spinosaurus being hunted?

[Takama]

This might sound like one of those. OMG CAN SPINOSAURUS RELLY KILL A TREX. Topic. But I was thinking.   Old spiny mainly hunted fishes and other smaller cretures.  But would it be hunted by. Carcaradontosaurus?  Spinnys jaws are two weak to inflict bad damage on the old shark tooth lizard. And mybe hit I'm with the fish hook.   But in the end. Would spinny have the advantage?

[Blade-of-the-Moon]

Two adult animals I don't think would fight each other, unless they had a good reason anyway.

Both animals may have preyed on the offspring of either though.

[ZoPteryx]

Maybe occasionally, if times were tough.  But in general I think the risk involved in hunting such well armed prey like Spino would be too great.

[Dinoguy2]

This might sound like one of those. OMG CAN SPINOSAURUS RELLY KILL A TREX. Topic. But I was thinking.   Old spiny mainly hunted fishes and other smaller cretures.  But would it be hunted by. Carcaradontosaurus?  Spinnys jaws are two weak to inflict bad damage on the old shark tooth lizard. And mybe hit I'm with the fish hook.   But in the end. Would spinny have the advantage?

Nitpick alert! Char cardoon doesn't mean shark, it's the name of a kind of shark, which itself means jagged tooth. So the translation of Charcarodontosaueus could be either Jagged Toothed Lizard or Great White Shark Lizard, but Shark Toothed Lizard doesn't make sense as a translation.

Sorry for the tangent, that always bugs me

[DinoLord]

Spinosaur jaws weren't as weak as most people make them out to be. Their larger size meant that they were stronger.

[wings]

Spinosaur jaws weren't as weak as most people make them out to be. Their larger size meant that they were stronger.

Interestingly there is just a paper published on the very topic (http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065295).

[DinoLord]

Link doesn't work (for now at least), but yes I was referring to that study.

[wings]

Link doesn't work (for now at least), but yes I was referring to that study.

Not sure because it's working for me (I just checked) but you can also try this (http://www.plosone.org/article/fetchObject.action?uri=info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0065295&representation=PDF which is the pdf file itself).

Just in case if it doesn't work again, here is their conclusion (see below):

"...In conclusion, the unusual rostral morphology of spinosaurs conferred some advantage in dorsoventral bending resistance, particularly in B. walkeri, yet both species studied here were poorly equipped to resist mediolateral and torsional loads. Spinosaurus represents one of the biggest, if not the biggest theropod dinosaur, yet scaled to the size of an alligator, gharial or slender-snouted crocodilian, it performs poorly, especially in resistance to torsion. For a taxon such as Spinosaurus, the ability to feed on larger, struggling prey was not conferred by the possession of a snout that was relatively well equipped to deal with associated feeding loads, but may have been achieved by simple size-related advantages."