In today's chapter, we pit mammal against dinosaur. The largest elephant in history, the Straight-tusked Elephant, is fighting the most infamous dinosaur of all time, Tyranosaurus Rex.
Size:
Straight-tusked Elephant: 17 ft tall at the shoulder
Tyrannosaurus: 12 feet tall at the hip
Strengths:
Straight-tusked Elephant: 15 ft long tusks, 22 tons, long strong trunk
Tyrannosaurus: 12 inch long teeth, claws on hind legs, evolved to tackle large prey, possibly lived in gangs
Weaknesses:
Straight-tusked Elephant: unused to fighting larger predators, no armor
Tyrannosaurus: Susceptible to broken bones
Battle:
In 200,000 BC, a lone male Straight-tusked Elephant strolls along the Iberian Peninsula. An anomaly appears in front of it, and curiosity drives the elephant into the sparkling light. It arrives into an alien world. The valleys of it's home are green with grass, but this new landscape is hotter than it's used to with scattered trees and a heard of odd looking horned grazers. It was not an environment the elephant liked, but it decides to take a drink from a nearby pond before moving along its way.
As it. It turned its head to see a creature the likes of which it had never seen before. It stood on two legs, covered in feathers, slightly smaller than himself, and a massive head with protruding teeth. The T-rex eyed the newcomer wearily, slowly approaching it. When the dinosaur got too close, the elephant flared out it's ears, bellowed, and charged towards this threat.
The tyrannosaurus quickly got out of its way, before sinking it's massive teeth into the hindquarters of the mammal. The mammoth turns around and smacks the theropod with it's powerful trunk, hard enough to dislodge several teeth. Backing away, the tyrannosaurus roars to the sky in hopes of bringing any nearby t-rex's to the scene. While the giant predator cried for help, the elephant charged again, and is able to lodge one of it's tusks into the gut of the king of the dinosaurs. Knowing the battle is lost, the T-rex begins to retreat, but it's painful wound makes it unbearably slow. The elephant gives chase, and catches one of the t-rex's feet in it's trunk, causing the carnivore to fall. Again, the elephant gores it's would-be predator in the chest and gut, before stepping onto the beast and crushing it's head and chest.
As it bawls in victory, the elephant turns around to return to it's home, but sees the brilliant ball of light begin to dim and shrink, as two other tyrannosaurus approach from a cluster of trees. The elephant desperately tries to dash towards the portal home, but the wound in it's hindquarters causes it to limp. Just as its outreached trunk touches the light, sharp pain rings through the elephants back legs again. As it turns to face its assailant, the other tyrannosaurus brings it's jaws to the back of the elephant's neck, and crushes it instantly. The straight-tusked elephant collapses, and watches the anomally flicker and disappear before darkness overtakes him, as the giant predators feast.