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Feeding behaviour of Tyrannosaurus, the Glossary

The feeding behaviour of Tyrannosaurus rex has been studied extensively.^[1]

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Carnivory
Tyrannosaurus

Binocular vision

In biology, binocular vision is a type of vision in which an animal has two eyes capable of facing the same direction to perceive a single three-dimensional image of its surroundings.

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Bone marrow

Bone marrow is a semi-solid tissue found within the spongy (also known as cancellous) portions of bones.

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Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture

The Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture (commonly as Burke Museum) is a natural history museum on the campus of the University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, United States.

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Calorie

The calorie is a unit of energy that originated from the caloric theory of heat.

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Canidae

Canidae (from Latin, canis, "dog") is a biological family of dog-like carnivorans, colloquially referred to as dogs, and constitutes a clade.

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Cannibalism

Cannibalism is the act of consuming another individual of the same species as food. Feeding behaviour of Tyrannosaurus and Cannibalism are carnivory.

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Carnosauria

Carnosauria is an extinct group of carnivorous theropod dinosaurs that lived during the Jurassic and Cretaceous periods.

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Carrion

Carrion, also known as a carcass, is the decaying flesh of dead animals.

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Ceratopsia or Ceratopia (or; Greek: "horned faces") is a group of herbivorous, beaked dinosaurs that thrived in what are now North America, Europe, and Asia, during the Cretaceous Period, although ancestral forms lived earlier, in the Jurassic.

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Coprolite

A coprolite (also known as a coprolith) is fossilized feces.

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Crocodile

Crocodiles (family Crocodylidae) or true crocodiles are large semiaquatic reptiles that live throughout the tropics in Africa, Asia, the Americas and Australia.

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Deinosuchus

Deinosuchus is an extinct genus of alligatoroid crocodilian, related to modern alligators and caimans, that lived 82 to 73 million years ago (Ma), during the late Cretaceous period.

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Depth perception

Depth perception is the ability to perceive distance to objects in the world using the visual system and visual perception.

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Dromaeosauridae

Dromaeosauridae is a family of feathered coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs.

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Dromaeosaurus

Dromaeosaurus is a genus of dromaeosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived during the Late Cretaceous period (middle late Campanian and Maastrichtian), sometime between 80 and 69 million years ago, in Alberta, Canada and the western United States.

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Ecological niche

In ecology, a niche is the match of a species to a specific environmental condition.

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Edmontosaurus annectens

Edmontosaurus annectens (meaning "connected lizard from Edmonton"), often colloquially and historically known as Anatosaurus (meaning "duck lizard"), is a species of flat-headed saurolophine hadrosaurid dinosaur from the late Maastrichtian age at the very end of the Cretaceous period, in what is now western North America.

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Erlikosaurus

Erlikosaurus (meaning "Erlik's lizard") is a genus of therizinosaurid that lived in Asia during the Late Cretaceous period.

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Felidae

Felidae is the family of mammals in the order Carnivora colloquially referred to as cats.

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Fibula

The fibula (fibulae or fibulas) or calf bone is a leg bone on the lateral side of the tibia, to which it is connected above and below.

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Gastornis

Gastornis is an extinct genus of large, flightless birds that lived during the mid-Paleocene to mid-Eocene epochs of the Paleogene period.

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Gorgosaurus

Gorgosaurus is a genus of tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur that lived in western North America during the Late Cretaceous Period (Campanian), between about 76.5 and 75 million years ago.

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Hadrosauridae

Hadrosaurids, or duck-billed dinosaurs, are members of the ornithischian family Hadrosauridae.

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Hadrosaurus

Hadrosaurus is a genus of hadrosaurid ornithopod dinosaurs that lived in North America during the Late Cretaceous Period in what is now the Woodbury Formation In Pennsylvania about 78-80 Ma.

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Hawk

Hawks are birds of prey of the family Accipitridae.

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Humerus

The humerus (humeri) is a long bone in the arm that runs from the shoulder to the elbow.

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Hyena

Hyenas or hyaenas (from Ancient Greek ὕαινα) are feliform carnivoran mammals belonging to the family Hyaenidae.

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Hypacrosaurus

Hypacrosaurus (meaning "near the highest lizard", because it was almost but not quite as large as Tyrannosaurus) was a genus of duckbill dinosaur similar in appearance to Corythosaurus.

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Incisor

Incisors (from Latin incidere, "to cut") are the front teeth present in most mammals.

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Jack Horner (paleontologist)

John Robert Horner (born June 15, 1946) is an American paleontologist most famous for describing Maiasaura, providing the first clear evidence that some dinosaurs cared for their young.

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Kenneth Carpenter

Kenneth Carpenter (born 21 September 1949, in Tokyo, Japan) is an American paleontologist.

