What did dinosaurs eat?
Plants, meat, eggs, insects, and fish are all consumed by dinosaurs. These prehistoric beasts ate a wide range of foods, from plentiful plant life to other dinosaurs, but what they ate was determined by their size and available resources. A dinosaur diet is comparable to that of modern animals. The T-Rex, like our lions, ate meat, and Stegosaurus, like cows, grazed on vegetables. Of course, omnivores ate a little bit of everything, just like squirrels and dogs!
Other creatures were eaten by the huge predatory dinosaurs. Scientists believe that the bulk of dinosaurs were plant-eaters, but we can't forget the iconic T-Rex and its Jurassic World man-eating inclinations! Fortunately, humans and dinosaurs did not coexist. T-Rex and other carnivorous dinosaurs, such as Allosaurus, preyed on other dinosaurs and scavenged corpses millions of years before humans arose. Carnivorous dinosaurs, like our modern predators, possessed long curved teeth and pursued easy-to-catch elderly, young, or wounded dinosaurs first. Some species, such as the Velociraptor, hunted in packs, much like our modern-day lions, therefore a social structure and communication form were essential components of their diet.
Spinosaurus, Baryonyx, and Suchomimus were fish-eating piscivore dinosaurs with a dolphin-like snout and sharp serrated teeth. They specialized in capturing ancient marine animals from river banks for meals. Palaeontologists believe they were also strong swimmers, although we don't know for sure. Large flying reptiles like pterosaurs were another species of dinosaur that ate fish. Pterodactyls utilized hooked claws and serrated teeth to catch unwary fish from above.
T-Rex, which translates to 'the king of the tyrant lizards,' scientists believe, ate herbivorous dinosaurs such as Stegosaurus, Edmontosaurus, and Triceratops, hunting them at speeds of up to 40 kilometers per hour! They most likely ate omnivores and other carnivores as well. T-Rex was not a fussy eater; it hunted, scavenged, and stole to maintain its massive body bulk. T-Rex developed swiftly and required a lot of meat to fuel its development, thus it could ingest hundreds of pounds of flesh in one go, according to palaeontologists.
