They also kill with dinosaur rage.
As some of my readers know, I used to give presentations on dinosaurs to elementary school children. The main topic was the Tyrannosaurus Rex. Was T. Rex a predator, as commonly assumed, or was it actually a scavenger?
Evidence for scavenger:
- oversized body
- prominent sense of smell
- short arms
Evidence for predator:
- Being a goddamn T. Rex
Anyway, one of our “predator” theories involved T. Rex poisoning its prey with bacteria lurking between its enormous teeth. You know, because without poisonous bacteria, it would be hard for a T. Rex to do any damage with its four-foot jaw. Looking back, that portion of the lecture was a flimsy excuse to let kids play with our crowd-pleasing cardboard T. Rex jaws. Sadly, the flimsy prop deteriorated quickly, and eventually more closely resembled an alligator. Thus, when hyperactive children stomped around with the jaws, roaring, they looked less like fearosme thunder lizards and more like understudies from a low-budget production of Peter Pan.