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Kleptoparasitism

Kleptoparasitism (originally spelt clepto-parasitism, meaning "parasitism by theft") is a form of feeding in which one animal deliberately takes food from another.

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Komodo dragon

The Komodo dragon (Varanus komodoensis), also known as the Komodo monitor, is a large reptile of the monitor lizard family Varanidae that is endemic to the Indonesian islands of Komodo, Rinca, Flores, and Gili Motang.

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List of feeding behaviours

Feeding is the process by which organisms, typically animals, obtain food.

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Marginocephalia

Marginocephalia (/mär′jə-nō-sə-făl′ē-ən/ Latin: margin-head) is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs that is characterized by a bony shelf or margin at the back of the skull.

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Megalodon

Otodus megalodon (meaning "big tooth"), commonly known as megalodon, is an extinct species of giant mackerel shark that lived approximately 23 to 3.6 million years ago (Mya), from the Early Miocene to the Pliocene epochs.

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The metatarsal bones or metatarsus (metatarsi) are a group of five long bones in the midfoot, located between the tarsal bones (which form the heel and the ankle) and the phalanges (toes).

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Natural selection

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.

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Neck frill

A neck frill is the relatively extensive margin seen on the back of the heads of reptiles with either a bony support such as those present on the skulls of dinosaurs of the suborder Marginocephalia or a cartilaginous one as in the frill-necked lizard.

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New York City

New York, often called New York City (to distinguish it from New York State) or NYC, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Orca

The orca (Orcinus orca), or killer whale, is a toothed whale that is the largest member of the oceanic dolphin family.

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Ornithopoda

Ornithopoda is a clade of ornithischian dinosaurs, called ornithopods.

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Peter Dodson

Peter Dodson (born August 20, 1946) is an American paleontologist who has published many papers and written and collaborated on books about dinosaurs.

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Peter Larson

Peter Lars Larson is an American fossil dealer who is head of the Black Hills Institute of Geological Research, which specialises in the excavation and preparation of fossils.

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Phorusrhacidae

Phorusrhacids, colloquially known as terror birds, are an extinct family of large carnivorous, mostly flightless birds that were among the largest apex predators in South America during the Cenozoic era.

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Predation

Predation is a biological interaction where one organism, the predator, kills and eats another organism, its prey.

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Scavenger

Scavengers are animals that consume dead organisms that have died from causes other than predation or have been killed by other predators.

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Science News

Science News (SN) is an American bi-weekly magazine devoted to articles about new scientific and technical developments, typically gleaned from recent scientific and technical journals.

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Secondary palate

The secondary palate is an anatomical structure that divides the nasal cavity from the oral cavity in many vertebrates.

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Secretarybird

The secretarybird or secretary bird (Sagittarius serpentarius) is a large bird of prey that is endemic to Africa.

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Serengeti

The Serengeti ecosystem is a geographical region in Africa, spanning the Mara and Arusha Regions of Tanzania.

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Seriema

The seriemas are the sole living members of the small bird family Cariamidae, which is also the only surviving lineage of the order Cariamiformes.

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Shuvuuia

Shuvuuia is a genus of bird-like theropod dinosaur from the late Cretaceous period of Mongolia.

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Simon & Schuster

Simon & Schuster LLC is an American publishing company owned by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts.

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Sociality is the degree to which individuals in an animal population tend to associate in social groups (gregariousness) and form cooperative societies.

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Spotted hyena

The spotted hyena (Crocuta crocuta), also known as the laughing hyena, is a hyena species, currently classed as the sole extant member of the genus Crocuta, native to sub-Saharan Africa.

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Squamosal bone

The squamosal is a skull bone found in most reptiles, amphibians, and birds.

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Stereopsis

Stereopsis is the component of depth perception retrieved through binocular vision.

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Sue (dinosaur)

Sue is the nickname given to FMNH PR 2081, which is one of the largest, most extensive, and best preserved Tyrannosaurus rex specimens ever found, at over 90 percent recovered by bulk. Feeding behaviour of Tyrannosaurus and Sue (dinosaur) are Tyrannosaurus.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Feeding_behaviour_of_Tyrannosaurus

Also known as Feeding behavior of Tyrannosaurus, Feeding behaviour in Tyrannosaurus.

, Serengeti, Seriema, Shuvuuia, Simon & Schuster, Sociality, Spotted hyena, Squamosal bone, Stereopsis, Sue (dinosaur), Thomas R. Holtz Jr., Thylacine, Triceratops, Troodontidae, Tyrannosauridae, Tyrannosaurus, Velociraptor, Vertebra, William Abler, Wolf.

Feeding behaviour of Tyrannosaurus, the Glossary

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See also

Carnivory

Tyrannosaurus

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