RE: So I was watching Jurassic Park III last night... (SPOILER ALERT!)

["Thomas R. Holtz, Jr." <tholtz@geol.umd.edu>]

> From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On Behalf Of
> Matthew Savitsky
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> Ok, my main problem with the movie is that during the now infamous T.
> rex/Spinosaurus fight, the rex gets its jaws around the
> Spinosaurus's neck,
> yet this doesn't kill the Spino. Rex's jaws were extremely
> powerful, so it's
> doubtful the Spinosaurus could have survived that

Once EITHER of the big guys got a serious clamp on the other, victory should
have been theirs.  Had the fight been choreographed so that the T. rex
didn't get a serious hold on the Spinosaurus prior to the Spinosaurus' bite,
it would have played off a little more realistically.  However, they clearly
show the T. rex have a strong clamp on the spinosaurs neck.  It should have
been "bone crush, spinal chord severed, windpipe crumpled" time.

                Thomas R. Holtz, Jr.
                Vertebrate Paleontologist
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University of Maryland          College Park Scholars
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