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spinosaurus1 β tyrannosaurus rex sketch
Published: 2017-06-06 20:17:15 +0000 UTC; Views: 2732; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 15
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a sketch i did tbased off of interpretation. got to say, it's an interesting beast.Related content
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Hmmm, so, this must be the most accurate T. rexΒ reconstruction of all time, gorgeous.Β
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Read the description. The guy he mentions is who you should probably be asking, since it is based on his interpretation. And btw, I see what you're doing, asking a question that you know the answer to in order to start a debate about it.
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I can't imagine this is very realisticΒ
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Actually funny enough there are theories that T rex looked something like this. Because adult T rexs were probably super slow they might have not been able to hunt so the possibly stole other predators kills. To do this they might have looked ugly and scary with a bright red head and possibly they might have even been super stinky.
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This has been disproved so many times...
Hereβs a quote from David Hone:
βPredation and scavenging
The first response to this should be that it is the wrong question to ask, because it implies a dichotomy in nature that essentially does not normally exist. Very few large carnivores can afford to be dedicated scavengers. It takes a rather special set of adaptations since it relies on waiting for animals to die or be killed, getting to them in time to make a meal, and being able to wait for others to finish eating or chase them away. Vultures can do this, soaring huge distances with very little energy expenditure and relying on scraps from kills, but no other large animal can. Certainly, many carnivores scavenge food, and even those that are highly specialised as predators opportunistically take dead meat if it is available (why pass up a meal?). The idea that lions are predators and hyenas are scavengers, for example, is incorrect, since both groups kill plenty of prey, as well as taking it off one another and other hunters when they can. Tyrannosaurs would seem to have been no different, so a better question to ask is: where on the spectrum from predator to scavenger might they lie?
Some of the lines of evidence proposed for the dedicated scavenger hypothesis are clearly problematic, and may not even provide good evidence for a general ability to scavenge at all. Tyrannosaurus was described in this context as having βbeady eyesβ by palaeontologist Jack Horner, but the truth is that TyrannosaurusΒ has some of the largest orbits of any terrestrial organism ever. Small and beady they were not, though large and superb they probably were (and, of course, vultures have amazing eyesight). Similarly, the idea that Tyrannosaurus having an exceptional sense of smell made it a scavenger is flawed. Although such a sense would have helped the animal to track down carcasses, many dogs and sharks also have exceptional olfactory abilities, yet they are not pure scavengers.
Could a large tyrannosaur even function as a scavenger? Being the only large animal in its environments, a sole tyrannosaur could probably bully even a ground of dromaeosaurs or troodontids to make them leave a kill, but would this occur often enough across the expanses of the environment to produce enough food for a multi-tonne animal? Few animals just drop dead, other predators do not routinely kill animals many times larger than they can eat, and both pterosaurs and birds would be able to travel more quickly to a corpse and required far less food, and even if it was an ectotherm it would require a large amount of food to keep it going. It would also face serious problems from young members of its own species, which would be much quicker than it. Tyrannosaurs may have been efficient walkers and even runners, but this factor alone would not have keep them in meat. In short, the idea that large tyrannosaurs were purely scavengers is clearly problematic and there is no real data to support it.β
Not to mention that there are healed bite marks from both Triceratops and various hadrosaurs that indicate that they survived the attack long enough for it to heal. These wounds could only have been made by an adult Tyrannosaurus.
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I was thinking more the mammalian looking lipsΒ
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Well that too is another theory. It's all quite possible.
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I guessΒ
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An ugly son of a bitch, but cool none the less
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Thank god, Darren Naish's theory was debunked; that dude I sometimes wonder... Β
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DUANE NASH, not Darren Naish.
Darren Naish never came up with the hypothesis.
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Yes I realized that few days ago. I mean can you blame me? Their names are almost similar to each other
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Fukkin pansy ass clown
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Great drawing, but I'm not sure how I feel about the lips looking all droopy.Β
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Nice to see you giving this one a try.Β
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it's definitely to make them ugly, not based on any birds or anything
also not that ugly. ugly is a very human perspective,Β and as a human who doesn't find it very ugly at all, I can pretty firmly say it's not all humans
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neither do i, but it's an interesting concept
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Β Oh god, how does Great Grandma Rexy still have her teeth? I'm just imagining this thing leaning back for the kill and a pair of rex-sized dentures fall out. Β
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Nice to see actual dinosaurs and not lizard frog mutants lmao nice work
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jurrassic park has become much more horrifying...
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yeah, he aint a looker.
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I think I prefer your look for T. rex.
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watching paleoartist beef over petty artistic decisions based of unknows is pretty sad. No offense, and I have mad respect for you dawg for your work in Saurian but we don't need to instill this kind of attitude in our community, especially one that is comprised of a majority of children.
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He could've been joking.
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looks like he is melting
awesome but odd i like it
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that mean been in a fight?
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