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The Carnivore Creature
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Full Name
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It's too busy roaring to tell you.
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Cage
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It needs one!
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Rank
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Meaty monster
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Planet Of Hatching
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Unknown
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Likes
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Meat-especially if it's still breathing!
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Dislikes
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Anything that gets in its way.
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DSS Rating
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9- You wouldn't want to find the Carnivore Creature under your bed. Or anywhere else for that matter!
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The carnivore creature in action.
The carnivore creature was a large green dinosaur-like monster that was covered in green spines, drooled constantly, and had six fingers on each hand.
It was actually Doctor Herdlip, who had been splashed with Herbicarnus-X on his way to Baronia during the events of The Carnivore Curse. Because of the chemical's properties, the sellosaurus began to transform, both times bursting into a baryonyx kitchen and terrorizing its staff, as well as attacking Teggs, Arx, Gipsy, and Iggy. As the carnivore creature, Herdlip was no longer in control of his actions and was almost mindless. When he changed back into himself, he didn't remember all of his actions as the monstrous beast.
To protect King Jeck from the ravenous monster, Teggs had Captain Griffen and Arx take the baryonyx king to Herdlip's room for safety, but they were captured there by Prince Poota's Agents. Prince Poota got ready to splash the astrosaurs with Herbicarnus-X and change them into cannibalistic monsters, but Herdlip changed permanently in Sergeant Donkle's clutches, disabling the baryonyx. Arx, however, bravely forced the carnivore creature to drink Poota's Herbicarnus-X supply, changing it back into Herdlip.
The carnivore creature isn’t based on any real-life predatory dinosaur, and has characteristics like six-clawed hands and plates on its back that no theropod had. However, the Late Jurassic theropod Ceratosaurus (“horn lizard”) did have a horn on its snout that was probably used for display purposes. It is also the only theropod known to have armor, in the form of special body coverings called osteoderms on its back, neck, and tail. Ceratosaurus was an ancestor of Carnotaurus, another horned meat-eater.
It’s believed, ironically, that some prosauropod dinosaurs and their ancestors may have been omnivores. Their closest relatives were theropod dinosaurs, meaning Herdlip would already have had meat-eating in his family. In nature, many herbivores like hippos or deer will eat other animals opportunistically or in certain circumstances, and some mostly carnivorous animals like alligators or wolves will eat fruit or plants.
The same may have been true of some plant-eating dinosaurs - pachycephalosaurs like Stegoceras and ceratopsians like Triceratops are especially suspected to have eaten meat from living or dead animals every once in a while. Fossil hadrosaur coprolites (poop) suggest that they ate crabs along with plants.
The teeth shape of Heterodontosaurus and its family could mean that they may have eaten small animals alongside their typical diet of plants, while the teeth of Stenonychosaurus (once called Troodon, and a relative of Velociraptor) suggest that it mostly ate meat but may have eaten plants when it had to. At least one family of usually carnivorous theropods, the therizinosaurs like Segnosaurus, ate plants. Other theropods, like the ornithomimosaurs and Oviraptor, were omnivores with a stronger focus on plants than meat.