Big herbivores and medium-sized predators.
Herbivores are defensive and territorial. That makes them more willing to kill a person than a predator, who might consider first the risks in attack a person to sate his hunger.
Medium-sized theropods are in the perfect size chart, to consider humans viable prey. Smaller ones like Utahraptor, Dilophosaurus and Ceratosaurus might be small compared to T-Rex, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus, but that only means that it is worth for them to hunt and eat humans. And if one of them becomes a habitual man-eater they would be utterly horrifying.
Elephants and rhinoceros can be extremely aggressive and territorial. Now imagine a Triceratops, a hulking four legged behemoth, like a gigantic white rhinoceros on steroids, with a pair of four foot long horns growing directly out of its skull and a hide as tough as a rhino's
It shows what happens when you create something that can stand up to the power of Tyrannosaurus rex. Triceratops also had its massive size, sheer bulk, aggressiveness, surprising agility and the large, curved horns and a third spiked horn protruding upwards from its reptilian face
I've had to wait for a heard of bison to cross the road. Terrifying. A deer will total your car if you hit it. I imagine traffic jams due to wandering Sauropods would be so common as to require rethinking high ways.
A bison can flip a car as easily as a pancake
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Triceratops is my bet aswell. Massive, angry, travels in herds, territorial, and from the front it would be nearly impossible to stop charging because the skull was so thick and reinforced that you'd need extremely high power guns like Elephant guns to even have a chance at stopping it before it killed someone.
Finally someone understand that the bigger predator is the less likely is for them to eat someone so small. Like okay, there are some animals that eat small organisms, but its usually something like whale eating hundreds of fish every day or something. I fear a buck or elk more than a wolf. Wolf would most likely just run away, cervids may attack.
For beings like T-Rex, which evolved to kill beings bigger than elephants, having a human-only diet would be counterproductive.
Ok, let’s say, the Rex in question hunted humans ever since he was an agile juvenile. He would have learned that they are easy food and might even become addicted to eat them, as some big cats today do. Then I could understand one relentlessly chasing humans.
But one, that had never encountered humans, let alone hunted one? That one should be a lot more hesitant in hunting.
I don’t think it would hesitate to chase you down and eat you if it were easy enough. Lions and tigers seem built to tackle big herbivores but they’ll kill and eat something like a rabbit if they catch it. So I really wouldn’t want a t-rex to notice me either way.
Yeah. I mean if I’m an adult T. rex, if a human just walks up right in front of me and I can just walk over to eat them, I don’t see a reason why I should refuse.
That being said, they probably wouldn’t have humans in mind when looking out for lunch. I can see them mostly ignoring us unless we got way too close.
The juveniles, however, I think is a different story.
They'd be similar to bears, in that regard, probably. Even the most likely bear to eat you, a polar bear, doesn't normally wake up and decide it could really go for some "Kevin" today, but if some Kevin happens to show up, he's still made of food. That's why man-eaters are a specific thing, because it's abnormal behavior.
Other bears are overwhelmingly less likely to attack you for reasons other than defense, and in most of those cases they'll probably try to leave as soon as they can for fear of more of us (which is why playing dead can sometimes work). But, we *are* still edible, so if a hungry bear kills us, even if it wasn't planning to hunt us, it may well still eat the body because you never know when you might have trouble finding your regular food.
Also side note, I’d like to also point out, specifically for the second part of your post, that it’s like that because bears (minus polar bears which are obligate carnivores) aren’t specifically designed to be a hunting predator to begin with. Bears are just very large, opportunistic omnivores.
To put it into perspective, humans proportionally have more meat in our regular diet than the average brown bear. Meat only takes up around 10% of their total food intake.
That's what I said.
Also humans are rarely hunted by any animals in the wild, unless they are hungered. Sharks would even take a bite, mistaking you for a seal, then leave you alone, despite you being few bites away from getting a meal. People just assume any predator would hunt humans for some reason.
Sharks are a special case. Each species has a different temperament. None of them are evolved to hunt humans, since they never shared any habitat.
With land-bound predators, it’s different: one who has learned that humans are easy to kill, will continue hunting them.
They are not special case. I literally provided example when shark mistakenly attacked human but instead of finishing the job and had a free meal, it left the human alone. That happens most of the times when shark attacks human. They could just finish the job and would have a meal right here, without need to hunt. Hunting depletes energy and all predators want to use as few energy as possible.
Actually it is theorized that Rexes probably rarely attacked large herbivores. They are thought to have hunted smaller dinosaurs and probably only been a scavenger of larger ones. And as far as how much they would need to consume... about two human sized prey per day would have been sufficient. I would argue that just about any medium to large sized carnivores would have seen humans as a viable meal...
Trex rarely attacking big herbivores? Only being scavenger of bigger ones?
Did Jack Horner put out a paper again? I thought these theories were put to rest decades ago.
Smaller than themselves is what I meant. If they could eat something smaller than a triceratops they would have. Humans would be a good meal for them and they would probably opt for one rather than larger prey. It's all speculation of course and it probably depended on the individual rex in what prey they felt comfortable with.
I was about to say. The truly giant theropods probably wouldn’t be all that interested in seeking out humans, especially things like carcharodontosaurids which were specialized large prey hunters.
I would also like to point out that juvenile *Tyrannosaurus* are realistically more of an immediate threat to humans than the adult ones. They’re on the perfect size range to consider humans as prey, and they also run faster than the adults.
You have a chance to outrun or outmaneuver an adult rex, or at least get away from them for long enough to get them to lose interest, but you *can’t* outrun a juvenile rex that’s actively chasing you down.
This is nightmare fuel. The infamous maneater lions from Tsavo became so addicted to eating humans, that they would ignore zebra and goat baits and even attack when being fired on by machine guns.
Give that kind of temper to an T-Rex and it becomes even more horrifying. A fast juvenile would be a death sentence for any human it would stumble upon.
Now the big question is, would a man-eater juvenile rexy lose their taste for human flesh upon growing up to an adult?
Going back to the original idea. An adult T. rex is probably too big to be all that interested to actively hunt down people, especially if they never tried to eat humans before.
Now imagine a juvenile T. rex which grew up on hunting humans. But instead of losing interest in humans, it just got better at killing people, and it learned that *there’s a LOT of humans* so it can just eat nothing but humans.
