Tyrannosaurs rex vs Spinosaurus | Putting The Debate To Rest

Hey ladies and gentlemen, in this video I'll be going through one of the most infamous battles to ever touch debates. The Tyrannosaurus rex vs Spinosaurus. Which will be the victor?

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Timestamps
0:00 Introduction
0:45 Core Debate
9:46 Who Wins?

Thumbnail Credit
T.rex - Osmatar
Spino - sphenaphinae

Sources:

Neuroanatomy of the spinosaurid Irritator challengeri (Dinosauria: Theropoda) indicates potential adaptations for piscivory: 10.1038/s41598-020-66261-w

Spinosaurus is not an aquatic dinosaur: doi: 10.7554/eLife.80092

A buoyancy, balance and stability challenge to the hypothesis of a semi-aquatic Spinosaurus Stromer, 1915 (Dinosauria: Theropoda): doi: 10.7717/peerj.5409

Contributions to a Discussion of Spinosaurus aegyptiacus as a Capable Swimmer and Deep-Water Predator: doi: 10.3390/life11090889

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[platinumwarrior]

Hard to imagine any other land predator giving Trex a run for its money. It truly was the tyrant lizard king

[lordcommander]

T-Rex was so brokenly OP it needed an asteroid to balance it. I heard there's a paper coming out next year on an even larger Rex that was discovered that's possibly 25% larger than Scotty.

[chadgorosaurus]

The Tyrannosaurus is just too bulky for a Spinosaurus.

Most accurate fight between these two is the Spinosaurus retreating.

[sedatkaratas]

Trex had all the cheat codes enabled. Truely the most OP animal to ever live

[gattycroc]

Barinasuchus vs Megistotherium is a battle that I really want to see more people do.

[LOVEWORMZZ]

Trex every time a new study comes out “y’all must have amnesia, you forgot that I’m Him”

[gbhopbp]

This is probably the best video on this topic to date.

Many of the points and papers given were numerous, spot on, and a lot were shown that are probably not too known with the public. This is the first of these I’ve seen that gives Tyrannosaurus the win on land and in water, which is something groups of Paleontologists have agreed on recently thanks to the multiple analysis and work of Paul Sereno.

An example of Paleontologists mostly supporting your word comes from the Formorphology crew from a 2022 stream hosted in winter, in which this team all agreed that Tyrannosaurus obliterates Spinosaurus on land and still has the edge in open water.

While this was clearly a mostly educational video, I couldn’t help but find the beginning extremely humorous - having to actively restrain on using largest specimen vs largest specimen, because it’d be extremely obvious that Tyrannosaurus’ effortless 100% chance of killing Spinosaurus on land somehow transcends the ratio and turns into even more of a Godstomp - a beyond the concept of difficulty annihilation, if you will.

On a different note, currently I am partaking in assistance on an expensive project about this topic (As well as other topics), with this project using dozens and dozens of papers for supporting claims, modeling, animation, and extra private insight from Paleontologists who are experts on Dinosaurian anatomy and physics that assisted. The project is delayed and on slow progress at the moment, but it’ll eventually step back up with more time, which this Paleontological insight will be revealed when this finishes.

The project has a long way to go but I made this comment to assure you that this is the best video on this subject to date, with massive Paleontologists in the field supporting most of everything you elaborated upon, and I’d hope to see you in the comments when the project finishes - just be sure to give it a lot of time.

[SergiKTO]

Ay, that rex drawing from the thumbnail is mine! completely forgot i made that, its so old now. Happy to see it in the wild lol

[tvvistedvnom]

This shouldn’t even be a debate anymore in terms of real life, Trex is just built different from every other theropod and is the superior predator. In the Jurassic universe it’s different where it’s pretty weak compared to the spino and the giga

[curts]

Before anyone panics, you have to remember: Spinosaurus was a glorified stork that still put up a hell of a fight against anything trying to push it around. Fighting was never its goal, but it handled itself well.

