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Paleontologists reported Friday the discovery of a remarkable fossil: a juvenile tyrannosaur called Gorgosaurus libratus with the partially digested drumsticks of two birdlike dinosaurs where its stomach once was. The extraordinary specimen opens a vivid window into the behavior, development and diet of a predator that lived 75 million years ago.
A 75-million-year-old Gorgosaurus fossil is the first tyrannosaur skeleton ever found with a filled stomach.
Until now, fossilized feces and teeth marks on the bones of large herbivores offered the only evidence of what adult tyrannosaurs ate when they were the world’s top predators millions of years ago
In a first for science, Alberta paleontologists examined the diet of a T. rex unearthed in 2009 in Dinosaur Provincial Park.
In a first for science, Alberta paleontologists examined the diet of a T. rex unearthed in 2009 in Dinosaur Provincial Park.