Re: Stegosaur plates as protection......

[Shane Leuck <s.leuck@TST-MedHat.com>]

Mark Sumner wrote:
> 
> I find it very difficult to picture a bipedal theropod, it's head a dozen
> feet in the air, attacking the "soft underbelly" of anything.  We have good
> evidence from hadrosaur and Triceratops specimens that Tyranosaurs attacked
> the backbone.
> 
> Jurassic theropods were certainly not so top-heavy as a T. rex, but I still
> rather doubt they would have grabbed a Stegosaur by the underside of the
> throat.
> 
Wasn't there a hadrosaur skeleton found that showed evidence of a bite
taken out of the spine by a large theropod? I think it showed evidence
of having healed.
Shane
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