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T-rex actually could swim

posted 11 years ago by CharlesVariations
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They found out sometime around 2007 that Tyrannosaurus rex could actually swim so Sharp tooth should have been waiting for them at the bottom of that hill when they thought everything was okay.
Some of you might say it was the rock that killed him that doesn't seem likely since he fell down a large hole and was "knocked out" for some period of time so why should some rock being pushed on him be any better?

Either way, Littlefoot's logic was "He can't swim with those scrawny arms."

Scrawny arms or not, Sharptooth could swim and he should have been able to and they would have walked down from that hill and turn the corner and boom sharptooth is right there, making them lunch.

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[–] hot_stove 11 years ago

Some of you might say it was the rock that killed him that doesn't seem likely since he fell down a large hole and was "knocked out" for some period of time so why should some rock being pushed on him be any better?

Because unlike the first time after the earthquake, the rock knocked him out underwater, causing him to drown.

[–] gettheetoashrubbery 10 years ago

Also you say it was discovered in 2007. Almost 20 years after the movie was released...

[–] CharlesVariations 10 years ago

Lol well yeah I know that, I wasn't pointing it out as a plot hole. They didn't know at the time.

Only people with money say that money doesn't matter.

[–] PreachCaleb 10 years ago

Either way, Littlefoot's logic was "He can't swim with those scrawny arms."

Maybe, but the plan was also to push a huge rock onto him. A boulder that size would weigh much more than Sharptooth.

Can't stop the signal.

[–] watcher101 9 years ago

Undeniable proof the T-Rex could swim: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m-AP1yc_oJY

[–] i_love_evanesence 9 years ago

Was he a t-rex? I heard sharptooth was some other animal. Apparently the dinosaur was a third of the size of sharptooth but still.

T-rexes don't have them horns I think.

[–] poseidon_simons 8 years ago

yeah if you watch a reptile swim they dont use their arms but their tails