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      1 year ago

      Did you actually read any of that? because it supports what I said that Tyrannosaurus was not a pure scavenger and provides multiple examples of how the scavenger hypothesis is wrong. Jack Horner’s hypothesis has been securely debunked both by fossil evidence on animals that would have been prey for tyrannosaurus and by what we can confidently ascertain from studying the biomechanics of Tyrannosaurs themselves. If you use modern predators as a example, none purely subsist off scavenging. All modern predators engage in both behaviours and it stands to reason that T-rex did the same.