Stalked! by fireangel
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Description
Albert here has become separated from his herd, and is now being stalked. He is trying to catch up with the herd but may have to rely on his size and the mighty swing of his tail for defense. With that tail alone weighing at least eight tons even the massive predator now following him would suffer fatal damage if hit by it.
Alamosaurus, Hell Creek Modules, Magnolia Trees, Mesozoic plants and Tyrannosaurus Rex from DAZ, plants credited below from good old Renderosity. Sky HDR from Poly Haven. Yes, you read that right; wild magnolia first grew on the Earth roughly 95 million years ago, so many dinosaurs would have seen it.
All rendered in Blender 4.0.2.
Comments (2)
lwperkins
Apparently TRex was fairly smart as well as speedy! Let's hope Albert can get a tail swing in time!
fireangel
Yeah I read an article some years back that resulted from a CT scan of several T. Rex skulls. The brain-case was significantly larger than most creatures of their size, and had particularly large olfactory and auditory centres, suggesting that they had a fine sense of smell and excellent hearing. The cochlear chamber was also large and refined in shape, making it likely that they had particularly good low-frequency hearing — great for picking up footfalls!
The visual centres were also large, with a fatter optic nerve than any other land carnivore of their era. They also had more overlap between their eyes' fields of view than any other Theropod — 55 degrees which is more than a hawk has — and larger eyeballs than most, suggesting excellent vision — and no, keeping still would not have helped...
So, smarter than most creatures of its era, with an excellent sense of smell, superb hearing and fantastic eyesight. Oh, and probably the highest bite strength of any land animal that ever lived.
I am really glad there aren't any in my neighbourhood!
RodS
Things here could become pretty tense in a hurry! An 8-ton tail.... That could definitely ruin t-rex's day.
Fantastic work on this!