What did the old dinosaur eat? It turns out their menu is

Meat-eating dinosaurs eat not only meat, but they also hunt fish. Or dinosaurs eat grass, their menu is all grass but also very diverse.

There is a very common mistake that dinosaur eating habits are boring and monotonous. As carnivorous dinosaurs will always eat meat, while herbivorous dinosaurs are also vegetarian - just like cattle and buffalo today. However, the truth is not so true.

T-Rex often see larger species to fill their stomachs.

The story of a lifetime of eating only one food is probably true. They are the most well known predatory dinosaurs, with an extremely aggressive nature and enormous form, allowing them to take down all prey in a split second. Due to that aggressive nature, T-Rex as well as other carnivorous dinosaurs were dubbed the lord at that time.

Hunting small prey is not enough for them to maintain energy so this T-Rex often see larger species to fill their stomachs. And what's more ideal than those who ate gentle and large grass?

However, exceptions exist. - the world's largest carnivorous dinosaur with a thorny system running along its spine - especially fond of fish. Scientists think that at least a few more species also have this habit. The reason is that they have teeth and muzzle similar to crocodiles , suitable to catch prey under water.

Spinosaurus loves to eat fish.

Besides, many other dinosaurs are more gentle, eat only plants and do not have the habit of hunting. According to statistics, the number of herbivorous dinosaurs is 6 times higher than that of carnivorous dinosaurs. So if you think all dinosaurs are dangerous and fierce, then perhaps you misunderstood them.

"In any ecosystem, herbivores are always in greater numbers. Today too, the number of deer is always greater than the wolves in the same area" - quoted Jordan Mallon, the old house. at Canada's Nature Museum.

Some studies also prove another interesting fact that the bigger the size of dinosaurs, the more likely they are to be herbivores . Take, for example, the long-necked Sauropod dinosaur - known as the largest creature in Earth's history, as a herbivore. But they not only eat a grass, but the menu is very diverse with ferns, ginkgo .

The bigger the size of dinosaurs, the more likely they are to be herbivores.

What is worrying is their speed of eating . To serve that large body, they eat hundreds of kilograms of food every day, even eating large rocks to help support digestion. But eating like that soon, the plants on Earth will be exhausted, if there is no appearance of species like T-Rex and Raptor to stop them.

In summary, it turns out that dinosaurs also have diverse eating preferences, suitable for their body composition, personality and instincts. And their menu is not very sketchy at all: carnivorous, fish-eating, and vegetarian-only species, but eating all kinds of plants, up to a hundred kilograms a day.