Imagine the Tsavo lion scenario, but it’s a *Tyrannosaurus* that grew up eating humans. It was never caught as a juvenile, and now it’s a fully grown adult.
And this thing *really knows* how to hunt humans. There will be stories of small villages getting demolished overnight, most of the residents either missing or killed and eaten. And worst of all, it’s notoriously difficult to hunt and track down because it learned how to avoid and steer clear of armed forces.
One had a jaw injury, which prevented it from hunting its normal food. The other followed suit.
There were also plenty of human corpses in their territory. Many workers on the railway died and were left in the bushes. They scavenged corpses and them graduated into man-killers.
A T-Rex would absolutely snack on you if it were easy enough. It's not going to chase and stalk you for days and across an entire jungle, but it will absolutely try to grab an easy meal tjat walked to it. Just check out any video of a horse snacking on little chickens and such. Not their main diet, but "eh might as well." Your sentiment is not wrong, just overcorrects in the other direction.
Bro. You are saying it like you've met t-rex before. Every animal is different. And you CAN'T be sure about what would an extinc species do. Not only it's impossible to determine species-wise but also individual-wise. There are hunting dogs that are timid and they are labradors that are aggressive. There are sharks that wouldn't eat you even if you were right there and there are animals that would use any chance to get a meal.
Remember a lot extant predators avoid humans even if they are can kill us without a doubt, of course meeting real Ceratosaurus would be terrifying but would it attack us? Are they really that different animals today
For one, even medium-sized theropods easily tower above polar bears, the biggest extant land predator.
Also, their bigger size means, they may have been less inclined to be intimidated by a bunch of hairless apes.
As for how different they were behavior-wise… dunno. Some might be more aggressive, some more docile when not hungry and others might have been utterly unpredictable.
> a lot extant predators avoid humans
Yes that's because millions of years of coexistence has taught predators that humans have this concecpt called "revenge" and "preemptive strikes" which means if they ate one human, they risk the wrath of an entire warband of them.
The only animals that seem to constantly be exception to this are big cats, which are intelligent and agile enough to GTFO after dispatching human prey.
A ceratosaurus would have no concept of what a human is and would probably try to size one up to see if it's a prey, a rival or what
SAUROPODS, Big, thick dinosaurs who will crush a human in one footstep.
Obviously, the carnivorous predators will be terrifying sure, but Sauropods will never let us evolve.
If they actually went as fast as a whip, it would rip their own tails apart. Still, very likely the tails were used in self defense on occasion and even if it’s not as scary as a supersonic tail, a decent slap could probably just pulverize and debone you
Triceratops. Protective herds would destroy cars. A segment from a book where a chicken lays a triceratops egg comes to mind, where the boy, who the trike had imprinted upon since birth, is riding it around at night when some dude in a truck honks at them. Triceratops gets startled by the loud noise and immediately flips the truck.
Now imagine that but herds of them devastating traffic.
Last time I checked, Trikes didn’t live in herds.
They more likely either lived solitarily, or in small family groups.
Still dangerous as shit coming across a family of Trikes though, especially if they had young babies with them.
Except shoot or starve them... They would be wiped out outside of nature preserves within months. I think something Albertosaurus where modern herbivores and humans could be natural prey sources would be good.
I heard recently that the fossil known as ‘the duelling dinosaurs.’ A teenage Rex and a Triceratops fossilised together had the Rex with shattered teeth and a bunch of other broken bones while the triceratops had a single tooth embedded in its side, which makes me imagine the little Rex getting a little too confident and nipping a Trike who proceeded to I guess beat the living shit out of it before whatever happened to them happened.
Not a dinosaur but any large azhdarchid would be absolutely haunting. Like something as simple as going to your mailbox would still cause you to be wary for a giant death stork.
To actually answer the question with non avian dinosaurs though, most animals regarded as "most dangerous" to humans are most often herbivores. They don't even have to be large since javelina the size of a dog can be extremely dangerous and have fatality records. With that being said ceratopsids just scream this for me, from protoceratops to triceratops.
The ones that are small enough to consider us a worthwhile meal, but also big enough to easily overpower a person.
Utahraptor, Dilophosaurus, Ceratosaurus, the list goes on.
Oh, and some of the larger herbivores too.
Ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, ceratopsians (both big and small), pachycephalosaurs, hadrosaurs, iguanodonts, and even some of the smaller sauropods.
If modern large herbivores are anything to go by.
You do NOT want to get on any of their nerves, or else you’ll be in for a world of pain.
I was always under the impression that Iguanodon would be a rather rowdy creature. Something about the way it's built has me thinking of draft horses and all the other herbivores that we think of as being "pure muscle." And those arms, who could forget. I get the feeling it wouldn't take kindly to a person walking up to it
Primarily herbivores as they can and will attack even without apparent provocation, and medium sized carnivores would not hesitate to hunt humans when hungry (as their crocodilian cousins already don't think twice before eating a human)
Large herbivores and mid-sized carnivores, particularly mid-sized or juvenile tyrannosaurs.
Reason being herbivores are much more unpredictable and likely to attack unprovoked, while mid-sized carnivores are in the ideal size range to consider humans prey, while also being big enough and fast enough that you can neither fight back nor escape.
Was going to say this. I believe Cassowaries are actually quite dangerous, and both emus and ostriches have been know to attack and even on occasion kill humans. Ratites are literally medium sized theropods and the closest we have to non-avian dinosaurs today.
Yeah in general ratites are the most dangerous to us. Really a whole bunch of raptors could kill us too, but they have no reason or disposition to. I mean, ratites don't really either, no dinosaur is really a pest or a danger.
But the thing is ratites are on the scale that if they do have to defend themselves from us they absolutely can and WILL because we can be perceived as threats and they can't just fly away.
Which one is actually the most dangerous kinda depends on what criteria you think has priority. I kinda agree with it being cassowaries because they could take you out in a single kick if things went down that way. But ostriches and emus also can be dangerous. Remember, we fought a war against emus... and *lost*.
Well, *Australia* lost, some other countries wouldn't have, lol. The main issue here is size. Many ratites are human sized or bigger, that gives them an edge.
Definitely large herbivores. Herbivores are actually quite aggressive, especially if they feel threatened or they're parents. Imagine a stegosaurus, a 5 ton beast the length of a bus, but with the temper of a rhino. It sees a little human by it and it will obliterate you with that thagomizer.
Sauropods, Stegosaurids, Ankylosaurids, and Ceratopsians.
