I am horrified and feel deeply threatened by the amount of anti-theropod propaganda here
And everyone else. I specifically recall and sometimes use the line 'Everybody knows how stupid DUCK BILLS are!' Sarah's racist dad had some memorable lines
I played on a The Isle (it sucks don't play it) server that had rules, and most of the rules were good but one rule that ALWAYS pissed me off was that herbivores were not allowed to attack carnivores unless proved / attacked first. Which A: is not how herbivores work in nature and B: was a god awful rule mechanically for the game, it meant that as an herbivore you were not allowed to fight carnivores unless the carnivore was very confident it had the advantage and could kill you, which also meant that playing as an herbivore was just wandering around eating the same fucking bush over and over for 12 hours until carnivores decided to kill you. Ass.
Anyway I fuck with triceratops, I used to sleep on this dino but it grew on me eventually. Dilophosaurus is still my favorite though, I just love those gangly fuckers.
I always thought the hypothesis that the horns were exclusively ornamental was ridiculous. Like, they're practically aimed at t. rex's stomach
I've never heard somebody say that Triceratops' horns were used exclusively for display. However it is very likely that ceratopsians evolved these weapons for fighting each other and not for fighting predators (this doesn't mean that Triceratops wouldn't have used their horns to protect themselves from predators)
This picture is fake where is the triceratops' .50 anti-materiel rifle? How could it even fire a gun with feet like that? Yet the t-rex clearly has a gunshot wound. Hmmm......
Yeah, that's like that planet earth episode where they managed to get footage of lions attacking an elephant. A TRex going after a triceratops would be a very desperate TRex. There's a lot of tank herbivores a t Rex wouldn't generally fuck with. Wolves won't fuck with us unless desperate and most of the time if there's humans where wolves the wolves will avoid us cause we have a history of fuckinf them up. Also pure speculation but fossil evidence of such conflicts may be a coincidence of desperate times and greater possibility of fossilization during say, the early phase of a mass extimxtion
strong claim but I don't buy that triceratops were 'regularly destroying' tyrannosaurs. this is like saying walruses (the triceratops of the artic) regularly destroy polar bears (the tyrannosaurs of the artic) when really they have a toolkit meant to help delay or fend off attacks BUT THE POLAR BEAR ALWAYS COMES BACK.
Those are completely different animals living in totally different niches. Triceratops weighed more than T. rex for a start and is far more agile than a walrus on land.
Also there are Rex skeletons that show gouging in the bones from triceratops horns.
Much like lions often die trying to kill buffalo or elephants, rex's would have been taking a huge gamble hunting triceratops. That's not to say Triceratops also didn't also die regularly to T. Rex.
Aren't Tyrannosaurs now regarded as scavengers, due to their short arms?
Less like a polar bear and more like a large-headed hyena.