Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive
Thursday, August 7, 2008 - 00:28
in Paleontology & Archaeology
With long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defenses against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests that it had at least one advantage: It grew to adulthood much faster than its predators, giving it superiority in size.