Bite club.

DINOSAURS; EARTH (Planet); ANIMAL communities; SAURISCHIA; CARNIVOROUS animals; PREDATION; WILD dogs; HUMPBACK whale

Schroeder and her colleagues concluded that the young megatheropods were abundant enough to outcompete other small to medium-sized carnivores by eating small prey, explaining the carnivore gap. Dinosaur footprints fossilised in the rocks also throw doubt on visions of a place with a surfeit of carnivores. Among the dinosaur predators, there was the 14-metre-long Spinosaurus, the 12-metre- long Carcharodontosaurus and the 8-metre- long Deltadromeus - along with an as-yet- unnamed megatheropod categorised as an abelisaur that was at least 5 metres long. "Dinosaur communities are different than modern communities in that medium-sized carnivorous dinosaurs Eire suspiciously absent or rare", says Schroeder. [Extracted from the article]

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