
The Truth About Killer Dinosaurs
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- 2005
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What happened when
Whose blood was spilt?
And who reigned supreme?
a team of skilled engineers
will be building bio-mechancial
replicas of dinosaur weaponry.
And then they'll test them.
For the first time in 65 million years,
the true power of these
dangerous dinosaurs will be unleashed.
The terrifying predator Tyrannosaurus rex
squares up to the monstrous Triceratops...
This is a scene that's been played out
many times in the movies.
But did it every really happen?
And if these two dinosaurs did fight -
who would have been victorious?
These are questions
that have been puzzling scientists
ever since the dinosaurs
were first discovered.
And now they're using a completely new method
of research to help them find the answers:
biomechanical replicas of T rex and Triceratops.
But however futuristic the research techniques,
all investigations begin
with the ancient fossil bones....
was found just a hundred years ago.
Since then there have been
about 24 more unearthed...
Not one of them is 100% complete.
But scientists can tell a surprising amount
from the fossil bones. Like size for instance.
T rex was unquestionably huge -
forty foot long from head
When scientists look
really closely at the skeleton,
they can see where the muscles
and so flesh out T rex.
It's even possible to determine
the texture of the skin,
by studying impressions left in ancient rocks.
So, putting together the most accurate evidence,
taken from the very latest research -
meet Tyrannosaurus rex...
iconic dinosaur was huge, and fearsome.
But was he really capable of overpowering
the other big guy on the block?
Triceratops:
, three horned face,and most famous of the horned dinosaurs.
At eight tons, this would have been
some heavyweight for T rex to take on.
There are only three fossil skeletons
of Triceratops for scientists
to work on and none of these are complete.
But it's obvious from its size
and enormous skull
that this dinosaur would have made
a fearsome opponent.
So Triceratops versus T. Rex.
They both lived in North America
at the same time
but what exactly would have happened
when they met?
Until very recently,
there was absolutely no scientific proof
that they had anything to do
with each other at all.
But then Greg Erickson took a close
look at a fragment of a pelvis
from a 65 million year old Triceratops.
intriguing wound marks...
For instance, If you look here
there are some gouges along the top.
There's a really deep puncture
mark right here.
In fact if one looks all over this specimen
you'll find over 80 of these punctures
and cut marks.
These are bite marks.
Some other beast had been taking chunks
out of this Triceratops. So who was the culprit?
We have a real whodunit mystery.
Using a common forensic technique,
Greg pushes some dental putty into one of the deep
wound marks to help identify the mystery diner.
Aha, there we go,
we have a very nice cast here of the tooth.
This is a shape that is very familiar to me.
This is reminiscent of a therapod dinosaur tooth
and a very nice match for
this animal Tyrannosaurs Rex.
I think this is pretty good smoking gun evidence
that T. Rex fed on this triceratops
It's often presumed that T rex ate Triceratops,
but this is the first scientific evidence.
Though it doesn't prove
that T rex killed Triceratops.
The supposedly invincible carnivore might
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