Doctor Finkle the carnotaurus is the main villain in the second Astrosaurs Academy book, Contest Carnage!. He was smuggled onto Astro Prime from an unknown location (probably Taurus) by Bomp the triceratops in exchange for gold. As soon as he arrived, Finkle paid Bomp to cause "accidents" at the Megasaur Challenge while he pretended to be a mammoth doctor who took care of the participants who were injured. Instead of healing his patients, Finkle secretly attached red plasters to their heads. Inside each plaster was a small device that removed free will from its victim and was controlled at Finkle's hospital.
The carnotaur succeeded in enslaving Netta, Damona, several cheerleaders, a hadrosaur named Harlan Pop, and a grey Stegosaurus named Zed Abee. He planned to insert his slaves into the DSS as spies, using them to destroy all of the cadets and astrosaurs. Teggs was captured by Bomp, entered the room and re-encountered Finkle, who revealed his true identity as a ravenous carnotaur. Bomp summoned an army of robots to injure still more cadets and staff members. Blink and Dutch burst in and they stopped the robots and Bomp, but Finkle stuck his plasters onto their heads.
Just then, an undercover astrosaur named Sergeant Snoop entered the room and used cleaning fluid to capture Finkle with help from the former slaves and Splatt. Mr. Edvill then arrived to have his security guards take Finkle and Bomp to prison.
Trivia[]
- Finkle is a Carnotaurus sasteri, an abelisaur from South America and one of the fastest large theropods.
- Unlike Finkle, who has long arms and is able to apply plasters to his victims directly, a real Carnotaurus's hands were small, weak, and unusable for reaching, grabbing, or holding things.
- Finkle is described as strong and bulky, where a real Carnotaurus would have been lean and built for speedy charges rather than directly overpowering prey.
- While an adult Carnotaurus like Finkle was about the height of an adult woolly mammoth at 3 metres tall, it was much longer, at about 9 to 10 metres compared to a mammoth's 6. This would make a mammoth costume a tight fit for one!
- Finkle is drawn as larger than Bomp when the two would have been roughly equal in size, and an adult male Triceratops like Bomp would have been much heavier - an adult Triceratops weighed about 9 metric tons, while Carnotaurus weighed almost 1.5.