[Did T-rexes have teeth suited for eating vegetation before the Fall?]
I doubt it. The T-rex's teeth are ideal for stripping leaves from branches. You are refusing to recognize a simple fact. Characteristics that are ideal for a carnivore can also be ideal for a vegetarian.
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Ah, yes, of course. That's why lions are always grazing, and wolves forage for berries. Then of course there are those legendary cabbage loving dingos.
Which explain why are leaf eaters today have?,,,,see how easy that is?
Lets compare T-Rex teeth to croc teeth. Clearly, they are bothe long and thin and coome to a relative point. Juding by what the croc eats (whatever it kills), I therefore judge that T-Rex had a similar diet.
That's why the teeth of a t-rex are so similar to those of a giraffe.
Oh, wait, no, they're the exact opposite to the teeth of a giraffe.
Perhaps they *are* suited to stripping the leaves (Doubtful, but maybe). There's still the little problem of *chewing*. T-rex teeth, like crocodile teeth, are NOT suited to mashing up food (be it meat or plant matter). And there are very few herbivores that would swallow whole leaves or whatnot. But large chunks of meat...
If I'm wrong, feel free to correct me.
"I doubt it. The T-rex's teeth are ideal for stripping leaves from branches."
I think you mean "flesh from bone."
"You are refusing to recognize a simple fact."
Well, it's pretty obvious that one of us is.
"Characteristics that are ideal for a carnivore can also be ideal for a vegetarian."
That would make them an omnivore, which the T-Rex was not. Omnivores have teeth that are a combination of sharp, pointy teeth of carnivores (e.g. T-Rex) and flat, broad teeth of herbivores (e.g. a cow). You know, kind of like what you have in your own mouth. Do the teeth in the mouth of a T-Rex resemble your own teeth in any way?
And the reason that they find gouges in other dinosaurs ribs where a T-rex's tooth will fit perfectly, is they were fighting over a fern?
Seriously Ken Hovind is a thief and a liar, yet you people revere him like God. Hmmm... 3 cardinal sins right there.
Do you believe that T. Rex breathed fire too?
I have to ask since you're quoting Kent Hovind.
Try consulting an actual science book sometime, You might learn something.
And no, learning is not of the Devil.
Its more than the teeth of carnivores that make them carnivores. Their entire digestive tract is such that it will extract nutrients that their body needs, but only if they eat the right things. Feed a hyena or a tiger vegetation and they will shrivel up and die young. Feed a deer or a cow meat and you will have diseased unhealthy meat from them. Even humans require a certain diet in order to be healthy, even if many of us just deal with being unhealthy.
And the herbivore bones found in fossilised Rex poop? An accident I presume. A Triceratops was scittering around in the treetops, seeking out prey (Triceratops was a fearsome carnivore, as evidenced by it's vicious flesh-tearing beak) when along came the gentle grazing Tyrannosaur and accidentally swallows the unseen carnivore with a mouthful of vegetation.
You are refusing to recognize a simple fact.
If you actually posted a real one, it wouldn't be ignored. If you keep spouting the same tired falsehoods.
Characteristics that are ideal for a carnivore can also be ideal for a vegetarian.
Uhh no. Having teeth that are for ripping flesh are just that. Citing examples: sharks, tigers, crocodiles, aligators, lions.
Vegetarian teeth: for snipping and grinding vegetable matter. Horses, cows, sheep.
How's them facts, you bonehead?
A T-rex might be able to get leaves off a branch, but to be able to digest plants, you really have to grind them- and T-rexes, unlike Apatosaurus and other herbivore dinosaurs did not have the characteristic flat grindstone teeth that even modern herbivores have. Plus, unlike herbivore dinosaurs, T-Rex was not known to swallow stones (like modern birds do) in order to grind plants, either. Fail.
Do some research. Assumptions only go so far.
What is the obsession with dinosaurs being plant eaters? According to the wholly babble god told adam that if he ate from the fobbiden fruit that he would die, so reason dictates for that command to make any sense then adam would have to have knowlege and expiriance with thing dying already....
Silly me using logic and reason...
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Yes, just ask horses how well they hunt meat with those molars of theirs. In fact, when they're starving, hay is uncessary - a healthy steak is what they crave.
The skull of the Sue t-rex was found with teeth and all, however, it had the appearance of a closed alligator's mouth. Ironically, the crocodile teeth of the same era look identical to that of the t-rex, so there may be a little bit of uncertainty here.
It is highly possible that Sue's skull was that of a large undiscovered as yet, alligator. The paleontology page says the mouth was closed from water pressure too. So a flood was involved.
T-rex might have been able to pull leaves off branches with it's teeth if it wanted to for some reason, but it could not have chewed them properly, chewing plant matter requires grinding teeth, not cutting or tearing teeth.
In short, you phail at basic anatomy.
@gerard08853
First, do you have any sources for any of this?
Second, the pressure you speak of...could it have been millennia encased below strata of earth?
T-rex as everyone knows ate coconuts. Its tall build was ideal for getting the nuts off the trees, and the very sharp teeth cracked the shell and sliced out the coconut insides.
This is shown by the vast number of t-rex fossild on tropic islands...
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