Seventy-five million years ago, a young Gorgosaurus died beside an ancient Alberta river with its last meal still inside it — and in that stillness, time preserved something science had never before witnessed: the actual feeding behavior of a juvenile tyrannosaur. The fossil, holding the legs of two small feathered dinosaurs called Citipes elegans, reveals that young tyrannosaurs were precise, selective hunters of swift small prey, a strategy entirely unlike the bone-crushing pursuit of large herbivores practiced by their adult counterparts. In this single specimen, paleontology gains not just
First Tyrannosaur Fossil With Stomach Contents Reveals Picky Juvenile Predator
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Paleontological discovery of a 75-million-year-old Gorgosaurus fossil with preserved stomach contents has no direct economic implications for current markets or consumer behavior.
No direct consumer impact. This is a scientific discovery relevant only to paleontology, museum exhibitions, and educational institutions.
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