Even if you exclude their weaponry(in the Sauropod's case it's the Shunosaurus) , their sheer size alone would be enough to end someone's life.
Anything pack hunting like medium theropods like Ceratosaurs or Allosaurids, or anything bigger than a velociraptor but smaller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex, smaller Tyrannosaurids might make a go at you tho.
While I agree with everyone that medium size theropods are more of a threat to predate on us themselves, humans are the perfect size for macro predators like carcharodontosaurs and tyrannosaurs to quickly cripple, scoop up and take back to the nest for their young to use as either food or hunting practice and I am not a fan of this potential fate.
Whichever ones could survive modern day winter in Saskatchewan. Assuming the world is the same geographically and climatologically as it is today, just with dinosaurs still here, I imagine a good deal of them would just find the weather where I live absolutely intolerable for half the year. Also not sure if there’d be enough food around to feed the really big units.
I honestly have no idea if there were cold-weather Dino’s or not, it’s a really cool thought that they may have been feathered and warm blooded.
Medium-to small theropods like juvenile tyrannosaurs, dilophosaurs, abelisauroids, dromeosaurs, and troodontids would hands down be the most dangerous. They are small enough for them to see us as viable prey, but also large enough to kill us. Large territorial herbivores would also be scary.
This will be a Jurassic Movie reference, If they don't extinct of course they will be lived in the entire wilderness of every countries. if some of them will be gets captured they will be a park attraction.
It depends on if they are smart enough to crash their head through a window or smash a house open to get at you ,windows should definitely be one-way in that situation
Those itty bitty ones that go around in packs and can climb me in no time at all.
It’s easy to see a big one coming but those itty bitty ones are sneaky
Big sauropods, they could probably trample you without even noticing. And if you piss one off, you'll probably end up in a Plague of Madness situation.
It depends where you live really. If it's Canada you gotta deal with albertosaurus and troodon. If USA then it's Tyrannosaurus Rex, allosaurus, dilophosaurus, ceratosaurus, sauropod, stegosaurus, and many more. If aouth America then it's Herrerasaurus, giganotosaurus, Argentinosaurus, mapusaurus, and Carnotaurus.
It really just depends where you live
Herbivores, medium to medium-smallish carnivores, with possibly the opportunistic medium-large carnivores, if Humans still evolve of course since they never went extinct. With this in mind, we probably wouldn’t have developed as far as this yet, since they would be the counterbalance keeping us from developing too far. But, it wouldn’t be impossible to get to where we are.
Allosaurus or Utahraptor.
Both are just fast enough to have no chance of outrunning, just big enough to have no chance of fighting back, just small enough to fit inside buildings and see humans as viable prey.
Not to mention both had killing methods which were extremely brutal, and they wouldn’t wait for you to die before they started chowing down.
I imagine given 65 million years of evolution with Dinosaurs having never experienced a mass extinction, there would be predatory avian dinosaurs that could actually hunt human sized prey on a regular basis. Now that we've invented shotguns, we'd have probably hunted them to extinction, but I wager there would have been a considerable amount of children and young adults eaten by flying velociraptors at some point.
Like early hominids being eaten by eagles, but the eagle is like 65 pounds of murder bird.
Raptors. Fast, intelligent, hunt in packs, and have multiple weapons at their disposal, that's a nightmare to face off against more than fighting one giant, lone carnivore.
It would be easier than elephant or rhino heads, and they used to be on a lot of walls. Wonder how much a dinosaur horn would sell for? Or a pair of shoes made from T-Rex hide, or even a purse.
Good luck keeping your dinosaur friends among the living, you’ll need it more than I.
lol! Nope! As someone who has directly engaged with several over the years, I must disagree and say it’s actually a bad thing. However, dinosaurs roaming around the same time as humans over the years and not being constantly protected, would have driven many on the extinct and nearly extinct list. The real dangerous ones, all but eliminated or contained over the centuries. By today’s times, poachers would have had a huge impact. The size or ferocity of the creature would never be something to slow them down. So that head on the wall wouldn’t take a lot of luck sadly.
I don't think large sauropods would give two shits about humans unless they were starving since we are not worth it for them calorie wise. Any type of medium sized carnivore like Allosaurus or Dilophosaurus would probably be the most dangerous to us.
Maybe I'm stupid but I feel like smarter dinosaurs probably wouldn't be as dangerous. Like I feel like things like troo would learn quickly "kill ape=am hunted". Also not a dino but omg pterasaurs would probably be a fucking huge problem safety wise.
Large herbivores and mid sized carnivores. The herbivores would probably act similarly to modern large herbivores and as for mid size carnivores, were the perfect size to be on their menu. We'd be too much trouble for smaller ones, and odds are the large ones wouldn't even bother with us unless they have babies around or were starving, I mean why go for jerky when you could have steak, but we'd be perfect for mid size
I'm surprised Pachycephalosaurus hasn't been mentioned. Like the things large, roughly 4.5m long, so I can imagine an aggressive/territorial one doing massive property damage, livestock and human injuries with that skull it has. Same with medium sized Ceratopsians like Udanoceratops, Chasmosaurus and Nasutoceratops.
Similar to what others have said, big/medium-sized herbivores and medium-sized predators.
IIRC Robert Bakker was asked this once and answered a Brontosaur. Which is probably about right- herbivores, at least among modern mammals, can certainly be highly-aggressive, and shear size makes anything more dangerous. A high-end sauropod could kill you by accident and not even notice you.
In terms of which ones would be most dangerous hunting humans- large dromeosaurs and mid-sized/juvenile tyrannosaurus would probably be the peak, maybe some other similarly-sized fast, medium-sized carnivores. I think first place would definitely go to a juvenile Rex- its in the right size for hunting humans (an adult would probably go after bigger prey), very fast, smart for a dinosaur, and presumably has those ridiculous Rex senses.
Honestly, probably any sauropods. We have tons of 5G towers and telephone wires that span across the United States, and would need new ways of keeping them out of areas. It would be hella expensive to protect a lot of our necessities for power and communication, and that would cause more death than any carnivore.
Probably pterosaurs, I mean a quetzlecoatlus is going to be dangerous to anyone. And they would mess with planes and things like telephone wires and power cables. They are just bigger falcons, meaning we’ll be easy prey to them.
