Durability and endurance to pain and injury ~

[Venomous Dragon]

Feb 13, 2016 15:42:48 GMT 5 Vodmeister said:

Jan 23, 2016 6:35:29 GMT 5 Ceratodromeus said:

If those are really crocodile bitemarks indented in that tail, I'm surprised that it lived to tell the tale.

im not

[Supercommunist]

"A 7-foot-long alligator was reported (Thursday 4/28) with a horrendous wound in its side. A bite from a larger alligator seemed to be the cause. When I went out to the park the following Sunday (5/1) I found the alligator. When I first encountered it, it was moving leisurely in the water, showing no sign of discomfort--except for large amounts of water being expelled periodically from its side. It later came ashore, and I got a better look. The images below show this wound, and what appears to be the surface of a lung, inflating and deflating. Although this is a huge wound, we would NOT make an effort to repair the alligator. Generally, it is park policy to remain uninvolved in the natural events at the park.

Crocodilian master race.

[Supercommunist]

[Infinity Blade]

Oh my god.....that's a tough boar.

I wonder what caused the injury in the first place.

[Supercommunist]

Got shot apparently.

[Supercommunist]

[Ceratodromeus]

"This is Leroy. He is an American Alligator that was rescued after taking Boat Prop to the face.
He lost his top lip, left front foot and the end of his tail. But he still can survive with assistance. I asked what they are going to do with him once he gets to his full size of over 12 ft and they said they think about that when the time comes!"


rickshawusa.blogspot.com/2010/01/reed-bingham-state-park-pictures.html

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This is what immortality looks like:

[spartan]

Don't these things just live for about one year when they don't enter cryptobiosis?

[Supercommunist]

[Infinity Blade]

Gorgosaurus that survived a broken leg.

www.mcgill.ca/redpath/ressources/factsheets/gorgosaurus

Didn't Sue also have a broken fibula? Wikipedia's page claims that CT scans showed no fracture in it, but it provides no citation for this claim.

[theropod]

Sue has a massive exostosis on its left fibula, so very clearly pathological, but not necessarily a fracture.

Brochu (2003) seems to consider it to be more likely another case of the osteomyelitis that’s widespread in Sue’s skeleton, though of course that doesn’t really rule out a fracture.
Rothschild & Molnar 2008 state it to be a fracture in Figure 17.3. Neither work seems to have scanned it though. Which is really a shame since both made use of X-rays and CTs elsewhere…

I’ve read repeated claims about a CT scan, but could not find a study to go with them.

Brochu, C. A. 2003. Osteology of Tyrannosaurus rex: insights from a nearly complete skeleton and high-resolution computed tomographic analysis of the skull. Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology 22 (sup4): 1–138.
Rothschild, B. M., Molnar, R. E., Larson, P. and Carpenter, K. 2008. Tyrannosaurid pathologies as clues to nature and nuture in the Cretaceous. Tyrannosaurus rex, the Tyrant King. Indiana University Press, Bloomington: 287–304.

[Supercommunist]

[Infinity Blade]

davesdinosaurs.org/2018/03/18/prehistoric-pit-stop-at-the-black-hills-institute-of-geological-research/stan-t-rex-5/

Oh, and by the way, some 3-D scans of Sue's skull revealed something interesting about the holes in its skull. While the placement of the holes was inconsistent with a single bite from another Tyrannosaurus, the holes apparently taper from the outside in (which is the kind of puncture you'd expect a tooth to make), casting doubt on the notion that a Trichomonas-like protozoan was responsible for them. I suppose, then, that multiple bites from another Tyrannosaurus caused these holes.

www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170705164501.htm

[Supercommunist]

There was a violent struggle lasting a few minutes (above, below). The leathery scaly skin saved the lizard as the dogs were unable to bite through and abandoned it.

www.besgroup.org/2016/12/29/stray-dogs-attacked-malayan-water-monitor/