I grew up in the 1950s in reasonable proximity to the American Museum of Natural History in New York City and was a dino-nerd from scratch. I could tell you stories about that particular obsession (which led in later life to the closest thing Ive ever had to a writers block), but not today. Instead Id rather point out the latest in dino-nerd-dom, thanks to the Guardian which reports that a recently discovered set of T.rex tracks in British Columbia indicates three of those 40-foot beasts taking a stroll together. Whether hanging out or hunting (gulp!) we dont know. Tom The collective noun is a terror of tyrannosaurs: a pack of the prehistoric predators, moving and hunting in numbers, for prey that faced the fight of its life. That tyrannosaurs might have hunted in groups has long been debated by dinosaur experts, but with so little to go on, the prospect has remained firmly in the realm of speculation. But researchers in Canada now claim to have the strongest evidence yet that the ancient beasts did move around in packs. At a remote site in north-east British Columbia - in the west of Canada - they uncovered the first known tyrannosaur trackways, apparently left by three animals going the same way at the same time. theguardian/science/2014/jul/23/tyrannosaurs-hunted-packs-tracks-canada
Posted on: Fri, 25 Jul 2014 13:00:01 +0000
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