Talk:Tyrannosaurus Rex/@comment-1410838-20130128121110

Size-wise, the T-Rex in TRA corresponds to the physically-similar Giganotosaurus. Although Gigano is, IIRC, believed to have been less aggressive and preyed mostly on smaller animals (like Lara lol).

Moreover, I'd like to note that if a T-Rex and small group of "Velociraptors" (I quote because actual Velociraptors were about the size of your typical large dog... thanks, Jurassic Park) like are shown in the game *did* manage to survive the extinction event---to say nothing of the subsequent Ice Age---they would have still died out millions of years ago without a sizable breeding pool with which to repopulate their species. Repopulating a species would also require a large food supply, which the small valley they were living in didn't appear to have. A survivable population of carnivores would also require space, something said valley also did not have. Such territorial and food disputes would have driven the animals into conflict, resulting in a lot of stripped skeletons belonging to the losers of such disputes. Complicating all of that would have been the valley's human population, evident by the stone structure and wooden constructions found in the valley.

Obviously this "lost valley" is just meant to be a cool environment with cool enemies (and it is, my second favorite in the entire TR franchise after Greece in TR1/TRA :D) that I'm reading way too deep into (or its sudden enclosure is fairly recent and Lara simply caught these animals trapped within, fighting for their final meals), but I digress.