Across the long arc of the Mesozoic, meat-eating dinosaurs from five separate lineages independently surrendered the use of their arms — not because their bodies grew too large to need them, but because their skulls became something more powerful. New research from University College London and Cambridge University reveals that as prey animals swelled to enormous size, the predators who thrived were those who learned to hunt with their heads, and in doing so, rendered their forelimbs obsolete. It is a story less about loss than about the ruthless economy of evolution: when one tool becomes sup
Powerful Jaws, Not Size, Drove Tiny Arms in T. Rex and Other Theropods
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Economic Lens
Paleontological research on dinosaur evolution has no direct economic implications; this is pure scientific discovery about prehistoric biology.
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