For giant carnivorous dinosaurs, big size didn’t mean a big bite

“And then you have the Spinosaurus which was kind of weird in general,” Rowe says.  “There was a study by Dave Hone and Tom Holtz about how it was waiting on the shorelines, waiting for food to go by that it could fish out.” But Spinosaurus’ foraging wasn’t limited to fishing. There was a pterosaur found preserved in its stomach and there were iguanodon remains found in the maw of a Baryonyx, another large carnivore belonging to the same lineage as the Spinosaurus. “They had great diversity in their diet. They were generalists, but our results show they weren’t these massive bone-crunching predators like the T. rex,” Rowe says.

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