This Dinosaur That Gave T-Rex Nightmares...

[@williambuchanan77]

I think T-Rexes would have only one reaction to raptors, search and destroy. There's no way they would have tolerated them as they were a danger to young T-Rex's. Even a group of Raptors would have kept a distance from T-rex's for this reason. They were massive but T-Rex's were quite nimble. Their bones showed they fought with each other frequently which points towards them having a violent nature and were not to be messed with. That being said, a Triceratops stampede must've been something awesome to witness.

[@AlHart-w5g]

Capitol T, small r. Thanks

[@williambuchanan77]

@AlHart-w5g 😂🤣😂

[@elultimo102]

Bumper sticker picturing T-Rex : "if you're happy and you know it clap your . . . Oh, right . . ."

[@jameshunter1545]

😆😆

[@carolynallisee2463]

As I watched this, I pondered upon something the first section of the video made me think about. This is that, for all the detail the fossilised bones can give us about the animal in question, the bones can very seldom shed light on aspects of behaviour. The narrator talked about how modern African Elephants, being the largest land living mammals, aren't targeted by predators. Yet, a few years ago, a BBC Natural History Unit documented how a pride of lions learned how to hunt, bring down and kill elephants, a survival tactic the pride employed when easier pray had become scarce. The thing is, two different generations employed this skill several years apart, during two difficult seasons for the pride. I hate to use the words 'custom' and 'tradition' because they're too anthropomorphic, but I can't find anything that fits better. So what does it have to do with T-Rex and my earlier statement about fossil bones being unable to give many behavioural clues? Well, bones alone can't tell us just how the dinos lived. It's always been assumed that carnivorous dinosaurs were solitary livers and hunters, but the truth is that we just don't know for certain. Every now and again, suggestions are made for this or that carnivorous species to live in pairs or packs. Again, the fossilised remains can give little or no evidence either way. Given that cat species show the whole range of co-habitation systems from solitary to group living, it wouldn't surprise me if carnivorous dinos did the same, with size having no effect on living arrangements. Nor would it surprise me to learn that sauropods weren't as immune to predation as has been suggested. All it would take would be a scarcity of regular prey and a desperate group of T-Rexes, and we'd have the Mesozoic equivalent of elephant hunting Lions!

[@isaacA38]

yea but as you stated. Its not a common thing to happen. Its 99,9% guaranteed that these things happened, but we have no prove for it. Lions also usually stay far away from adult elephants. And a lot of lions die in the desperate attempt to kill an elephant. So although i agree with you that this scenario accured it was not a normal thing for the average trex. But i can imagine that some specialized on dangerous prey, which is a common trade in orcas for example

[@babystacks]

@@isaacA38 your assumptions are just as baseless

[@isaacA38]

@@babystacks yea no shit sherlock. I was guessing as well.

[@normanchodrick2630]

I would assume that the lions attempting to predate an elephant or any Raptors or T-Rexs attempting to take down Sauropods would have concentrated on the heels or upper back of the legs to 'hamstring' those preys which is what dogs do 'nipping at the heels' and African poachers do to bring elephants down. The poachers use traps that wrap wire around the upper heel area to cut into and sever the hamstring hamstringing elephants over that bit of time it takes for the wire to cut thru far enough. A hamstrung animal would be a fallen animal incapable of much of any defense of any type. The very large Sauropods would likely have been too much trouble to bite thru all that leg material for anything smaller than, say, a T-Rex, but being inside away from the tail under the tail working on the hind leg(s)they could likely have done so 'IF' T-Rexs were as smart as Raptors supposedly were or dogs ARE.

[@JohnJ469]

We're now pretty sure they were family/pack animals. A bunch of fossils were found in Canada a few years ago. There were recently hatched, through juveniles to fully grown all found in the same place. Sorry but I can't think of more details beyond that.

[@erikm8372]

Bad grammar in the title. Sorry, but it should be either “This dinosaur gave T-Rex nightmares…” or “The dinosaur that gave T-Rex nightmares”.

[@scottmccrea1873]

From one Grammar Inquisitor to another, there is no need to apologize!

[@RustoMad]

Why are you giving grammar lessons to AI created content? I would prefer that they(AI) stay obviously detectable due to their poor grammar. If they sound more "real" & convincing, then you will be fooled more often.

[@davidbehymer6632]

Everyone has just gotta be a expert

[@mattstyles2498]

They changed the title after my hilarious comment that they didn't find hilarious

[@RustoMad]

@@mattstyles2498 🤣

[@amandabosito]

Tyrannosaurus rex is my favourite dinosaur

[@jaredquinney204]

I really love Dinosaurs

[@randallbesch2424]

Nanotyrannus has been called the young T-rex killers.

