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| *I'm not an expert, but it appears that Tyrannosaurus could run 'pretty' fast, but was a slow turner. This would imply that he hunted similarly to a pike, or a crocodile, or maybe a heron: hide or sit very silently and wait until something passes by. If his prey consisted of sauropods and hadrosaurs, living near coasts and rivers, t-rex could easily have been hiding in water, just like a crododile does. Looking much like a trunk. This seems a *very* good theory to me but I can't find anything about this on the web...] 08:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC) | *I'm not an expert, but it appears that Tyrannosaurus could run 'pretty' fast, but was a slow turner. This would imply that he hunted similarly to a pike, or a crocodile, or maybe a heron: hide or sit very silently and wait until something passes by. If his prey consisted of sauropods and hadrosaurs, living near coasts and rivers, t-rex could easily have been hiding in water, just like a crododile does. Looking much like a trunk. This seems a *very* good theory to me but I can't find anything about this on the web...] 08:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC) | ||
| ::Interesting point. Paul ("Predatory Dinosaurs of the World") says ''T rex'' had really big crests on the knee and heel, giving muscles excellent leverage. IMO this says little about top speed but suggests exceptional acceleration from a stationary start, which is a feature of the pike you mentioned (pike accelerates too fast for slow-motion cameras to resolve the blur). Might be worth a mention in the article if we could find a ref to ''T rex'' acceleration. ] (]) 12:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC) | |||
Revision as of 12:23, 20 December 2007
Please be bold in editing the article and in editing/adding/striking out items from this list.
- The text refs for the books need to be IDed somehow, perhaps in parenthesis.
- Improve Tyrannosaurus in popular culture and summarise main points here.
- Figure out status of the image Image:Sue'sBrain.jpg.
Don't reference to Jurassic (movie).(I'm not sure what this means, however wrong the name of the movie is it does portray a T-rex well....?)- Need an image of a T-rex as if feathered. (I have emailed Ken Carpenter and Thomsa Holtz for leads...Cas Liber 01:59, 20 June 2006 (UTC)) - getting there - Ken told me of an image in Nov 99 National Geographic so I will email them forthwith Cas Liber 12:44, 21 June 2006 (UTC) I had the issue in question but I seem to have misplaced it. I wasn't aware images from NatGeo were usable here--if so, I've got a ton of scanning to do... At any rate it might be better to ask around to amature paleoartists, browse through the artists on Dinosauricon, etc. There are plenty of great feathered rex illustrations out there.Dinoguy2 21:59, 13 September 2006 (UTC)
Mapping a timeline of geological and evolutionary history to Galactic rotation is linear (though cyclic because of the rotation) and profitable. For instance, T. Rex emerged just after the Andromeda Galaxy lined up with the Galactic Center. The Cambrian was three Galactic rotations ago, plants emerged onto land two, and animals about one.
- What the heck? J. Spencer 15:19, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
- Replace the dino cards references with reliable sources that have a url or isbn
- I'm not an expert, but it appears that Tyrannosaurus could run 'pretty' fast, but was a slow turner. This would imply that he hunted similarly to a pike, or a crocodile, or maybe a heron: hide or sit very silently and wait until something passes by. If his prey consisted of sauropods and hadrosaurs, living near coasts and rivers, t-rex could easily have been hiding in water, just like a crododile does. Looking much like a trunk. This seems a *very* good theory to me but I can't find anything about this on the web...Drgeert 08:24, 22 August 2007 (UTC)
- Interesting point. Paul ("Predatory Dinosaurs of the World") says T rex had really big crests on the knee and heel, giving muscles excellent leverage. IMO this says little about top speed but suggests exceptional acceleration from a stationary start, which is a feature of the pike you mentioned (pike accelerates too fast for slow-motion cameras to resolve the blur). Might be worth a mention in the article if we could find a ref to T rex acceleration. Philcha (talk) 12:23, 20 December 2007 (UTC)