Theropod durability
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MemberCompsognathusOctober 03, 20141572 Views6 RepliesTheropods are very durbable and can take a beating in then return the favor. The theropod group if you don't know are a group of saurichia( I spelled it wrong) from the archasaur( again, spelled it wrong) family group. These two legged carnivore and sometimes omnivore animals contain families like tyreannosaurid, megalosaurid. Carcharadontosaurid, and many others. These beast are very diverse and have been around for literally 165 million years and they were extremly sucsssesful and there is a reason for that. These beasts were durable because they lived with some of the most fearsome animals ever, and their prey was very dangerous too. They had to avoid being: implaled, crushed, smashed, and poisoned. The y had to be tough do they could survive in the world pic the survival of the fittest. There are a couple examples of theropods bring durable. An allosaurus specimen was found and it had a percarious mark on his(or her) back vertebrae, it had a hole in it that was created by the thagomizer of a stegosaurus. But what was really interesting about it was that it showed signs of healing Wich means it survived and healed the wound and went in to live iboth er say. The second example is abother allosaurus, big al. He had 19 injuries or diseases when he died. He had a broken arm Wich was healed and multiple fractures on his ribs and he also healed this up. He eventually died due to a broken toe Wich infected and swolled majorily. A t.rex specimen was found with a bite on his skul and apart of his premaxima was missing since one rex came and fought him then took off that peice. To put it in human terms, he had a part of his face bitten off. You wouldn't be able to survive that without medical attention. The last example is also a t.rex, sue, when she was found she had a messed up vertebrae and an infection and the beast also had artaritas( misspelled it) it is a plain people always get. Sue had the disease in and around her neck but she lived a long and awesome life. So in conclusion theropods were not only big, powerful, smart ,elegant, beasts they wre also done of the most durable animals. When you think about it, it is very plausible because of what they lived with with and they would not haven been ons if the mist successfull animal groups animal if they weren't..
What are your opinions?