Among theropod dinosaurs, all modern birds and several ... the hypercarnivorous habits of T. rex and other meat eating coelurosaurs like Velociraptor should be viewed "more as the exception ...

They were expecting to find a lot of meat-eating – after all, theropods are known informally as the predatory dinosaurs. But even confirming that hypothesis would be tricky because so little ...

How, then, did the meat-eaters rise to the top of the food web in the Age of Dinosaurs? The answers are just starting to spill out of the stone. Coelophysis bauri (Cope, 1887) theropod dinosaur ...

When you picture dinosaurs, most people think of the classic ... had pointed blade-like teeth similar to the mostly meat-eating modern monitor lizards – this isn’t entirely surprising, given ...

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey shared the same watering holes on Skye 167 million years ago, say scientists. University of Edinburgh researchers examined dozens of dinosaur ...

Here’s how it works. It's long been believed that Tyrannosaurus rex was a meat-eating maniac while long-necked dinosaurs serenely chomped away at leaves in the background. However, a new study ...

In the same way that grass-fed beef might taste different from corn-fed beef, creatures that ate certain types of plants may vary from other dinosaurs that feasted on other vegetation. Most of the ...

It’s the smoking gun, or the steaming guts,” said a paleontologist from a team that also found that the sauropods didn’t chew ...

Huge meat-eating dinosaurs and their plant-eating prey shared the same watering holes on Skye 167 million years ago, say scientists. University of Edinburgh researchers examined dozens of dinosaur ...

Several theropod dinosaurs — like the horse-sized Chilesaurus — seem to have given up meat for the diet of plants, but this evolutionary development didn't happen as often. “The interesting thing ...