Talk:Stegosaurus/@comment-25498628-20141026161154/@comment-6030742-20141026173422

There is no such thing as a "most lethal dinosaur of all time". I could say that Ankylosaurus was "the most lethal" because it's basically a moving fortress. Nobody could get in or out and with that tail mace you can be sure that you aint going anywhere. If you got hit by it, you would have a lot of broken bones, soft tissue wounds and internal bleeding.

Or, let's take diplodocid dinosaurs. Their tail can go at supersonic speeds at the tip of their tail, which means that it goes faster than the sound made. Literally, it'll come out of nowhere. At such speeds, the kinetic energy is enough to crack open even your skull (the hardest bone in your body) causing multiple tears in organs and internal bleeding.

Therizinosaurus is another one. You aint getting nowhere when it has those claws. With the sheer lenght of them, and its arms, it can easily reach you even if you tried to run. Just two stab wounds won't hold a candle to being chopped up in three now would it?

You can take ceratopsids too. Rhinos are very lethal as is. Triceratops can easily stab those two big curved horns in you and you can't do anything about it. Even, it could decide that it wants to get rid of you in its face and basically throw you up. Ouch.

Or let's take Shantungosaurus. But it doesn't have big claws, horns or long tail you say. Well it's big enough to ram any tyrannosaurid and it most certainly can stample you. Or if by some reason it rams you instead, you can expect to start flying because it will be your death wish.

These are only some dinosaurs that can be lethal and I haven't even started on carnivores.

TL;DR: "The most lethal dinosaur of all time" is subjective and varies on the person's opinion. Even the mear concept of "A best dinosaur" is downright silly because dinosaurs were animals, not battle monsters. It's as dumb as having a debate on "Which bird is the best of all time?". It just doesn't happen. Because people know that each bird is unique in it's own way and no bird is "better" than any other.