How did a T-rex catch its prey?

Answer 1

No one really knows for sure but personally I subscribed to the ambush theory.

However I don't think it took place in the way that we see in so many tv reconstructions - which always full victim at some point to depicting the t- rex as an Olympic sprinter - jumping from behind a bush and running the last 100ft to devour everything in sight. T - rex just couldn't do that. It wasn't built to run at all, not even very short distances and the consequences for falling would've been catastrophic. So how did it catch its prey?

How I think it happened...

Instead of thinking of the t - rex as an ambush predator that has to run at some point, lets think of it more along the lines of a crocodile. Not that it lived in water but that it treated or used the edge of a 'tree line' very much like a crocodile uses the edge of a water line.

Picture an animal that patiently waits hour after hour, standing completely still amongst the trees, almost completely hidden, perhaps 2 or 3 metres from the edge of a clearing. Some sort of prey animal comes along at some point, feeding on the edge of the tree line, maybe stretching its neck like a modern day Giraffe to reach the leaves. Again, just as with a Crocodile the t - rex will not launch until just the right distance is established. Nearer and nearer and then suddenly, within a certain distance... the trigger is switched.

Two steps forward, it grabs the neck with unbelievable force. Releases and then retreats back into the tree line to avoid injury from the hysterical flailing victim. T- rex is exposed with virtually no protection around the mid drift. Just as with any modern day predator it would've instinctively recognised the danger of being injured by its prey. All it has to do (if it's delivered a good enough bite) is patiently wait until its victim bleeds to death. The bite may well have been like that of the Komodo Dragon, by which I mean very dirty and highly infectious. Once the danger is past and retaliation impossible, it can comfortably close down the carcass.

If that's right, then this could be why t- rex has such small arms. It clearly doesn't use them and really the larger they are - the greater the hindrance for trying to move quickly through thick plant material. Small arms make sense for the hunting theory I described. Meanwhile it still has powerful legs and forward facing eyes to get the job done.

Answer 2

T-Rex could eat any herbivorous dinosaur that could come face to face with it. If it wanted to, it could also eat smaller carnivorous dinosaurs like raptors. Its huge banana-shaped teeth were so sharp and deadly that it could eat anything it wanted to. However, many herbivorous dinosaurs during T-Rex's time (68-65 million years ago in the late Cretaceous period of the Mesozoic Era) had structures on their bodies to prevent them from being T-Rex's next kill. For example, Triceratops had three horns that could severely injure the T-Rex, and various ankylosaurs had numerous spikes on their bodies and very hard tail clubs that could try to break T-Rex's bones. Nevertheless, T-Rex was still the most powerful and largest flesh-eating dinosaur of its time.

Answer 3

T Rex was quite formidable enough to catch his own prey.

Answer 4

His powerful tail and massive jaws, lined with hundreds of razor-sharp, banana shaped, and sized, teeth.

Answer 5

it was not fast so it was a ambush predator that sneaked up on its prey

Answer 6

it used it jaws to chomp down on its prey, then shakes the crap out of it or it just took a sniper rifle and shot them

Answer 7

Look for a claw in the top right corner

Answer 8

by biting it and riped it's head off

Answer 9

third claw