The Truth about Killer Dinosaurs: Velociraptor vs Ankylosaurus Part 3

[MartenFerret]

God struck them both down and covered their forms, thus preserving them for all time.

[CynicalRaver]

I guess that meal was... to die for... YEAAAAAAAAH

[rlinfinity]

You'll never know why they died, and the dinosaurs will never tell you because... The first rule in Fight Club is: You do not talk about Fight Club.

[kickniko]

Hmmm.... So, a claw cannot be used for slicing if it has a "rounded" shape with a sharp tip and not a thin shape with a sharp edge?

OK, what is the shape of the claws of big cats today? It is rather rounded with a very sharp tip, isn't it? And they do slice pretty well, or do I miss something?

[weemanownage2]

@kickniko youre somewhat correct but missing some information.... big cats claws are most definitely not the size that the velociraptors was meaning it didnt puncture as deep therefore requiring less force to complete a "slash" secondly; in one of the previous parts it stated that the velociraptor had about the same force as a human arm and most big cats today have more force than a human. with those to factors I hope you

get a better perspective of the matter.

[ShneekeyTheLost]

@kickniko Nope. Cat claws are used for binding a cat to the prey. It's the teeth that do the killing. They might be able to scratch, but they can't disembowel. They're used for latching on while the cat's bite delivers the kill

[Kingcobrasaurus]

I thought that the way they concluded that velociraptor pack-hunted was rather flawed, the only crocodile that actually cooperates in a group is the nile crocodile, and the harris hawk is pretty much the only modern bird that utilizes pack hunting. both would have evolved such behaviors because their niches demanded that they do so, not because it's genetic. There is still no evidence that velociraptor hunted in packs. It COULD have done it, but we have no way of saying for certain that it did.

[AsuraDragon]

Give someone a knife, and they can be scary. Give someone a knife that truly knows how to use it, then you have a truly terrifying killer.

[superzip42]

Turkey: I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD, I USE TO BE A T-REX

[do501]

why dose it say ankylosaurus insted of protoceratops?

[thephenon724]

Harry's hawks are hunting WABBITS!

[DrRamzeen]

fake , its all business!!!

[aferguson1960]

highly speculative, saying the fossil find was Proto and V. locked in combat. The odds of them both dying and being buried instantly while in combat are too fantastic to consider. More likely both animals were buried in sandstorm or by a sand dune and were simply jumbled together in what looked like a combative pose.

The strategy of the throat stab with the claw is unlikely. Requires too much precision and puts you too close to prey's mouth where one bite could mean a broken arm or leg.

[MartianSanta]

that's a stupid question! he was a small predator hunting small pray.

after all the Protoceratops is also small, about the same size of a Velociraptor.

[Entilodont]

Protoceratops: I'll be your lunch over my cold, dead body!

Velociraptor: Lol, I can go with that!

*Fight ensues*

Death: *Sighs* I don;t have time for this shit! *Pwns*

[MsDjessa]

Does anybody know the scientific name of those hawk´s.

[wratched]

@MsDjessa Parabuteo unicinctus

[thephenon724]

@MsDjessa harris hawks. they are harris hawks. hope this help

[MsDjessa]

@thephenon724 Thank you : )

[MsDjessa]

@MsDjessa I checked wikipedia, cording to it the scientific name of harris´s hawk is Parabuteo unicinctus, also cording to many other more specialized sites.

[thephenon724]

@MsDjessa you're welcome. :)

[P0int13lank138]

I think the sandstorm choking theory about how they were fossilized like that is very unlikely. If they'd been choking to death, they probably wouldn't have been in that position. :l

[SkulduggeryVos]

@P0int13lank138 True. It would have had to have been a nearly instant death. Sand storm? Probably not. Depending on the environment, possibly being crushed by an "avalanche" (if you will) of sand. We may never know.

[NeonGreenFairyJedi]

I named my Cockatiel Raptor because I love Jurassic Park/Dinosaurs and he reminds me of a Raptor/Chocobo cross-breed lol

[susumu07]

Look at 1:43 - Scutosaurus used to be mounted right behind Giraffatitan in Berlin's Natural History Museum?!?!?!? WEIRD. I though that was strictly a dinosaur hall, not a "dinosaur and permian reptile hall".

[BrontoSmilodon1]

If someone wanted to see hawks behaving like velociraptor go down the southern states of the US and watch a species of hawks hunt swamp rabbits.

[BrontoSmilodon1]

I like the mud slide idea since dinosaur planet suggested it first

[61btod]

@BrontoSmilodon1 Actually, Dinosaur Planet suggested that they were burried by a collapsing sand dune.

[BrontoSmilodon1]

@61btod oh yeah that's right thanks

[XAVIERCUERVO]

maybe wile they were fighting thunder hit near by killing them both , maybe they fought till they died ,wattever the case might be it amazes me