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By Rob Quinn| Posted Aug 5, 09 1:19 AM CDT|

(Newser) – The Hollywood image of Tyrannosaurus Rex battling huge herbivores is a long way from Jurassic reality, according to a new study. Instead of picking on animals its own size, T. Rex and other massive carnivores preferred their prey as young as possible, ideally when they were small enough to be swallowed whole, researchers tell the Independent.

Baby dinosaurs were easy targets because they lacked skill in evading predators, and hadn't yet developed the fearsome armor many adults had, according to the scientists. Paleontologists believe that baby-eating was so prevalent in carnivorous dinosaurs that it accounts for the fact that the fossils of very few juvenile dinosaurs have been found, and that few bones of adult dinosaurs bear teeth marks.

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Workers walk past replicas of the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex on display at dinosaur expo at Makuhari Messe in Makuhari, near Tokyo. (AP Photo/Shizuo Kambayashi)

An adult and baby Tyrannosaurus Rex robotic dinosaurs perform in "Walking with Dinosaurs" show at London's O2 Arena. (Getty Images)

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Young prey are easier to bring down and the risk of injury to the predator is much lower. - Paleontologist David Hone

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JonmarkP
Aug 5, 09 2:21 AM CDT

Scientists have learned much about the baby-eating behavior of early carnivorous dinosaurs by studying modern equivalents, such as Barbara Bush. Reply

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kokuaguy
Aug 5, 09 2:36 PM CDT

I love you, JmP, but really ...

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LiberalJesus
Aug 5, 09 6:28 PM CDT

That wasnt really needed was it Jon? If you act like that then you are really no better than those who smear the Clintons or anybody else. This was all about the eating habits of a T-Rex. There is no political theatre required here. But I will add this one minor comment. Dont you just know that reading about these dinosaurs that existed 60,000,000 years ago must drive conservative birthers insane since in their world the earth is less than 6000 years old!!!!....lol....;-)

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cognitivefilter
Aug 5, 09 9:41 PM CDT

lol----funny. lighten up guys

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Reader64481089
Aug 5, 09 6:15 AM CDT

Or D. Cheney Reply

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ClearSight
Aug 5, 09 6:20 AM CDT

I guess you could say they were the abortion doctors of the Jurassic period........ Reply

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Rob
Aug 5, 09 7:29 AM CDT

T. rex is a Cretaceous dinosaur, not Jurassic. Reply

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ClearSight
Aug 5, 09 8:20 AM CDT

Your right... thanks for reminding me.

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Timinator2K
Aug 5, 09 8:36 AM CDT

I LOVE THIS! Bash Barbara Bush & Cheney who are Pro-Lifers, morons, and are NOT the BABY KILLERS...PRO-ABORTIONIST "COMPASSIONATE" LIBERALS ARE THE BABY KILLERS, FOOLS....MILLIONS-UPON-MILLIONS OF DEAD BABIES, THANKS TO LIBERALIST ABORTION-AS-BIRTH-CONTROL BLOODY MURDERERS. Reply

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ruserious
Aug 5, 09 10:08 AM CDT

It is incredibly hard to decipher what you're writing when you flip out, use all caps, and refuse to use real punctuation. I think I may get the idea of what you're trying to say? Oh wait, I just gave up.

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kokuaguy
Aug 5, 09 2:42 PM CDT

Desperately seeking common ground here ... so you are obviously not an opponent of birth control, since you classify pro-choice advocates as "abortion as birth control" murdrers. Right? You are in favor of birth control because it prevents abortions in certain cases. Are you with me? I'll check back later or you can contact me directly.

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LiberalJesus
Aug 5, 09 6:36 PM CDT

Have you any idea how many rich white republican women have availed themselves to legally provided abortions? Where is any data suggesting only liberals have or support abortions. Please provide facts Tim instead of nonsensical histrionics and please, learn to punctuate! Abortion is a medical procedure. No one but the likes of your crowd calls it murder. What did you call what that whack job did to Dr. Tillman? What did you call what Tim McVeigh did to the Fed building in OKC? What did you call it when a group of Marines slaughtered 3 families of Iraqis in Haditha? Need I go on anymore Tim or have you got the gist of what I am trying to convey to you. If I need to use smaller words and shorter sentences please let me know Tim. I have grand children now and I know how to talk down to their level Tim so I will be more than happy to do the same for you.

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schmidtkoff
Aug 5, 09 8:52 AM CDT

yeah, and sanchez and other's killed their own children and dismembered them, and in sanchez's case, she ate part of her 3 1/2 month old baby.l Reply

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A.Carpenter
Aug 5, 09 9:01 AM CDT

Nothing like turning a cool science article into something stupid and political. Reply

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ClearSight
Aug 6, 09 7:46 AM CDT

Well blame the moron JonmarkP for opening the door on this one.with his idiotic Barbra Bush comparison.....

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Reader60610265
Aug 5, 09 9:07 AM CDT

Terminator the libs don't care . This was just a chance to bash republicans .What these two women did was hat every wife of a president or a vp is supposed to do. What these two ladies have done is too have made the mistake of being married to conservative republicans. This is just another lib bashing cession There was nothing on to whack their husbands with today so their picking on the hives.. Reply

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Reader60610265
Aug 5, 09 9:11 AM CDT

what an article about dinosaurs had to do with killing human babies eludes me , but that's the libs for you .Gee oh I forgot one should not criticize the libs on this site they'll single you out and have you banned. Reply

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LiberalJesus
Aug 5, 09 6:42 PM CDT

What are you even talking about????

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ruserious
Aug 5, 09 10:06 AM CDT

Haha--I love the headline. What a bastard. Babies were the only things they could catch with those useless little nubs of arms! (yes, yes, I know everything that's wrong with that--my boyfriend is a geo/paleo major and chews me out when I make fun of T-rex's anatomy). Reply

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DontLikeYou
Aug 5, 09 11:17 AM CDT

Stop for a moment. Think about this story. The TRex bones are millions of years old. Yet, some Einstein believes he knows the diet of the TRex. Is there any end to the hubris of some scientists who make wild speculations, based on NO facts and then consider it science? Geeez. Reply

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Snarfeh
Aug 5, 09 1:38 PM CDT

Old bones still have marrow that can be tested. Geo paleontologists can determine what kind of natural environment the dinosaur lived in from the soil layers...hell, there's a lot of ways they can determine this. If you can handle informative science, check out this link for the many ways they can determine what our own ancestors ate: http://www.becominghuman.org/

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SPH
Aug 5, 09 1:50 PM CDT

Science is strictly based on facts, unlike religion which is entirely based on faith and/or myth.....

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kokuaguy
Aug 5, 09 2:45 PM CDT

Yes, they should stick to the Book of Genesis for their evidence, of course.

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LiberalJesus
Aug 5, 09 6:39 PM CDT

Uh ohh...another "the earth is 6000 years old and man walked with the dinosaurs" product here.

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Snarfeh
Aug 5, 09 8:05 PM CDT

@sph - Science is not *strictly* based on facts. Only that which has been definitively proven is factual. A lot of it is still theory based on various probabilities based on math, geology, cosmology, etc. as well as circumstantial evidence, etc. However, if you mean, in comparison to XXXXX, then I'm with ya...

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pkmac4
Sep 18, 09 12:58 PM CDT

Wait, T-Rex? I thought they were talking about Glenn Beck. Reply

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