Posted on 10/15/2010 5:40:14 PM PDT by decimon
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Politics ping.
anti-social dinosaurs
So this could mean that maybe DemocRATS didn’t evolve from apes as they like to claim.
As my good friend, Lieutenant General Russ Honore, of Hurricane Katria fame would say. Those weren’t snipers, they were jus’ havin’ an argument.
gang a bong.....
"The nearly complete female specimen named "Sue," discovered in 1990 and the subject of bitter legal battles for many years, suffered a non-fatal broken rib. Embedded in the broken and infected rib was a tooth fragment from another T.rex. Larson also found fatal wounds on the left side of her skull that were clearly the result of a T.rex bite. "'Sue's face was literally torn off by another T.rex" Larson says."
They didn’t eat each other as a food choice.
The reason for the bite marks around the neck are the same as in all other species.
The males are fighting over the chicks.
Sue was cheating on Big-T.
He put her in her place.
"But perhaps the most intriguing insight into T.rex behavior comes from the latest find, a specimen named "Steven." Some of "Steven's" vertebrae were literally bitten in half, and the vertebral bones that connected to tenderloin and T. rex T-bone steaks are missing. The only known animal living at the time with large enough and strong enough jaws to bite through T.rex bone was T.rex."
According to Larson, this is the first evidence that T.rex may have feasted on its own kind. "We knew they fought each other, we knew they killed each other once in a while, but we didn't know they ate each other too," he said. "
Pimpin' ain't easy.
Coulda been the cannibalism.
Think Sue was one of the biggest found, if she had her a$$ kicked, just imagine what kicked it.
I'm pretty sure you're right, she was the biggest found.
I was surprised to see the article talking about cannibalism like it was a new theory or something.
And you know this because you have traveled back in time or are you guessing?
It would be more correct to say that "T. rex was the only big carnivore that we currently know about in western North America 65 million years ago.
The T-Rex probably was a carrion eater given his centroid of balance and his small forelegs. He was designed to bend over to bite while eating and his forelegs were for holding his bulk in the bite position. Eating another T-Rex body is completely within this scenario.
BTW, did you catch Sue’s plastic marrow?
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