Prehistoric Trauma: Insane Injuries That Dinosaurs Survived

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Doctor:"Where exactly does it hurt?" Allosaurus: "Yes"

Allosaurus: peace was never an option

I always say that Triceratops had two swords, a shield and a pair of garden shears for a face... I except some crazy stuff between them and T.rexes

pain is temporary , glory is eternal

Stan got his brain case bitten into by another T.Rex, getting his frickin' brain matter exposed to the teeth of the most powerful carnivore to ever walk the Earth, and he lived to tell the tale. That's some MAD survivability

Heard Allosaurus fragilis was named like that because of the many injured fossil individuals they found, but these guys were anything but fragile, they were true warriors able to survive the unimaginable.

The level of damage Dinos could take and live boggles the mind. And Rex seemed to take that to 11

If you want some wild stuff, look up the Gorgosaurus “Ruth”. It had a fractured lower leg bone, damaged lower jaw, infected breast/arm bone, and multiple fractures in the ribs and other bones, likely caused by falls. Investigation of the brain case indicated that the animal had abnormal growths that were likely the result of a possibly cancerous tumor that impaired her coordination.

Stan didn’t hear no bell

If you think Sue didn’t suffer that much, it also had what seems to be a horrifying disease called trichomonosis, which is found on today’s birds and is caused by the trichomonad parasite. And let me tell you, it’s not just horrifying from the inside, but also the outside with the swelling on the head. Dinosaurs were really suffering a lot these days… Also I was expecting that nutshot Allosaurus.

Oh my gosh I've actually seen Y. rex before. I was at Houston one time and I visited their museum. I remember being really confused when I saw the T. rex was missing its tail , and I was having a really hard time trying to imagine it walking without it's tail. I kind of thought it had It's tail removed after it had died by a scavenger. But the fact there's evidence that the T. rex lost its tail while it was alive and it survived, just made the species a whole lot cooler.

You know it's going to be gruesome when fractured ribs are featured on the least painful cathegory. Also, R.I.P Big Al, gone but never forgotten :'(

Allosaurus: i will eat you Stegosaurus: thagomizer? Allosaurus: ..? Stegosaurus: THAGOMIZE DEEZ NUTS

How about ROM 768, the holotype of Parasaurolophus walkeri? I've seen a recent study that showed it had a large object (likely a tree or a rock) fall on it when it was younger, breaking several neck vertebrae and fracturing the ribs. It healed, survived, and lived with the damage for years! Hadrosaurs were beasts when it came to healing.

This is why Path of titans needs to add so much more than just death scars on the skin, we need broken horns, ripped off arms and even like broken plates on the Stegos who survived intense battles-

“Nah, I’d survive.” -Allosaurus. Jokes aside, Paleopathology is, in all honesty, badass. Also, post-edit: Even I didn’t know about most of these examples. A Pachyrhinosaurus casually chilling with half of a face, or Wyrex living without a tail. Archosaurs are just built different.

Big Al was a FUCKING unit. Loved watching the documentary as a kid. Cried and became my boy after learning his story.

Ya know I recall seeing that Allosaurus with the broken jaw from Dinosaur Revolution And thinking "i doubt a dinosaur could ever survive something like that" After seeing half the stuff on this list I'm suddenly very convinced that not only could it happen, it likely did we just don't have the proof. Seriously next they're gonna find proof of a Dino that lost a leg but just kept living its life cause let's face these guys literally were so hardy it took a force not of this planet to kill em

Imagine being a daspletosaurus,gorgosaurus or teratophoneus AND SEE A PACHYRHINOSAURUS WITH HALF ITS FACE COMPLETELY GONE Edit:nom look im famous