How Did Predatory Dinosaurs Hunt? Teeth Examination Reveals Prey Choice, Bite Technique

BusinessTechnologyWorldNationalMedia & CultureOpinionSportsLuxury Newsletter Signup Technology By Shubham Sharma 04/27/18 AT 3:09 AM Dinosaurs went extinct more than 65 million years ago, but their eating habits are still being understood. Some land-dwellers fed on plants and bushes and went about their lives, but there were also a few that feasted on smaller animals like the famous theropod Tyrannosaurus rex.The immense scale and diversity of these predators could have meant strong competition for other meat-eating dinosaurs living at the same time. However, a recent teeth examination of Coelurosaurian dinosaurs or bird-like theropods from the Upper Cretaceous period — between 100.5 and 66 million years ago — hints at a completely different story.”All these dinosaurs were living at the same time and place, so it is important to know if they were competing for food resources or if they were aiming for different prey,” Angelica Torices of Universidad de La Rioja, Spain, said in a statement.The researcher originally wanted to match tooth remains with their respective dinosaur species, but soon, she started examining how the animals used those teeth in the past.Working in conjunction with colleagues from the University, Torices studied several bird-like theropods that once lived in modern-day Spain and Canada and found they were not in… Read full this story

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