Whats wrong with dinosaur reconstruction?
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yes in a way. Its upper jaw teeth are extremly sharp. The jaw can open very wide to get the lower jaw out of the was. It hammered its head down into the meat and sliced through it. The neck was extremly powerful. It was very effective method.
When did they start classifying chickens under the Spinosaurus genus?
Aves are part of the Maniraptora. Maniraptora are Theropods. Spinosauridae are also Theropods.
however the bone rod will likely break before it twists. if this strike is like an axe as you mentioned above then it is a brief application of heavy pressure. to twist you need a more gradual force applied. what i see is spinosaurus was a big fisher that likely would have stolen kills from other predators on occasion. it would indimidate smaller predators to steal kills to supplement its diet. Charcs on the other hand were built to run down and take out large slow moving prey or much smaller prey by out maneuvering it and giving a fast blow to a weak spot. Charc was likely superior agility wise and would have won slightly more frequently then a spino if they fought but the danger of such a confrontation would likely lead these creatures to avoid each other unless desperate
When did they start classifying chickens under the Spinosaurus genus?
Same suborder/clade rather than genera.
I think Carachs did bite on by slice a flesh out thanks to the sharp edges on teeth...easily to slice a flesh and it can causes massive blood loss that way. This predator was evolved to hunting large animals. However there are zero evidence that Carachs hammered on a sauropod like a smilidon does. I was thinking of similar killing methods to the great white sharks can be compared to Carachs.
for once i have to defend the OP. while carcharodontosaurus has no evidence supporting this behaviour we see this in earlier smaller relatives like allosaurus, much like comparing how dire wolves would have hunted by looking at gray wolves. Considering they are from the same lineage it is reasonable to assume the hunting stratagies were similar.
The great white shark is probably a better example than the Smilodon;the Smilodon was simply the first animal that came to mind that attacked "hammer style." That's definitely a good comparison, too, considering that they're named after the shark genus Carcharodon due to their similar teeth.
Theropoda isn't a genus...
This is what I was pointing out.