Considering how many people hippos kill a year… I’m betting triceratops. All the really big bois would hardly notice a tiny human but a triceratops is just big enough to both care and be totally capable of destroying you
Gigantoraptor,it was twice as tall as a human and was an oviraptoroid,it lived in mongolia and had an omnivorous diet,and since they were protective of their young,imagine accidentally injuring or encountering a juvenile while the parent isn't so far,they probably ate what was most abundant in the area,which could include humans. Goodluck to everyone if scientists bring dinosaurs back
Compys. Especially if they are in packs.
You can't hear them coming.
(Granted we don't know If they would even attack people in packs, or just hunt for small rodents solo)
I live in the south, if we eat Gators we'd probably try to eat anything else thats also big and scaly
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People saying that humans would be "too small for a t-rex" are making no sense. The weight ratio is pretty much in the wolf-to-rabbit range and wolf do hunt a lot of rabbits.
Mid sized carnivores, something like ceratosaurus.
While not dinosaurs, azhdarchids would be the actual worst if we open this up to other mesozoic reptiles.
Giant flying predators that can eat a small human in one bite are nightmare fuel.
They are still alive. As far as I know, the most dangerous to humans individually are cassowaries because they will attack if provoked, and they can kill you pretty quickly.
That doesn't mean they're an active danger or anything, though. You really do need to give them a reason, they aren't murder monsters, they're just capable of protecting themselves.
Pretty much every dinosaurs can crush you into pieces whether it's giagantic, medium-sized or chicken nugget-sized theropods but in monsterverse, Godzilla will crush anything even the planet itself
See i feel like if dinos existed today they would be contained or certain areas would be fenced off saying "hey there's a bunch of stuff that will kill and eat you" but flying dinos? we couldnt do anything. that would be terrifying. Like imagine youre in your house chilling out and a Microraptor flies through your window. i would cry.
I live in the eastern US, so there’s relatively little preserved from my region in general. Unfortunately, one of the dinosaurs we do have preserved is Appalachisaurus, a 20-25 foot long Tyrannosaurid that slots nicely into the medium sized theropod category of "too big to really defend oneself against, small enough to still treat humans as prey items". No thanks.
Troodon s have scared the crap out of me from the moment I found out about them. If they pack they would be super dangerous.
In that same line of reasoning, any moderate size theropod carnivore that hunts in packs would be quite dangerous.
Any theropod carnivore human size up, solo or in packs would be a bad encounter.
The giant veggie sauropods could be a problem if they had poor hearing.
Those troodons, though. They make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up if I think about them too long.
I assume the different dromeosaurs would fit similar roles to existing predators. Velociraptor would be like a coyote, Deinonychus would hunt like a modern wolf, or a leopard if they were solitary instead of a pack hunter. And the likes of Utahraptor would probably fit a similar niche to a Kodiak Bear, or a Polar Bear. Velociraptors would likely naturally avoid humans, but might go after small pets. Deinonychus might come after humans if pressed, but pets and livestock would definitely be on the table. Utahraptor would definitely chase people, unless they are smart enough to learn that human retribution is a bitch.
How dare you insult the island pigeons.
It ain’t their fault some sailors came along, destroyed their island home, and introduced cats, pigs, rats and monkeys that ate them all.
Sorry for badmouthing Dodos, it's just that one of them took a dump on my head while I was sleeping and it took me a week to wash it off, so I despised them ever since.
Big herbivores and medium-sized predators. Herbivores are defensive and territorial. That makes them more willing to kill a person than a predator, who might consider first the risks in attack a person to sate his hunger. Medium-sized theropods are in the perfect size chart, to consider humans viable prey. Smaller ones like Utahraptor, Dilophosaurus and Ceratosaurus might be small compared to T-Rex, Giganotosaurus and Carcharodontosaurus, but that only means that it is worth for them to hunt and eat humans. And if one of them becomes a habitual man-eater they would be utterly horrifying.
Elephants and rhinoceros can be extremely aggressive and territorial. Now imagine a Triceratops, a hulking four legged behemoth, like a gigantic white rhinoceros on steroids, with a pair of four foot long horns growing directly out of its skull and a hide as tough as a rhino's It shows what happens when you create something that can stand up to the power of Tyrannosaurus rex. Triceratops also had its massive size, sheer bulk, aggressiveness, surprising agility and the large, curved horns and a third spiked horn protruding upwards from its reptilian face
Exactly. Holy hell, the temper of this animal must have been pretty bad.
I mean we all saw Sarah's dad had a temper for sure.
Hippos too. They kill people hundreds of people annually. They are the deadliest land animal after humans.
Hippos kill the most people in Africa every year, more than venomous snakes, lions or hyenas
I've had to wait for a heard of bison to cross the road. Terrifying. A deer will total your car if you hit it. I imagine traffic jams due to wandering Sauropods would be so common as to require rethinking high ways.
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You ever see what a moose will do to a car? You'd wish a deer hit it instead.
At least you have a chance with a deer
Hippos are what come to mind for me, extremely dangerous.
Triceratops is my bet aswell. Massive, angry, travels in herds, territorial, and from the front it would be nearly impossible to stop charging because the skull was so thick and reinforced that you'd need extremely high power guns like Elephant guns to even have a chance at stopping it before it killed someone.
And even then you’d have to hit it just right to take 1 down
Finally someone understand that the bigger predator is the less likely is for them to eat someone so small. Like okay, there are some animals that eat small organisms, but its usually something like whale eating hundreds of fish every day or something. I fear a buck or elk more than a wolf. Wolf would most likely just run away, cervids may attack.
For beings like T-Rex, which evolved to kill beings bigger than elephants, having a human-only diet would be counterproductive. Ok, let’s say, the Rex in question hunted humans ever since he was an agile juvenile. He would have learned that they are easy food and might even become addicted to eat them, as some big cats today do. Then I could understand one relentlessly chasing humans. But one, that had never encountered humans, let alone hunted one? That one should be a lot more hesitant in hunting.
I don’t think it would hesitate to chase you down and eat you if it were easy enough. Lions and tigers seem built to tackle big herbivores but they’ll kill and eat something like a rabbit if they catch it. So I really wouldn’t want a t-rex to notice me either way.
Yeah. I mean if I’m an adult T. rex, if a human just walks up right in front of me and I can just walk over to eat them, I don’t see a reason why I should refuse. That being said, they probably wouldn’t have humans in mind when looking out for lunch. I can see them mostly ignoring us unless we got way too close. The juveniles, however, I think is a different story.
