Tyrannosaurs hunted in packs, making them even more terrifying

bgrpro65 avril 20, 2021

It's hard to imagine an ancient creature that would terrify you more than a tyrannosaur. The mighty Tyrannosaurus rex is the most icon of all the dinosaurs but it's just one member of a larger family of carnivorous dinosaurs referred to as tyrannosaurs. Many of them were massive in size and while debate continues to rage over whether or not they were active hunters or primarily scavengers, they are almost always depicted in both fictional and historic light as being solitary. Now, new research published in PeerJ suggests that this might not have been the case, and it's possible that tyrannosaurs regularly hunted in groups, as a pack.

This finding is based on the discovery of a handful of tyrannosaur skeletons found in the same location in a lakebed where the animals are presumed to have drowned. Their remains were fossilized as a group, and researchers suggest that the animals were actually engaging in social hunting when flooding swept them away and led to their deaths. If this is indeed the case, it could rewrite what we know about how these ancient carnivores lived their lives.