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International Business Times
International Business Times
Science
Daniel Lawler

'Appetite For Drumsticks': First Prey Found In A Tyrannosaur Stomach

The Gorgosaurus is a member of the tyrannosaurid family that also includes the T-Rex (Credit: AFP)

Prey has been discovered inside the stomach of a tyrannosaur skeleton for the first time, scientists said Friday, revealing that the mighty dinosaurs had an "appetite for drumsticks" when they were young.

The skeleton of the Gorgosaurus, a member of the tyrannosaurid family that also includes the T-Rex, sheds light on how these dinosaurs grew from fairly slender juveniles into gigantic, bone-crushing, apex-predator adults, they added.

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