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Did Dino Meat Taste Like Chicken?

Probably not, and here's why

(Newser) - Turns out T. Rexes liked to eat other T. Rexes —so the obvious next question is, what does a T. Rex taste like? Not like chicken, writes Brian Palmer on Slate . But birds are related to dinosaurs, and it’s probably another bird—the hawk—that dinosaur meat is... More »

Tasty Snack for T. Rex: Another T. Rex

Paleontologist finds evidence of cannibalism

(Newser) - It looks like T. Rex was a cannibal. So says a Yale paleontologist who found telltale bone gouges on a fossil of the giant dinosaur that make it all but certain it had been eaten by a fellow T. Rex. That prompted him to take a closer look at other... More »

Dinosaurs Arose in S. America

Fossil of T. rex cousin helps fill in the puzzle

(Newser) - The fossil of a feisty little ancestor of T. rex lends credence to the theory that dinosaurs emerged in South America. More precisely, they likely arose about 230 million years ago in Pangaea, which was then the single joined continent of the Americas. The development follow the discovery of a... More »

Sore Throat May Have Axed T Rex

Trichomonosis still affects modern birds and makes eating almost impossible

(Newser) - Tyrannosaurus rex could have been laid low not by a planetwide dinosaur holocaust or vicious infighting, but by a parasite that still affects modern birds. Researchers have taken a close look at lesions on T. rex fossils once presumed to be battle scars and concluded that they are the work... More »

Pint-Size T-Rex Surprises Scientists

'Raptorex' was 1/100th the weight of its descendant

(Newser) - Paleontologists have unearthed a miniature predecessor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, a finding that may rewrite the origins of the most iconic of dinosaurs. “Raptorex,” discovered in China, has all the distinctive features of a Tyrannosaurus—large head and jaws, long legs, and small arms—but it weighed only 150... More »

'Beach Bum' Dino Chilled in Mex

New find reveals crested duckbill hunted by cousin of T. rex

(Newser) - A newly discovered duck-billed dinosaur lived on a "very Mediterranean-like" Mexican beach 72 million years ago, paleontologists say. A fossilized skeleton of Velafrons coahuilensis was found in the north-central state of Coahuila—the most complete dinosaur ever found in Mexico, Reuters reports. "Velafrons was probably a beach bum,... More »

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