New Dino Discovered!

Move over T. Rex, there’s a new badass in town, and his arms can reach his weenie!

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Like a coworker of mine just said the other day, “It’s hard to masturbate with Tyrannosaurus rex arms!”

I betcha my allosaurus gang could take it down. Ain’t no lab in Chicago strong enough to hold us in.

My friend Anthony, in 4th grade: “how did the T-Rex jack off?”

I think it’s impossible for anyone to resist imagining T-Rex masturbation scenarios at some point in their life.

Here is a quote from the article:

“It was a 13m long predator that still had to watch its own back because something bigger was out there - an animal called Spinosaurus,”

Would that really be true? I thought that Spinosaurs were designed to be fish-eaters (due to the shape of their jaws and teeth) – feel free to correct me if I am wrong. Would a Spinosaur really go after another large, tyrannosaur-like predator?

And what is that other gigantic, nine-meter tall predator? Any one know of pics of this devastating beast?

And these animals were running around the planet…Triceratops scampering about like herds of buffalo.

What an interesting time. Makes me wish I’d have stuck with paleontology.

Actually, Tyrannosaurus moved over a while ago, to make room for the dramatically (if somewhat misleadingly*) -named Gigantosaurus and the pathetically-named Spinosaurus. But hey, there’s always more room at the top for Mondo Carnivores.

*–at least in my opinion. If a dinosaur is named “Gigantosaurus,” I think one would reasonably expect it to be not merely gigantic, but gigantic compared to other dinosaurs. Yes, it’s gigantic for a theropod; but I’d expect a name like that to be found among the titanosaurs.

I’m pretty sure the author, Helen Briggs, was high when she typed that line. I believe abelisaurids were closer to 9m in maximum length. In any case, if there were reliable evidence of a 27-foot-tall carnivore (half as tall as Spinosaurus was long?!), Carcharadontosaurus would seem like pretty small beer by comparison.

And it can run faster than a double-decker bus can? :wink:

[nitpick] It’s actually Giganotosaurus. There is another dinosaur, a poorly-known sauropod, named Gigantosaurus.[/nitpick]

Among theropods, a number of other species are known to have rivalled or exceeded known specimens of T.rex in overall length or skull size or estimated weight, including the aforementioned Giganotosaurus carolinii, Carcharodontosaurus saharicus, Spinosaurus aegyptiacus, Torvosaurus tanneri, Allosaurus amplexus, Acrocanthosaurus atokensis. General consensus however, is that T.rex is still the most heavily-built large theropod.

Spinosaurus was, indeed, built more for fish-eating than for taking down tyrannosaurs or carcharadontosaurs. That’s one of the main things (though far from the only thing) that pissed me off about Jurassic Park III.

The critter is named Giganotosaurus, not Gigantosaurus. That extra “o” makes a lot of difference.

And for the record, Carcharadontosaurus isn’t new. The genus was first named back in 1931, for crying out loud! This may be a new species, but it’s not like it’s substantially larger than any other known carcharadontosaur.

See? SEE? Did I not say the name was misleading? I rest my case. It’s even worse than I’d imagined.

When I discover my first dinosaur genus, I’m going to name it Tyrrannosaurus, just to dick with people. I hope it’s the size of a guinea pig and eats aphids. Children will turn in school reports on “Tyrrannosaurus, King of the Cretaceous;” and then their classmates will point out the error and laugh and laugh, shaming them into a permanent state of sullen withdrawl, and they’ll abandon their interest in dinosaurs and find jobs in the field of electrical engineering instead. The entire science of paleontology will wither on the vine.

Or… is it palaeontology?! Is that what the other “a” is for-- plausible deniability? So paleontologists can deflect criticism by claiming, “Oh, no, you’re thinking of that OTHER discipline, with the extra ‘a’ in it. That’s palAeontology, the study of Jack Palance. Totally different subject.” Nice try, paleontology! The rest of us see through your shameful tissue of lies!