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Subject: Tyrant Lizard Maybe not so tough after all

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Date Posted: 16:56:38 01/09/04 Fri
In reply to: �arr� �ar��n�x 's message, "Oggie" on 22:18:15 01/08/04 Thu

Paleontologist Jack Horner is challenging conventional notions of T. rex as a savage predator. Horner argues that T. rex was not a hunter but a scavenger, a creature that eats animals it finds already dead�usually the remains of what another animal has killed. Horner believes that T. rex was too slow, its forelegs were too short, and its eyes were too small to make it an effective predator. Most likely, Horner maintained, T. rex simply bullied or scared away carnivorous dinosaurs after they had killed their prey and then stole their food.

Horner is sorry his theory about T. rex has tarnished the image of the fierce king of the dinosaurs. "Almost every kid, almost everybody in the world, hates the idea of T. rex being a scavenger," said Horner. Jack Horner is one of the world's most famous paleontologists. He has made many dinosaur discoveries, including finding the first dinosaur eggs in the Americas, discovering and naming two species of dinosaurs, and serving as technical adviser to Stephen Spielberg on the movie Jurassic Park and Lost World. The paleontologist in Jurassic Park, Alan Grant, is believed to have been based on Jack Horner.

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