Hey, everyone! This is Nisanth and welcome to my blog—Articklez! I have written a new story based entirely on a thrilling chase between two sibling Ankylosauruses and a T Rex.
This is a story from a long time ago. To be exact—297 years, 3 months, and 16 days before the big extinction that wiped out the dinosaurs. A herd of Triceratops was stampeding across the plain. However, this story doesn’t focus on the elephant-sized reptiles mimicking an earthquake—but it focuses on the 3 storey-tall shredder-mouthed automatic bringer of doom that spooked the poor Ceratopsians. Wanna know what it was? Here we go: your favorite… Tyrannosaurus Rex—yay!
Now if you look closely at our fine friend—whose skull would, by the way, make an ideal canoe if not for the numerous sharp teeth attached to it—you would notice a small bruise under his left eye, the tip of the tail cut off, and a broken tooth. Why the bruises? you ask… well, that’s a long story. In fact, this is that long story.
4 months and 26 days before, two sibling toddler Ankylosauruses were grazing in a forest. The brother suddenly saw a shadow slowly rising above him. Not daring to look back, he swung his tail blindly in the general vicinity of the shadow. After hearing a roar of fury and agony. The siblings began to shuffle away from there as fast as they could to escape the T Rex’s rage. Hence, the first bruise.
As the pair of Ankylosauruses ran—or at least, they tried to run—the T Rex let out a roar so loud it alarmed birds a mile away. Seething with rage, hunger, and thirst for revenge, the T Rex set off in pursuit. The siblings got a head start, but with the T Rex’s speed, it wouldn't make much of a difference.
Slowly the siblings reached the bottom of a huge canyon. The roar of the T Rex though—distant but loud—startled a herd of Titanosaurs on the top of the canyon. They suddenly began to run with a start—causing a landslide that buried both the Ankylosauruses and the T Rex.
The Ankylosauruses were saved by the bony plates on their backs. Swinging their tails to freedom, they were out in 20 minutes. Just as they were about to relax, they heard cluttering from the pile of boulders on the T Rex. He would soon be free. Realizing this, they sped off—at least as fast as a 3 ton armor plated bomb containment chamber could. After 6 hours of constant terror, they reached a peak where they saw multiple gentle beasts grazing. It was a flock of Iguanodons.
As the T Rex followed them into the herd, the spooked and strong Iguanodons began to attack him. Some used their huge thumb claws, while others tried to bite him. After one Iguanodon bit the tip of his tail off, the T Rex roaring in pain, knocked the Iguanodon out with his tail. Seeing this, the frightened Iguanodons began to stampede—knocking the T Rex flat and giving the siblings time to escape.
The pair continued to tread through the treacherous wilderness, searching for home. The sister Ankylosaur realized that the herd would have probably moved on by now, and expressed this to her brother in a series of bellows, clicks, and grunts. In despair, the two toddlers continued to traverse through the forest until they reached a huge pasture.
Seeing all the fruit and grass just waiting to be eaten, their hunger got the better of them. As they continued to chomp the plants—satiating their hunger, a rustling among the taller grass and a growl froze them in their tracks. Seeing this, the Velociraptor stalking them suddenly burst out and got on the brother Ankylosaurus’ back. Startled, the siblings began to run helter-skelter, trampling grass; while the raptor was squeaking—whether with fright or delight, nobody knows.
Finally, after 15 minutes of running, the dinos were too tired to fight and the raptor slipped from the brother’s back. Hearing a roar behind them, the two set off again.
Soon, they reached a salt pan. They had been running for some 36 hours now and they were ready to rest. But no! They had to find their herd. Little did the poor siblings know about the Giganotosaurus lurking after them. The T Rex was also on their scent. At roughly midnight (there were no clocks in the late Cretaceous), the T Rex and the Giganotosaurus were roughly 200 meters away, their paths forming a perpendicular intersection at the siblings’ position. Soon, with their potential prey in their sights, they began to run.
However—the siblings, unaware of this—began to move at their own pace. After 2 minutes, they heard the collision of their pursuer and another large predator behind them.
Having missed their prey—the T Rex and the Giganotosaurus began to duel. Now, if the Giganotosaurus had won, you and I both know this story wouldn’t continue. So, we have the victor emerging triumphant in his battle—but still hungry.
After an uneventful half a day marching through the salt pan, the siblings saw a group of Dromaeosaurids running from behind them. Looking to see what the commotion was about, they turned—but what they saw immediately made them wish they hadn’t.
The T Rex in pursuit, the pair began to run as fast as they could. After having an appetizer out of a Dromaeosaurid, the T Rex was a bit refreshed, and decided to have the siblings as the main course. But, distant bellowing signaled turning tides. It was the siblings’ herd. A group full of Ankylosaurs ready to fight the T Rex to defend their young.
After a few intense minutes of the herd and the T Rex staring each other down, the start of a showdown was signaled by the siblings’ frightened bellowing and the T Rex’s roar in response. This started another stampede, but towards the T Rex this time instead of away from him.
While the Ankylosaurs charged the T Rex, he began to roar and defend himself with his feet, tail, and teeth (but not his arms—they were too tiny). While one Ankylosaurus stepped on his foot and the others tried to club him, the T Rex tried to bite one on the back—but broke his tooth on the hard plates of the Ankylosaurus.
Frightened—the T Rex let out one deafening roar and ran away. So, it kind of makes sense that chickens evolved from dinosaurs like him—doesn’t it?!
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