T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger

[Rahul]

On the African plains only the Cheetah limits itself to hunting alone.

So if a Cheetah comes across a freshly killed Gazelle carcass he'll just turn his nose up and walk on by?

[Gawdzilla]

I don't think T Rex were just scavengers, I can't deny they fed on the old blues stuff but I think he/they added something.

A scavenger T Rex raiding a nest could bite a defending duckbill parent and still retain its scavenger status.

No one better come out and say dinos didn't defend their nests because I watched the land before time movies.

The problem is Horner is an absolutist, T. rex was solely a scavenger according to him.

[Doubting Thomas]

So which of Noah's children did papa and mama T rex eat?

To a T-Rex Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives would have presented just a light meal.

According to the YEC's, all animals were vegetarians until the flood. So when exactly did they turn into meat eaters? While boarding the ark? While riding on the ark? Or as soon as they disembarked? Either way, it would have been pretty scary for Noah & family getting the two T-Rex's off the boat, not to mention having to hide from them until they died out.

Then how do you keep the T-Rex's from eating all the tasty mammals that also got off the boat and making them extinct forever? Is that what happened to the unicorns?

[Rahul]

According to the YEC's, all animals were vegetarians until the flood. So when exactly did they turn into meat eaters? While boarding the ark? While riding on the ark? Or as soon as they disembarked?

I thought YEC's believed that carnivorous animals came into meat eating after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. After original sin and all that.

[Anomalocaris]

Oh, yes. How can I forget. T. rex were created with bananas stuck in their gums. Only with the expulsion from Eden were those bananas ossified into teeth.

[max-greece]

On the African plains only the Cheetah limits itself to hunting alone.

So if a Cheetah comes across a freshly killed Gazelle carcass he'll just turn his nose up and walk on by?

I don't know how often that happens. I expect whatever killed the gazelle - ate it. Cheetahs aren't strong enough to fight any of the other carnivores off a kill. Its the price of being built for speed.

[Minimalist]

According to the YEC's, all animals were vegetarians until the flood. So when exactly did they turn into meat eaters? While boarding the ark? While riding on the ark? Or as soon as they disembarked?

I thought YEC's believed that carnivorous animals came into meat eating after Adam and Eve were kicked out of the Garden of Eden. After original sin and all that.

Correct, Rahul.

YEC is a special kind of stupid!

[Anomalocaris]

So if a Cheetah comes across a freshly killed Gazelle carcass he'll just turn his nose up and walk on by?

I don't know how often that happens. I expect whatever killed the gazelle - ate it. Cheetahs aren't strong enough to fight any of the other carnivores off a kill. Its the price of being built for speed.

Anything else that could have freshly killed a gazelle is likely to be able to kill any Cheetah who tries to steal the gazelle.

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So which of Noah's children did papa and mama T rex eat?

To a T-Rex Noah, his wife, their sons and their wives would have presented just a light meal.

Junk food doesn't count as meal.

[bladevalant546]

I thought they had evidence while back that the T-Rex was an ambush hunter? I always was taught through several of my paleontology books that it was.

[Rahul]

I thought they had evidence while back that the T-Rex was an ambush hunter? I always was taught through several of my paleontology books that it was.

The current theories go back and forth. Like apples. I've read about 20 articles saying apples cause cancer. I've also read about 20 articles saying apples actually help prevent cancer.

It bounces back and forth. It's a lot of guesswork and the experts debating back and forth.

The experts will probably still be debating how T-Rexes hunted 500 years from now.