Researchers on Thursday unveiled the first calculation of the total T. rex population, putting the number at 2.5 billion over 125,000 generations.
Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled Monday found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.
Using geochemical analysis of the bones and rock, a team of researchers with the University of Arkansas determined that the dinosaurs died and were buried in the same place and were not the result of fossils washing in from multiple areas.
Tyrannosaurus rex the tyrant lizard king may not have been a solitary predator, but instead hunted its prey in packs, just like wolves, a study has suggested.
Palaeontologists have been studying a T. rex mass death site found back in 2014 in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah.
Analysis of the fossil bones and the surrounding rock has revealed that the dinosaurs died and were buried together, rather than being washed in from other places.
Tyrannosaurus rex may not have been a solitary predator, but instead hunted its prey in packs (as depicted in this artist s reconstruction), just like wolves, a study has suggested
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Using geochemical analysis of the bones and rock, a team of researchers with the University of Arkansas determined that the dinosaurs died and were buried in the same place and were not the result of fossils washing in from multiple areas
Ferocious tyrannosaur dinosaurs may not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, as per a recent study unveiled.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the Biden administration is considering restoring to their full size after former President Donald Trump shrunk them.
Fossils may prove T-rex lived in packs
AP, SALT LAKE CITY
Tyrannosaur dinosaurs might not have been solitary predators as long envisioned, but more like social carnivores such as wolves, new research unveiled on Monday found.
Paleontologists developed the theory while studying a mass tyrannosaur death site found seven years ago in the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument in southern Utah, one of two monuments that the administration of US President Joe Biden is considering restoring to their full size.
Using geochemical analysis of the bones and rock, a team of researchers with the University of Arkansas determined that the dinosaurs died and were buried in the same place and were not the result of fossils washing in from multiple areas.