It will be interesting to see if there are any actual signs of the supposed conflict between these two individuals. It may be some common cause like sudden flooding put them together…otherwise must have been a literal fight to the simultaneous death.
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How do we know they were not making love instead of war?
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Or maybe they just failed to socially distance?
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Don’t make me dinoshame you…
Apparently not without precedent!
Of course we all know that’s a Deinonychus, really. A weirdly bald Deinonychus.
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Shuck forgot to say “a time-traveling stegosaurus.” It’s all good.
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It’s a classic movie matchup, but I had the impression that I once read that it couldn’t have happened due to period mismatches. Curse my memory’s sudden but inevitable betrayal!
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Triceratops (and its cousins) were contemporaneous and on the same continent (the current continents were mostly established by the end of the Cretaceous) with T. rex, and along with various hadrosaurs would have probably been T. rex’s primary prey: for whatever reason there were few to no long-necked sauropods in North America at the time, and stegosaurs were completely extinct: it is thought that they were cycad specialists, and with their significant decrease with the rise of conifers and then flowering plants there just weren’t enough of them to support the group. Ankylosaurs were also in the same place and time: probably the most T. rex-proof solution.
Alternately, Allosaurus and Stegosaurus were a classic and legitimate Jurassic matchup, and Allosaurs have been found with thagomizer wounds. Apatosaurus, Brachiosaurus, Diplodocus and Brontosaurus (recently returned from taxonomic oblivion) were all also Jurassic creatures, and would never have met T. Rex, but the equal in size Giganotosaurus would have lived along side the largest of the sauropods, the titanosaurs in South America.
Another Jurassic only dinosaur was Archeopteryx. By the Cretaceous birds (some still with teeth) were a well established sub-family of the therapods. So the T. rex vs. Triceratops battle might well have taken place with ducks hanging out in the background.
I have a four-year-old.
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The other great cliché of dino illustrations from my youth is a t-rex vs. a stegosaurus. All three is the hat trick, anachronisms be damned!
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T. Rex and T. Tops, ostracized for their forbidden love and finally cornered by the Dino Police, cried out, “You’ll never take us alive, Copper!”; and so they died, as they lived, side by side.
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Hate to be “that guy” but all 3 of you are wrong, stegosaurus survived much longer than you think, in fact all the way into the Caveman Era. This confirmed by no less than the Smithsonian Institute gift shop.
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Ha ha ha, yikes. (Is this what happens when the museum gift shop is stocked by a creationist?)
I do have a fondness for the dinosaur books of my youth, where all manner of creatures would get slapped onto a single page - despite coming from different eras and including animals that weren’t even dinosaurs.
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I did a search for this item and found the entire history of this stegosaurus model
A few years before this version, the caveman with the rock was featured on the box top. At some point they removed him from the cover but not the kit.
A few year after this version, the caveman was back on the box, with a “warning note” that humans did not exist at the same time, and the caveman is included for “to show their size compared to the dinosaur” even though that kit includes at least 3 humans and a tiger.
And a few years after that, the caveman was still on the cover of the box, but without explanation.
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The best bit of that comic is that paleontologists, realizing that part of the stegosaurus didn’t have a name, actually started calling it the “thagomizer.” That’s now the (semi-) official name.
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