Could T-Rex Survive Nowadays?

Could T-Rex Survive Nowadays?

Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the best-known dinosaurs to have ever walked the Earth. It is known to have been a ferocious predator. One which has been portrayed in many films and books. It stood 12 feet tall, 40 feet long, and weighed over 15,000 pounds or 6 and a half tonnes. But, if Jurassic Park was to become a reality and T Rex DNA could help to recreate this awesome prehistoric giant, could it survive today?

Of course, having a giant predatory carnivore roaming the planet would have severe consequences for mankind, other animals, and the ecosystem in which we live. But it's an interesting question. Could T Rex survive today?

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[thecod]

I think it could, but it would need to decrease in size and be specialized in ambushing large prey and scavenging. Like for example, it could serve as a reasonable predator for elephants but maintaining the level of bulk and size it did during the Cretaceous is out of the question.

[cjalexanderjr]

What about surviving in our atmosphere? During the Cretaceous, the atmosphere was more dense with higher oxygen.

[williambuchanan]

The amount of oxygen in the cretaceous period was far higher than it is today, if Trex was grown from a lab it might bot reach the sane size as it did back then. A part from that the biggest problem it would have would be poachers, a Trex would be worth an absolute fortune in the black market.

[grantnorthcott]

The current thoughts are that the T rex may have been endothermic or warm blooded as the amount of energy expended by the animal would require a body that produced it's own heat. One of the pictures you posted at time index 7:14 is not a Triceratops as you indicated, but appears to be a styracosaurus. There is also evidence that T rex also lived in colder climates and may have sprouted a sparse furry or feathery covering for insulation

[DinoGoofHybridHero]

Now I'm thinking about what other Dinosaurs could survive nowadays and coexist! I think the smaller to medium sized ones like Deinonychus and Gallimimus could survive!

[DaniMartVTen]

YouTube, please stop pushing this video into my recommended list.

But since you insist:

No.

Neither Rex, Regina, Imperator, could survive in the Anthropocene. All the Tyrannosaurs were family-unit obligate carnivores, socially comparable to Spotted Hyenas, yet their primary prey were Sauropods, hunting and eating them comparable to Komodo Dragons, in an ecosystem of Giant Trees comparable to British Columbia's coastal rainforest. They were as smart as Baboons yet slower than Humans, having infrasonic language like Elephants, they coordinated their efforts by using the swifter-footed young to drive the prey towards the adults who were ambush crushers.

The reason why none of the Tyrannosaurs could survive alongside Humans, is because Humans are a negative influence on the body size of all species, destroying the largest specimens on the planet and then proceeding to the next largest, be it for food or for territorial reasons. Not only would there be nothing large enough for a Tyrannosaur family unit nor a single specimen to survive upon, they would instantly be the largest species on the planet themselves, and thus destroyed.

If any famous carnivorous dinosaur were to survive, barely, in the Anthropocene, it would be Deinonychus which would make prey of Giraffe, but if your goal were to induce a population control on Humans, a Velociraptor is actually the correct size for it. All the Raptors used their sickle claw to stab and hold their prey much like a Red-Legged Seriema does, would equally allow a Velociraptor to puncture the rib cage of a Human or anything smaller of prey as it pounced on it, using teeth and claws and family numbers to weigh their victim down into exhaustion from blood loss and shock, should of course the absence of Firearms and Bird Flu weren't present in the Anthropocene.

In truth, Velociraptors would have an unfair advantage in surviving the Anthropocene in virtue to their smaller size, ground-based territorialism comparable to a Roadrunner, and just might be able to hold their own against big cats and wolves in a confrontation, due to their social intelligence to navigate which fights are worth it. Given also their filmographic culture in Human society, and their comparable stature to a Turkey, some degree of tolerance for their existence is predictable.

As for immediate prey, if Velociraptors were introduced into North America today, they would find comparable prey in that of Feral Pigs to that of Protoceratops, and thus would earn some government recognition of pro-environmental impact for human interests, despite their equal predation capability to Humans themselves, and so would be a heavily regulated introduced species. One obvious conflict is thus the prey transition to livestock such as Domestic Pigs, Cattle, Horses, as well as Deer and Moose, would put them in competition with Coyotes, Wolves, Cougars, yet may be advantageous to Bears as scavengers of Velociraptor kills?

