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I have an honest question WHY are some paleontologists obsessed with a weird seemingly impractical "axe head" hypothesis for so many dinos. I've seen it for Allosaurus, Terror Birds, and now even Carnotaurus??? Help

basically some studies have shown that these animals have a much lower bite force then their bodies could theoretically take. for example, if a terror bird could take 20 pounds of force, but can only bite 10 pounds. this sort of was an attempt to reason why that would be. the more realistic reason would be that these animals are slowly wearing down prey, much like modern animals do, with slashing bites until they bleed out, or hunting much smaller prey. basically it comes down the assumption that if you don't have a strong bite force, you can't hunt, which really isn't true.

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Bad DnD Character Idea - The Palasaurolophus

You play as a dragonborn reflavored as the whistle dinosaur, the Parasaurolophus, in which your breath weapon is thunder damage. Frozen for centuries beneath the ice where as just a young dinosaur you fell into when the comet first struck the ancient world. Discovered years later you take up an oath to your ancestors as a paladin to discover which ever God summoned that comet. As an Oath of the Ancients Paladin, your Nature's Wrath summons the plant life from the late cretaceous period. Your holy symbol? A fossil of what you assume is your father. Your aura of warding gifts your allies a comforting layer of feathers and scales to protect them. But the real icing on the cake is you walk around telling everyone their various bad behaviors are what killed the dinosaurs.

Carrying around my dead father:

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Let's start a reblog chain game! reblog and add your favorite (I'll do mine first) :

small dinosaur: sinosauropteryx
large predatory theropod: carnotaurus
herbivore: pachycephalosaurus
pterosaur: hatzegopteryx
non mesozoic prehistoric animal: orthoceras
Raptor: utahraptor
least favorite dinosaur: don't really like a lot of ceratopsians
and sauropod: amargasaurus

Small dinosaur: Ambopteryx

Large predatory theropod: Gigantoraptor

Herbivore: Psittacosaurus

Pterosaur: Dimorphodon

Non Mesozoic prehistoric animal: Moschops

Raptor: Austroraptor

Least favourite dinosaur: very hard to say but probably a Carcharadintosaurid ig (too similar so idc about them much)

And sauropod: Shunosaurus

small dinosaur: seriema

large predatory theropod: deinocheirus

herbivore: udanoceratops

pterosaur: pterodactylus

non mesozoic prehistoric animal: robertia

Raptor: microraptor

least favorite dinosaur: I don't have very much interest in non Tyrannoraptoraptoran, basal coelurosaurs

and sauropod: Plateosaurus

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