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(05-18-2020, 09:48 PM)bruin Wrote: Too bad we can't time travel to observe prehistoric life. IMHO, from my point of view, Spinosaurus was a big fish-eater and shoreline scavenger. On land, he was very likely always on the lookout for Carcharodontosaurus.
Yes, I'm agree... When we consider the spinosaurus's skeleton, we can see that the bones are slend, the general constitution is rather slight. The most robust bones are the backbone ones.
Let us compare with the t-rex's skeleton:
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When we are considering these skeletons it's hard to believe that the spinosaurus can weigh 2 or 3 tons more than T-rex. Even longer I don't believe that the spinosaurus's weight could exceed 10 tons. And beside this fact, spinosaurus could absolutely not be an apex predator on land, an encounter and a confrontation with the carcharodontosaurus, as you told, should have been very problematic.