Apparently adolescent tyrannosaurs took the term “baby food” a bit too literally. According to a report in Science Advances, researchers recently analyzed the stomach contents of a teenage tyrannosaur for the first time. Finding some of the first fossil support for the tastes of these predatory youngsters, the analysis revealed that tyrannosaur teens made meals out of other baby dinosaurs.
What Did Young Tyrannosaurs Eat?
Up until 2023, the habits of juvenile tyrannosaurs were mysterious. It is well-established that tyrannosaur adults hunted large herbivores such as triceratops and other horned dinos, according to scrapes and bites on fossilized bones. But there is little fossil evidence for young tyrannosaurs.
