Tyrannosaurus rex's cheek grooves (below the eye sockets) and narrow snout cleared its sight lines, giving it impressive vision, according to a new study.
Tyrannosaurus rex's cheek grooves (below the eye sockets) and narrow snout cleared its sight lines, giving it impressive vision, according to a new study.
I guess I had assumed that the vision of the beast was related to they eyes within its actual eyes, of which we know nothing. I guess it is really only a factor of how far apart they are. Silly me.
I was just staring down a mother raccoon and her four babies this morning before work. She had a pretty narrow snout too with real clear sight lines. I don't know if that means she can see six kilometers away though.
She was hissing for some reason too. ;)
For all we know, they were cross-eyed. Don't horses have an unusual range of vision which is why they wear blinders?
I vote predator. I just can't see T. Rex walking by and ignoring a potential meal when ravenously hungry just because it was still alive.
However, if some other predator has already done the work, well I'd guess TR wasn't to proud to barge on into the the feast and make a selfish a pig of himself.
But I could be wrong.