T.rex Senses

Pretty cool, thanks for sharing!

Sure thing :)

Considering all of that, Trex must of had a sort of disadvantage in other senses.

Since the only other two senses are taste and touch, I don't know how big a deal that'd be.

Imean rex must of had somesort of diadvantage against its pray, no predator is perfect

Short arms maybe. Not the fastest dinosaur out there(not bad for it's size though. A 7-10 ton animal moving 15-25 miles per hour ain't bad).

Don't forget it's prey was tough. Horned ceratopsians, armored ankylosaurs, giant sauropods, fleet footed ornithomimids, and long tailed hadrosaurs.

maybe, i think rex whas only succesfoul in hunting around 30% of the time

Well if T.rex wasn't a good hunter, then what kept the herbivore populations in check? It was the only predaotr big enough and common enough to do it(raptors were too small and rare to make any real impact and Nanotyrannus may have been a young T.rex).

Its like a savana, lions arent alwhays sucsesfoul, drougths, floods, and climate changes keep the hervibore population undercontroll

Then why have predators?

Anyways, this wasn't about T.rex hunting. This was about it's amazing array of senses and intelligence.

Pretty much all apex predators are perfect for their environment, T.rex was perfectly evolved for taking on armoured prey and decently fast prey

It's the same for other predators heres some examples.

Giganotosaurus was fast and agile and fairly powerful prefect for taking on hadrosaurs , sauropods and the other large theropods in its ecosystem.

Allosaurus was big enough to take on stegosaurs and sauropods and was fast enough to get away from larger and stronger theropods in its ecosystem.

Yeah, I can agree with that(though I'm not aware of any hadrosaurs living with Giganotosaurus, though more primitive iguanodonts did).

That's what I meant, just wasn't specific enough, it's not like there very different. :)

I understand :)

still all had disadvantages, or its prey would of gone extint, for example, giganotosaurus had some competicion in Ekrixinatosaurus, and it had a small brain

Don't forget predators don't hunt everyday. Plus they're heavily outnumbered by their prey.

An 3+ ton hadrosaur for example could probably hold a T.rex over for a few weeks. Plus there were probably hundreds of thousands of hadrosaurs as opposed to a few thousand T.rexes.

Anyways, this wasn't supposed to be about hunting in large theropods.

Oh yes all predators have disadvantages Giganotosaurus had a small brain and competition, T.rex had small arms and tough prey, Allosaurus had a small brain and other larger carnivores to deal with.

Yeah were off topic lets go back to the point of the topic! :)

What I find really interesting is how big a brain T.rex had. One of the biggest compared to body size of any non-avian dinosaur!

Nice post. Very interesting. Gotta say, if the Cretaceous extinction didn't take place, Rex had the potential to last for millions upon millions of years longer than it did. Maybe it could have been one of the longest lasting species the Earth  has seen (remaining unchanged I mean).

I could see it.

It's possible, but, something probably would have stoped it like climate change or something that seems to stop most of the super predators, I myself think that the raptors would have lasted the longest, because unlike rex they wouldn't need as much food so they could live off other small animals that could also survive a climate change.

I meant among super predators, not the little ones. But, climate change might not have been as much a problem as you think. If Earth got colder, they'd probably go farther south. That, or the ones up north would die out slowly, but the ones further south keep thriving. If the earth got warmer, then opposite of previous situation. 

I think what he meant was T.rex could have been like, say, Allosaurus. Allosaurus was around from roughly 140-155 million years. A 15 million year run without changing much. If I'm correct, MrHappy means T.rex could have done something like that(maybe even longer) before it adapted and changed.

Posted that the same time MrHappy posted his, so ignore that if you wish ;)

That's another way of looking at it though. It's a valid perception. 

True, I don't know there's a reason why all of these super predators go extinct ussualy climate change sometimes there prey disappears or sometimes something better comes along.

I do think T.rex could definitely go for a long run but, if something changed significantly like there main prey dies out, or something better comes along or extreme climate change I just don't think something as large as a rex would survive unless it changed.

Don't get me wrong I completely understand what you guys are saying, I understand that rex was one of if not the most advanced predators to ever live but, I just don't think any super predator is invincible.  

I know what you mean Hipho. No species lasts forever.

Thanks for sharing this information RexFan!

Just feel like pointing out that although rex had a large brain, most of it was purely for interpreting its senses, and its intelligence would be more comparable to that of a crocodile. I'll try to find the study that found this and share it with you guys.