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What meat did dinosaurs eat?
These dinosaurs’ teeth — long, sharp, and serrated — were designed for tearing through tough meat. The eating habits of individual species no doubt varies, but probably included fellow dinosaurs, lizards, insects, and early mammals. Were the carnivores as fierce as they have been portrayed in the past?
What did dinosaurs drink?
Sure enough, the fossil eggs from the ancient floodplain showed a different chemistry from those from the forest. Floodplain dinosaurs slurped from local rivers, while forest dinosaurs drank water rich in minerals that had circulated through the rocks, picking up volcanic salts on the way.
What was the biggest meat eating dinosaur ever lived?
Spinosaurus
Spinosaurus (means Spine Lizard) was the largest meat eating dinosaur, even bigger than the T-Rex.
What ate at Rex?
There once was a place on Earth so overrun with giant, meat-eating predators that even a Tyrannosaurus rex would have been nervous. One predator there was even bigger than T. rex, and scientists now say it’s apparently the only aquatic dinosaur ever found. The swimming monster is called Spinosaurus aegyptiacus.
What kind of food did the dinosaurs eat?
A: Most dinosaurs ate plants, just like most animals today. But some ate meat. We also guess that some ate insects and fruits. The plant-eaters ate ferns and herbs and leaves from trees. Conifer-tree needles have been found in the poop of duck-billed dinosaurs and around their stomach cavities, so they probably nibbled on evergreens.
How many dinosaurs ate plants?
A: Most of the 335 kinds of dinosaurs ate plants, and about 100 kinds ate meat. But in any place, there were far greater numbers of plant-eaters than meat-eaters, just like today.
What would a dinosaur do if it were alive today?
The following questions were answered by dinosaur expert Don Lessem. Q: Would a dinosaur eat us if it were alive today? A: If dinosaurs were alive today, some would try to eat us, but most would be plant-eaters. I think we could outsmart the nasty ones and probably outrun most of them!
When did dinosaurs live for the first time?
Non-bird dinosaurs lived between about 245 and 66 million years ago, in a time known as the Mesozoic Era. This was many millions of years before the first modern humans, Homo sapiens, appeared.