Venomous Dragon
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Nov 5, 2013 23:26:25 GMT -5
I think Gigantopithecus would win due to it's size advantage. So an ape that weighed about 1,500 pounds would win against a much better-armed varanid that weighed over 2 tons? Makes sense. The 2 ton estimate for megalania was based on the Komodo dragon. In other words, if it had the same proportions as the Komodo dragon it would weigh about that much at around 23-26 feet. If it had proportions closer to the perentie (an Australian monitor lizard) then it would have been a lot lighter at that weight. The premise that Megalania would have the proportions of the perentie based solely apon gentic relation is idiotic as far as I am concerned, It fills a niche very similar to the Komodo Dragon only with even large prey items, if anything its proprtions should be even greater than the dragon. A good example of this (although not perfect as the two fill the exact same niche) is the tiger and lion, lions are genetically closer related to leopards and yet have near identical morphologies as tigers.
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Post by Godzillasaurus on Nov 5, 2013 23:39:21 GMT -5
Megalania had a much more similar anatomy and structure to that of the Komodo dragon than to the perentie, I was only pointing that out.
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Post by Venomous Dragon on Nov 5, 2013 23:56:48 GMT -5
Im just pointing out that its Idiotic.
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Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2013 14:08:14 GMT -5
So an ape that weighed about 1,500 pounds would win against a much better-armed varanid that weighed over 2 tons? Makes sense. The 2 ton estimate for megalania was based on the Komodo dragon. In other words, if it had the same proportions as the Komodo dragon it would weigh about that much at around 23-26 feet. If it had proportions closer to the perentie (an Australian monitor lizard) then it would have been a lot lighter at that weight. The premise that Megalania would have the proportions of the perentie based solely apon gentic relation is idiotic as far as I am concerned, It fills a niche very similar to the Komodo Dragon only with even large prey items, if anything its proprtions should be even greater than the dragon. A good example of this (although not perfect as the two fill the exact same niche) is the tiger and lion, lions are genetically closer related to leopards and yet have near identical morphologies as tigers. The thing is that there is not a major proportional difference between leopard and tiger besides size. If a leopard was the same length as a tiger it would be very similar in weight since they have very similar proportions. So even with different genetic relations it would make sense for the lion to be near the size of a tiger. Thats not the case with a komodo and a scaled-up perentie, they have quite different proportions. I am not saying that Megalania was as thin as a perentie, though.
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Post by Godzillasaurus on Nov 6, 2013 19:40:29 GMT -5
The premise that Megalania would have the proportions of the perentie based solely apon gentic relation is idiotic as far as I am concerned, It fills a niche very similar to the Komodo Dragon only with even large prey items, if anything its proprtions should be even greater than the dragon. A good example of this (although not perfect as the two fill the exact same niche) is the tiger and lion, lions are genetically closer related to leopards and yet have near identical morphologies as tigers. The thing is that there is not a major proportional difference between leopard and tiger besides size. If a leopard was the same length as a tiger it would be very similar in weight since they have very similar proportions. So even with different genetic relations it would make sense for the lion to be near the size of a tiger. Thats not the case with a komodo and a scaled-up perentie, they have quite different proportions. I am not saying that Megalania was as thin as a perentie, though. I believe tigers are actually thicker-bodied than leopards
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Post by Carcharadontosaurus on Nov 7, 2013 17:54:05 GMT -5
Mismatch, megalania could be nearly twice the size of a saltwater croc. It slaughters the giant ape.
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Post by DinosaurMichael on Nov 8, 2013 7:25:23 GMT -5
Mismatch, megalania could be nearly twice the size of a saltwater croc. It slaughters the giant ape. Do I have to keep saying this. That's it's MAXIMUM! We're going by average weight's or parity. My god are you blind people!? People stop using the maximum weight!
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Post by Godzillasaurus on Nov 8, 2013 8:35:21 GMT -5
Mismatch, megalania could be nearly twice the size of a saltwater croc. It slaughters the giant ape. Do I have to keep saying this. That's it's MAXIMUM! We're going by average weight's or parity. My god are you blind people!? Peope stop using the maximum weight! Well even at parity the varanid still rips the ape to shreds. Primates can be very overrated sometimes
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Post by DinosaurMichael on Nov 8, 2013 9:45:48 GMT -5
Do I have to keep saying this. That's it's MAXIMUM! We're going by average weight's or parity. My god are you blind people!? Peope stop using the maximum weight! Well even at parity the varanid still rips the ape to shreds. Primates can be very overrated sometimes Sometimes even underrated as well.
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Post by Cr1TiKaL on Nov 8, 2013 12:37:23 GMT -5
Mismatch in favor of Megalania. The ape has extremely poor weaponry and the Gigantopithecus will not know what to do with a monitor lizard that is around it's size, has extremely sharp teeth and venom with it. Ape gets slaughtered.
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Post by Carcharadontosaurus on Nov 8, 2013 17:27:01 GMT -5
Mismatch, megalania could be nearly twice the size of a saltwater croc. It slaughters the giant ape. Do I have to keep saying this. That's it's MAXIMUM! We're going by average weight's or parity. My god are you blind people!? People stop using the maximum weight! Well ok, 2 tonnes might be the maximum but i certainly don't believe it was only 320 kg on average. The average megalania could still be around a tonne if you ask me.
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Post by Cr1TiKaL on Nov 9, 2013 4:40:20 GMT -5
^Agreed
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Post by west68 on Nov 24, 2015 10:52:01 GMT -5
the ape is not even half the size....but what a fight it would be. These ape were even around when humans were. Thats pretty amazing when you think about it
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Post by batcheno on Dec 23, 2016 12:32:44 GMT -5
They would tie. There both huge dinosaurs
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Post by batcheno on Jan 15, 2017 11:34:58 GMT -5
Лиоиаитлз
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