r/drama: Dinosaur 🦖 of the Month: Acrocanthosaurus

Dinosaur 🦖 of the Month: Acrocanthosaurus

109 2019-09-27 by Cdace

Acrocanthosaurus is a therapod that lived during the Early Cretaceous Period about 115 million years ago. Its fossils were first discovered in Oklahoma during the 1940s. However, this discovery was largely ignored and forgotten until 1950, when J. Willis Stovall and Wann Langston, Jr rediscovered this species by finding a very large vertebrae segment. They would go on to name the dinosaur Acrocanthosaurus, a name which means “high spine lizard.” This name was chosen because it has seventeen inch spikes that travel from its neck to its tail.

Acrocanthosaurus was a fairly large carnivore that was over 40 feet long and weighed as much a 6 tons. This dinosaur also had a large head that was about 4.4 feet in length. This size advantage would allow this dinosaur to hunt some very large herbivores with a fair amount of success.

Scientist really don’t know the purpose of this dinosaur’s spines. Some paleontologists have speculated that the spines were necessary to keep the dinosaur cool by allowing it to dispose of heat like a heat sink. Other scientists believe that is was used to make the dinosaur look bigger to ward off other predators.

Since its original discovery, several fossil specimens of this dinosaur have been found in parts of Oklahoma, Texas and Utah. Tracks of this dinosaur have also been found in parts of Texas. An interesting fact is that these tracks that not only proved that this dinosaur was a fierce and agile hunter, but that it was also fairly fearless and would hunt some of the larger sauropod species. Something that therapods aren’t known for doing.

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32 comments

1 ComedicSans 2019-09-27

This is so much better than Masterlawlz's nonsense that any time you post one of these and Masterlawlz has a sticky up, tell me so I can switch yours in.

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

🦖👌

1 JustLions 2019-09-27

better than Masterlawlz's

Damning with faint praise.

1 ComedicSans 2019-09-27

so much better

Fake news.

1 SnapshillBot 2019-09-27

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1 Cdace 2019-09-27

Why snappy? 😭😭😭

1 ImJustaBagofHammers 2019-09-27

I wish I still had my copy of JPOG.

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

There is no peace only consumption. Honestly they’d both probably look for an easier meal unless there is a territory dispute

1 Kat_B0T 2019-09-27

That looks like a T. rex knock off 🤔

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

There is more than one therapod

1 Kat_B0T 2019-09-27

Cope

1 pol__invictus__risen 2019-09-27

That one is totally a shitty t-rex tho

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1 LightUmbra 2019-09-27

What's your favorite non-trex therapod?

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

Spinosaurus! One day I will be granted a Spinosaurus emoji for my service to our great overlords

1 LightUmbra 2019-09-27

I like carnotaurus

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

I might do that one next month!

1 LightUmbra 2019-09-27

Dope

1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-09-27

Really? You ready to get that controversial? Honestly I thought Horner was BTFO’d on that one. The jaws were clearly meant for fish, no way it could fight Carcharodontosaurus with a huge, highly perfused sail like that.

Still a cool Dino though.

1 trexmundi 2019-09-27

Much like there are many kinds of primates, and many kinds of eagles, there are many theopods.

And they are all eager to eat you 🦖😧🦖

1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-09-27

One of my faves tbh. There is an adult reconstruction on display somewhere, fuckers were big.

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

Oh really? You gotta let me know if you remember where it is

1 TaysSecondGussy 2019-09-27

I’ll have to google, it was loaned to some Jurassic Park traveling exhibit that hit Cinci museum way back in early 2000’s. Wanna say Chicago maybe, that could have been the Giga though. Seemed like an unusually good specimen, or cast replica of specimen or however they do it.

1 ironicshitpostr 2019-09-27

Stop falling for Satan's tricks

1 elephantofdoom 2019-09-27

1 trexmundi 2019-09-27

Awww yessssss. It's time for the big boys.

Just hit every other major species left in Raptor Red, okay?

1 Cdace 2019-09-27

will do 😂

1 Inceltiers 2019-09-27

Incel dinosaur

1 automatic_cluck 2019-09-27

The virgin dinosaur vs the chad crocodile