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Post by vincent on Sept 1, 2023 10:53:20 GMT 10
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Post by johannes on Sept 2, 2023 4:07:46 GMT 10
Acro, one of the two antagonistic species (the other is Deinonychus) in Bakker's novel Raptor Red. Being the archetypical big bad bully, the invading mated pair of Acrocanthosaurus uses larger size, bulk and brute force to terrorize the protagonist, Utahraptor. Our heroine retaliates with speed and brains, luring the female Acrocanthosaurus into deep water where it is dragged under by by a pliosaur, this might have inspired a similar pliosaur vs. theropod scene in the Walking with Dinosaurs episode A Cruel Sea, when an Eustreptospondylus (really the recycled CGI for Allosaurus, like the megaraptoran in the australian episode*) is ambushed and dragged underweater by a ridiculously oversized Liopleurodon. Not sure if Utahraptor would have been able to pull this off, it was short-legged and obviously built for power, not for speed www.deviantart.com/prehistorybyliam/art/Utahraptor-785085300 Image belongs to PrehistoryByLiam, but I'm not sure that was known to science back in those days when Gandalf
Bakker was writing his novel... *remember the life footage of a modern coati pretending to be Kollikodon? Even my date thoght that was cheap, and she was judging by the standards of the contemporary (early 2000s) horror genre, when flicks were shot with a five-digit budget in an actual basement... |
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