Tracks found in B.C. suggest tyrannosaurs hunted in packs

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It may be the first known case of a family that preyed together.

At a remote cliffside in eastern British Columbia, a team of scientists has uncovered the preserved footprints of three tyrannosaurs – large meat-eating dinosaurs – all heading in the same direction.

Because the prints were made under similar conditions, researchers say, there’s a good chance the creatures were walking together, a sight that would surely strike fear in any time traveller that happened on the scene.

The find marks the first time the footprints of more than one tyrannosaur have been found in close proximity and it suggests that the most fearsome predators of all time were social rather than solitary creatures.

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That had to be the most terrifying sight ever!

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Oh, great.

A pack of T. Rexes.

[JoeyT]

2. It's possible.

It's also possible they were just all headed toward the same thing, like a large dead animal up or down stream from them. We know they probably had a pretty good sense of smell, and most carnivores will eat something that's already dead if they happen across it.

[Victor_c3]

4. plus there is some debate as to whether they were in fact hunters or scavengers

... I've read way too many books about dinosaurs to my kids over the last 2 years.

[littlemissmartypants]

3. Second only

To their amphibious cousins able to use both gills and nostrils, crawling to on-drier land to private pubs toasting death and destruction for the idiot challengers and each escape to victory by most slippery means.

Name the creature _____________

Love, Peace and Shelter. Lmsp