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RE: T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger
July 16, 2013 at 11:52 am
Cool stuff. Dinosaurs are neat.
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RE: T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger
July 16, 2013 at 12:45 pm
Clearly this evidence suggests a far more surprising conclusion - that the duckbill was the predator, and it picked up the T. Rex tooth as it rolled in it's kill.
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RE: T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger
July 16, 2013 at 12:48 pm
It's more fun to think of a T. Rex as a hunter/killer anyway. Though I would be surprised if they'd actually pass up a free meal lying dead on the ground. Would save much time, effort, and energy.
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RE: T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger
July 17, 2013 at 4:11 am
Aww, I liked telling people that T-Rex was a scavenger. Most people hadn't heard that before so it made me seem clever. Now I've been wrong all along. Poo.
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RE: T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger
July 17, 2013 at 4:51 am
It only ever appears to have been Jack Horner that claimed T-Rex was a scavenger. Everyone else appears to have been of the opinion that it was a bit of both. As this appears to be the case for the vast majority of hunters we see today it is not really a surprising find. Lions, Hyenas and Leopards will all scavenge when the opportunity presents itself. On the African plains only the Cheetah limits itself to hunting alone.
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RE: T-Rex Not Merely a Scavenger
July 17, 2013 at 9:21 am
I don't think T Rex were just scavengers, I can't deny they fed on the old blues stuff but I think he/they added something.
A scavenger T Rex raiding a nest could bite a defending duckbill parent and still retain its scavenger status.
No one better come out and say dinos didn't defend their nests because I watched the land before time movies.