The world of science continues to reveal totally striking aspects to us and unique thanks to the studies that are coming to light. Well, recently they have Bite marks found on the foot bone of a Tyrannosaurusdiscovering that not only was it a great predator, but it was also cannibal. The discovery was spotted thanks to a study carried out by the Department of Geosciences of the Aarhus University of Denmark.
Thus they concluded that the tyrannosaurus was more than a large predator
Tyrannosaurs are totally relentless predatorss, but they also took advantage opportunities to scavenge when they found food coming from dead animals down to the last crumbs.
The research was carried out by Jospehine Nielsena master’s student in geosciences at said university, who used advanced 3D scanning techniques to examine a fossilized metatarsal (foot bone), which belonged to a tyrannosaurus of large dimensions from more than 75 million years. The conclusion revealed 16 bite marks different in the bone.
Tyrannosaurus rex.
This is how Josephine spoke about it after what was found and studied: “I have analyzed the depth, angle and location of the marks in a 3D virtual environment and can document that these bite marks They did not occur by chanced. “They are precise impressions of the teeth of a smaller tyrannosaur that fed on a much larger relative.”
This way, The results conclude that tyrannosaurs did not despise resources, but rather made the most of them. always: “The bone shows no signs of healing after the smallest dinosaur bit it. Since the marks are found on the foot, where there is very little meat, this ssuggests that the dinosaur was cleaning and eating the last remains of an ancient corpse,” he says. the expert and main author of the research.