Caption: T. rex was the only big carnivore in western North America 65 million years ago that was capable of making such large gouges, such as the ones seen here on a toe bone.
Credit: Nicholas Longrich/Yale University
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1 posted on
10/15/2010 5:40:18 PM PDT by
decimon
To: SunkenCiv
2 posted on
10/15/2010 5:41:12 PM PDT by
decimon
To: decimon
3 posted on
10/15/2010 5:45:42 PM PDT by
EGPWS
(Trust in God, question everyone else)
To: decimon
5 posted on
10/15/2010 5:49:51 PM PDT by
GeronL
(http://libertyfic.proboards.com <--- My Fiction/ Science Fiction Board)
To: decimon
So this could mean that maybe DemocRATS didn’t evolve from apes as they like to claim.
6 posted on
10/15/2010 5:51:52 PM PDT by
FlingWingFlyer
(Less than 20 days to go to election day. I'm giddier than a TV weatherman during hurricane season.)
To: decimon
As my good friend, Lieutenant General Russ Honore, of Hurricane Katria fame would say. Those weren’t snipers, they were jus’ havin’ an argument.
To: decimon
Makes sense, scavengers will eat anything.
8 posted on
10/15/2010 5:54:40 PM PDT by
Red_Devil 232
(VietVet - USMC All Ready On The Right? All Ready On The Left? All Ready On The Firing Line!)
To: decimon
I think the dino exhibit at Yale is superior to the one at the Smithsonian.
9 posted on
10/15/2010 5:54:50 PM PDT by
Daffynition
("Life Imitates Bacon, but Bacon does not imitate Life. Bacon IS life." ~paulycy)
To: decimon
Better late than never. This is from a 1996 article:
"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."
11 posted on
10/15/2010 5:59:26 PM PDT by
Flag_This
(Real presidents don't bow.)
To: decimon
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.
12 posted on
10/15/2010 6:02:42 PM PDT by
UCANSEE2
(lame and ill-informed post)
To: decimon
T. rex was the only big carnivore in western North America 65 million years ago. 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.
19 posted on
10/15/2010 6:25:32 PM PDT by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(When all you have is bolt cutters & vodka everything looks like the lock on Wolf Blitzer's boathouse)
To: decimon
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?
To: decimon
And they tasted just like chicken!
21 posted on
10/15/2010 6:42:58 PM PDT by
MIchaelTArchangel
(Obama makes me miss Jimmah Cahtah!)
To: decimon
To #1: You’ve never met my wife.
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