The Largest Non-Sauropod Dinosaur!

[Dingusoh]

When you’re younger predatory dinosaurs were the scariest dinosaurs but as you get older you realize it was the herbivores

[barbatoslupusrex]

Yeah, Shantungosaurus was no joke. I remember playing Shant on the Isle and no predator with common sense wanted to mess with you- especially if you had a herd to back you.

[Tyrexthecreaturedesigner]

Such a cool dinosaur! The Jurassic World movies did hadrosaurs dirty. Any herbivore can be dangerous. They’re like giant dragon cows.

[mr.magenta]

I love that you've added E1M1 in the background, Shant really is the Doomguy of herbivores

[purpleYamask]

I hate the "no pointy bits = defenseless" thing. Y'know what else doesnt really have pointy bits? Horses and female moose. Y'know whats known to kick and trample things to death? Horses and female moose. Now take in the fact that even outside Shantungosaurus, most hadrosaurs in the late Cretaceous were 35-40 feet and about 10 tons. If a rex, especially a young one, misjudges a lunge, it could get knocked over and crushed by a hadrosaur.

[hONdAKDdA]

*Flashbacks to Dinosaur King when Foolscap’s Shantungosaurus FOLDED Paris*

[lindavanwyk]

Imagine that the largest T Rex ever vs a normal size Shantungosaurus

[texafricanbullfrog]

Glad the isle introduced me to this behemoth when I was a kid

[riohudson]

I like to imagine that hadrosaurs were basically the hippos of their time. Entirely unarmed, but not AT ALL defenceless.

[enderethan]

Just because something’s a herbivore doesn’t mean it’s any less dangerous than a carnivore.

[CWalker]

Shantugosaurus would go perfect with a gigantic species pack in JWE2

[dylster]

Coming face to face with one of these guys would be awesome. Doubt they'd be friendly tho.

[trollerpilotxiv]

If you think about it, they basically filled the same niche as elephants in their time. They were even around the same size as large Palaeoloxodon specimens, if you don't count the tail.

[paleontologyisamzig]

Imagine walking through the cretaceous forest in asia and as soon as you visit the grasslands you see a shantungosaurus destroying a pair of zhuchengtyrannus while doom music plays

[Pstalos]

One of the only hadrosaurus that can fight a T-rex and win! What a absolute Titan

[dogbackwards]

If there is an afterlife and we're afforded all the knowledge of the universe by whatever higher power there may be, i'll be really looking forward to knowing what these awesome creatures really looked like. That's my one burning curiousity.

[chimichangazthestupidone]

I'm glad that Shantungosaurus is getting more recognition! It's an excellent way of showing that herbivores, more specifically hadrosaurs, are some dinosaurs to be taken seriously instead of punching bags for carnivores

[kordak]

If you ever played Legacy The Isle before they were removed, these guys were so threatening, even Rex players outright avoided them whenever possible.

[ozzywalker]

While Shantungosaurus was relatively underarmed in comparison to other ornithopods, like the stegosaurs and ankylosaurs, it still had some defensive capabilities.

1. It’s jaw was probably strong enough to snap a human in half.
2. They were capable of walking on their back legs, and probably ran on their hind legs as well. This would give them very strong legs and, therefore, strong kicks.
3. Their tails were very thick, so even though they didn’t have tail weapons (that we know of), they could still cause some serious damage with them.
4. Most hadrosaurs were herd animals. A mother would defend her young with her life, and a bull would defend his harem.

However, I have to address the power of tyrannosaurs real quick to balance things out.

1. They were the apex predators of their respective ecosystems. Their only real competition was each other.
2. Tyrannosaurs had exceptional senses, with Tyrannosaurus Rex being the greatest example.
3. Their bite force was only rivaled by that of a crocodilian of the same size.
4. Their legs were believed to be excellent for long-distance journeys.

[Raiders]

I always saw hadrosaur as something more akin to a horse, they look defenseless but they got strong legs to give a one-hit KO kick and they bite give the same trays to something as big as an elephant and that’s still a dangerous animal