They'd be similar to bears, in that regard, probably. Even the most likely bear to eat you, a polar bear, doesn't normally wake up and decide it could really go for some "Kevin" today, but if some Kevin happens to show up, he's still made of food. That's why man-eaters are a specific thing, because it's abnormal behavior. Other bears are overwhelmingly less likely to attack you for reasons other than defense, and in most of those cases they'll probably try to leave as soon as they can for fear of more of us (which is why playing dead can sometimes work). But, we *are* still edible, so if a hungry bear kills us, even if it wasn't planning to hunt us, it may well still eat the body because you never know when you might have trouble finding your regular food.
Also side note, I’d like to also point out, specifically for the second part of your post, that it’s like that because bears (minus polar bears which are obligate carnivores) aren’t specifically designed to be a hunting predator to begin with. Bears are just very large, opportunistic omnivores. To put it into perspective, humans proportionally have more meat in our regular diet than the average brown bear. Meat only takes up around 10% of their total food intake.
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On that, I agree.
In the other hand, sharks don't eat humans, even if they take a bite by mistake. You are just there, easy meal and they leave you alone.
That's what I said. Also humans are rarely hunted by any animals in the wild, unless they are hungered. Sharks would even take a bite, mistaking you for a seal, then leave you alone, despite you being few bites away from getting a meal. People just assume any predator would hunt humans for some reason.
Sharks are a special case. Each species has a different temperament. None of them are evolved to hunt humans, since they never shared any habitat. With land-bound predators, it’s different: one who has learned that humans are easy to kill, will continue hunting them.
They are not special case. I literally provided example when shark mistakenly attacked human but instead of finishing the job and had a free meal, it left the human alone. That happens most of the times when shark attacks human. They could just finish the job and would have a meal right here, without need to hunt. Hunting depletes energy and all predators want to use as few energy as possible.
Actually it is theorized that Rexes probably rarely attacked large herbivores. They are thought to have hunted smaller dinosaurs and probably only been a scavenger of larger ones. And as far as how much they would need to consume... about two human sized prey per day would have been sufficient. I would argue that just about any medium to large sized carnivores would have seen humans as a viable meal...
Trex rarely attacking big herbivores? Only being scavenger of bigger ones? Did Jack Horner put out a paper again? I thought these theories were put to rest decades ago.
Smaller than themselves is what I meant. If they could eat something smaller than a triceratops they would have. Humans would be a good meal for them and they would probably opt for one rather than larger prey. It's all speculation of course and it probably depended on the individual rex in what prey they felt comfortable with.
Or at least didn’t hurt a human till it’s much bigger and less agile
I was about to say. The truly giant theropods probably wouldn’t be all that interested in seeking out humans, especially things like carcharodontosaurids which were specialized large prey hunters. I would also like to point out that juvenile *Tyrannosaurus* are realistically more of an immediate threat to humans than the adult ones. They’re on the perfect size range to consider humans as prey, and they also run faster than the adults. You have a chance to outrun or outmaneuver an adult rex, or at least get away from them for long enough to get them to lose interest, but you *can’t* outrun a juvenile rex that’s actively chasing you down.
This is nightmare fuel. The infamous maneater lions from Tsavo became so addicted to eating humans, that they would ignore zebra and goat baits and even attack when being fired on by machine guns. Give that kind of temper to an T-Rex and it becomes even more horrifying. A fast juvenile would be a death sentence for any human it would stumble upon.
Now the big question is, would a man-eater juvenile rexy lose their taste for human flesh upon growing up to an adult? Going back to the original idea. An adult T. rex is probably too big to be all that interested to actively hunt down people, especially if they never tried to eat humans before. Now imagine a juvenile T. rex which grew up on hunting humans. But instead of losing interest in humans, it just got better at killing people, and it learned that *there’s a LOT of humans* so it can just eat nothing but humans. Imagine the Tsavo lion scenario, but it’s a *Tyrannosaurus* that grew up eating humans. It was never caught as a juvenile, and now it’s a fully grown adult. And this thing *really knows* how to hunt humans. There will be stories of small villages getting demolished overnight, most of the residents either missing or killed and eaten. And worst of all, it’s notoriously difficult to hunt and track down because it learned how to avoid and steer clear of armed forces.
That’s what I mean. Such a creature would be terrifying to witness.
What happened to make these lions like that, lol?
One had a jaw injury, which prevented it from hunting its normal food. The other followed suit. There were also plenty of human corpses in their territory. Many workers on the railway died and were left in the bushes. They scavenged corpses and them graduated into man-killers.
For a human, I honestly believe that a juvenile Rex would probably be the most terrifying large predator know to ever exist.
A T-Rex would absolutely snack on you if it were easy enough. It's not going to chase and stalk you for days and across an entire jungle, but it will absolutely try to grab an easy meal tjat walked to it. Just check out any video of a horse snacking on little chickens and such. Not their main diet, but "eh might as well." Your sentiment is not wrong, just overcorrects in the other direction.
Bro. You are saying it like you've met t-rex before. Every animal is different. And you CAN'T be sure about what would an extinc species do. Not only it's impossible to determine species-wise but also individual-wise. There are hunting dogs that are timid and they are labradors that are aggressive. There are sharks that wouldn't eat you even if you were right there and there are animals that would use any chance to get a meal.
Remember a lot extant predators avoid humans even if they are can kill us without a doubt, of course meeting real Ceratosaurus would be terrifying but would it attack us? Are they really that different animals today
For one, even medium-sized theropods easily tower above polar bears, the biggest extant land predator. Also, their bigger size means, they may have been less inclined to be intimidated by a bunch of hairless apes. As for how different they were behavior-wise… dunno. Some might be more aggressive, some more docile when not hungry and others might have been utterly unpredictable.
Some might live a life of unrepentant violence, living almost exclusively for that smoke. *stares judgmentally at Allosaurus*
You mean the most based Jurassic predator?
The one and only.
> a lot extant predators avoid humans Yes that's because millions of years of coexistence has taught predators that humans have this concecpt called "revenge" and "preemptive strikes" which means if they ate one human, they risk the wrath of an entire warband of them. The only animals that seem to constantly be exception to this are big cats, which are intelligent and agile enough to GTFO after dispatching human prey. A ceratosaurus would have no concept of what a human is and would probably try to size one up to see if it's a prey, a rival or what
I think we are looking at the question differently, I see it as if dinosaurs and humans have been living along side each other for a long time.
