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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. Sounds like by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Sounds like an afternoon on bath salts.

  2. Ah Yes! Triceratops ... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... the "gummy bear" of dinosaurs.

  3. 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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