[@IRNHYD]

T-Rex was not afraid of Triceratops. For certain, triceratops was a fearsome animal to try and take down… even for the Rex… but the Rex did hunt triceratops. Fact. How do we know this? In 2006 a fossil was discovered on a Montana ranch. The fossil contained two animals: a triceratops and a T-Rex. They were literally, locked in a death struggle, when they were killed together by a massive mud slide (or landslide). Buried under tons of material, they died together, still locked in their fight. The triceratops had one of T-Rex’s ankles in its mouth. The T-Rex’s other leg was jammed behind triceratops huge, bony head plate, where it’s claws were lodged in the ‘top’s neck. The Rex was missing some teeth and had some minor fractures. The Rex’s teeth were stuck in the ‘tops spine. The ‘tops also had a pelvic fracture. This extraordinary fossil has been affectionately called “duelling dinosaurs” by the paleontology community. The fossil matter of factly ends the debate over whether or not Rex was a scavenger or a fearsome hunter. The existence of the fossil demonstrates once and for all that Rex was a fighter that actively attacked and killed its prey, regardless of said prey’s size or disposition. It also demonstrates the fact that ‘tops was spirited beast that was capable of inflicting serious injury upon its predators. Regardless, given the wounds of the two animals, Rex was winning the fight when they were suddenly buried. The fossil has finally been brought out and prepared for exhibition to the public. It is headed for the North Carolina Museum of Natural Science. So while Rex might have had to work hard to take down Triceratops… and would likely pay for that meal with some painful wounds, clearly Rex wasn’t afraid of them.

[@Random-fd1oh]

“This dinosaur gave t-rex nightmares” **shows t-rex killing said dinosaur**

[@normanchodrick2630]

While not likely quite the 'nightmare' to T-Rex or raptors or predators in general, I feel Sauropods are overlooked for having 'defensive' capabilities because it is considered that their size was their protection and defense, but consider that they were not always that big but grew to those very large sized. I think that their main weapon would have been their tails used as whips. A very large Sauropod's use of its tail as a whip might could have broken fully grown T-Rex legs, tails, ribs and necks or just have blasted Raptors to pieces in defense of themselves and their young-as how the young were even able to survive at all. Sauropods like should have a fairly hard but somewhat flexible covering on the ends of their tails to prevent the ends of their own tails from also being blasted to pieces from such use.

[@TyrannoWright]

To put it short, prey animals of tyrannosaurus in general were not easy to access since most of them were prepared just as well; be it for flight or fight. If it isn't the prey that doesn't deter a rex, it's competition with another rex that will.

[@warpdriveby]

A 15th century man-at-arms or knight could have solved the Ankylosaurus riddle had one lived 650 years. Once blacksmiths could produce hardenable steel plate in significant quantities, melee weapons without serious percussive potential or powerful piercing points plummeted in efficacy. It requires either extremely high speed, or high mass and inertia with a focusing face or spike to harm a wearer through it. This is why we see very large hammers, picks, spikes, or axes on much longer poles instead of spears, cutting spears/glaives, long axes as in the 9th to 12th centuries. Stegosaurus' tail with 14"+ long spikes is probably a much better anti predator device, causing serious wounds with less force, being able to be deployed more quickly because it's less massive, and as a lighter weight on the end of a flexible lever disturb the gait less with induced motion as it bounces with each step. Against a slow opponent wearing heavy plates however, a giant maul or hammer is devastating and can either defeat armor or just transmit the force right through it into vulnerable tissue below if a blow lands near softer fatty tissue like liver/brain.

[@OldPapaBear]

Mosquitoes deserve a mention. Very dangerous creatures.

[@NarFlux]

Apex predator where I live all of June into July. Then the Spiders get them under control.

[@hyper8545]

I just wish we could see earth 🌎 long ago. Maybe someday VR will become super good and earth time-line simulator will exist 😮

[@giri_2003]

Where is the edmontosaurus ? Even the fully grown edmontosaurus have ability to kill a sub-adult rex and even possibly cause severe injure to adult large rexes ?

[@Someguy12796]

No. According to fossil records adult edmontosaurs were regularly successfully preyed upon by Rex. People forget that the trex is a super predator and the largest terrestrial carnivore to ever exist with the strongest biteforce of any terrestrial animal, strong enough to tear through iron and cause bone to explode.

[@IRNHYD]

And Rex was also capable of killing Triceratops, as proven by the 2006 discovery of the “dueling dinosaurs” fossil in Montana.

