Death Raser's got nothin on his cousin here

[LordGale]

members.aol.com/Dinoplanet/theriz.html

Wow. That's not very threatening at all. Any thoughts?

[gojulasprime23]

The problem with the Therizinosaurus is that only a few bones of the entire skeleton have actaully been discovered. The skull, neck, back and hips are based on hypothosis based on similar dinosaurs (Erlikosaurus and Segnosaurus). Because of this, reconstructions vary, sometimes drasticly. That first version is the least threatening version I've seen. Check these other versions out:

www.lindemaenner.de/main_pics/popups/andere_dinos/page/image45.html

www4.tpgi.com.au/users/amcgann/dinosaurs/graphics/dinosaurs/drawings/tnTherizinosaurus.jpg

and my favorite:



It's a shame that Death Raser dosen't look a bit like any of these. It would have been a nice change from the usual theropod design. It's obvious that Tomy just wanted to have an excuse to use really big claws:(

[Angelxero]

Tch, ouch my head!

Therizinosaurus is supposed to be carnivores instead of being labled as herbivores.


-Angelxero...

[gojulasprime23]

Angelxero said:

Tch, ouch my head!

Therizinosaurus is supposed to be carnivores instead of being labled as herbivores.


-Angelxero...

Who called it a herbivore? I doubt it was peeling bannanas with those claws!

[Colodie]

A quick internet search shows that most think it either ate bugs (used the claws to rip open termite nests), ate plants (used them like a giant sloth), and a few say it was a carnivore.

But as your said, there are so few remains so it's probably impossible to say for sure.

Also this might be better off being moved, as it looks like it's veering more towards general dinosaur talk.

[Tyrannotaur]

Therizinosaurus is an interesting specimen at that.

I always thought it's claws where for self defense, much like Stegosaurus's tail. I remeber seeing this picture in one of my dino books that had a pack of Therizinosaurus fending off.. I think they where Albertosaurus's with their claws..I'll check throught my books if I'm not too lazy.

[FengLong]

I think I've seen the picture your refering to on the internet, and I'm pretty sure they are Tarbosaurus. Albertasaurus was in North America, but Therizinosaurs are mostly found in Asia, especially the Therizinosaurus. Tarbosaurus, on the other hand, are also from Asia.

[Transbot9]

Hmm...those claws do seem more like salid slicers or ditch diggers rather than something that could slice through bone. On carnivorous dinosaurs the best cutting instruments are usually in the head or hind legs, in such a way they can put some power into the rending of flesh.

[Chuckles]

Most scientist believe that this creature had a carnivorous ancestry, but eventually evolved into a herbivore without losing such useful talons for self defense; but who knows? As stated, not enough fossil evidense . . . for now.

[MatrixGeno]

FengLong said:

I think I've seen the picture your refering to on the internet, and I'm pretty sure they are Tarbosaurus. Albertasaurus was in North America, but Therizinosaurs are mostly found in Asia, especially the Therizinosaurus. Tarbosaurus, on the other hand, are also from Asia.

if you say that it is found in asia then it would be most likely to be abit feathered. asia is finding more new species of dinosaures most of them which are feathered dinos. but theres no evidence..

[FengLong]

Hmm...the news is going around that almost all therapods were probably feathered sometime in their life later into the cretaceous, but it was prominent in young ones and smaller dinos. As they got bigger, it is thought they generally lost feathers. This of course, is just a theory. It probably can't be proven because rarely do baby therapods get fossilized in imprint style. The other possibility is that all/most therapods are covered in feathers but since they are so massive they don't leave imprints of their skin too often, although I forget if any of the fossilized sking imprints belong to predatory dinosaurs.