If an expansive Mesozoic menu was laid out in front of you, what would you order? Tyranno tenders or triceratops-burgers with triple cheese? Would you go for a slow-cooked stegosaurus steak or the velociraptor ribs — the Cretaceous fast-food option? Determining what dinosaurs tasted like is not an easy question to answer.
“I don’t know if you can really say too much definitively about it,” says David Varricchio, a paleontologist at Montana State University.
But there may be some clues about the taste of them — after all, we eat dinosaurs all the time, whether it’s Thanksgiving dinner turkey or chicken dino nuggets. Varricchio says that what we can infer about dinosaur taste is mostly based on factors like their diet, physiology, and what species they were related to.
Did Dinosaurs Taste Like Chicken?
“The cheap and easy take” about the taste of dinosaurs is that they’d likely taste like chicken, says Nick Longrich, a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Bath in England.
