Most modern-day creatures are nowhere as large as a Brachiosaurus, or as armored as a Triceratops - and without such niches, there's no reason for modern-day animals to be just as enormous or well-armed as a Tyrannosaurus rex. In all fairness, this trope does have a grain of Truth in Television - to fulfill their status as apex predator, a predator would have to be big or at least strong enough to take down things bigger than itself, often armored or just as aggressive. Often accompanied with exaggerated features, impossibly large size or hyper-aggressive behavior. A specific variation of What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, in which a prehistoric/extinct animal which is portrayed as more powerful, dangerous and/or deadly (if not also dumber) than any still-living equivalent to the point where it ceases to be an animal and becomes a marauding monster - larger and faster than any extant apex predator, with no equal in the modern world, filled to the brim with claws and jaws, able to smash apart man-made vehicles to get at the tasty, tasty humans inside, a feat no lion or tiger or bear can do.
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