Dave Hone
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So we mentioned a couple of other things like Giganotosaurus, so this giant carnivore.
If you put Giganotosaurus T. rex in...
That's the one.
So that's on my old blog.
It's not my image.
What are we looking at on the left and the right?
So you've got T-Rex on the left in orange and Giganotosaurus on the right in red.
As I said, they're pretty similarly sized.
But just look at the robusticity.
Like the front of the snout of T-Rex is all bone.
And yet the major opening, this is a thing called the antorbital fenestra, the opening in front of the orbit, is absolutely massive in Giganotosaurus.
It's like half the skull.
The opening at the back of the skull is much bigger.
The opening in the lower jaw is much bigger.
And actually the jaw, what you can't see side to side is much thinner.
So the heads are the same size.
And as animals, they are about the same linear dimensions.
But you can just see there's just way more bone.
Yeah.
The T-Rex.