hello there sirs,

i would like to say that i really appreciate your dedicated work on this subject and think that answering these questions is a great thing youre doing. would you consider answering this question for me though, and im sure youve heard it many times...

spinosaurus could kill a t-rex i believe, am i right? looking at the message boards it seems as though many people feel this is incorrect, however i think they are just used to thinking t-rex baddest boy around. couldnt it be true that spinosaurus could defeat the t-rex? also in the movie they started fighting right away. i know they were seperated by millions of years and continents, but if they did step toe to toe by chance i believe it wouldve gone more like a traditional fight between two male lions. they would maybe growl, and get the fight over with before any real damage happened because one of them would have probably backed off, right?

could give me some specs on spinosaurus? ive been a dino fan since i was a kid....i loved all the old movies, like valley of the gwangi, etc.....i used to love t-rex, but my love for modern crocs and alligators has made me absolutely love spinosaurus.

also i am an avid researcher in the field of cryptozoology. do you believe that pterosaurs and apatosaurus could still be around in remote areas? there are eye witnesses to pterosaurs even being around in south texas. what do you think?
from SpinosaurusFanForLife, age ?, ?, ?, ?; July 27, 2001

TOM: Check out the JPI Dinosaur Field Guide for some of the specs on Spinosaurus. As I've said before, both Spinosaurus and Tyrannosaurus were deadly dinosaurs, and either one could kill the other.

As you say, it is quite likely that many carnivorous dinosaurs would challenge each other visually and with sound rather than attack tooth and claw right away.

Accepting that sauropods and pterosaurs are still alive should be a matter of evidence, not belief. Sad to say, the so-called evidence of their survival is solely as eyewitness testimony. However, eyewitnesses also say that they see Elvis Presley is still alive and working at K-Mart or whatever. Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence: so bringing fresh pterosaur bones from outside of Brownsville would do a whole lot better than some eyewitnesses. (Incidentally, as JP3 and similar shows have shown, even video or photographic evidence can be questioned, because of how good special effects have become).