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The Land Before Time => General Land Before Time => Topic started by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on January 20, 2015, 12:09:19 AM

Title: Were there any poisonous dinos?
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on January 20, 2015, 12:09:19 AM

Ok, we know there are the very pesky Sharpteeth, but are there other dangerous dinos out there?  I mean, can some have poison bites, poison spray, or poisonous horns or something?

If so, maybe we should bring some of those into LBT.  It would bring a new angle of danger.  

Also, they could be either Sharptooth or Leaf Eater types too as the danger would be poison, not so much the "want to eat you" type of danger.

Title: Were there any poisonous dinos?
Post by: DarkHououmon on January 20, 2015, 12:21:09 AM

There's one dinosaur I heard of that was believed to be venomous.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...nosaurs-snakes/ (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091221-venomous-dinosaur-venom-dinosaurs-snakes/)

Title: Were there any poisonous dinos?
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on January 20, 2015, 12:31:08 AM

Ha, and they are Bothtooth too!  (Gallim will certainly bring them to the Great Valley.  Great thing that Chomper brought some Nightflowers then.   :lol   )

They almost seem like "evil Guidos".  

Title: Were there any poisonous dinos?
Post by: Midnight on January 20, 2015, 12:37:48 AM

Quote from: DarkHououmon,Jan 19 2015 on  11:21 PM

There's one dinosaur I heard of that was believed to be venomous.

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/20...nosaurs-snakes/ (http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091221-venomous-dinosaur-venom-dinosaurs-snakes/)

Excellent article! I always wondered if there were poisonous dinosaurs. Thank you for solving my doubt =D

Title: Were there any poisonous dinos?
Post by: LittlefootAndAliTogether on January 20, 2015, 12:49:15 AM

Sadly, that one may not, due to evidence from the very next year, have been poisonous after all.   :cry  :cry   However, if we put them in LBT we can ignore that.   :lol  :lol

Title: Were there any poisonous dinos?
Post by: Ptyra on January 20, 2015, 02:57:13 AM

Pro tip: If you bite it, it's poisonous. If it bites you, it's venomous.
The phrase you are looking for is "venomous".  

I personally imagine at least some carnivorous dinosaurs weren't necessarily venomous in the same way that a handful of modern snakes are, (potentially) save for the fellow in Dark's link. Rather, they had a similar toxicity of horror that Komodo Dragons do in their saliva, perhaps bolted up to nightmare levels.

Though there probably isn't any evidence for it, I'd figure that there might be enough rot in a carnivore's level to at least cause an infection in those who survived a bite...which happens a lot more frequently than we typically account for. Remember, just because it's an apex predator in its prime, that doesn't mean it's going to make a kill every time. It's going to fail so much more than it succeeds, like every modern predator.