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Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests

Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to a new study led by a UCL (University College London) researcher.

Baby dinosaurs were common prey for Late Jurassic predators, reconstructed food web suggests
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Babies and very young sauropods—the long-necked, long-tailed plant-eaters that in adulthood were the largest animals to have ever walked on land—were a key food sustaining predators in the Late Jurassic, according to a new study led by a UCL (University College London) researcher.

Originally published at Phys.org

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