[@giri_2003]

@@Someguy12796 Yes that's right. Rexes are successful in preying adult edmontosaurs but that doesn't mean that they are easy preys. Edmontosaurus are similar to modern zebras, though lions successfully hunt zebras, lions have risk to get beaten by zebras powerful kicks. Then edmontosaurus it's kick including with large tails can fight back the t rex, adults were average of 12 metres long and 9 tonnes weight. Even t rexes knows very well about the risks of hunting these adult hadrosaurs. Untill it dies, it does everything to survive like biting, kicking, ramming, tail swiping,etc... which means they use whole body as a weapon. Even the large hadrosaurs which are 13-15 metres long and 10-15 tonnes can crush the t rex by using it's body. EDMONTOSAURUS ARE HIGHLY UNDERRATED PREYS OF TYRANNOSAURUS REX

[@giri_2003]

@@IRNHYD Yes, that's right. Rexes were able to take down these large ceratopsids but these smartest predators know what are the risks in this hunt. Triceratops were average of 30 feet long, 10 feet tall at frill and weighs around 10 tonnes. These ceratopsids were abnormally agile, answering why t rex evolved into highly agile predator (All this period dinosaurs from this particular niches were highly agile). Tric can actually kill a t rex or atleast cause severe injuries before dies when there is a straight combat, so the t rex hunts the trics by ambushing themselves and complete the hunt within the tric notice the predator. Compare this hunt to modern life lions and cape buffaloes, even a single healthy lion can beat this prey successful but it doesn't mean that this is easy prey. NEVER EVER UNDERESTIMATE THE HERBIVORES, EACH AND EVERY HAS UNIQUE ADAPTATION TO ESCAPE THR PREDATORS THANKS TO THEIR EVOLUTION

[@kevinnorwood8782]

Clearly, being the King Of The Cretaceous was not an easy task.

[@BradBalch]

Its nice to know that even tRex had dreams and nightmares, really humanizes the monster

[@IRNHYD]

It did not. Fact.

[@craigsurbrook5702]

Yes, yes, I'm sure Tyrannosaurs were just fearful of all these other dinosaurs, instead of these other dinosaurs being terrified of being eaten by Trex predators. I mean, which animals' bones had teeth marks on them showing that some huge jaws bit right through their biggest bones? Oh, wait, we don't have that with Tyrannosaurus, but have Tyrannosaurus teeth marks and bite throughs these other dinosaurs remains. WHO KNEW?

[@istantinoplebullconsta642]

That's why this video is so weak. It doesn't delve into what evidence there is, but rather offers up just weak speulation of what might have been.

[@varanid9]

Didn't you forget Deinosuchus? It would certainly have been a threat to Tyrannosaurus younglings.

[@padraiggluck2980]

So, no spinosaurus at Hell Creek.

[@IRNHYD]

Despite Spielberg’s hijacking of Michael Chriton’s Jurassic series, no… Spinosaurus did not live in North America, but instead inhabited wide coastal regions of Africa and what would become the Mediterranean. Rex and Spino never fought and even if they had. The Rex would have won.

[@terrauncebowie6712]

​@IRNHYD so that Spino in J3 was real too and not some madeup dino for dino rivalrys sake?

[@preciousmetals7114]

3:17 UMMM TRICARITOPS HORNS "DELICATE" 😂😂 YEAH OK 👍

[@InTime-x3j]

Tritops the way its head is mounted to the body is a ball and socket set up. This would make the animals head turn with great speed when a larger animal is trying to get around to get to a soft spot.

[@superiorcybergodzilla5670]

T-Rex, Prehistoric King of Halloween 🎃

[@johnaaron6988]

Might as well put the road runner and Wiley cryote in the mix too

[@royjacksonjr.4447]

A mega-rhino! Probably similar to Ceratopsians due to convergent evolution: a similar environment breeds similar adaptations.

[@Pardogad]

Brachio is my favorite but hail the king tyrannosaurus

[@hvyduty1220]

Lol, if you wasn't standing there to see.......it all a wild guess

[@JohnWest-zq5gs]

One thing that frightened a T-Rex was triceratops

[@IRNHYD]

Nope. They hunted triceratops. Look into the “dueling dinosaurs” fossil, discovered in Montana in 2006.

[@JOSEPHAUGUSTEGOZLANLEGUILLOU]

@@IRNHYD yeah but the t rex in the dueling dinosaurs got the wrost of it with missing tooth broken finger and shattered skull and the triceratops only ad tooth stuck in is spine suggesting that the triceratops attacked that t rex

[@calamityjane5698]

I really doubt that the titanosaurus would have reared up to try to stamp on a tyannosaur. That would put its soft belly in a very vulnerable position..

