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On Theropods and Scavenging

Started by suspsy, April 14, 2016, 11:18:33 PM

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April 14, 2016, 11:18:33 PM Last Edit: April 14, 2016, 11:19:44 PM by suspsy
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-dino-dinner-dead-alive.html

Interesting stuff. Pretty much confirms what we knew already, only it's satisfying to know that T. rex really could not have survived as an obligate scavenger.
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April 14, 2016, 11:30:44 PM
Quote from: suspsy on April 14, 2016, 11:18:33 PM
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-dino-dinner-dead-alive.html

... T. rex really could not have survived as an obligate scavenger.

Makes sense--there are no land predators now that can survive as obligate predators, why would that be different in the past!?

It's just a silly hypothesis that had the positive effect of making people test their assumptions...

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