LONDON, England (Reuters) -- For a century, the towering Tyrannosaurus Rex has been regarded as a savage killer marauding unchallenged across the later dinosaur era.
But a new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum asks whether the monster meat-eater was instead a lumbering bully which lived on rotting corpses or used its bulk to rob smaller dinosaurs of their prey.
"I believe it was a scavenger pure and simple because I can't find any evidence to support the theory that it was a predator," palaeontologist Jack Horner said at the opening on Thursday of "T-Rex - the killer question."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/08/01/offbeat.trex.dinosaur.reut/index.html
But a new exhibition at London's Natural History Museum asks whether the monster meat-eater was instead a lumbering bully which lived on rotting corpses or used its bulk to rob smaller dinosaurs of their prey.
"I believe it was a scavenger pure and simple because I can't find any evidence to support the theory that it was a predator," palaeontologist Jack Horner said at the opening on Thursday of "T-Rex - the killer question."
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/08/01/offbeat.trex.dinosaur.reut/index.html