[@jimfisk4474]

Correction, if they would have never had been a destroyed

[@DanCooper404]

"This dinosaurs..." I'm out, creepy AI.

[@feraldelight]

😂 cry about it

[@leechild4655]

what creeps me out is the sort of whispering the narrator employees. wth!

[@williambuchanan77]

Actually those pictures were quite good, I've seen much worse.

[@erikm8372]

Pretty sure the title was a human error. Lol. Not even AI would be that blatantly incorrect.

[@erikm8372]

I am crying about it.

[@Swaggmire215]

A trex would probably only 1v1 a full grown triceratops if it were basically desperate and one breath away from death. It was justbtoo dangerous to approay any other time

[@IRNHYD]

Incorrect. T-Rex hunted, fought with and took down triceratiops. The fossil, affectionately referred to the campaignto as “the missing cart”.

[@IRNHYD]

Nah. A fossil was found in Montana in 2006. A Triceratops and a T-Rex, found locked, fossilized, in their death struggle. The ‘Tops had Rex’s tail clamped in its mouth. It also had some of the Rex’s teeth stuck in its spine and a fractured pelvis. The Rex was missing some of its teeth (found in ‘tops spine) and had a couple of small fractures. The Rex had one of its clawed toes jammed behind the ‘Tops bony armored skull plate, where the toes were jammed into the ‘Tops neck. Clearly, Triceratops was a beast that put up a good fight, as the Rex had a few injuries and lost some teeth. But the fact that these two animals got fossilized while fighting (it was a mudslide that buried them) demonstrates that this very scene played out all the time in the Hell Creek formation. … which was a hotspot for Dino activity and paleontologists say it “fairly crawled with Tyrannosaurs”.

[@BradBalch]

I really hate the “scientists say this weapon was just for display/mating rights BUT if a predator comes along…”. I, a moron, feel like they developed that shit for anytime shit got serious, fighting, fuckin or flexin.

[@jimfisk4474]

Thanks, if they have not been destroyed, would human beings ever had existed?

[@PhantomSturm]

I thought Dakotaraptor had already been determined to be other species?

[@kenyongray2615]

Some of those battles would have been epic but let's get real, no one has seen live dinosaurs, so we really do know about their behavior or what they ate or how they lived. It is all guesswork. It is that guesswork that stimulates the imagination about all the different breeds of dinosaurs.

[@theoracle5265]

The head they're digging out of the ground has a head no bigger than a horse, what up with that?

[@gregorygrayson8044]

Stegosaurus 🤔

[@MrTodfoulk]

i always thought t rex as a scavenger. no idea why but will always think they ate everything. what did scavenge the dead big sauropods?

[@NarFlux]

t-Rex skeletons usually had all their teeth. If you are biting a big moving creature that is resisting you to the death, you'd be missing a lot or all your teeth. If they've got all their teeth, they were likely a Scavenger.

[@IRNHYD]

No. The myth of T-Rex being a scavenger has been permanently laid to rest. In 2006 a fossil was found in Montana. A T-Rex and a Triceratops, who both were suddenly buried while they were locked in a death struggle. The Triceratops had Rex’s tail clamped firmly in its mouth. A number of Rex’s teeth were lodges in its spine. ‘tops also had a fractured pelvis. Rex was missing a few teeth (those stuck in ‘tops back), had a few small fractures and one of its feet was jammed up behind the ‘Tops bony skull plate, with its clawed toes jammed in ‘tops neck. With the likelihood of fossilization occurring being a tiny fraction of bones, among the whole population, the fact that these two died like that demonstrates that Rex was truly the master of its domain. Not some scavenger. The fossil is at a museum in NC. They refer to it as the “dueling Dino’s fossil”.

[@NarFlux]

@@IRNHYD @TyrannusX Ya'll clearly need your religion of evolution and television (tell-a-vision) PROGRAMMING to be an absolute fact in order for you to exist it seems. Programming I say again. Propagandized Programming to engineer the general averaged opinions of the masses for the social engineers paradigm of vailed total control. Millions of years is Propaganda BS. These critters were Suddenly BURRIED as IRNHYD said, but it was only a few thousand years ago in a global cataclysm. Soft Tissue as they had also found in T-Rex Bones could not remain after Millions of years. In a mud-flood or tidal waves they burried millions of big lizard critters in mass graves.

[@nationalsniper5413]

Triceratops horns were very NOT DELICATE but very strong. They were made of solid bone and covered with keratine. A Tyrannosaurus Rex would not go after a healthy adult Triceratops. Only young or sick. And if possible avoid them all together and go for a hadrosaur. A blow with Ankylosaurus club to the leg of a Rex and its leg would be broken. Which means the end, since it could no longer feed itself. Dakotaraptor would only be a danger to young Rexes. Even in packs, a Rex, Trike or Anky would just be to big and to armed.

