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How Do You Eat a Triceratops? Start By Ripping the Head Off

Posted by timothy on from the steamed-with-beer-and-old-bay dept.

scibri writes "Once a Tyrannosaurus took down a Triceratops, how did it go about eating it? By looking at the bite marks on Triceratops fossils, a group of paleontologists have pieced together the steps, and created an illustrated guide. Step one? Pull off the head."

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  1. Taking down a triceratops? by camperdave · · Score: 5, Insightful

    "Once a Tyrannosaurus took down a Triceratops, how did it go about eating it?"

    I thought T-Rex was downgraded from a hunter/killer to a carcass plundering carrion eater, like a buzzard. Besides, didn't these Triceratopses have soft underbellies and such? Seems to me that the neck and face bits would be the LAST to go, not the first.

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  2. Re:First shoot it with a .458 magnum - several tim by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 4, Insightful

    And what if the T-Rex is left-handed? How is he going to operate the bolt mechanism? It's not like specialty rifles tend to cater for physiological minorities.

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