Unchanged Respect

A new study pegs Tyrannosaurus Rex as similar hunters to modern day mammalian carnivores. Somehow this doesn't surprise me. I'm glad the Jurassic Park film got this part right. The film show it feeding on small, weak prey ("Where's the goat?") such as humans and it only chases the Jeep for a minute or two before giving up and stalking off for a different meal. The top speed might not be accurate but that's not what this study is about. These are all similar hunting characteristics of large cat species, and it makes perfect sense. Yet another scientific study that answers a question to which most intelligent, informed people should respond "yea no sh*t."
I prefer to not be crass and arrogant but anyone with an intermediate level of dinosaur knowledge should have possessed more than a hunch about this from the age of 7. I still think the T Rex was pretty cool, but it will never match the badassery of Utahraptors. Combine the lethality of a velociraptor, the pack mentality of wolves, the intelligence of dolphins, and the strength of Komodo dragons and you can start to imagine the terror of being ambushed by a gang of hungry 2-meter-tall reptilian carnivores. Keep in mind that in order for a 2-meter-tall therapod (read: biped) to balance properly, it needs to be more than twice that length from head to tail.
Ah, living triangles of death.