Thread by @travisdon1981

@WhoWouldWin13 One of the things that needs to be remembered here is that the Chimera of Greek myth lived in the age of heroes, when the earth was dominated by giant demigods. There were 5 ages of men in Greek Myth: the age of gold, silver, bronze, heroes and Iron (or the modern age). Each age

@WhoWouldWin13 had a species of "humans", and out of all of these ages, only one, the age of iron, was inhabited by normal sized homo sapiens. The rest were inhabited by giants, the race of Gold being the largest, the race of heroes the smallest. Humans of the heroic age were so large that

@WhoWouldWin13 ancient Greeks often mistook Mammoth bones, and those of other large prehistoric animals, for the bones of heroes like Achilles or Pelops.

Why is this important?

Because animals were likewise thought to be larger in the age of heroes as well.

@WhoWouldWin13 This is something to remember when looking at ancient vase art depicting both men who lived in the heroic age and their contemporary monsters (Giants from that age were thought to be about 15 feet tall on average)

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@WhoWouldWin13 Thus, Chimera qualifies as Megafauna.

However, the Chimera is more than just large.

You notice that the human giants in these pieces of art are proportioned like that of normal humans? That they are basically humans writ large?

@WhoWouldWin13 Well, here is the problem: biologically speaking that wont work, thanks to squared cube law, which states that size increases faster than weight. If you were twice as tall and wanted to be just as proportioned as you are now, you'd need to be 8 times heavier. However, while you

@WhoWouldWin13 would be 8 times heavier...you'd only be 4 times stronger, not only in terms of muscle strength but structural strength as well. For a lot of people, that would mean snapping their legs if they tried to get up. It would feel like having a lot of bricks equal to your own weight

@WhoWouldWin13 taped to you. One way to avoid this problem is to have evolution adapt living organisms to larger size, so that they can avoid such pitfalls (though even then squared cube law still wrecks havok. Anst can lift 50 times their own weight, while elephants can only lift a quarter of

@WhoWouldWin13 their own. Likewise, name a rhino than can hop like a gazelle), or have it made out of sturdier biological materials. Considering that living things of the heroic age were writ large and yet could move and run with no problem, one must conclude that they were made out of tougher

@WhoWouldWin13 biological materials than any animal of today, including the Indominus Rex. Imagine something that size moving as fast as a Lion and you start to get the picture of what will go down when these two clash. The Chimera will be pound for pound far stronger and faster than Indominus

@WhoWouldWin13 Rex.

Also, let's remember that the Chimera is a fire breather, and has three heads, one of them a poisonous snake. Indeed, its whole tail is a snake. Though Indominus Rex has the intelligence to counter the three-headed defenses of the Chimera, it doesn't have the speed to

@WhoWouldWin13 avoid both the venomous bite of the Chimera's tail and its flame, let alone the super fast paw swipes that come with it.

Thus, I conclude...

@WhoWouldWin13 CHIMERA CHOMPS INDOMINUS REX!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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