Bashing your thumb (was Re: DINOSAUR digest 1122)

[Larry Dunn <majestic_cheese@yahoo.com>]

--- carlo godel <regiaero@gj.net> wrote:

> they might have but not as an individual, the T's as
> well as the smaller theropods
> hunted in packs I would think otherwise how would
> T's like Sue have survived a
> broken leg.

Check this out (for best results, read the whole
thing):

http://www.cmnh.org/fun/dinosaur-archive/1996Nov/0208.html

> imagine a
> bite from a T and how much
> damage it would do, even to a sauropod.

And imagine what a stomp (or even an aggressive body
blow) from a sauropod would do to the much smaller,
lighter T. rex.  

It puts a crimp in your hunting style when your skull
is bashed in.

The object of the game is to survive.  Animals don't
often hunt and kill prey that have a very good chance
of quickly rendering them two-dimensional,
(notwithstanding the passionate desires of some to
make certain dinosaurs the X-Men or Freddie Krugers of
the Cretaceous).

But that's a discussion for another thread.
===
Larry

"I've been ionized, but I'm okay now."

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