Genome list
Statistics:
Length: 46 feet or 14 meters
Height: 15 feet/4.5 meters (hips), 17 feet/5.18 meters (total height at neural spine)
Weight: 14.33 US tons or 13 tonnes
Bite force: >37k newtons
Locomotion: Obligate biped
Genome list:
- Giganotosaurus Carolinii
- Acrocanthosaurus
- Daspletosaurus
- Chimpanzee
- Maip Macrothorax
- Carnotaurus Sastrei
- Shantungosaurus
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Xenosmilus
- Akanthosuchus
- Komodo Dragon
- Common Ostrich
- Tiger Shark
- Rope Fish
- Giganotosaurus Carolinii
- Base template
- Size
- Bite methodology
- Jaw gape
- Chin
- Base tooth anatomy for later modifications
- Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis
- Raised dorsal neural spines across the entire body for extra muscle attachment sites (neck, back and tail)
- Primary base of claws
- Bifurcated/Y-Shaped Chevrons
- Interlocking cervical vertebrae and ball-and-socket joint
- Daspletosaurus
- Bite force
- Primary hip anatomy, arctometatalsalian feet and ligaments for tyrannosaurid agility
- Enhances primary senses (smell, taste, eyesight, and hearing)
- Skull enhancements (widens adductor muscle chamber area, fused nasal bone, thicker cortisol, postorbital and jugal bone, broadens snout to a U-shape and palate bone on top)
- Chimpanzee
- Augmented intelligence for problem solving, cognitive skills, etc.
- Primary arms and shoulders for dexterity and range of motion.
- Maip Macrothorax
- Broad barrel-like chest
- Highly pneumatic skeleton
- Enhances Acrocanthosaurus’s claws in length and thickness
- Greatly bolsters instincts to combine arm strikes and bites
- Influences arm length to only be 11-12.5% of the body’s length instead of Chimp’s arm length. (Matching Maip’s proportions, purpose was to be short enough to not hinder mobility and balance but retain enough reach to grapple, slash and stabilize for bites)
- Carnotaurus Sastrei
- Lengthening the transverse processes while uplifting the proximal processes (aka the tail base ribs)
- Enlarges the fourth trochanter
- Lengthens Acrocanthosaurus’s Y-shaped chevrons
- Enlarges the epiphophyses bone for greater neck muscles
- Shantungosaurus
- Robustifies the lower body anatomy
- Thickens Daspletosaurus’s ilium bone and arctometatarsalian bone
- Thickens femur/tibia bone for load-bearing
- Reinforced hindlimb joint
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Enhances occipital crest
- Cranial cancellous bone
- Neural coordination
- Hyoid Apparatus
- Hypertrophied Longus Colli
- Avian Mitochondria
- Xenosmilus (Credit to Master_Geologist for it)
- Robustifies the ape arms greatly (thickens the existing ulna, radius, humerus and scapula bones)
- Extra claw curvature for better grappling and sharpness.
- Tongue Papillae
- Broadens the existing occipital crest for more muscle surfaces
- Faster predatory reaction speeds
- Higher concentration of fast twitch muscle fibers (type IIx) on neck, forelimbs (arms + shoulders) and jaws (type IIa/IIx + MHC-M or Masticatory Myosin Heavy Chain)
- Thick mammalian enamel
- Akanthosuchus
- Vascularized dorsal osteoderms that are spiked, bladed and aids in thermoregulation. Primary source of armor for protection
- Thicker leathery hide
- Immune system
- Lactic acid buildup tolerance and cleansing (shunting the acid into stomach)
- Rapid blood clotting
- Snake venom resistance
- Tougher keratinized gums
- Increased fibrocartilage in high-stressed joints.
