Most Dangerous Animals Extinct - Jurassic Fight Club Dinosaur Battles and Pictures

Scientists have discovered only a small percent of all the species that have lived and died on the Earth. But from fossil evidence, biology, and knowledge of evolution, they've discovered some of the most dangerous animals that competed for survival in ages past. Modern animals today are dwarfed in comparison to the size of these extinct animals. They were the apex predators of the jungles millions of years ago and the amazing feats they were able to do are still being discovered.

If you were to take the greatest battles of the beasts in film and television, you would have these three scenarios - fight scenes captured in film.

Tyrannosaurus Rex vs. Spinosaurus - Jurassic Park III

The iconic king of dinosaurs and one of the largest land carnivores in Earth's history, the T-Rex (Tyrannosaurus Rex) was about 43 feet in length, had a head the size of a car, jaws full of teeth the size of toothbrushes, and a bite force measuring up to 235,000 newtons. However, in Jurassic Park III, its status as the king of the predators was contested in a legendary battle with Spinosaurus, the apex theropod of Egypt.

Spinosaurus was larger than T-Rex and had a skull nearly six feet long. It also had a gigantic sail that made it much more intimidating. As rival top predators competing for food, it was a fight to the death. But Spinosaurus measured up to 60 feet long and was lighter in build. While not as bulky as the T-Rex, it managed to avoid the stronger jaws of its opponent and grabbed a hold its neck with its teeth - and snapped it. The roar of victory was the defining point of the movie, as the throne was overtaken by this dinosaur from North Africa. The first original fossils of Spinosaurus were destroyed in World War II, during a bombing.

Such a battle is mythical because the species were miles and millions of years apart. But in the movie, the dinosaurs were cloned from DNA and these climactic clashes took place out of competition in the fragile ecosystem.

Megalodon Shark vs. Brygmophyseter (Giant Sperm Whale) - Jurassic Fight Club

The ocean was the medium required to support huge beasts; whales, giant extinct predatory sharks, and other ancestors of today's deep ocean animals. The Megalodon shark was a giant ancestor the Great White Shark, and it is still known to be the largest predatory fish that has ever existed.

Its teeth were triangularly shaped, 7 inches long, and built to crush through bone. Megalodon also had the most powerful bite in the animal kingdom, and is responsible for the shattered skeletons of many whales on the ocean floor; its bite marks on recovered skeletons prove it. In Jurassic Fight Club, a television series on the History Channel, paleontologists calculated that its jaw power was enough to crush a truck. The physical size of the shark itself was staggering - it was nearly 50 feet in length and there may be undiscovered dead (or some speculate, alive) specimens reaching 70 feet or more in deep unexplored areas of the ocean.

However, in Jurassic Fight Club, the shark met its match against the also extinct Giant Sperm whale (Brygmophyseter). The whale was 40 feet long, had an enormously powerful head that it used as a battering ram, and jaws full of biting steak-like serrated teeth similar in size of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

The Megalodon was more agile and had a more powerful bite, as opposed to the whale having more speed in one direction. The shark kept taking chunks out of the whale's fins but soon the whale called out to its pack through sonar waves. The most dangerous animals had special weapons to call upon in battle. Several Giant Sperm whales surrounded the Megalodon and continuously rammed its body and took a few bites, forcing the giant shark to escape. It was almost killed by the Giant Sperm whale's ability to focus its sonar waves into the direction it is attacking, which is a monumentous discovery. In other words; a sonar blast that scrambled the shark's senses and caused major damage to its body. Is this coming out of science fiction? Nope.

However, the victor is the Megalodon, as it uses its superior sense of smell to detect the sinking corpse of the Giant Sperm whale it defeated, where the rest of its pack won't find it.

King Kong vs. Three Tyrannosaurus Rex Predators - King Kong (2005)

One of the greatest battles of the beasts featured in cinema took place in Peter Jackson's epic remake of "King Kong" in 2005. While King Kong was a fictional representation of a gigantic version of a modern day gorilla, the creatures that it fought in the island prehistorically existed, including the giant insects and larger than average theropods.

The protagonist damsel in distress, played by Naomi Watts, ended up with three Tyrannosaurus Rex bulls on her tail. King Kong defends her from three of the most legendary predators on earth on land, off the cliffs into the large vines, across a river, and a final confrontation in a field of grass.

King Kong took the pain of their powerful bites, and punched and grappled the dinosaurs over and over into the ground. The breath-taking scene when he finishes the last T-Rex made it the best fight of nature created by Hollywood, to say the least. He grabbed the T-Rex by the neck, pounded it face-first into the soil, forced open its jaw and crushed each upper and lower side of the bone into the dinosaur's brain. Then he stood up and did his famous pounding of the chest and roaring into the jungle act.

Scientists have only discovered a fraction of all the generations of species that lived and died. There could be species not yet discovered - some that could be as large and terrifying as these dangerous creatures were, so only time can tell.

References:

Dal Sasso, Cristiano; Maganuco, Simone; Buffetaut, Eric; & Mendez, Marcos A. (2005). "New information on the skull of the enigmatic theropod Spinosaurus, with remarks on its sizes and affinities". Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology25 (4): 888-896

Renz, Mark (2002). Megalodon: Hunting the Hunter, PaleoPress. ISBN 0-9719477-0-8.