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So how 'bout that Saurophaganax/Allosaurus information?

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Amphibia understands that the "feathered dinosaurs aren't scary" argument is bullshit.

Plus I must say that their creature designs in general are ingenious like the ant queen and the hermit crab-slash-bus.

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WWD's insanely oversized Liopleurodon ferox is infamous, and for good reason, but what doesn't get mentioned nearly as much is the other end of the scale. Ichthyosaurs were a diverse group, but some of the species from the late Triassic and early Jurassic were monstrously huge.

How huge? This huge.

Ichthyotitan is a more recent discovery, known mostly from fragmentary remains, so estimates to its size and weight are based on smaller, more complete relatives (Besanosaurus in this case), but not only show it dwarfing Pliosaurus funkei, the Pliosaur closest to the ridiculous size of WWD's Liopleurodon, but also being bigger than the oversized reconstruction as well.

It's most likely still lighter than the Blue Whale, but finding a larger specimen isn't impossible.

Ichthyotitan probably still wouldn't be dragging any unfortunate Megalosaurs down into the depths with it, though. We're not entirely sure what they ate, many of the largest Ichthyosaurs are reconstructed as being suction-feeders, similar to modern Sperm Whales, but recent finds have suggested that Shonisaurus did in fact have teeth, and big, deeply-rooted conical ones that suggest it was a macropredator, more akin to a giant, oceanic crocodile than a whale.

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The inherent eroticism of 2 dinosaurs that have absolutely nothing to do with each other and never met each other irl due to time and location constraints but a bunch hairless apes in the future pit you against each other as legendary rivals who have 500 pages of backstory

(Disclaimer the last pic is me as a kid pitting my Safari Giganotosaurus and Miragaia because they look cool plus the Miragaia is probably the most accurate dinosaur in this whole list rn)

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WWD Ankylosaur "club tail means instant death sentence" needs to make a come back. We as a whole society are ignoring how Ankylosaurs are probably like the scariest dinosaurs if you'd ever encounter one in real life in terms of accidentally or purposefully killing people.