There is also an entirely hypothetical scenario to consider, that given the social intelligence of both Velociraptors and Wolves, if following the precedents of Urban Baboons and Feral Dogs, may share in territorial co-habitation for mutual benefits, such as in the Velociraptors may be territorially inclined to defend wolf dens in exchange for scavenging off of wolf kills by nesting in same areas. This would strengthen Wolf numbers and Velociraptor numbers sympathetically, which may be further encouraged by Toxoplasmosis, thereby resides also the inherent risk of forming a co-species "super pack", which is surely to change the continent in some rather startling displays of nature.

Just as hypothetically, Deinonychus could through its social intelligence bridge the gap of collaboration with both African Lions and Spotted Hyenas, whereby much like the young Tyrannosaurs would drive prey towards its adults, the Lions and Hyenas could learn to drive prey towards Deinonychus as an ambush jumper, thereby hunting efficiency is significantly enhanced by a shared effort. This would more certainly enhance the kill rates on Cape Buffalo, and may foster less territorial aggression between Lions and Hyenas, possibly even with African Painted Dogs!

None of this would work however, so long as Humans remain overpopulating and over-powerful upon their planetary ecosystem destruction, as simply no other animal can survive man, least of all man himself. That being said, it would be very interesting to see if Indigenous Tribes might be able to semi-domesticate Raptors as comparable to Cassowary, so there is a chance for limited areas of the world to have mutual co-existence, maybe.

[pinedragon]

Before I watch this, I want to express my instinctual gut response to this question; I feel like if they lived in areas that had enough food for them, they could in fact survive modern day.

That is if we’re talking about a T. rex that occurs naturally and thus has the immune system to handle modern ailments. But if we’re talking like a time travel situation, yeah no they’d probably be fucked.

[josephmeador]

Quick answer? No ... There isnt the same amount of oxygen in the atmosphere. The T-Rex would feel like he was on Mt Everest at sea level.

[nicothenu]

I think the biggest problem for T-Rex would be enough big enough prey to hunt. A prey can also be too small for the effort to hunt them if they could catch them. It’s like a lion who has to feed only on sparrow-sized agile birds. It would occasionally catch one or two, but the amount of energy needed to get the body going on in combination of the effort it must do to catch enough birds would starve the lion. I think it probably only would survive on scavenging if there is enough carrion for a big enough group of T-rex to survive without the danger of inbreeding.

[elmohead]

I think Trex would instinctively attack an excavator thinking it's a yellow sauropod, broke its jaw, and be confused and die.

[thewolfking]

I can imagine if dinosaurs were around. They’re prey items would be different. Dinosaurs like T. rex would eat like elephants or rhinos and triceratops to sustain itself.

[aqvamarek]

T-Rex could only survive, if the current Apex Predator, Human, let him survive. And this relationship is linked to the golden rule of animal survival "do not touch the humans and there kids", if not, they will hunt your kids until your species is gone.

[nicholashaan]

Well, that depends on the connections the T Rex has.
Can't get by without knowing someone nowadays.

[gtracer]

I can think of many more dinosaurs it would fit in with our modern times. Triceratops would probably be the largest and most interesting dinosaur to recreate. And there many more small to medium-sized theropods that could fit in someplace without disturbing our modern ecosystem too much.

[roberthuntley]

I think one problem would be the shortage of suitable sized prey animals after a few weeks of hunting, particularly if you imagine a breeding population of T-Rex (call it at least 10 individuals to maintain genetic diversity). You can imagine a T-Rex killing a hippo/elephant each week and surviving on that, but those animals are fairly rare and slow breeding so their populations would crash with that rate of predation.

A smaller/faster version could probably survive on the more numerous wildebeest population, but a T-Rex would struggle to catch many.

[jaxxmarcano]

12 feet tall? That's kind of underwhelming.
I thought they were 30 feet tall.

[EpicNinja]

The lack of trees would probably shrink its size drastically i'd say roughly around the size of a elephant but I feel the Elephants being smart big and always together would be a issue for a single T-rex

[zakuzeon]

#1: Spinosaurus was already extinct by the time T-Rex appeared, Spinosaurus also didn't live in 'the south', it lived in what's roughly modern day Egypt...
#2: Hyenas make more kills than lions do...
#3: Alligators, not crocodiles have the strongest bite...

[studentleague]

Tyrannosaurus Rex is a 12.4 meters long and 10.5 tonnes colossus. It can only survive in captivity

[hankschrader]

Yes. Because Humans would put them in Zoos and go to great lengths to keep them alive.