How big is a medium size elephant again?
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This is interesting.
T-rex used his tremendous biteforce to kill STEGOSAURUS???
Interesting indeed.
Rick: Yes. T. rex was the Chuck Norris of the Cretaceous. It could bite through time!
Touché, Greg.
And the number of the beast was...?
Ate!
Now stop, this is getting silly.
Is anything known about how bite forces vary
among the diverse tyrannosaurid species?
Alioramus, say, or Zhuchengtyrannus?
They were all similar to different size elephant sitting down.
I knew you'd say that.
I just - knew.
Well, that accounts for the complete and utter lack
of any maastrichtian stegosauridae, I s'pose...
...eaten through time.