Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis (Subadult, Female)
Triceratops horridus (Male)
Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Male)
Ceratosaurus nasicornis (Female)
Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis (Subadult, Female)
Triceratops horridus (Male)
Dilophosaurus wetherilli (Male)
Ceratosaurus nasicornis (Female)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgxjT0TqUtI
Well. A dang 12.5 tonne Rex. Rex fans(like me) be eating right now ig.
What do you guys think? Do you all believe that Goliath hit those weights and possibly beyond, or is he a massive fraud? Does Cope remain king, or will he have to start coping?
Welp. This is yet another reason why Tyrannosaurus rex truly is the King of the Dinosaurs.
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And, without further hiatus, we bring you, Survival of the Fittest.
In the scorching, sweltering heat of Hell's Creek in the Cretaceous period, a lone Tyrannosaurus, a majestic creature of unbridled power, struts confidently through her domain, her every step a testament to her untamed dominance. This is Ida, a subadult female Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis, now 21 years old and having known nothing but the unchallenged supremacy of her realm. She roams freely, her footsteps echoing through the valleys and hills as she travels to the river, seeking refuge from the relentless heat.
As she approaches the river's edge, she steps closer, her eyes fixed on the cool, clear water. And then, in a sudden, swift motion, she drenches her jaws, the water enveloping her like a desperate pail extinguishing a raging house fire. For a moment, she sits at the riverbed, basking in the refreshing coolness, before rising and continuing on her way.
But Ida's thoughts soon turn to sustenance, for she has reached the critical growth stage where she must rapidly consume food to gain weight and maintain her strength. Her hunger drives her forward, and the thundering bellows of her feet echo throughout the valleys, a primal announcement of her presence. Today, her meal comes in the form of a dead Stygimoloch, a Pachycephalosaurus spinifer that has succumbed to the unforgiving forces of nature. Ida's senses are drawn to the lifeless carcass, and she prepares to feast, her dominance over this ancient landscape unchallenged.
After Ida finishes her meal, she nestles herself in her territory; a large rock which provides a view of the great skies of her domain. She watches as a Quetzalcoatlus northropi takes to the sky, covering the sun with its basking wings. Ida listens as a few pebbles fall down the side of her rocks.
She is disgusted by the sign of disrespect and lets out a thundering roar that shakes the pines to let it know. Ida shakes some water off of her snout before looking out, feeling the cool spring breeze tickle her hot scaly skin. She soon heard another roar echo back. While a Dakotaraptor steini chases a P. spinifer below her, Ida jumps to follow the sounds ecstatically. She's never met another Tyrannosaurus in this region of Hell's Creek.
As the echoes of her calls and steps bellow to the life around her, Ida then hears another roar and follows it. Ida was born here, but her Father abandoned her after a short time, and she's been the only Tyrannosaur for 17 years. As she passed a dried basin, she heard another roar. She slowly crept up to the clearing, disguised beneath the treeline and foliage. But her expectations were shattered as she saw not another Tyrannosaurus, but a Triceratops horridus herd. The source of the sound was cocky males fighting for mates, including the alpha, Andre.
Mary, Andre's spawn from last spring, stood close to the treeline behind the defence of her mother, Minerva. Since Ida was already there, she figured she might as well. She carefully stepped forward, prowling close to Mary. Her maw gaped wide as she prepared to eat, but she was too revealing. Minerva noticed the young Tyrannosaurus and sounded the alarm. A thunderous bellow shouted through the basin as Triceratops began running every which way.
While Ida kept still distracted by all the Triceratops, Minerva took advantage and her maternal instincts blew over like a steaming kettle. It was a blur, but once over, Ida stood droopy, blood dripping from her bottom jaw. She couldn't roar her dominance, or even close her jaws, but it was worse when she noticed Andre running at her.
Ida was jostled away as Andre dragged her like a limp doll before he pushed her away from the herd, his horn sliding out of her shredded muzzle. As Ida stood, her two jaws in throbbing pain, bleeding and insulted, she had no choice but to run into the tree line, her dominance over the region shattered.
Ida hid for a whole day, not going back to her domain. Ida was now a true loner. As she wandered, a slow, steady pulse of melancholy flooded her. She tried to scavenge a Quetzalcoatlus she found but her jaws made it difficult to eat, causing her to only eat so much before leaving, full of pain.
Over a week, Ida had lost any authority she had. Even Alphadon marshii mocked her as she passed the forests.
Ida soon struggled to eat anything. Due to her destroyed jaws, she couldn't kill anything, but she could also barely eat. It was a great pain, but she dealt with it.
