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Dinosaur Tracks Suggest Tyrannosaurs Hunted in Packs
2014-07-27
[An Nahar] Some 70 million years ago, three tyrannosaurs stalked together across a mud flat in Canada, possibly searching for prey.

The new insight comes from several parallel tyrannosaur tracks unearthed in Canada. The dinosaur tracks provide stronger evidence for a controversial theory: That the fearsome mega-predators hunted in packs.

The ferocious beasts may have "stuck together as a pack to increase their chances of bringing down prey and individually surviving," said study co-author Richard McCrea, a curator at the Peace Region Palaeontology Center in Canada.
Posted by:Fred

#2  ...so, sort of like bars on Friday and Saturday night?
Posted by: Procopius2k   2014-07-27 09:54  

#1  Almost any predator will hunt in a group if (1) the prey is physically large or (2) the prey is smaller but numerous. It's when the prey density thins out that single hunting begins.
Posted by: ed in texas   2014-07-27 09:38  

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