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Dilophosaur Venom?
Topic Started: Aug 25 2011, 01:15 PM (3,217 Views)
dialforthedevil
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This piscivorous idea of Dilophosaurus is rather entralling I agree, but perhaps it was more of a beach comber? It seems to nimble to be a fish eater unlike other dinosaurs like Baryonyx or Suchomimus. A beach comber on the other hand needs to be quick and its jaws don't need to be strong, feeding off crabs, dead carcasses, pterosaurs, turtles and other beach detritus.
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I've always thought that if the Silo didn't have venom, but rather had something like poisonous srool, in that it wasn't delivered by injection, but by smearing it on prey. I iamgine it like this. Dilo catches small mammal. Mammal gets covered in drool. Mammal goes numb from being smeared in the drool, and stops fighting back. Dilo chows down.
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Mammal goes numb from being smeared in the drool, and stops fighting back. Dilo chows down.
Which is better than Dilophosaur bites down, mammal dies instantly, how?
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I don't get why a piscivore can't be nimble.
Maybe if someone did a project where they shoved a Dilo population into an otherwise marine-creatured planet...
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How do we know they lived by the sea?
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I just have random ideas like that. I was planning to do something similar, except with marine iguanas...
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Even if they did not live by the sea, they could still eat fish. If their were large enough rivers and lake they could live deep inland.
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Mebbe. Well, I've contributed enough random things to this topic; My work here is done. See ya!
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Its just beach combing animals tend to be more nimble because they have to avoid both rough tides and scramble rocks. Meanwhile river hunting creatures tend to be much more bulky as they can just stand in the river and wait.
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Here are my guesses for their skin colours.

If they're a beach combing scavenger, then I guess they'd have a sandy colouration.

If they're a river going fish hunter, then I'd guess a mossy color, with a lot of dark brown.

If they were venomous, then I'd guess they had heavy duty camo.

speaking of which, do we know what kind of habitat they had?
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Aug 26 2011, 06:04 PM
hold the phone...dinosaurs (might of) had lips?
Lips are useful. They keep all that food from falling out of your mouth, and let you manipulate it better. And what's the point of having such big teeth if you can't bare them at rivals and predators?
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What sort of fossil beds are Dilophosaurs normally found in, by looking at their contemporaries we will be able to tell what habitat they lived in.
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Just found out, it apperantly lived near rivers, it may have lived like a bear.
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Aug 30 2011, 04:54 PM
Just found out, it apperantly lived near rivers, it may have lived like a bear.
In that 90+% of it's food was plant based?

Bipedal dinosaurs wouldn't stand in rapids for a multitude of reasons if that's what you meant.
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