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: >52.6k to 57k newtons
Locomotion: Obligate biped
Genome list:
- Giganotosaurus Carolinii
- Acrocanthosaurus
- Daspletosaurus
- Maip Macrothorax
- Carnotaurus Sastrei
- Shantungosaurus
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Common Ostrich
- Peregrine Falcon
- Xenosmilus
- Baurusuchus
- Komodo Dragon
- Tiger Shark
- Rope Fish
- Giganotosaurus Carolinii
- Base template
- Size
- Acrocanthosaurus Atokensis
- Raised dorsal neural spines across the entire body for extra muscle attachment sites (neck, back and tail)
- Bifurcated/Y-Shaped Chevrons
- Interlocking cervical vertebrae and ball-and-socket joint
- Daspletosaurus
- Primary hip anatomy, arctometatalsalian feet and ligaments for tyrannosaurid agility
- Enhances primary senses (smell, taste, eyesight, and hearing)
- Base tooth roots for better stress resistances
- Maip Macrothorax
- Primary arm anatomy (Very likely they have the same proportions as every other megaraptorid at 11-12% long relative to total body length)
- Deltopectoral crest
- Broad barrel-like chest
- Highly pneumatic skeleton
- Curved and thick claws
- Greatly bolsters instincts to combine arm strikes and 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
- Shantungosaurus
- Robustifies the lower body anatomy
- Thickens Daspletosaurus’s ilium bone and arctometatarsalian bone
- Thickens femur/tibia bone via circumference for load-bearing
- Reinforced hindlimb joint
- Ivory-billed Woodpecker
- Enhances occipital crest
- Cranial cancellous bone
- Neural coordination
- Hyoid Apparatus
- Hypertrophied Longus Colli
- Avian Mitochondria + oxidative stress resistant fibers
- 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)
- LSO or Lumbosacral organ in the hip.
- Shortens the femur and lengthens the tibia bone (Ideally a tibia:femur ratio of 0.95)
- Bifurcated posterior 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)
- Peregrine Falcon
- Neuron density
- Main IQ
- Processing/reaction speed or Critical Flicker Fusion Frequency (129 Hz)
- Nictitating membrane
- Motor control
- Xenosmilus (Credit to Master_Geologist for it and Baurusuchus)
- Robustifies the Maip arms greatly (thickens the existing ulna, radius, humerus and scapula cortisol bones)
- Highly condensed fast twitch fibers in arms and neck (Up to 70-80% of the fibers being fast-twitching)
- Extra claw curvature for better grappling and sharpness.
- Tongue Papillae
- Broadens the woodpecker’s enhanced occipital crest further
- Faster predatory reaction speeds
- Thick mammalian enamel
- Canines + Incisors overlapped with Komodo + Tiger Shark serrations.
- Baurusuchus
- Main bite force contributor (3,088 newtons at 113.8kg)
- Retroarticular process
- Skull reinforcements alongside Daspletosaurus
- Taller, fused nasal bones, wider pterygoid chambers, robust palate bone
- All this while being able to open wide at 70 degrees and snapping shut fast
- Enlarged hypapophysis
- Thick, leathery and vascularized skin
- Main source of vascularized osteoderms found across the dorsal area
- These would also be used to buffer lactic acid via excess calcium storage
- Sharpey’s fibers
- Allowing the osteoderms to be sunk deeper in the dermis underneath
- This surprisingly enables better agility and speed
- Komodo Dragon
- Iron-reinforced serrations
- Hemotoxic venom (anti-coagulant that induces shock and drops blood pressure)
- Jacobson’s organ
- Rapid blood clotting
- Anti-microbial blood
- Immune system
- Blood proteins that neutralizes own Komodo venom
- High pain tolerance
- Adipose tissue development (fat) on tail and abdomen
- Tooth regeneration
- Tiger Shark
- Alters tooth crown shape to resemble shark while keeping theropod tooth anatomy + mammalian enamel (broad, curved and double serrated)
- 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
- 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 and more post upgrades; 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. Gifted by a good friend of mine, Baurusuchus contributes as the main bite force for Shredder, cited at 3,088 newtons of force at 113.8 kg. Scaling this up to base Giga size through Square Cube Law and Shredder’s bite force skyrockets to around 52.6k - 57k newtons, matching the likes of Tyrannosaurus Rex in bite force and more than enough to break bone and armor alike.