[@IRNHYD]

Wrong. See “Dueling Dinos Fossil” from Montana. It’s discovery pretty much establishes that, not only was Tyrannosaurus Rex NOT a scavenger, but instead a true apex predator… but He was also master of his domain.

[@adriangabrielgramada1016]

Humans are impressed by the best killers :))) After all this is what we have devolved into and call it progress ;)

[@IRNHYD]

It’s nature that creates the best killers… and strives constantly to hone those predatory skills….

[@adriangabrielgramada1016]

@@IRNHYD There are plenty of movies / scenarios representing what happens when predators go unchecked and they remain without any food, just eating each other. That is what this irresponsible admiration for predators can get us. They are not exquisite killing machines to be idolized and mimicked. They are the garbage disposers of Nature on a very strict mission. Not super killers having fun. That is just the sick human mind, warped by all sorts of bad thinking as it lost the very purpose in the Nature cycle. Our place is to eat the tropical fruits and pop the seeds and help them spread. Not chasing animals with fake claws, fake teeth, fake everything predatory like including the very instict to seek blood and gore (no child wants to eat their pet but play with it). So, please try to open your mind and see we are just make-believe omnivores that thinks of oneself as the ultimate predator :))) What a joke ! And the joke is on us with all the diseases that come from not doing only what Nature created us to do, where Nature meant us to do it. Makes sense ? ;)

[@andrewenoch2561]

I don't think it Shocks or we be shocked that's not to far a stretch to think it would eat given the opportunity because we were doing exactly the same millions upon millions of years later human beings eating other human beings so T-Rex eating a little T-Rex isn't shocking to believe 🦖🦖👥👣

[@SunSheepOfLight]

The closest living thing related to the T-Rex 🦖 is the chicken.

[@TyrannoWright]

Don't you mean emus or cassowaries? Chickens are an heavily boasted oversight.

[@TheFoshaMan]

No, there's no such thing as the closest T.rex's living relative, all birds are closer to T.rex in equal way, the Chicken thing was a misinformation that got out of hand, if I correctly remember, they were discussing about metabolism and that's when they mentioned something about T.rex and Chicken, but not as close relatives but just a mere comparison, if I compare myself to a Dolphin that doesn't make me a close dolphin relative, also nor the Emus neither the Cassowaries are, birds were born in the Jurassic, long before T.rex.

[@SunSheepOfLight]

@ Ah…

[@SunSheepOfLight]

@ Chicken 🍗

[@AlHart-w5g]

Honestly, you people weren’t there. You have no idea what really went down. Not positive which may have been warm or cold blooded. Which were predatory or scavengers. These animals were custom built for theatre of the mind. It’s all highly speculative.

[@REALITY6.7L]

Either were you. Are you really questioning this, mostly AI clip? What can you factually tell us about dinosaurs?

[@robertmartin4660]

Triceratops didn't exist in the same time line as T-rex.

[@JOSEPHAUGUSTEGOZLANLEGUILLOU]

yes they did

[@IRNHYD]

Incorrect. Late Cretaceous saw these two beasts overlap on the continent of Laramidia (a strip of land that stretched from modern day Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico) They fought as well. The 2006 discovery of the “Dueling Dinos Fossil” in Montana’s Hell Creek Formation effectively proves that.

[@jimpassi349]

oooh no its a mouse

[@matthewdavies2057]

You missed one and you know it: Spinosaurus.

[@TyrannoWright]

They didn't even exist together in terms of location and time unless you're trying to reference Jurassic. Even if they did, the rex already has the endurance and intelligence to outwit most other megatheropods. It's pretty much backed on various paleontologists' opinions on the subject matter...

[@matthewdavies2057]

@@TyrannoWright You don't say?

[@IRNHYD]

Spinosaurs never encountered T-Rex, though it’s a certainty they encountered Tyrannosaurs (just not “Rex”) Allosaurs, and others of that genus. Spinos roamed the area that is now the Mediterranean. It is likely also that Spino spent much of its time in the water. T-Rex on the other hand, was only found on the continent of Laramidia, a strip of land, comprised of Mexico, the western US and BC…it stretched from the arctic circle to the Gulf of Mexico. Paleontologists say it fairly crawled with Tyrannosaurs Rex. Then there is the fact that Spino lived during the Jurrasic. T-Rex lived during late Cretaceous. So… unless Spino invented a time machine to take him forward to late Cretaceous, the T-Rex - Spino death match never happened

[@michaelramsey3986]

Stegasourus?