Dinosaur movies -- fights where the theropod loses?

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OK, I watched that Walking with Dinosaurs clip, and wondered to myself why the narrator was mispronouncing “anklyosaurus”. Which led to me looking at the word again, and… Hm. When did they change the spelling to “ankylosaurus”? I’m absolutely certain that, my whole life, it’s been spelled the other way!

…Right?

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Sorry. I was brung up with “ankylosaurus”, and it’s always been that way.

Don’t feel bad. There are plenty of things that I thought were one way , while the rest of the world was certain they were other ways. On alternate days I just tell myself that I slipped through one of the Riemnann fold into an alternate dimension where this is the only difference between our worlds. Like the “glide-wheel spoon” in Creedence’s “Out my Back Door.”

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When I was a kid, they’d show the clip from Fantasia about evolution and dinosaurs. I thought it featured a T. Rex/Triceratops battle, which the latter won. Actually it was a Stegosaurus/Allosaurus fight, which the predator won.

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Nah. Ankylosaurus is derived from the Greek “ankylos”, meaning “fused” or “crooked”. Ankylosaurus is thus “fused lizard”, referring to the various bone fusions found in the skeleton.

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Considering Ms. Welch is pushing 80 now, some might suggest there were at least two other “dinosaurs” in that movie.

:eek:

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The Land That Time Forgot has a nasty, brutish and short fight between a Triceratops and what appears to be a kinda-sorta-Ceratosaurus; the latter is skewered and killed in what is a remarkably one-sided fight.

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I don’t like to brag, but I can almost always tell when they use fake dinosaurs in a movie.

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Just for the record, Allosaurus.

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Lord, I had forgotten how bad that movie was. :smiley:

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That fight reminds me very much of the power loader vs queen in Aliens(1986) bet James Cameron was influenced somehow.

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Look at my post #19 above

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Oops, poor cognitive skillz “R” me.

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I don’t think I’d be using my stick on a dinosaur if 1960’s Welch was available (or even 2018, she is holding up very well (presumably some credit to her picking talent plastic surgeons (c.f. Kenny Rogers))).

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King Kong defeated a T Rex in 1933. I think he bested other theropods (and theropod-like beasts) in other films.

(Godzilla may be a draw- as I understand it, Kong beat Godzilla in the movie I saw as a kid in America, but was beaten by Godzilla in the Japanese version of the same film.)

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It’s also not clear that Godzilla is properly considered a theropod, or indeed any sort of dinosaur.

And you do have to admit that Ripley vs. the Queen was much cooler than Guy in a Steam Shovel vs. a T. rex.

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Then there’s The Valley of Gwangi.

I have only seen snippets of the movie. Apparently, Gwangi, a T Rex, is driven off by a Styracosaurus, at least briefly, although later Gwangi ultimately triumphs.

IIRC, the circus elephant made a good showing against Gwangi, but ultimately succumbed.

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Oh, that reminds me.

Walking with Dinosaurs, ep 3, “Cruel Seas”.