- Komodo Dragon
- Iron-reinforced serrations
- Hemotoxic venom (anti-coagulant that induces shock and drops blood pressure)
- Jacobson’s organ
- Anti-microbial blood
- Blood proteins that neutralizes own Komodo venom
- High pain tolerance
- Adipose tissue development (fat) on tail and abdomen along with Akanthosuchus
- Tooth regeneration
- Tiger Shark
- Alters tooth shape to resemble shark while keeping theropod tooth anatomy + mammalian enamel (broad, curved and double serrated)
- Nictitating membrane
- Resistances to neurotoxins (pufferfish, stonefish, lionfish, sea snake venom)
- Enlarges the liver for better detoxification
- Fluorapatite reinforcements on existing Mammalian enamel
- Thrombocyte blood clotting if wounded
- Oral denticles that acts as abrasive resistances
- Denticle shape of the scales
- Helical fibers in bone
- Common Ostrich
- Thickens the tendons on the legs through collagen density and production (not making them elastic but makes the tendons stronger and more capable of load bearing)
- Elastic cervical tendons and ligaments that stores and releases energy, boosting the repeated and rapid bite speed (note that while square cube law would exponentially slow the speed, it is still a considerable boost)
- Bolsters Maip’s highly pneumatic skeleton through more air sacs
- LSO or Lumbosacral organ in the hip.
- Shortens the femur and lengthens the tibia bone (Ideally a tibia:femur ratio of 0.95)
- Bifurcated cervical spines, further enhancing the nuchal ligament
- Vestibular System
- Panting + Gular Fluttering
- Selective brain cooling
- Water metabolism
- Larger 4-chambered heart/lungs (proportionally)
- Higher hemoglobin/myoglobin counts
- Highly mineralized tibia (increased hydroxyapatite concentration, collagen and magnesium + carbonate contents for load bearing)
- Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency (80-100 Hz)
- Rope Fish
- Ganoid scales reshaped to resemble Tiger Shark denticles located everywhere with the added bonus of being serrated on the ridges thanks to Tiger Shark. (Genetically will also be smaller around joints for better mobility)
- Crossply microstructure
- Peg-and-socket joint anchoring (scales uniquely anchored in a manner that provides better flexibility due to its eel-like body)
Combat strategy
Shredder 3.0 is everything Shredder 2.0 was but superior in every single category that they share; made specifically to take down big game through deep lacerations and promoting extreme amounts of blood loss.
Offense:
To start off, Shredder’s base genome being Giganotosaurus grants him the ability to rapidly cycle bite-and-pull with a very wide jaw gape up to 78-80 degrees. While they can certainly break bones by themselves, I needed to push more. Daspletosaurus is a relatively small tyrannosaurid weighing at an average of 2-3 tons. So scaling up to base Giga’s size enables Shredder to have a bite force of 29k to 37k newtons all concentrated onto thick serrated teeth, as well as the necessary traits from the tyrannosaurid to reinforce the skull to withstand said forces alongside mammalian enamel, croc’s gums and fluorapatite reinforcement for stronger tensile strength. The Komodo being the day 1 staple granted the same general traits as before, with their venom perfectly encapsulating his role. Preventing blood clots from forming and vasodilating blood vessels to promote more blood flow to occur from the already existing wounds. The Tiger Shark not only changes the existing Ziphodont dentition’s shape to match its own, but further reinforces Shredder’s ability to cut through solid bone and armor as seen with the shark’s diet of sea turtles.
Acrocanthosaurus being the most used member of the Carcharodontosauridae family in the hybrid community is used as a systematic buff compared to Tyrannotitan;
- More raised neural spines for extra muscle attachments across the neck, back and tail base
- Interlocking neck joints to make his pull stronger with ball-socket joint to compensate
- Curved, hook-like claws perfect to rend flesh and grapple like Allosaurus.
Shredder 3.0’s neck strength becomes absurd on top of keeping the Ivory-billed Woodpecker who already bolstered the mentioned bite methodology. Carnotaurus for the enlarged epipophyses that sits on top of Acro’s neural spines for more neck muscles and further resists any lateral stress against struggling prey, Common Ostrich is a dark horse in many traits including their elastic ligaments and tendons, coupled with posterior bifurcated cervical spines boosts Shredder’s bite-and-pull speed to the point of surpassing other carcharodontosaurid-based hybrids.
Xenosmlius is another systematic buff to Shredder like Acro that further bolsters everything. (Congruent as it also comes packed with serrated teeth like the Giga);
- Higher concentration of fast twitch muscle fibers on the jaws (they have what’s called Masticatory Myosin Heavy Chain; a supercharged fiber homologous to vertebrates for jaw closing muscles), arms and neck. Up to 70-80% of those fibers are fast twitching.
