New evidence for combat and cannibalism in tyrannosaurs
Thursday, April 9, 2015 - 17:20
in Paleontology & Archaeology
This is an artist's reconstruction of one Daspletosaurus feeding on another. A new study documents injuries inflicted in life and death to a large tyrannosaurine dinosaur. The paper shows that the skull of a genus of tyrannosaur called Daspletosaurus suffered numerous injuries during life, at least some of which were likely inflicted by another Daspletosaurus. It was also bitten after death in an apparent event of scavenging by another tyrannosaur. Thus there's evidence of combat between two large carnivores as well as one feeding on another after death.