Not just tiny arms: T. rex also had super small eyes to accommodate its big bite
T. rex may have evolved thin eye sockets to help handle its bite force.
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T. rex may have evolved thin eye sockets to help handle its bite force.
A TINY dinosaur that lived in the desert had extraord-inary vision and owl-like hearing that enabled it to hunt in the dark, new research has found. Scientists have long wondered whether theropod dinosaurs – the group that gave rise to modern birds – had sensory adaptations similar to those of birds which enable them to hunt prey at night. A new study sought to investigate how the vision and hearing abilities of dinosaurs and birds compared and discovered that a theropod named Shuvuuia, part of a group known as alvarezsaurs, had both extraordinary hearing and night vision. The int...
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