The Defenders

[kranapan]

They've still got skin on them, and it can't exactly be pleasant for the stego can it?

[koiboi59]

it probably would have had bloodvessels in those plates so the velociraptor could just cut it and it would bleed like crazy.

[kranapan]

Yeah, well come on, they're for display: they'll be packed with them, that's gonna hurt like ****.

[koiboi59]

so we're all agreed they were useless against any carnivore right?

[seth98]

Not EVERY predator, I still think it could break the jaw of a raptor or other predator that doesn't have Tyrannosaurus' crushing bite, making me thing only T-Rex could break that plate.

[koiboi59]

umm no. many other dinosaurs could at least scratch it causing it to bleed a lot. it doesn't need to be ripped off, just a few cut and bites and that thing will bleed, no matter what predator.

[skowdey]

There will be many preadators in the world of Dinosauria, but not all are defensless there are a few herbivores in the game that have protective strategies, and here they are.

Stegosaurus-defenses-tail spikes,plates(for warning to attackers)
Parasauralophus-defenses-crest(for warning heard)
Ankylosaurus-defenses-tail club,body armor
Triceratops-defenses-frill ,horns




Even the greatest predators would think twice before attaking these tough vegatarians.

i dont think andy will put very much detail into it
it probably wont be much more than a minor attack animation

[dinosaurman]

I think that the amoured guy no carnivore would stand a chanse agenst is Ankylosaurus (unless they figure out a way to expose of soft underbelly).

[Bear Pigs]

Personally I think stegosaurus would have been more aggressive then we thought because it has a huge weakness . It's plates had grooves in them, which means the had blood vessels in them. If a predator took a bite out of the plates the animal would easily die of blood loss. In order to stop this it would to have been extremly aggressive, used it's tail a lot more, and would have been able to make a quick escape (most scientist agree that stegosaurs were capable of galloping like a horse).

[seth98]

Personally I think stegosaurus would have been more aggressive then we thought because it has a huge weakness . It's plates had grooves in them, which means the had blood vessels in them. If a predator took a bite out of the plates the animal would easily die of blood loss. In order to stop this it would to have been extremely aggressive, used it's tail a lot more, and would have been able to make a quick escape (most scientist agree that stegosaurs were capable of galloping like a horse).

If that is the the case with stegosaurus, we also have to assume that they might have lived in mating pairs or small herds, even with that tail, a lot of predators can get through it, and since stegosaurus has no defense near the front of the body, it would always have another stegosaurus there to defend it, so that way, they weren't killed every day in their prehistoric world.

[Bear Pigs]

That makes a lot of sense, but thier isn't any scientific evidence that they grouped together in herds. So they probably ONLY defended each other in mated pairs.

[ChanGuy]

Personally I think stegosaurus would have been more aggressive then we thought because it has a huge weakness . It's plates had grooves in them, which means the had blood vessels in them. If a predator took a bite out of the plates the animal would easily die of blood loss. In order to stop this it would to have been extremly aggressive, used it's tail a lot more, and would have been able to make a quick escape (most scientist agree that stegosaurs were capable of galloping like a horse).

i never heard about the theory that it could gallop like a horse, in fact i heard the opposite from most scientists. galloping normaly requires both front legs and back legs to be about the same length. But stegosaurus has front legs much shorter than the hind legs. it would be as ackward for a stegosaurus to gallop as a human . For what ive heard is stegosaurus could only run about as fast as an elephant and that its long back legs made it easy for the stego to turn its body keeping the tail close to the atacker

[Bear Pigs]

Personally I think stegosaurus would have been more aggressive then we thought because it has a huge weakness . It's plates had grooves in them, which means the had blood vessels in them. If a predator took a bite out of the plates the animal would easily die of blood loss. In order to stop this it would to have been extremly aggressive, used it's tail a lot more, and would have been able to make a quick escape (most scientist agree that stegosaurs were capable of galloping like a horse).

i never heard about the theory that it could gallop like a horse, in fact i heard the opposite from most scientists. galloping normaly requires both front legs and back legs to be about the same length. But stegosaurus has front legs much shorter than the hind legs. it would be as ackward for a stegosaurus to gallop as a human . For what ive heard is stegosaurus could only run about as fast as an elephant and that its long back legs made it easy for the stego to turn its body keeping the tail close to the atacker

Oh, I didn't know that. But I saw in a picture that a stegosaur was running in a horse-like position and that a very close relative (A.K.A. Kentrosaurus) had hoof like feet. I also saw that stegosaur where actually thinner then in popular culture.

[dinosaurman]

Guys what about Ankylosaurus?

[seth98]

Guys what about Ankylosaurus?

Well, it's defenses are superior to any other animal on land, it wouldn't need much help so they probably also lived in only mating pairs, they were almost impossible to kill by most predators, and definitely indestructible by predators like a raptor, which could be crushed if it tried to get under the dinosaur that weighed about 10 tons (I don't know much about ankylosaurus) so I believe ankylosaurus hardly ever had to worry about any life threatening attacks, especially if they lived in pairs, so, I think that ends it on ankylosaurus?