How many Apatosaurus (AKA Brontosaurus) fell victim to the T-rex? Well, If you answered none, then you are correct. They were actually separated by quite some time. Apatosaurus lived 57 to146 million years ago (During the late Jurassic period), and the T-Rex lived around 85 to 65 million years ago (During the late Cretaceous period). A T-Rex would have never even seen an Apatosaurus, let alone attacked one.
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| Time line extract from www.felidmuseum.org |
Why is there such a misconception of this, you say? Hollywood movies have most of the blame. A lot of this misconception was derived from old, stop motion, animation films from the early 1900's that showed many scenes of a T-rex attacking an Apatosaurus. We now have this image buried in the back of our minds.
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