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Saberrex — Tyrannosaurus rex: AMNH 5027
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My favorite of all the dinosaurs, and my favorite specimen of my favorite dinosaur; meet Amnh 5027; the Tyrannosaurus rex in the Saurischian Dinosaur Hall at the American Museum of Natural History. One of only 5 male Tyrannosaurus rex found so far, and the second largest individual mounted of his species after Sue of the Field Museum of Chicago. In life, it is possible that he may have weighed 8 tons and he measured 40 feet long. During my examination of him, i also noticed he has a few broken ribs from his days of mortal combat, likely from battles with others of his own kind or escapes from deadly prey species. This male may have been one of the greatest hunters of his day and a possible father to many infant Tyrannosaurus in what may have been free roaming journeys (my belief is that male Tyrannosaurus might be solitary, based on the few male T. rex skeletons that have been found). What i know for certain is that he and his species were powerful predators with jaws that could deliver 10 tons of force and could run over 25 mph among other facts. Even in death, he terrifies and awes. he is the tyrant lizard king.Related content
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They didnt mount a real skeleton did they?!
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Parts of AMNH 5027 Are genuine, But the Skull Is A cast. The real skull is in the display next to the skeleton as it was too heavy and valuable to mount.
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oh yeah. it is the most powerful land predator to ever walk our planet
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Carcharodontosaurus wants to talk to you.
Bringing down 6 ton prey is nothing compared to bringing down 45 ton prey.
Not to mention that it had a reign of 11 million years, freakishly long for a theropod.
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Well, if Tyrannosaurus did live alongside Alamosaurus, it was likely able to hunt them too.
As for Carcharodontosaurus, i have no doubt that it could take down such large prey, but i meant that Tyrannosaurus is able to bite harder and deeper than Carcharodontosaurus. that's as much a disabling bite as the carnosaur's blood-letting strategies, especially if Tyrannosaurus bit into a sauropod leg. a bite like that severs tendon, tears muscle and breaks bone. that's disabling for a sauropod, because it cannot move well if at all on a broken leg.
And where did you find out that Carcharodontosaurus reigned for that long? i'm curious.
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Probably not, unless we mean small juveniles.
It would be crippling if the target was small enough for the bite force to come into play. Unfortunately, sauropods are too big for that, and the legs wouldn't even fit inside the mouth.
Apparently its fossils have been found from the Albian to the Cenomanian.
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Well, as i said, no one's quite sure how wide T. rex could open its mouth. even it it couldn't fit the whole leg in its mouth, it likely could tear a huge chunk away. Imagine that image from Predatory Dinosaurs of the World where it shows a T. rex biting the flesh off a Triceratops' leg. now imagine that same bite being taken out of a sauropod. even if it just bites muscle and tendon, that's still a devastating, crippling wound.
Wow, that must mean there were more than two species of Carcharodontosaurus over that period of time.
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Somehow I doubt that it could use its jaws to maximum effect without fitting the whole thing in its mouth, since sits largest teeth are towards the back.
Probably, but so far they are all C. saharicus.
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even so, that front of the upper jaw is like an oversized ice-cream scoop. it'll take a chunk out of its prey nonetheless.
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True, but that's probably not as significant of an injury.
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don't count on it being insignificant. you also cannot rule out infection by the bacteria residing on the teeth of such a beast.
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No predator uses infection as a weapon.
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no, but it can come as a byproduct.
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T. rex's widely spaced serrations could harbor a lot of who knows what from between kills. if that were to get into a living animal's bloodstream, the potential damage would be severe.
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Since when did T. rex have serrated teeth? They're more akin to railroad spikes.
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yes, but the teeth still are serrated. look closely at one and you will see them.
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i've held a T. rex tooth, and felt the edges. they are serrated.
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they are even scarier these days thanks to the show Dinosaur Revolution, specifically episode 4.
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well, the full episodes are on youtube, and i'll send a link to that episode.
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