Dave Hone

So there are some things that do this, but fundamentally, the vast majority of carnivores tackle stuff that's way, way smaller than them.

And that's what we see.

Every record we have of basically any large carnivorous dinosaur where you have stomach contents where it's like consumed something or healed bite marks.

We get quite a few.

There's a handful of them where there's an obvious damage to a bone in more than a couple of cases with a tooth broken off in the bone.

And then the bone has healed over it.

So you know it got away.

They're juveniles.

They're relatively young animals.

Right.

And that's what they're targeting.

It makes ecological sense.

It's what modern animals do for very good reason.

Juveniles are relatively small and weak.

They don't have the horns or frills or armor or shields and other stuff.

They're naive.

You often have to learn what predators are or you have to learn how to avoid them or to check the wind or...

even physically see them before, you know, see them kill something else before you know that they're a threat and juveniles forage badly.

Um, they're relatively inefficient.

So actually they need to eat more for their size than an adult does.