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    Quote Originally Posted by Doorhandle View Post
    Related: I remember a scientific paper that posited that they were actually an anti-Ceratopsian specialist, and they had the highest bite strength of any carnosaur. But I will note that very few predators would actually pass up carriorn.

    Also, prey species that are highly poisonous tend to be brightly colors, so predators realise they're poisonous and leave them alone. This may just be me being gonzo, but I am highly amused by a) the idea of poisonous carnosaurs and b) a predator big enough to regularly target carnosaurs.
    I think is true that there was a healed Triceratops as well as a healed hadrosaur bone found, with bite marks suggestive of T. rex.

    Quote Originally Posted by Lvl 2 Expert View Post
    Quick question: what's the definition of carnosaur here? Because that last bit about poisonous carnosaurs hunting other carnosaurs by being big confuses me. It's about meat eating theropods?
    I presume they're using ye olde definition that just meant "big theropods".

    The modern definition just refers to allosauroids (since T. rex is not an allosauroid, I presumed it was the old term they were using, for convenience)

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carnosauria
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