isn't going to be noticed in an ambush, and will be seen or heard or even smelled when it is running at its prey. I think Utahraptor could at least run 25 and up to 30 mph, and keep it up for a while. Utahraptor had extra strong legs that are great for jumping and probably could keep up running for a while too. That's what I have to say for right now. I'd love for you to just talk about dinosaurs in the comments and share your thought about what I said above. This is Deltadromeus with, Lots of Dino Stuff.

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September 11, 2013

1. Torvosaurus, Dinosaur Revolution 2. Tyrannosaurus as an opportunistic carnivore that eats what it can when it can and probably lives in pairs, sometimes with their young. 3. Can't wait! 4. Ornithomimid 36-40 feet long and 5 tons 5. Therizinosaurus' largest specimens have 3.5 foot claws and 8 foot arms. 6. A maximum size Spinosaurus would be 18 m, max T. rex would likely be a little under 14 m. Giga- 14-15 m, Mapusaurus- 14-15 m, Tyrannotitan- 13-14 m (Paratype is 14 m), same with Carcharodontosaurus, Torvosaurus and Saurophaganax averaged 12 meters and bigger specimens are 13 meters, but I really don't know. Quadrupeds could get much bigger, as seen by the 250 foot (according to corrected scaling) and 200+ ton Amphicoelias. 7. Utahraptor has an unusually large brain, even for a dromaeosaur, and could probably come up with complex ambush plans, but still, some speed is needed. I say 45 mph, maybe.

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September 11, 2013

I think 45 is a bit much. And I would understand that Utahraptor had an unusually large brain, it has a head nearly 2 feet long. I pride myself in knowing that.

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September 11, 2013

1. Tyrannosaurus from JFC 2. T-rex as a fast, pack hunting carnivore that was the biggest land predator ever. 3. Awesome 4. Therizinosaur(30-33 ft long and 2-3 tons) 5. Therizinosaurus was slightly bigger, so it's arms were probably a little longer. 6. I put the max size for theropods of any sort at about 60 ft long and 10-12 tons. I usually put Spinosaurus at 50-56 ft long and 7 tons, Tyrannosaurus at 40-50 ft long and 7-10 tons, Giganotosaurus at 40-46 ft long and 7-8.5 tons, Carcharodontosaurus at 40 ft long and 5-6 tons, Mapusaurus at 30-36 ft long and 3-4 tons, Tyrannotitan at 40 ft long and 5 tons, Tarbosaurus at 36-40 ft long and 5-6 tons, Torvosaurus at 30-36 ft long and 2-3.5 tons, and Saurophaganax at 30-40 ft long and 3-4 tons. 7. I usually peg Utahraptor's top speed at 20-25 miles per hour. It had somewhat short legs for a raptor. If Velociraptor was a cheetah running things down, then Utahraptor was a lion. It would stalk prey and with a quick burst of speed, take it down. That's my 2 cents anyways.

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September 13, 2013

1. Mapusuarus from DP 2. Giganotosaurus as a heavily built solitary hunetr, while his relative Mapusuarus as a slimmer but longer pack hunetr. 3. Awesome 4. Deinocheirus was a Ornithomimid in my opinion. It was likely about 12 meters long with a mass of 4-6 tonnes (it was extremely lighty built as it was a Ornithomimid). 5. It's true! 6. I usually go in this way: Spinosaurus at 14,3-16 m, T.rex at 10,9-12,3 m, Giganotosaurus at 12,4-13,2 m and 5-8 t, Carcharodontosaurus at 12-13 m and 5-8 t, Tyrannotitan at 11,4-12,2 m and 4-6 t, Tarbosaurus at 10-12 m and 5-7 t, Mapusuarus at 12,2-13,6 m and 5-8 t, Torvosaurus at 9 m and 2 t, and finally Saurophaganax at 11,5 m and 4-5 t. 7. I don't know. Utahraptor is unusually very slim for his size (being 6-7 m long), and probably he get a max speed at 40-60 km/h.