Two titans fighting a bloody battle – that often turns fatal for
both of them. This is how big predatory dinosaurs like
Tyrannosaurus are often depicted while hunting down their
supposed prey: even larger herbivorous dinosaurs. The fossils,
though, do not account for that kind of hunting behavior but
indicate that theropods, the large predatory dinosaurs, were
frying much smaller fish. Dr. Oliver Rauhut, paleontologist at
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität (LMU) in Munich, and his collegue
Dr. David Hone surmise that giant carnivores like Tyrannosaurus
preyed mainly on juvenile dinosaurs. "Unlike their adult and
well-armed relatives these young animals hardly posed any risk
to the predators," says Rauhut. "And their tender bones would
have added important minerals to a theropod's diet. Now we hope
for more fossils to be found that add new evidence to our
hypothesis." (Lethaia online, 3 August 2009) He's the king of
tyrants: Tyrannosaurus rex is by far the most famous dinosaur.
Not even recent finds of slightly bi