Picture this - the king of all dinosaurs, the Tyrannosaurus Rex, the most ferocious
beast throughout the Cretaceous Period - going head to head against a behemoth of the Serpentine
species - the most fearsome, the most gigantic creature to have ever slithered across this
planet - The Titanoboa.
Who would win - what carnage would they create - what havoc would they wreak?
Well - let’s find out.
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As always, I’ll be your disembodied floating voice Jack Finch - as today we ask the question,
What If A Titanoboa Snake Fought A T-Rex?
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There are perhaps few creatures throughout ancient history that could stand toe to toe
with either of these ultimate predators.
Granted - they existed during widely differing times on Planet Earth - and were both ferociously
adapted to their environments, but for the sake of this showdown - let’s say that these
two great monsters met face to face, in one epic battle to crown the ultimate beast of
the ancient world.
The Titanoboa - the monster snake with unparalleled power - and the Tyrannosaurus Rex - the Tyrant
King of the Dinosaurs with a bite that could decimate the most impenetrable defence.
Well the jungle is quiet - the showdown is set - and in the distance comes a mighty roar.
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Weighing in at a staggering 14 metric tons - and measuring over 40 ft in length - the
Tyrannosaurus was a bipedal carnivore like no other.
It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids - and was amongst the last non-avian dinosaurs
before the Cretaceous Paleogene mass extinction event - you know the one.
Rest in Peace Littlefoot’s Mum.
Oh - right - you mean the other one.
Yeah, that one too.
The T-Rex was tearing fools up over 68 million years ago - when everything was bigger and
much more scary - and it was stacked with a massive skull that packed its primary weapon,
it’s jaw - balanced alongside a long, heavy tail.
Relative to its large and powerful hindlimbs - the T-Rex is most famously known for it’s
- well, it’s short stubby little arms.
Don’t let them fool you though - because they were unusually and notoriously powerful
for their size, paired together with two razor-sharp clawed digits used to rip open its prey in
close combat.
This guy was the undisputed apex predator of its environment - and would often feast
upon hadrosaurs - armoured herbivores like ceratopsians and possibly sauropods.
The fact that its prey are some of the most well-armoured dinosaurs known is pretty telling
- the T-Rex was well fed - put it that way.
There are also reports that suggest the Tyrannosaurus was a pack animal - suggesting that the T-Rex’s
large brain-to-body size proportion was indicative of it being up to six times more intelligent
than the average dinosaur.
Which leads us to our contender - who isn’t the average dinosaur at all - but instead,
the king of all serpents.
Measuring in at over 42 ft - and weighing in at around 1100 kilograms - the Titanoboa
is the largest snake ever found - which existed around 60 million years ago - and filled the
gap as the dominant species after the dinosaurs faded from the picture.
They were expert ambush predators - and the Titanoboa flourished as the most ferocious
apex hunter on Earth for over 10 million years.
In our showdown then - the Titanoboa would be the likeliest contender to make the first
move.
If it got the jump on the T-Rex by stealthily slithering in the dense undergrowth of our
convenient battle arena, then it would have the potential of ending this showdown pretty
swiftly.
Now - the Titanoboa wasn’t a venomous snake - but like it’s Boa predecessor was a constrictor
snake.
A very large constrictor snake.
It is believed that the Titanoboa was capable of crushing it's unfortunate pray with a force
of over 400 lbs per square inch.
If it managed to wrap its entire 40 plus ft body around the T-Rex, then there is little
that the big guy could do - other than slowly, and painfully suffocate.
However - remember those short stubby arms with the two razor sharp claws at the end?
Well unfortunately for the Titanoboa - it just activated the big guy’s trap card.
Some paleontologists suggest that the reason the T-Rex maintained its arms through evolution
was as a means to slash its prey at close quarters.
They were bevelled, and deathly sharp - and were capable of exerting massive amounts of
devastating pressure.
Stature alone states that the T-Rex could cleave the Titanoboa with relative ease, even
when restrained.
And at that point - the Titanoboas only means of attack against the T-Rex would be spent.
And then the real devastation would begin.
The King Lizard could inflict up to 12800 pounds of pressure with a single bite.
That’s not all though - just a single one of it’s massive conical teeth could exert
a staggering 431 thousand pounds of pressure per square inch.
The T-Rex could cleave megaherbivores such as the Triceratops with relative ease, and
the Titanoboa would be small fry against its colossal jaws.
Hey - he’s the king for a reason.
Well there we have it questioneers - the ultimate outcome of this epic showdown, what do you
guys think?
Do you agree that the T-Rex would take down a Titanoboa with ease?
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