Scientists discovered prey inside the stomach of a tyrannosaur skeleton for the first time.
“This teenage Gorgosaurus seems to have had an appetite for drumsticks,” said Darla Zelenitsky, a palaeontologist who studied these bones.
The skeleton of the Gorgosaurus, a member of the tyrannosaurid family, shows how these dinosaurs grew from skinny children to gigantic adults that crushed the bones of smaller animals they’d eat.
“This fossil is the first solid evidence that tyrannosaurids drastically changed their diet as they grew from teenagers to adults,” Zelenitsky said.
As they hit their middle-age at roughly 11 years old, their bodies grew almost 10 times in size. Their heads broadened, and their teeth thickened for crunching through huge bones.
