Turns Out There Were Once Billions of T. Rexes, and They Hunted Their Prey in Terrifying PacksScientists have discovered that the most tyrannical dinosaur was more omnipresent and socially inclined than previously imagined.
It turns out the majority of prehistoric creatures weren’t merely outsized by the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex — they were outnumbered by it as well. The massive carnivores apparently traveled in murderous packs, like werewolves of the Mesozoic Era — 15-feet-tall, several-ton, lizardlike werewolves with a predatory mandate to consume anything made of meat and flesh, including its own kind.
On that last point, the Utah Bureau of Land Management shared peer-reviewed findings this week that T. rexes may well have roamed for sustenance in groups of four or five, contrary to the popular notion that they barnstormed the land as solitary scavengers. The gist is this: Fossils uncovered at a relatively new discovery site inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument called the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry (seriously) indicate that, per the Bureau’s press release, a group of several tyrannosaurs “died together during a seasonal flooding event that washed their carcasses into a lake, where they sat, largely undisturbed until the river later churned its way through the bone bed.” And, as T. rex expert Philip Currie added to the summary, this joins “a growing body of evidence that tyrannosaurids were capable of interacting as gregarious packs.”
RAGs over 3 years ago
From the laughing itself or from the boss’s reaction to it?
eromlig over 3 years ago
You know what they say — Jesus saves, Moses invests, and Tyrannosaurus Wrecks.
anymouse77 over 3 years ago
I guess Mr. Rex’s temper was a short as his arms . . .
Pickled Pete over 3 years ago
Short arms and deep pockets.
Digital Frog over 3 years ago
Why can’t TRex’s clap their hands?
Because they’re dead
HarryLime Premium Member over 3 years ago
I used to work for a dinosaur like that.
JohnTheFoole over 3 years ago
Maybe he should take a course in small-arms training?
ArtyD2 Premium Member over 3 years ago
Oooooo, you are gonna hear from the ‘healthy at any arm length’ crowd.
snowedin, now known as Missy's mom over 3 years ago
I laughed out loud at this one! That’s funny!
MS72 over 3 years ago
DONT GO IN THE OUTHOUSE! It will not protect you from the T-Rex.
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
I got my head bit off several times.
the lost wizard over 3 years ago
Wayne should have legged it out of there.
Troglodyte over 3 years ago
His efforts to control his laughter were in Wayne?
WCraft Premium Member over 3 years ago
What a moron! I never laugh at T-Rexes!
amaneaux over 3 years ago
" . . . and if you could come in Sunday too, that’d be greeeat."
Radish the wordsmith over 3 years ago
Turns Out There Were Once Billions of T. Rexes, and They Hunted Their Prey in Terrifying PacksScientists have discovered that the most tyrannical dinosaur was more omnipresent and socially inclined than previously imagined.
It turns out the majority of prehistoric creatures weren’t merely outsized by the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex — they were outnumbered by it as well. The massive carnivores apparently traveled in murderous packs, like werewolves of the Mesozoic Era — 15-feet-tall, several-ton, lizardlike werewolves with a predatory mandate to consume anything made of meat and flesh, including its own kind.
On that last point, the Utah Bureau of Land Management shared peer-reviewed findings this week that T. rexes may well have roamed for sustenance in groups of four or five, contrary to the popular notion that they barnstormed the land as solitary scavengers. The gist is this: Fossils uncovered at a relatively new discovery site inside the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument called the Rainbows and Unicorns Quarry (seriously) indicate that, per the Bureau’s press release, a group of several tyrannosaurs “died together during a seasonal flooding event that washed their carcasses into a lake, where they sat, largely undisturbed until the river later churned its way through the bone bed.” And, as T. rex expert Philip Currie added to the summary, this joins “a growing body of evidence that tyrannosaurids were capable of interacting as gregarious packs.”
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