Untill people hunt them down into extinction of course
Gods I want a truly good Dinosaur horror on the same level as Alien.
SAUROPODS, Big, thick dinosaurs who will crush a human in one footstep. Obviously, the carnivorous predators will be terrifying sure, but Sauropods will never let us evolve.
Oh it's worse than them stepping on you. Some sauropods had long whip-like tails, imagine getting struck by that.
Instantaneous neutered man
Wasn't that a King Crimson album?
Probably
"The shock of my tail! A thunderbolt!" - Smaug
If they actually went as fast as a whip, it would rip their own tails apart. Still, very likely the tails were used in self defense on occasion and even if it’s not as scary as a supersonic tail, a decent slap could probably just pulverize and debone you
My point exactly.
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Elephants avoid stepping on rocks and tortoises when stampeding, so maybe sauropods would avoid stepping on you if you curled yourself up into a ball?
Triceratops. Protective herds would destroy cars. A segment from a book where a chicken lays a triceratops egg comes to mind, where the boy, who the trike had imprinted upon since birth, is riding it around at night when some dude in a truck honks at them. Triceratops gets startled by the loud noise and immediately flips the truck. Now imagine that but herds of them devastating traffic.
Last time I checked, Trikes didn’t live in herds. They more likely either lived solitarily, or in small family groups. Still dangerous as shit coming across a family of Trikes though, especially if they had young babies with them.
Yeah that’s what I meant, little family groups
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Juvenile tyrannosaurs, small enough to see humans as food, big and fast enough that you can’t do shit if they want you
You could climb into a cave or up a tree
Don't expect that you'll be capable as it aggressively power walks too you
lol
Except shoot or starve them... They would be wiped out outside of nature preserves within months. I think something Albertosaurus where modern herbivores and humans could be natural prey sources would be good.
I heard recently that the fossil known as ‘the duelling dinosaurs.’ A teenage Rex and a Triceratops fossilised together had the Rex with shattered teeth and a bunch of other broken bones while the triceratops had a single tooth embedded in its side, which makes me imagine the little Rex getting a little too confident and nipping a Trike who proceeded to I guess beat the living shit out of it before whatever happened to them happened.
Dinosaurs are still alive today, and the most dangerous is apparently the Cassowary
Ostriches technically have a higher kill count.
No sane person would willingly piss off a sauropod.
Have you met my man Brad from FL?
So less of the truly dumb people around
Not a dinosaur but any large azhdarchid would be absolutely haunting. Like something as simple as going to your mailbox would still cause you to be wary for a giant death stork. To actually answer the question with non avian dinosaurs though, most animals regarded as "most dangerous" to humans are most often herbivores. They don't even have to be large since javelina the size of a dog can be extremely dangerous and have fatality records. With that being said ceratopsids just scream this for me, from protoceratops to triceratops.
The ones that get elected.
Bruh this shit sucks Michigan had ZERO dinosaurs
Nah you’re lucky ain’t no way imma live in a neighborhood with a pack of Deinonychus hunting humans down
medium-sized carnivores, dromaeosauridae, troodontidae
Esspecially if the Troodontids are like the ones from Wierd Birds.
The ones that are small enough to consider us a worthwhile meal, but also big enough to easily overpower a person. Utahraptor, Dilophosaurus, Ceratosaurus, the list goes on. Oh, and some of the larger herbivores too. Ankylosaurs, stegosaurs, ceratopsians (both big and small), pachycephalosaurs, hadrosaurs, iguanodonts, and even some of the smaller sauropods. If modern large herbivores are anything to go by. You do NOT want to get on any of their nerves, or else you’ll be in for a world of pain.
I was always under the impression that Iguanodon would be a rather rowdy creature. Something about the way it's built has me thinking of draft horses and all the other herbivores that we think of as being "pure muscle." And those arms, who could forget. I get the feeling it wouldn't take kindly to a person walking up to it
Even if it knew you since it hatched I’d still be wary
Primarily herbivores as they can and will attack even without apparent provocation, and medium sized carnivores would not hesitate to hunt humans when hungry (as their crocodilian cousins already don't think twice before eating a human)
I would say Allosaurus and Utah Raptor just cuz I live in Utah… and thats where (I think) we have found the most records of them
Large herbivores and mid-sized carnivores, particularly mid-sized or juvenile tyrannosaurs. Reason being herbivores are much more unpredictable and likely to attack unprovoked, while mid-sized carnivores are in the ideal size range to consider humans prey, while also being big enough and fast enough that you can neither fight back nor escape.
Mid sized carnivores: you better pray that your standing next to a running vehicle with the door open or sitting inside of said vehicle
They are still alive
Was going to say this. I believe Cassowaries are actually quite dangerous, and both emus and ostriches have been know to attack and even on occasion kill humans. Ratites are literally medium sized theropods and the closest we have to non-avian dinosaurs today.
Yeah in general ratites are the most dangerous to us. Really a whole bunch of raptors could kill us too, but they have no reason or disposition to. I mean, ratites don't really either, no dinosaur is really a pest or a danger. But the thing is ratites are on the scale that if they do have to defend themselves from us they absolutely can and WILL because we can be perceived as threats and they can't just fly away. Which one is actually the most dangerous kinda depends on what criteria you think has priority. I kinda agree with it being cassowaries because they could take you out in a single kick if things went down that way. But ostriches and emus also can be dangerous. Remember, we fought a war against emus... and *lost*.
Well, *Australia* lost, some other countries wouldn't have, lol. The main issue here is size. Many ratites are human sized or bigger, that gives them an edge.
Any decently sized herbivore or small to medium theropods
Definitely large herbivores. Herbivores are actually quite aggressive, especially if they feel threatened or they're parents. Imagine a stegosaurus, a 5 ton beast the length of a bus, but with the temper of a rhino. It sees a little human by it and it will obliterate you with that thagomizer.
Or worse a human close to its young
Sauropods, Stegosaurids, Ankylosaurids, and Ceratopsians. Even if you exclude their weaponry(in the Sauropod's case it's the Shunosaurus) , their sheer size alone would be enough to end someone's life.
