Researchers Report Dinosaur Was Cannibal
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Tooth marks in bones from a dinosaur that roamed Madagascar more than 65 million years ago are clear evidence it was a cannibal, researchers reported in Thursday’s issue of Nature.
Minnesota paleontologists said fossil bones from the flesh-eating Majungatholus remove any doubt that it had a taste for members of its own species.
“We have the smoking gun in the form of diagnostic tooth marks, and we can definitely rule out all the other carnivores known to have been on the scene,” said Raymond Rogers of Macalester College in St. Paul.
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