How Strong Was Kentrosaurus?

Galvasean

STRONG ENOUGH TO SMASH YO' FREAKIN' SKULL YOU WEAK LITTLE MAMMALIAN SACK OF FLESH!!!!!!
http://www.palaeo-electronica.org/blog/?p=338

I think Dinosaur Tracking Blog summed it up well enough:

As it turns out, Kentrosaurus was a heavy hitter. According to Mallison’s models, the spikes at the tip of the dinosaur’s tail could have hit their target at a top speed of over 40 meters per second, and Kentrosaurus could have swung its tail at a speed in excess of 10 meters per second in a 75 degree arc. “At this speed,” Mallison writes, “the spikes could penetrate deeply into soft tissues or between ribs and were able to shatter bones.” He adds: “Penetrating impacts at 10 m/s created forces greater than those sufficient to fracture a human skull.” Ouch.

Image from Enchantedlearning.com

Adam Khor

Galvasean wrote: »

STRONG ENOUGH TO SMASH YO' FREAKIN' SKULL YOU WEAK LITTLE MAMMALIAN SACK OF FLESH!!!!!!
http://www.palaeo-electronica.org/blog/?p=338

I think Dinosaur Tracking Blog summed it up well enough:



Image from Enchantedlearning.com

As if that was any surprising. Any animal that size would reduce the strongest man in the world to mince meat in a heart beat- plus, holes in the bones of large theropods from Jurassic NA have been found that seem to have been caused by stegosaur thagomizers.

Galvasean

Adam Khor wrote: »

thagomizers.

Love that word.

Alvin T. Grey

GO LARSON!

Manach

Note to self, for future time-travel trips bring more RPGs.