T.rex was literally built for fighting. T.rex woke up each morning and chose violence. It was literally made for fighting. To choose peace was the equivalent of a human choosing donuts, pizza, and weed; as peaceful and happy as that lifestyle is, it poisons and kills us in the long run sadly.

It isn’t fair to expect a giant fisherman to beat Tyson Fury or Mike Tyson in a boxing match. The latter two men literally fought for a living, while the former, big and strong as he is, would rather get back to fishing.

Love and respect spinosaurus for what he was, and don’t bully him for what he wasn’t.

Don’t throw shade at T.rex for being the biggest jerk ever. Nature made sure that peace was never an option for the big rex.

[spacemanjupiter]

Jesus christ, this is terrifying. Evidence shows that a T-rex could literally decapitate a Triceratops. "It's gruesome, but the easiest way to do this was to pull the head off." 4:00

Imagine what it could do to a skinny Spinosaur skull. I bet a T-rex could literally bite the face right off of a Spinosaur, or bite it completely in half. If you don't think so, just look at both of their skulls not from the side, but head on. It looks like a pitbull's head vs a greyhound. And look at how much neck a Spinosaur has. How easy would that be to get to and bite clean through for a T-rex?

Seems like the more that time passes and the more we learn, the more absolutely terrifying this tank of a killing machine is shown to have been in real life.

[JaydenDimaio]

People overestimate how useful arms are in therapod battles, even the biggest therapod arms are still tiny for their body, it not like they're gonna box with them, they had very limited movement.

Plus why use claws when you have teeth? You're just gonna lose your arms.

[KurNorock]

Correction about the t-rex arm strength. It wasn't the entire arm that could lift 200kg. That was JUST the bicep muscle. The arm consisted of most of the same muscles you have in your arm. Your arm can lift much more than just the amount your bicep can curl. I have never seen a proper study on the strength of the entire arm of the t-rex, but just judging by the biomechanics of how an arm works, I would estimate that each entire arm could probably have lifted around 800 to 1, 000kg and may have been capable of supporting, or holding onto, as much as 2, 000kg.

[HiZaKunG]

T-rex is like the most buff and thick ass theropod out there. Literally hunts pray that are essentially war machine. While Spino is just suited for catching giant-ass fish and maybe good at swimming (Still pretty impressive nonetheless) but Its like Giga-chad vs an average gym guy. Although somewhat buff and maybe even taller but the t-rex is way too OP. I still like Spino tho it's so weird and bizarre. It is such an interesting dinosaur.

[tinng]

Sometimes all it takes is common sense. If you can just go to the museum and look at the skeletal builds of these two animals, you can easily tell which one is more impressive. I’ve seen both animals and T. rex just looks larger, more robust, and scarier overall. I am convinced that people who say Spino would win are just little kids who have never seen these specimens in person and get their facts from fictional movies instead

[jacobcox]

I find it funny that Jack Horner tried to use JP3 as a way to prop up his "Obligate Scavenger T. rex" hypothesis by having it eat a carcass and lose to the Spinosaurus, yet the T. rex in the movie still chases the humans like a predator despite the huge buffet it had with that dead dinosaur body.

[NickSibz]

Great video and data. If you're up to date at all with these two predators. It's literally a no contest at this point. T-Rex wins 10/10 times and if new data about them being 12+ tons is confirmed. Gig has basically no shot as well. These things were walking murder tanks.

[tonydeleeuw]

Awesome, I always wondered about this. In my view when I compared how the two were built I always thought Spino's are built for fishing and Rex's were built for war.

[almightygiga]

Great Video! As someone who is working on starting my own channel on dino stuff, I gotta root for the Giga. The Giga was the Ali of Therapods, built for speed and wounding jabs. The T-Rex was the Mike Tyson. If the Giga played it smart and used its speed, it could rip chunks off the Rex, but if the Rex gets one bite off, it's all over.

[lugialover]

T. Rex’s crushing bite force of 13, 000 pounds psi would’ve snapped Spino’s neck