Re: Whose the real King?T.rex?Spinosaurus?GiganotosaurusNO!All of the above!

a real good point and something that always strikes me as dumb when the old my dad is tougher then your dad argument about the big carnivores comes up.

The longer the snout, the less biting pressure, the more chance of damaging your jaw when biting something really big. Spino had this problem..T-rex didn't. Its head is all for killing big things... but a strengthened spino skull makes things a little diffrent.

p.s you can use this exact argument with sarcosuchus and deinosuchus. Sure sarco may be bigger but deinosuchus is far, far more dangerous!

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>From: Dann Pigdon >Reply-To: dannj@alphalink.com.au >To: DML >Subject: Re: Whose the real King?T.rex?Spinosaurus?GiganotosaurusNO!All of the above! >Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 09:38:51 +1100 > >What annoyed me about the JP3 Spinosaurus was the paired ridges above >the snout. Obviously someone saw a picture of the skull in profile and >mistook the single sagittal crest for a pair or ridges like you might >see on many maniraptors. > >Does anyone care to hypothesise on why spinos appear to have single >crests instead of the usual paired variety? Obviously there is a display >component, but could it also have helped strengthen the snout (like >similar ridges on bronze sword and dagger blades)? > >-- >________________________________________________________________ > >Dann Pigdon Australian Dinosaurs! : ! ! >GIS / Archaeologist http://www.geocities.com/dannsdinosaurs >Melbourne, Australia http://www.alphalink.com.au/~dannj/ >________________________________________________________________