A new study reveals that massive long-necked dinosaurs left their young to fend for themselves in a brutal ecosystem. These baby sauropods became the primary food source for giant dinosaurs.
Baby sauropods were the fast food of the Late Jurassic, feeding multiple predators and propping up the entire ecosystem.
This novel food web is the first study of its kind to use trophic analysis to examine Morrison Formation ecological interactions.
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Giant dinosaur predators consumed baby sauropods about 150 million years ago
Infant and juvenile sauropods were the primary food source for fearsome predators during the ...
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Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests
Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ...
Some 150 million years ago sauropods dramatically shaped the dinosaur ecosystem in what is now the western U.S., according to a new study ...
By Will Dunham WASHINGTON, Jan 30 (Reuters) - It may have been suicidal for a predator to go after a healthy adult ...
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T. rex took decades to become fully grown, new study suggests
It is no secret that the tyrannosaurus rex was one of the largest carnivorous creatures to walk the earth millions of years ago, but a new study suggests it may have taken the predator decades to ...
Learn how fossils from Colorado’s Morrison Formation helped researchers reconstruct a Late Jurassic food web and uncover the ...
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Study finds Tyrannosaurus rex did not reach full size until age 40
There is no question that Tyrannosaurus rex got big. In fact, this fearsome dinosaur may have been Earth’s most massive land ...
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