In a remarkable discovery that sheds light on the dietary habits of young tyrannosaurs, scientists have unearthed the fossilised remains of a juvenile Gorgosaurus, complete with its last meals preserved within its stomach. François Therrien, curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum and co-leader of the study, explained that the physical differences between young and adult tyrannosaurs meant …
Sign up for CNN’s Wonder Theory science newsletter. T. rex is the biggest of the tyrannosaurs, Gorgosaurus was a little bit smaller, maybe full grown would have been 9, 10 meters.” Darla Zelenitsky, an associate professor at the University of Calgary, and François Therrien, curator of dinosaur paleoecology at the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Alberta, stand next to the young …
