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Extinct Animal Questions
Topic Started: Nov 26 2013, 10:24 PM (193,311 Views)
Luizo
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#MOREBADGES

Because! I need more information! :)
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CyborgIguana
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Well, we have absolutely none.
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BossMan, Jake
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Really we do technically but not enough, what we can say based on A.Altus is that it was a super sized diplodocoid that lived in the Morrison. IIRC it lived after the time of allosaurus and his crew about 148 Mya with epanterias
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CyborgIguana
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Actually it's A. fragillimus that's the allegedly gigantic species, A. altus was a pretty typical diplodocid.
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BossMan, Jake
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I realize that I'm just A.Altus as a guide considering we know more from it AFAIK
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Paleop
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where did the "babies are fluffy then loose their feathers and become scaly as they become adults" mentality originate from?
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Incinerox
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Āeksiot Zaldrīzoti

Awesomebro logic trying and failing to defend their beloved scaly movie monsters with some bogus compromise.
Edited by Incinerox, Mar 4 2016, 01:44 PM.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

Kinda weird question, but would something like adult Palaeoloxodon namadicus easily falling prey to T. rex if they could somehow coming across each other? I know that phobocidians mostly use their size to protect themselves and wouldn't do well facing predator around the same size or only a bit smaller.(that's unlikely to happen in real life anyway excluding the dwarf Stegodon which coexists with Komodo dragon which still undoubtedly rarely hunt the healthy adult one.) But P. namadicus is so huge and like, several times heavier than a T. rex.
Edited by Mathius Tyra, Mar 4 2016, 11:45 PM.
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BossMan, Jake
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Honestly intend to stay away from these "what if this vs. this" scenarios
But this one peeks a little interest. Honestly given the bigger size of think Trex would try to attack but after seeing how difficult it would be to bring it down then it would back off.
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Ztlabraptor211
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I think something like a charcharodontosaurus would hunt it. They were adapted to hunting gargantuan sauropods so a mammoth relative probably would fall prey relatively easily.
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Generally I would favor the bigger animal in a head-on confrontation, in an ambush things would be different.
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Furka
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I would also consider that if these animals were as social as modern elephants, the members of a herd would probably help each other if facing danger.
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Mathius Tyra
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Rat snake is love... Rat snake is life

^Of course, T. rex won't have any chance against a herd of those. I was referring to single animal, maybe a lone male.

I am not really into This VS That things but I think it would be interesting to think how efficiently such pachyderm, which in real life is pampered by its size to fend off enemy, could protect themselves when facing predator around the same size with lethal weapon.
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Incinerox
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Honestly? I think the outcome of the fight depends entirely on the elephant's nerve more than anything else.

If the elephant is bold enough to hold its ground, the T. rex in question may simply give up. Fighting an elephant would be more or less like fighting a particularly tall Triceratops, so the T. rex involved would have to be wary anyway, and if an elephant proves to be bold enough, it might not risk attacking what could rival its most dangerous natural prey.

If the elephant gets spooked by the predator's unusually large size, then it's in trouble. If the elephant turns and "runs" especially. It's not going to outrun the T. rex and it leaves itself extremely vulnerable to attack.

That's... all I can really think up on the matter.
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CyborgIguana
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Of course ask any JP fanboy and their answer would be that absolutely any theropod could take absolutely any mammal in a fight, because screw common sense.
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