Talk:Stegosaurus/@comment-25498628-20141026161154/@comment-25498628-20141115052225

People impaled by spikes die a slow painful death a blow from a club could kill in seconds a slow painful death sounds more sad IMO stegosaurus could swing it's tail swiftly inflicting major damage that cracks bone and impales the victim after all carnivorous dinosaurs were very deadly so i think stegosaur would have to be strong enough to swing it's tail fast enough to impale the predator and the predator with cracked bones and a very bloody wound but since there are large predators the large predators would still feel the blow but the thagomizer impaling them would kill them slowly and scavengers could find the body by the stench of fresh blood and dying flesh i think herbivores had unique defense systems from scary tail spikes to clubs i understand there is no most lethal dinosaur because dinosaurs each have their own defense mechanism but these mechanisms the way all of you and i are describing them makes them seem like predators would never reach them