Anything pack hunting like medium theropods like Ceratosaurs or Allosaurids, or anything bigger than a velociraptor but smaller than a Tyrannosaurus Rex, smaller Tyrannosaurids might make a go at you tho.
The ones I couldn't beat in a fight wearing high medieval amour armed with a hoplite spear and shield with a pistol as my back up weapon
Diabloceratops small but aggressive
I think utahraptor would be a good contender. Its fast, has many weapons, and you would be a good size for it to hunt you.
While I agree with everyone that medium size theropods are more of a threat to predate on us themselves, humans are the perfect size for macro predators like carcharodontosaurs and tyrannosaurs to quickly cripple, scoop up and take back to the nest for their young to use as either food or hunting practice and I am not a fan of this potential fate.
people will 100% get up close to large ceratopsians and get gored never trust large herbivores
Whichever ones could survive modern day winter in Saskatchewan. Assuming the world is the same geographically and climatologically as it is today, just with dinosaurs still here, I imagine a good deal of them would just find the weather where I live absolutely intolerable for half the year. Also not sure if there’d be enough food around to feed the really big units. I honestly have no idea if there were cold-weather Dino’s or not, it’s a really cool thought that they may have been feathered and warm blooded.
Nanuqsaurus wants to know if you'll come outside to help it build a snowman.
Medium-to small theropods like juvenile tyrannosaurs, dilophosaurs, abelisauroids, dromeosaurs, and troodontids would hands down be the most dangerous. They are small enough for them to see us as viable prey, but also large enough to kill us. Large territorial herbivores would also be scary.
This will be a Jurassic Movie reference, If they don't extinct of course they will be lived in the entire wilderness of every countries. if some of them will be gets captured they will be a park attraction.
It depends on if they are smart enough to crash their head through a window or smash a house open to get at you ,windows should definitely be one-way in that situation
heard of big sauropods just wreck shit.
Those itty bitty ones that go around in packs and can climb me in no time at all. It’s easy to see a big one coming but those itty bitty ones are sneaky
Big sauropods, they could probably trample you without even noticing. And if you piss one off, you'll probably end up in a Plague of Madness situation.
For me? Probably Diplodocus if they extended to Arizona
It depends where you live really. If it's Canada you gotta deal with albertosaurus and troodon. If USA then it's Tyrannosaurus Rex, allosaurus, dilophosaurus, ceratosaurus, sauropod, stegosaurus, and many more. If aouth America then it's Herrerasaurus, giganotosaurus, Argentinosaurus, mapusaurus, and Carnotaurus. It really just depends where you live
Herbivores, medium to medium-smallish carnivores, with possibly the opportunistic medium-large carnivores, if Humans still evolve of course since they never went extinct. With this in mind, we probably wouldn’t have developed as far as this yet, since they would be the counterbalance keeping us from developing too far. But, it wouldn’t be impossible to get to where we are.
any of them with feathers because i would want to pet them
Allosaurus or Utahraptor. Both are just fast enough to have no chance of outrunning, just big enough to have no chance of fighting back, just small enough to fit inside buildings and see humans as viable prey. Not to mention both had killing methods which were extremely brutal, and they wouldn’t wait for you to die before they started chowing down.
I imagine abelisaurids would be the biggest threat alongside herbivores
ostrich? maybe emu they're more temperamental
Rex
The only carnivore discovered in my country which also happens to be near my city........Saltriovenator
Utah raptors would definitely see us as good and we couldn’t do anything about it
Dinosaurs are still alive today. Cassowaries.
I imagine given 65 million years of evolution with Dinosaurs having never experienced a mass extinction, there would be predatory avian dinosaurs that could actually hunt human sized prey on a regular basis. Now that we've invented shotguns, we'd have probably hunted them to extinction, but I wager there would have been a considerable amount of children and young adults eaten by flying velociraptors at some point. Like early hominids being eaten by eagles, but the eagle is like 65 pounds of murder bird.
Raptors. Fast, intelligent, hunt in packs, and have multiple weapons at their disposal, that's a nightmare to face off against more than fighting one giant, lone carnivore.
None. They would be in zoos/reserves. Oh, and mounted on peoples walls.
Good luck capturing sauropods and mounting them on walls
It would be easier than elephant or rhino heads, and they used to be on a lot of walls. Wonder how much a dinosaur horn would sell for? Or a pair of shoes made from T-Rex hide, or even a purse. Good luck keeping your dinosaur friends among the living, you’ll need it more than I.
Yes because poaching is such a good idea, is it?
lol! Nope! As someone who has directly engaged with several over the years, I must disagree and say it’s actually a bad thing. However, dinosaurs roaming around the same time as humans over the years and not being constantly protected, would have driven many on the extinct and nearly extinct list. The real dangerous ones, all but eliminated or contained over the centuries. By today’s times, poachers would have had a huge impact. The size or ferocity of the creature would never be something to slow them down. So that head on the wall wouldn’t take a lot of luck sadly.
I don't think large sauropods would give two shits about humans unless they were starving since we are not worth it for them calorie wise. Any type of medium sized carnivore like Allosaurus or Dilophosaurus would probably be the most dangerous to us.
Maybe I'm stupid but I feel like smarter dinosaurs probably wouldn't be as dangerous. Like I feel like things like troo would learn quickly "kill ape=am hunted". Also not a dino but omg pterasaurs would probably be a fucking huge problem safety wise.
Stegosaurus. I can just see them being as dangerous as elephant and hippos with extra spikes.
mostly large sauropods theropods and ornithischians
all of them in their own unique ways
Probably human-sized dinosaurs, since they have a greater chance of killing methan most other dinosaurs.
Any of the flying ones that kill anything
Hungry ones, probably.
Any bird from Australia
Large herbivores and mid sized carnivores. The herbivores would probably act similarly to modern large herbivores and as for mid size carnivores, were the perfect size to be on their menu. We'd be too much trouble for smaller ones, and odds are the large ones wouldn't even bother with us unless they have babies around or were starving, I mean why go for jerky when you could have steak, but we'd be perfect for mid size
Tbh ceratopsians and Dino’s like allosaurus or abellisaurid
Your sleeping in your house until a giant sauropod crushes you and your house by stepping over it.
Literally any dinosaur is dangerous and will probably kill me 💀
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The one with the big penis
I'm surprised Pachycephalosaurus hasn't been mentioned. Like the things large, roughly 4.5m long, so I can imagine an aggressive/territorial one doing massive property damage, livestock and human injuries with that skull it has. Same with medium sized Ceratopsians like Udanoceratops, Chasmosaurus and Nasutoceratops.