- Why Xenosmilus’s fibers instead of Akanthosuchus? It’s specifically because the fibers are optimized for a wider gape meaning there is very little power loss when going for a full 80 degree gape before snapping shut, and the Masticatory Myosin fibers are the best of both worlds for both speed and snapping power.
- Greatly robustifies the base Chimpanzee arms shortened by Maip dna.
- Widens the occipital crest already provided by the Woodpecker for stronger neck muscles
- Replaces the base enamel with mammalian traits for better resistance to biting pressure.
Defense:
Akanthosuchus is an extinct crocodilian that sports serrated and bladed osteoderms on their back, allowing Shredder protection and deterrence of grappling from others. With every crocodilian, they have very thick leathery skin which also helps resist both bites and sharp weaponry outside of hooked claws but this will change things up.
Another addition to his armor layered over the osteoderms are both Tiger Shark and Rope Fish through combining their respective scales together as they are homologous to each other. Rope Fish’s ganoid scales are the base but the shape is that of Tiger Shark’s, whose greater overlapping bolsters the existing flexibility of the Rope Fish scales while keeping the ganoid scales’ crossply microstructure that helps absorb impacts and an built-in middle layer of dentin. Furthermore, the “crown” or top of the denticles will be serrated on top of the already sharp osteoderms of Akanthosuchus and the minerals found in the ganoid scales will be reinforced with Fluorapatite, making them much tougher than they appear.
The way that it is anchored out is the following:
-The modified ganoid scales sit in the papillary dermis or upper dermis and sits above the epidermis (top skin layer)
-Akanthosuchus’s bladed osteoderms layered underneath in the reticular dermis or lower dermis.
Shredder’s jaws are also lined with oral denticles that help him withstand spiky armory alongside keratinized gums from the Akanthosuchus, coupled with high pain tolerance, papillae and ability to rapidly close wounds allows him to shrug off biting into said armor and cut through them.
Chemically defensive wise, Shredder has two forms of blood clotting one of which is near instantaneous and helps heal wounds from the tiger shark. The collection of Akanthosuchus, Komodo Dragon and Tiger Shark means that Shredder can withstand numerous amounts of toxins, even down to his enlarged liver which further buffs his immune system.
Stamina & Mobility.
Many crocodilians have the ability to shunt lactic acid into their stomachs and osteoderms in order to prevent build up and muscle fatigue, this is no different from Akanthosuchus while the scales due to the middle dentin layer is vascularized so they are able to vent off excess heat.
Ostriches like many archosaurs have a 4-chambered heart/lungs for better generalized stamina, and their higher hemoglobin/myoglobin counts enable them to store and extract more oxygen. Whilst proportionally lower than animals that lived in oxygen-poor environments, Ostriches have these traits while living in an oxygen-rich environment. Alongside many, many, many traits it offers that bolsters stamina.
The combination of the use of Daspletosaurus, Shantungosaurus, Carnotaurus, Acrocanthosaurus, and Ostrich contribute to Shredder’s overall mobility:
- Daspletosaurus providing the tyrannosaurid agility needed for tight turns with the ilium bone and arctometatarsalian feet
- Carnotaurus infamously provides the largest caudofemoralis muscle for a theropod with many tweaks that won’t reduce agility greatly
- The way it is constructed is that the uptilted V-shaped transverse process only affects the proximal area or the tail base and rapidly tapers to the standard T-shaped processes down to the rest of the tail. This allows the caudofemoralis muscles to get enough space to expand and provide that immense acceleration whilst giving the epaxial muscles some room to stabilize and balance Shredder.
- The epaxial muscles get further enhanced by Acrocanthosaurus’s neural spines at both the back and tail base, ensuring that Carnotaurus’s drawbacks of the uptilted processes are neutralized and grabbing the best of both worlds between speed and agility.
- Acrocanthosaurus’s Y-shaped Chevrons further lengthened by Carnotaurus allows more room for the caudofemoralis muscle.
- Shantungosaurus reinforces the limb bones for better load-bearing capabilities by thickening the bones and joints due to the immense weight he has.
- Ostrich alters the leg bone proportions as the most extreme cursorial animal, with the Tibia:Femur ratio being up to 0.95. This actually matches both Daspletosaurus and E.D. Cope who famously is a T-Rex with cursorial adaptations for running and tight turning. This further reinforces Shredder’s speed and agility