Chicken-hearted tyrants: Predatory dinosaurs as baby killers

Thursday, August 6, 2009 - 15:21 in Paleontology & Archaeology

Two titans fighting a bloody battle -- that often turns fatal for both of them. This is how big predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus are often depicted while hunting down their supposed prey: even larger herbivorous dinosaurs. The fossils, though, do not account for that kind of hunting behavior but indicate that theropods, the large predatory dinosaurs, were frying much smaller fish.

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