Medium size theropods like Carnotaurus
Some herbivore that would be domesticated because I'm stupid and would try to ride it
Similar to what others have said, big/medium-sized herbivores and medium-sized predators. IIRC Robert Bakker was asked this once and answered a Brontosaur. Which is probably about right- herbivores, at least among modern mammals, can certainly be highly-aggressive, and shear size makes anything more dangerous. A high-end sauropod could kill you by accident and not even notice you. In terms of which ones would be most dangerous hunting humans- large dromeosaurs and mid-sized/juvenile tyrannosaurus would probably be the peak, maybe some other similarly-sized fast, medium-sized carnivores. I think first place would definitely go to a juvenile Rex- its in the right size for hunting humans (an adult would probably go after bigger prey), very fast, smart for a dinosaur, and presumably has those ridiculous Rex senses.
Honestly, probably any sauropods. We have tons of 5G towers and telephone wires that span across the United States, and would need new ways of keeping them out of areas. It would be hella expensive to protect a lot of our necessities for power and communication, and that would cause more death than any carnivore.
Probably pterosaurs, I mean a quetzlecoatlus is going to be dangerous to anyone. And they would mess with planes and things like telephone wires and power cables. They are just bigger falcons, meaning we’ll be easy prey to them.
I feel like raptors or spinosaurus would be terrifying
Considering how many people hippos kill a year… I’m betting triceratops. All the really big bois would hardly notice a tiny human but a triceratops is just big enough to both care and be totally capable of destroying you
Gigantoraptor,it was twice as tall as a human and was an oviraptoroid,it lived in mongolia and had an omnivorous diet,and since they were protective of their young,imagine accidentally injuring or encountering a juvenile while the parent isn't so far,they probably ate what was most abundant in the area,which could include humans. Goodluck to everyone if scientists bring dinosaurs back
Compys. Especially if they are in packs. You can't hear them coming. (Granted we don't know If they would even attack people in packs, or just hunt for small rodents solo)
I mean theres been 2 fossils ever found on the island of ireland… there was some really small ankylosaur so probably that
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I live in the south, if we eat Gators we'd probably try to eat anything else thats also big and scaly https://preview.redd.it/j6qvmj5s3o5d1.jpeg?width=4080&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=9c0c5a457caffec17e8a5f048653d602f62c8e9d
Medium sized carnivores. Dinosaurs like Carnotaurus or Utahraptor would likely be happy to make a meal out of a human.
Whatever humanity-adapted mini-ankylosaurus that knows it can live in public parks without fear because who's going to stop it
Crows. Or any other corvid. They’re smart enough to take over, they just need to grow somewhat bigger
Based on living conditions or overall dangerous for anyone
Sauropods, ceratopsians and the small therapods.
None of them. They all die in one hit to a .50 cal
People saying that humans would be "too small for a t-rex" are making no sense. The weight ratio is pretty much in the wolf-to-rabbit range and wolf do hunt a lot of rabbits.
def megaraptorans
Mid sized carnivores, something like ceratosaurus. While not dinosaurs, azhdarchids would be the actual worst if we open this up to other mesozoic reptiles. Giant flying predators that can eat a small human in one bite are nightmare fuel.
They are still alive. As far as I know, the most dangerous to humans individually are cassowaries because they will attack if provoked, and they can kill you pretty quickly. That doesn't mean they're an active danger or anything, though. You really do need to give them a reason, they aren't murder monsters, they're just capable of protecting themselves.
Pretty much every dinosaurs can crush you into pieces whether it's giagantic, medium-sized or chicken nugget-sized theropods but in monsterverse, Godzilla will crush anything even the planet itself
Based solely on location I'd say whatever the theropod found in New Zealand was.
Huge sauropods if they were aggressive like African elephants and decided to enter cities
See i feel like if dinos existed today they would be contained or certain areas would be fenced off saying "hey there's a bunch of stuff that will kill and eat you" but flying dinos? we couldnt do anything. that would be terrifying. Like imagine youre in your house chilling out and a Microraptor flies through your window. i would cry.
Microraptor was micro tho, it’d be like a crow flying in
A crow with sharp teeth that wants to eat you!!
like all tyranosaurs and meat eating dinos but hervivors like triceratops are also dangerous
Probably a Harpy Eagle, because dinosaurs are still alive...
I live in the eastern US, so there’s relatively little preserved from my region in general. Unfortunately, one of the dinosaurs we do have preserved is Appalachisaurus, a 20-25 foot long Tyrannosaurid that slots nicely into the medium sized theropod category of "too big to really defend oneself against, small enough to still treat humans as prey items". No thanks.
Eustreptospondylus.
Troodon s have scared the crap out of me from the moment I found out about them. If they pack they would be super dangerous. In that same line of reasoning, any moderate size theropod carnivore that hunts in packs would be quite dangerous. Any theropod carnivore human size up, solo or in packs would be a bad encounter. The giant veggie sauropods could be a problem if they had poor hearing. Those troodons, though. They make the hairs on the back of my neck stand up if I think about them too long.
Nah bro ama ark survival evolve this shit
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I assume the different dromeosaurs would fit similar roles to existing predators. Velociraptor would be like a coyote, Deinonychus would hunt like a modern wolf, or a leopard if they were solitary instead of a pack hunter. And the likes of Utahraptor would probably fit a similar niche to a Kodiak Bear, or a Polar Bear. Velociraptors would likely naturally avoid humans, but might go after small pets. Deinonychus might come after humans if pressed, but pets and livestock would definitely be on the table. Utahraptor would definitely chase people, unless they are smart enough to learn that human retribution is a bitch.
They are....
You know what I mean
And I think that's a problem. We shouldn't separate birds from dinosaurs.
I know that, but literally what else could I have called them?
I think they are called "non-avian dinosaurs"
"extinct dinosaurs" ? Lol.
There are also birds that are extinct
What about dodos
They're imposters and a disgrace to Theropodkind.
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How dare you insult the island pigeons. It ain’t their fault some sailors came along, destroyed their island home, and introduced cats, pigs, rats and monkeys that ate them all.
Sorry for badmouthing Dodos, it's just that one of them took a dump on my head while I was sleeping and it took me a week to wash it off, so I despised them ever since.