Giganotosaurus

***Giganotosaurus*** (meaning "giant southern lizard") is a genus of theropod that lived in Argentina during the Late Cretaceous period. The character is a major antagonist-turned-protagonist of the kion’s adventures series. He appears as one of the 2 main antagonists-turned-supporting protagonist of *Jurassic world: Dominion* and one of the main protagonists of Sing 2.

## About the species

For many years *Tyrannosaurus* held that record, although bits and pieces of *Carcharodontosaurus* and *Spinosaurus* showed that they possibly could rival the giant coelurosaur in size. Then, in the late 1980s into the early 1990s, Argentine paleontologists Rodolfo Coria and Leonardo Salgado discovered and revealed the existence of a new meat-eater bigger than any known tyrant lizard. They named the giant dinosaur *Giganotosaurus carolini*.

While determining exactly which theropod genera was the largest, metrics for *Giganotosaurus* have consistently placed it as larger than an average *Tyrannosaurus rex* and comparable to the largest known specimens of the Tyrant Reptile King. More specimens of the Giant Southern Reptile are required to give a clearer picture of size, as all species will exist within a spectrum of sizes. For now it is safest to consider the likes of *Giganotosaurus*, *Spinosaurus*, and *Tyrannosaurus* as comparable to one another in terms of size (though Spinosaurus is technically the longer animal at 50 feet, it is comparable in weight to *Tyrannosaurus* and *Giganotosaurus* due to its more slender build in real life).

When *Giganotosaurus* was alive, the most common herbivores found in South America were the titanosaur sauropods such as *Argentinosaurus*, *Dreadnoughtus*, and *Andesaurus*, respectively. While a single *Giganotosaurus* was capable of killing a young titanosaur or a large ornithopod, it would take many *Giganotosaurus* to bring down a giant adult sauropod. Originally, there was no evidence that *Giganotosaurus* hunted in groups, but recent findings from slightly younger rocks shows that their sister taxon (closest relative) *Mapusaurus* may have formed coalitions similar to crocodiles or perhaps even family groups given the high size variation and age differences between individuals. While not known if this was true pack living behavior, these coalitions of 6 or more individuals would probably have been capable of coordinating attacks on targets of opportunity such as a large sauropod.

## About the character

### In the Past

During the Cretaceous period, when the land of the Dinosaurs was known as Mezzœçh, *Giga* rested a while a *Moros Intrepridus* scavenged morsels of meat stuck between Giga’s teeth until Rexy the *Tyrannosaurus rex* approached the pair, causing *Giganotosaurus* to confront his nemesis and scaring away the *Moros* and a nearby *Iguanodon*. The carnivores circled and roared at each other until a fight broke out, with Giga quickly managing to bite the neck of his opponent and break it. After dropping the corpse of Rexy, Giga left the area. This was a grave mistake because of the prophesied arrival of the Creators, who intended to terraform Mezzœçh with transformium seeds. Without an alpha Tyrannosaurus to lead the dinosaurs away from the invasion, the Creators got their way, and Giga was branded for the murder of Rexy by being given the nicknames, “Giga the Ender”, Giga the Doomer”, “Giga the Grievance”, and “Giga the catastropher”.

### Jurassic World

Genetic material of *Giganotosaurus* was in possession of InGen by the year 2014 and was used in the creation of the genetic hybrid *Indominus rex*.

### *Jurassic World: Dominion*

*"Don't move."*
—Alan Grant and Owen Grady.(src)
Giga was among the dinosaurs genetically revived by Biosyn and kept within their valley. The *Giganotosaurus* had large crests running from the top of its brow and down half of the skull. On its back was a row of spines, beginning at the neck and running down the back until its hip region, where a hump-like collection of spines abruptly rises and then lowers back into the low spines and continues to the end of the tail.. The teeth of the animal are crocodile like, and unevenly jut out of its lip-less mouth. The *Giganotosaurus'* skin is a dark brown, with black markings on its head and turning into rough stripes down its back. The *Giganotosaurus* was 15.5 meters long (50.9 feet), 5.5 meters tall (18 feet), and weighed 8,165kg (9 tons). At some point, Giga had a chip inserted into his brain, allowing him to be given telepathic signaling when needed.

While Ellie Sattler, Alan Grant, and Ramsay Cole were heading towards Biosyn Valley, Giga slept peacefully as it was approached by *Moros*. Later that day, Owen Grady and Kayla Watts witnessed Giga encounter Rexy, who was recently transported to the Biosyn Valley, scavenging a carcass of a deer that met its end at the claws of a *Therizinosaurus* named Therizon. The pair briefly fought over the carcass until the *Tyrannosaurus* backed off, allowing the Giga to feed on the carcass.

Giga later appears when the Indoraptor’s plan to revive his mother, the Indominus Rex, succeeded.

That night, a swarm of giant locusts that was set on fire by Lewis Dodgson in an attempt to erase his criminal activity escaped their containment and started a forest fire within the valley, during which Giga’s plan to save Mezzœçh by using a duplicate of the seeds that the creators launched all over man-owned territories. Later, he encountered Owen, Claire Dearing, Alan, Ian Malcolm, Ellie, Maisie Lockwood, Shanezilla, Kayla, Blue, Twilight Sparkle, and Ramsay at an observation tower near his habitat and attacked them. At first the predator only followed them slowly until Maisie attempted to climb a ladder into the observation tower, at which point he bit down on the railing around the ladder and tore it off. Before he could turn back to his quarry, Malcolm got his attention by waving a flaming locust on a bar of metal, which he threw into the predators mouth when he roared, stunning the dinosaur and briefly setting his mouth on fire. The Giga quickly turned back to the group however, who had all made it to a platform that looped around the tower, and proceeded to bite the platform and attempt to pull it down with Owen and Ellie, but all of the humans made it inside, prompting the *Giganotosaurus* to smash the glass of the tower and attempt to reach the group. The group began stabbing the dinosaur with metal knives and broken pipes, while Shanezilla andTwilight blasted the theropod, and Kayla electrocuted his eye with a taser after hitting him with a tranquilizer dart, which forced Giga to retreat.

As the fire worsened, Biosyn used the chips they implanted in their animals to call them into the center of the Biosyn Research Facility. As he moved through the area, Giga was challenged by Rexy, and the two began battling. Giga and the Indominus managed to knock Rexy unconscious after a ferocious melee that nearly crushed the humans, but Rexy’s limp body, held underfoot by the *Giganotosurus*, had pinned a sheet of metal on top of Owen, Claire, and Maisie and was about to crush them. Ellie saw this and attempted to help them, but the dinosaur roared at her when she attempted to approach and prepared to attack. Kayla then shot a flare to distract *Giganotosaurus*, which landed beside a newcomer; Therizon the *Therizinosaurus,* whom realized Giga’s true plans to become one-sided once Giga got what he wanted. The two dinosaurs fought each other, until Blue convinced Giga that the Indominus Rex would also kill Giga when she got what she wanted. Now, the indominus was facing another threat, with the aggressive herbivore and now noble theropod landing nasty slashing blows on the larger hybrid until Rexy regained consciousness. Now confronted by three enemies, the *indominus Rex* was unable to determine quickly enough which enemy was the greater threat, which allowed the *Tyrannosaurus* to bite her neck and ram her into the claws of the *Therizinosaurus*, impaling and killing her. Afterwards, Rexy and Giga made peace, and Gigs’s title as “Giga The Ender” was left in the past. Giga helped Rexy lead the dinosaurs in their quest to survive, and the Leaders Council had Giga pardoned.