Re: The most dangerous dinosaur (humor, sort of...)

[Darryl Jones <dinoguy@sympatico.ca>]

At 02:12 PM 8/2/2001, Thomas R. Holtz, Jr. wrote:
> > From: owner-dinosaur@usc.edu [mailto:owner-dinosaur@usc.edu]On >Behalf 
> Of  Josh Smith
> >
> > > > Do I think that
> > > > _Carcharodontosaurus_  would have wiped
> > > > the floor with _Spinosaurus_ in an altercation?
> > > > Absolutely.
> > >
> > > LOL! Me too....
> > >
> >
> > Would have been a short fight if you ask me.....
> >

But what if he's got a pointed stick?

> Having answered questions for various websites for the last month, as part 
> of the promotion of the JPI Dinosaur Field Guide, I've been besieged by 
> "could Spinosaurus really kill T. rex" questions.  I was good, and never 
> once responded the evil new dino-myth I wanted to propose: namely, that 
> the most dangerous dinosaur of all was Parksosaurus.  After all, it could 
> get in close and no one would suspect anything... :-)
>
> However, my better took hold, if for no other reason than I didn't want to 
> spend the next few years coming across that statement accepted as a fact 
> and disseminated over the Internet.

Since the movie has come out so recently, my students have not had a chance 
to ask me the Spinosaurus vs. Tyrannosaurus question yet, but come 
September, I am going to have to answer it several times.  "I think 
Tyrannosaurus would have EASILY defeated Spinosaurus, due to the fact that 
Spinosaurus had been dead so long.  Not much of a fight."  It amazes me 
that it matters so much to people who could win a fight.  I wonder if it is 
an extension of the "my dad can beat up your dad" thingie.

I can't wait to teach my grade six's the Holtzian Parksosaurus/Kung Fu 
Master theory.



Darryl Jones  <dinoguy@sympatico.ca>

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