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1 posted on 03/09/2011 10:34:11 PM PST by Immerito
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For what it is worth, I seen something like this on Discovery several years ago. They spoke about the tiny forelimbs being next to useless and a couple of other things that made big ole TRex nothing but a scavenger


2 posted on 03/09/2011 11:20:35 PM PST by BornToBeAmerican (Give me a hand up, not a hand out)
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There’s always an animal at the top of the food chain. So if T-Rex wasn’t at the top of the food-chain during its time, which dinosaur was? And did that mysterious predator have even bigger teeth and a bigger mouth than T-Rex?


5 posted on 03/09/2011 11:54:50 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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When trying to figure the behavior of animals that died out 75 MILLION years ago, and only having a bunch of rock fossils to go on, this is all pretty much guesswork. Not so long ago, paleontologists had declared dinosaurs to be stupid, cold blooded, and slow moving. Now they’re believed to have been smart, warm blooded, and fast. Maybe T-rex was blue. Maybe green. Perhaps it was covered with feathers. It’s all not so much science as PR press releases.


8 posted on 03/10/2011 4:08:23 AM PST by 6SJ7 (atlasShruggedInd = TRUE)
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"But a new census of all dinosaur skeletons unearthed over a large area of eastern Montana shows that Tyrannosaurus was too numerous to have subsisted solely on the dinosaurs it tracked and killed with its scythe-like teeth."

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THAT sounds like an IDIOTIC argument. The idea that there were more dead corpses just lying around for a bunch of scavenging T.rexes to devour and supporting a LARGER population than would all that LIVE meat walking around.

I think Little Jack Horner has spent too much time out in the sun digging.

If it looks like a duck, waddles like a duck and smells like a duck, it ain't a horse and T.rex looks like a top predator to me.

11 posted on 03/11/2011 8:21:33 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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And for what its worth - Hyaneas make damn good predators.


12 posted on 03/11/2011 8:22:16 PM PST by ZULU (No nation which ever attempted to tolerate Islam, escaped total Islamization.)
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