Ida found herself in a reverse situation. She would camp just outside the edge of Hell's Creek, where the Dakotaraptors commoned. They'd be all over the area, around 2-6 at a time. On this particular day, Ida had sprained her ankle after falling some distance, forcing her to limp around.
As Ida limped past the feisty Dakotaraptors, snapping and snarling at each other as they picked apart the carcass, she felt a great wave of hunger wash over her. She was forced to wait until they passed before she could finally claw the tail off and drag it away.
Once safe from the Dakotaraptors, hidden by the shade of the treeline, Ida carefully but painfully began eating. Her jaws throbbed, and her ears banged like violent church bells.
But she had to continue. A slight era of bliss in her life, she ate and savoured the tail before finishing and moving on.
The next day, Ida looked like an early sub-adult from how much weight she lost. She began to walk normally again, but she decided today was the day she'd finally hunt again.
She found two male Pachycephalosaurus fighting in a trail clearing, likely a path the Hadrosaurids took when they migrated. As the two kept bonking skulls, Ida peered close. Before she knew it, she was snapping her jaws, trying desperately to catch the Pachycephalosaurus. But the pain soon caught up to her, and she stopped, watching the Pachy dash away, she suddenly remembered there was a second Pachycephalosaurus.
Ida winced as the second Pachycephalosaurus struck her knee, causing her even greater pain. The sudden force and imbalance caused Ida to fall. Ida could barely see the Pachy dash off before she passed out, exhausted and in pain.
Once she finally awoke, only the serene silence of the forest beckoned her to get up. And when she did, she found that prey was nowhere. She hadn't realized herbivores had started migrating. The only thing still around were Quetzalcoatlus and Dakotaraptors.
Ida began limping over to a cliff area, similar to her old lookout, but once she did, she heard a faint call behind her. As she looked back, she found a Quetzalcoatlus, mocking her. Another one viewed the chaos below. Ida roared off the Quetzalcoatlus but found the two trying to swarm her. She was NOT dying today.
Eventually, the Quetzalcoatlus gave up and flew away, but like clockwork, two Dakotaraptors appeared to clean up the mess.
They began circling her, darting around to disorient her. Ida roared as she tried catching them, but they only sliced her muzzle with their claws. Once that was over, Ida saw one of them running to pounce.
As the Dakotaraptor finally pounced, Ida felt time freeze. She noticed the two Quetzalcoatlus above her, seeming like a harbinger of what had happened to her. And with the pounce, Ida roared in pain as her life faded to black.
And with that, Ida's story is concluded, a story of hubris, and remember, anything and everything could kill you in Hell's Creek.
Also Lockjaw finally got his Redesign :D
Changes:
Added (likely inaccurate) shaggy feathering on Tail tip (replacing venomous Spines), Arms, and Dorsal side of Neck
Changed up patterning
Changed lower legs and Arms to Dark grey
More accurate Anatomy
Future Changes:
Saber teeth to reflect his venomous teeth modification (though like his brothers he may be a Cyborg now or just a normal Theropod)
Back deco(?)
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Dinosaur Redesign list:
Dynasty
Vivas
Tide
Doom
Tower
Arbiter
Non Dinosaur redesign list:
Specter
Mako
Pinglet:
22 Votes in Poll
Concavenator and Hypsilophodon (Still kind of a wip)
Tyrannosaurus and Quetzalcoatlus (I feel like the Quetz is a bit too big compared to the Rex?)
Any comments?
From what I last recall, infants have downy fluff, but then lose it once they become adults, resulting in bare skin.
Is this still correct, or has it shifted back to peach fuzz/full feathers?
Asking because Tyrannosaurus still has "Feathered Dinosaurs" as a category.
21 Votes in Poll
28 Votes in Poll
But since we know that T-rex is the king of the dinosaurs, and that the lion is the king of the animals today. I have 2 questions.
1. Who would be the king of the animals in the Cenozoic Era? (I just realized that we live in this era, in the Quaternary Period while writing this question. So, no modern animals allowed)
2. And who would be the king of the animals in the Paleozoic Era?
I feel like the first question is kinda unorthodox because again, we still live in the Quaternary Period, which means that African lions live along with us in this period and Era.
Gwangi was a theropod dinosaur who appeared in the 1969 movie, The Valley of Gwangi. He's become a cult classic over the years and I wanted to do my own take on him.
Now, there's an argument to be made on what Gwangi is supposed to be. But from what I've heard while researching online, Ray Harryhausen, the stop motion animator of the movie, said that he's a mix of Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, and he definitely looks the part considering what those two were thought to look like back then.
