Tyrannosaurus rex was a yellow belly
New research has shown the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex to be nothing more than a big chicken.
They didn't cluck, but they were certainly too cowardly to pick on a dino their own size.
Fossil evidence has revealed the T rex liked nothing better than swallowing their prey whole and so were very partial to BABIES.
The University of Munich says there is a distinct lack of any evidence of T rex attacks on the big herbivores alive at the same time.
What is true is the plant-eaters layed a lot of eggs and that it is probable scary predators with big reputations would have prefered to gulp up the young and defenseless than take on heavily-armoured mum or dad.
This might come as a shock to those of us who have been brought up with the image of the T rex as being the ultimate killing machine.
Yet even the most fearsome predators alive now will often pick on the inexperienced or the old prey rather than risk a tougher battle.
So the old Tyrannosaurus was nothing more than a scaredy-cat.
Though if I ever came across one face to face in a millionaire's petting zoo, I might think twice about repeating the accusation.
Weird Science Factoid: Dueling is legal in Paraguay, as long as both parties are registered blood donors. A highly practical solution that I'd like to see brought to many other countries...
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Daniel Smith - a long time ago, in a galaxy far away just north of Watford, Daniel fancied himself as a scientist but turned out to be the worst scientist since that bloke who mapped out all those canals on Mars that turned out to be scratches on his telescope's lens. Luckily, he is now not working on the Large Hadron Collider inadvertently creating a black hole that would swallow the world but is safely behind a desk writing this blog, bringing you the fantastical underbelly of nature... weird science.
