Re: DINOSAUR digest 1122

[carlo godel <regiaero@gj.net>]

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. It does not take a large wound to immobilize an animal, have you 
ever
bashed your thumb with a hammer?
immobilizes you for at least 3-4 minutes.. imagine a bite from a T and how much
damage it would do, even to a sauropod.
Carlo


DRosent288@aol.com wrote:

> Assuming that Alamosaurus and some sort of Tyrannosaurid (Tyrannosaurus,
> Albertosaurus, etc.) did overlap, would the Tyrannosaurid have gone after a
> healthy,
> adult sauropod like Alamosaurus, which probably weighed 20-30 tons, as opposed
> to 3-8 tons for the Tyrannosaurid?