Weapons Used by Dinosaurs

When it came to fighting, dinosaurs did not fight like how it is often depicted on the big screen. The reality was quite different. The fights of the dinosaurs can be divided into predator battle and intra-species fight. In the predator battle, the creatures followed 'kill or be killed" rule. And, the intra-species fight was to attract the opposite sex and fight the rival.

Although the dinosaurs did not have weapons like firearms, they were dependent on their natural weapons to get food or mate.

The dinosaur weapons are divided into offensive and defensive weapons. The offensive weapons were teeth and claws which were used by the carnivorous dinosaurs, who lived on herbivores. The defensive weapons like armor plating and tail were used to by the herbivores to defend themselves from the carnivorous dinosaurs.

The offensive weapons of carnivores were primarily teeth, claws, smell and eyesight, momentum, speed and bad breath.

Teeth were used as offensive weapons by T. Rex and allosaurus, whose teeth were neither big nor sharp. They hunted for their food like the cheetahs of today. And, on the basis on analogy of the carnivorous today, the predators of the Jurassic era must have targeted the neck and the belly of the herbivores.

Some dinosaurs like Baryonyx had strong front, while some dinosaurs like Deinonychus and raptors had single curved claw which was rather lengthy. Some of the dinosaurs like troodon had big eyes to see things at far off places which helped them in hunting for the food. Some were able to smell the herbivores which were at distant places.

Momentum was the weapon of tyrannosaurs which hunted with a force that made it difficult for an herbivore to escape. The speed at which the raptors attacked the herbivores was a weapon also. Paleontologists say that the tyrannosaurs teeth had bacteria which would fatally infect the prey. Once the prey died, the tyrannosaurus would consume the prey.