There are several key differences between Baurusuchus and other crocodilians:
- While many modern crocodiles often sacrifice jaw gape and opening speeds for absurd bite forces due to the adductor muscles, Baurusuchus convergently evolved traits very similarly to carcharodontosaurids, and is able to open at a wide jaw gape of 70 degrees and snap just as fast
- Utilizing it and Daspletosaurus to reinforce the skull to withstand such forces allows Shredder to comfortably dish out these bites without breaking its face.
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 being Shredder’s signature weaponry alters the tooth crown shape to be broad, triangular and most importantly; double serrated, further enhances Shredder’s ability to ignore armor. Daspletosaurus is also utilized to change the roots of the teeth, becoming nearly circular to better withstand any forces from all directions.
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 and mobility.
Shredder 3.0’s neck strength becomes absurd on top of keeping the Ivory-billed Woodpecker who already bolstered the mentioned bite methodology, 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.
Shredder’s new arms are that of Maip Macrothorax; the largest Megaraptor of the family. While little materials of it are found, it is evidently clear that they would have all the same general traits of megaraptorids have including;
- A highly pneumatic skeleton which lightens Shredder’s frame, making him overall faster via shedding excess weight
- Massive arms that have great range of motion and flexibility coupled with curved and thick claws
- A deltopectoral crest which is very likely due to it having an exceptionally large chest.
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);
- Greatly robustifies the base Maip Macrothorax arms, thickening the cortisol bones which further helps resist stress inducing forces and strength.
- Canines and incisors overlapping with Komodo (for the iron-reinforced serrations) and Tiger Shark (for double serrations and fluorapatite)
- Thanks to the July 2026 study where they found that Smilodon’s canines can routinely break and puncture bone. Applying this to Xenosmilus which are shorter but stockier, it would already be capable of performing the same but better.
- 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.
Neurological:
Shredder’s new IQ gene is the Peregrine Falcon; the fastest animal on planet earth. Birds already tend to have exceptionally high IQ and are capable of problem solving but the falcon’s neurological anatomy is built for speed. With a critical flicker fusion frequency of at least 129 Hz, Shredder’s ability to process and react becomes supercharged.
They have been reported to execute feint attacks and have fine-tuned motor control that lets them perform microadjustments even during flight or in this case, fighting. Saber tooth cats like Xenosmilus also reliably hunt through ambushes and targeting vulnerable areas with their canines, now no longer needing to be careful about them breaking.
Defense:
Shredder’s main armor is both the 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 scales will be serrated 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)
- Baurusuchus has incredibly thick, leathery skin that is heavily vascularized
- Baurusuchus’s lightweight osteoderms in the reticular dermis or lower dermis that are sunk deep.
- The sharpey’s fibers aren’t like Iberosuchus, but still allows stronger anchoring of the osteoderms, making them harder to tear off while being incredibly flexible.
Shredder’s jaws are also lined with oral denticles that help him withstand spiky armory 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 both Komodo Dragon and Tiger Shark means that Shredder can withstand numerous amounts of toxins and bacteria, even down to his enlarged liver which further buffs his immune system.
Stamina & Mobility.
Baurusuchus already being a pure terrestrial crocodilian doesn’t have the same ability to shunt lactic acid into its stomach or high tolerance to it like modern relatives, but being such land-based crocodile means it relies more on an aerobic metabolism, which already helps clear lactic acid build up. They still utilize the osteoderms which are vascularized but are lightweight, theoretically boosting Shredder’s overall speed as opposed to using modern crocodilian osteoderms.
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