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Sat Mar 04, 2006 10:42 amby jrichreturns
Yeah, well there is definitinately evidence that t-rex's inner ear resembles the inner ears of predators not scavengers. You're inner ear also helps you balance, that's why if you get an ear infectyion you have trouble balancing and what not. That brings up a whimpsical antecdote of me falling off a toilet while i had an inner ear infection-but i'll leave that for another day.
Spinosaurus was extremely frail while T-rex's body was reenforced. T-rex could indeed take down the bigger, yet weaker spinosaurus though. And lastly, Jack Horner is a pompous ass. Have any of you met him? I met him at a convention a few years back and if you question him on anything he holds dear he claims you're a mindless idiot.
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Sun Mar 05, 2006 3:05 pmby Shin_Edda_Robo!!!!!
I've been wondering what his case was against T-Rex was. It seems kinda personal at times. Maybe something happened when uncovering a T-Rex site?
http://www.gavinrymill.com/dinosaurs/rexscav/rex.html
Something I found interesting.
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Wed Nov 22, 2006 9:42 pmby Lord Ghidorah
*shrug* Personality sells, and Horner isn't completely incompetent in his chosen field. I do think his persistent attitude towards T. rex despite contrary evidence is indicative of a deep-set need to have something of his own be so famous and prevalent.
I've also noted just a bit of hype over many of the Argentinian discoveries. Like Soviet-era warships, everything has to be the biggest and therefore "best." The classic is the recently-discovered "Godzilla" featured in National Geographic's prehistoric sea monsters issue.
Alligator-sized coastal lurker? "This was a top predator." Indeed. So is a ground sloth.