My Gwangi features a Tyrannosaur like head with blood covering his lips, he has crests on the top of his brows, and he has some osteoderms on his back. He has long arms with three fingers and long legs. His design is pretty much a modern version of Gwangi's original depiction. With him being a combination of Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus. However, if I were to make a story about this, he'd be a Tyrannosauroid who went through some kind of convergent evolution which is why he has traits from Carcharadontosaurs. And I gave him lips not because I wanted him to be accurate to modern day dino depictions, but because the original Gwangi also had lips. And below him is the decapitated head of a Styracosaurus as a reference to his fight with one in the movie.
This dinosaur is known as Diafotyrannus Occidemare, which translates to "Different Tyrant Western Marshal". The genus name is a reference to the combination of Tyrannosaurus and Allosaurus, because Allosaurus means "Different Lizard" and Tyrannosaurus means "Tyrant Lizard". The species name refers to a Western town marshal which, if you know anything about Wild West stories, you'd know that a town marshal is pretty much the police. It's why I wanted that to be included in the species name to give it that Western, cowboy feel, especially considering what kind of movie The Valley of Gwangi was. Also because I just think it sounds cool.
Diafotyrannus is 15 feet tall and 40 feet long and weighs about 8 tons. It attacks anything and anyone who comes into its territory and often clashes with Ceratopsians like Styracosaurus. Males like Gwangi are especially aggressive and sport large crests on their heads to attract females. The osteoderms on their back protect them from damage and they are quite fast for their size at an estimated speed of 23 miles per hour. They have two sets of teeth, ones for ripping flesh, and ones for crushing bone.
What do you think?
I never make posts as of late. but today a study released regarding our favorite tyrannosaurine that begins with D. No, not Dynamoterror, the other one. Daspletosaurus!
Well, whats left of it...
In the study by Scherer (link to paper here but much of it is locked), it was found that the three species of Daspletosaurus (and all its undescribed specimens) are of varying relationship to each other. This means that the genus is paraphyletic, and not all species fit under the "Daspletosaurus" umbrella. And there is evidence that the species showed up through anagenesis rather than cladogenesis.
The specifics aren't concrete, but for sure the type species, D. torosus, is essentially at the base of the family tree of Tyrannosaurinae, but not as a direct ancestor to those farther on the tree such as Tarbosaurus, as some did believe. Between them, are the multiple unnamed specimens of varying relationship to each other and the clade.
And D. horneri is housed inside Tyrannosaurini while everyone else isn't.
This is a BIG development, meaning that, in laymans terms, the extra species of Daspletosaurus are gonna have to be renamed eventually. This paper doesn't give any new genus or species names unfortunately, but this should encourage other paleontologists to get to namin'!
Lets ignore the part where in some cladograms they put T. mcraeensis closer to Tarbosaurus than T. rex..... thats a paper for another day lol
So TL;DR: Daspletosaurus is paraphyletic and is no longer considered truly ancestral to other tyrannosaurins. The extra species that aren't D. torosus are gonna need to be renamed to a new genus or something because being paraphyletic isn't gouda. There aren't specifics on where every species will be placed now, but that can be sorted when they get redescribed.
On this day, 1 year ago, the paper describing the 2nd species of Tyrannosaurus that is still a species of Tyrannosaurus was published. I remember this used to be my favorite of the two species my now I honestly prefer T. rex
I still remember that day, gosh I feel so old now.
Hi its therizinosaurus25 formerly godzilla1769 happy new year. here are my plans for 2025.
Jannuary:
Last episode of dinobites
Stuff in general
And a possible spinweel dinosaurs in different bits of media
Febuary:
Something to look forward to
Stuff in general
March:
Stuff in general
I haven't planed this out really. also iv'e got some news! DINOBITES IS GONNA BE AN OFFICIAL ANIMATED SERIES!!!! forgot to say this in the post i did at christmas but i heard how you have to be 13 or over to have a fandom account and i got mine less than a month since i turned 13. this post has went a bit off track. anyways to get back on track imma talk about cardiff museum in wales. they had a full skeleton edmotosaurus, a t.rex skull, a mosasaur skeleton, a cryptoclidus skeleton, a plesiosaur, a mammoth skeleton, a megaloceros skeleton, and a bunch more fossils. reviewing the museums fossil collection it probably hasn't been updated since the 90s or the 2000ds because all the videos look like there from that era, and a carboniferous diorama they had there had mesothelae so 4\10. anyways don't forget to like and subscribe and i'll see you in the next one. peace out raptors