"Tyrannosaurs were probably cannibals" Topic
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Tango01 | 29 Oct 2015 9:57 p.m. PST |
"For years, paleontologists have wondered: Did the fierce Tyrannosaurus rex eat its own? A 66-million-year-old fossil unearthed in eastern Wyoming provides some of the strongest evidence yet that it did, researchers say. The fossil—a tyrannosaur leg bone fragment the size of a human forearm—is scarred with deep grooves left by a large meat-eater as it tore flesh from the ancient carcass. One of the grooves is particularly telling because it contains tiny channels left by tooth serrations called denticles. Those channels rule out smooth-toothed predators like crocodiles, instead pointing to bipedal meat-eating dinosaurs…" Full article here link Amicalement Armand |
Mako11 | 30 Oct 2015 1:46 a.m. PST |
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ochoin | 30 Oct 2015 4:19 a.m. PST |
or maybe they just liked chicken. |
Zargon | 30 Oct 2015 4:33 a.m. PST |
With teeth like that I'd want to eat my whole town :=} |
Tango01 | 30 Oct 2015 10:18 a.m. PST |
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