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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Vishwam Sankaran

T rex’s short arms may have lowered bite risk when they hunted and fed in packs, scientists suspect

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The arms ofT rex likely shrank in length as an adaptation to prevent amputations when a pack of the mighty dinosaurs descended on carcasses with their massive heads and bone-crushing teeth, a new study has suggested.

Recent research, based on fossils recovered from a mass dinosaur grave in Utah, suggested that Tyrannosaurs may have hunted in packs, pursuing their prey together, as opposed to popular assumptions that they were solitary apex predators.

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