Current Events > Do you think T-Rex was mostly a scavenger?

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reportedly some paleontologists think it was mostly

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i'm pretty sure that theory lost most support like a decade ago.

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I wasn't there idk

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monkmith posted...

i'm pretty sure that theory lost most support like a decade ago.

it lost most support?

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T Rex was a band

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DoubleOSnake posted...

it lost most support?

i think it was somewhat popular a while back, but recent fossil evidence suggests it was wrong. i dont know, its not something i read much about but i've got a friend who's spent a large chunk of his time digging in montana for the last decade and he often talks about the newest evidence in the paleontology world.

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really? what did they find with the recent fossil evidence?

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I was recently thinking about that Insane Clown Posse song "Miracles" and how the internet ridiculed at the "And I don't wanna talk to a scientist, Y'all motherfuckers lying, and getting me pissed" line. It made me wonder how many people who went along with that (fair) criticism are now buttflustered about the recent revisions to our understanding of dinosaurs.

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Maybe opportunitistic and did both. Lions are the apex predators in Africa and they'll routinely steal food from other carnivores or scavenge. Why would T-Rex be any different?

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Dammit. They need to stop doing research on Dinosaurs, from feathers to their wimpy ass roar (if they had any) they keep making them objectively worse.

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Taharqa_ posted...

Maybe opportunitistic and did both. Lions are the apex predators in Africa and they'll routinely steal food from other carnivores or scavenge. Why would T-Rex be any different?

i kinda agree, are there any apex predators, today who mostly scavenge?

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DoubleOSnake posted...

really? what did they find with the recent fossil evidence?

dredging up from memory the only thing that comes to mind suggested that the tooth and jaw structure/musculature of the trex would have been way over-evolved for a diet primarily based on carrion.

Taharqa_ posted...

Maybe opportunitistic and did both. Lions are the apex predators in Africa and they'll routinely steal food from other carnivores or scavenge. Why would T-Rex be any different?

pretty sure i've heard that point too.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zSYcMmxrm4Q

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I say Tyrannosaurs were predators because it would be so bogus if they just ate things that were already dead

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Whatever the science says. It doesn't matter if it makes 6 year old me sad

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No. There is plenty of evidence of T-Rex toothmarks on prey animals. They definitely hunted.

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They were actually vegan.

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bumpo

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Wasnt this mostly something Jack Horner cooked up as a theory and since he's the Jurassic Park paleo guy his crackpot ideas are significantly more at the forefront in and less scrutinized by the media?
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Taharqa_ posted...

Maybe opportunitistic and did both. Lions are the apex predators in Africa and they'll routinely steal food from other carnivores or scavenge. Why would T-Rex be any different?

Yeah, asking whether the T-Rex got most of its calories from hunting itself or stealing seems like splitting hairs: there's plenty of evidence they hunted, and no doubt something that big and powerful *also* routinely rolled up on other predators and stole their kills. Probably the answer varied from place to place and from individual to individual.

DoubleOSnake posted...

i kinda agree, are there any apex predators, today who mostly scavenge?

By definition if a thing is a scavenger it isn't an apex predator

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Cowthief posted...

No. There is plenty of evidence of T-Rex toothmarks on prey animals. They definitely hunted.

You realize that if they eat dead animals, theyd still leave tooth marks on them... right?

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Samurontai posted...

You realize that if they eat dead animals, theyd still leave tooth marks on them... right?

The wounds weren't fresh and showed signs of healing. Meaning the dinosaur was wounded by a T-Rex and escaped.

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Everything about them says they are a predator but I wouldn't doubt they would steal a kill.Thats like Debo saying what you got on my 40?

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bumpi

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They were opportunistic hunters. They hunted and scavenged. They would take someone else's kill and then fuck something up on their own. This push to make them seem less predatory by some pseudo-woke armchair paleontologists is beyond trite.

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SquirtleSkwad posted...

They were opportunistic hunters. They hunted and scavenged.

that would make the most sense. animal that big would need a lot of food, and would take any meal they came across.

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They were probably more like Hyenas where they show up after someone else did the hard work and take their shit.

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What do T-rexes do when not in hunt mode? Lying down would be difficult to get back up from with those tiny joke arms.
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monkmith posted...

that would make the most sense. animal that big would need a lot of food, and would take any meal they came across.

What's more boggling is that these tall mf'ers probably hooted instead of roaring. Which, in my opinion, is even more terrifying. Some deep chested hoot coming from the jungle that you just know means you're fucked.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

What do T-rexes do when not in hunt mode? Lying down would be difficult to get back up from with those tiny joke arms.

Who knows what was attached to those tiny arms. They could have had massive wings.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

What do T-rexes do when not in hunt mode?

I think they were into Sci-Fi and jazz, IIRC

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E_S_M_Z posted...

I think they were into Sci-Fi and jazz, IIRC

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLlibrF5DRM

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DeadBankerDream posted...

What do T-rexes do when not in hunt mode? Lying down would be difficult to get back up from with those tiny joke arms.

Those legs are for lifting, mane.

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Denver, the last dinosaur

He's my friend and a whole lot more!
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DeadBankerDream posted...

What do T-rexes do when not in hunt mode? Lying down would be difficult to get back up from with those tiny joke arms.

legs would tuck under them like a bird and they'd sort of squat i'd guess.

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monkmith posted...

legs would tuck under them like a bird and they'd sort of squat i'd guess.

The scholarly consensus is that they curled up like cats.

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The T. Rex was too slow to chase down fast prey. They would take on large herbivores that couldn't move fast, and steal kills from faster dinosaurs.

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Tyranthraxus posted...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLlibrF5DRM

I now owe you a debt I can never repay.

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Mostly a scavenger? No, they were predators, really high on the chain too.

Of course I'm guessing they did scavenge, because smaller and less powerful predators would leave when they saw him, leaving whatever they were eating.

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DeadBankerDream posted...

Wasnt this mostly something Jack Horner cooked up as a theory and since he's the Jurassic Park paleo guy his crackpot ideas are significantly more at the forefront in and less scrutinized by the media?

He was a big proponent of the hypothesis, despite it never gaining a foothold in the paleontological community, but he and others that advocated it were not necessarily crackpots, as it was not an outlandish idea. The people that are saying that birds evolved from some other lineage of reptiles rather than being a living lineage of dinosaurs are a good example of actual crackpots.

Horner, by the way, has accepted that the hypothesis is bunk.

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