T. rex was a huge carnivore and primarily ate herbivorous dinosaurs, including Edmontosaurus and Triceratops. The predator acquired its food through scavenging and hunting, grew incredibly fast and ate hundreds of pounds at a time, said University of Kansas paleontologist David Burnham.

Did T. rex dinosaurs eat meat?

T. rex was a very big meat-eating dinosaur, also called a carnivore. It would have been at the top of the food chain. It is known to have fed on other large dinosaurs, such as Edmontosaurus, Anatosaurus, and Triceratops, and probably could have swallowed smaller dinosaurs in a single bite.

What kind of meat did the T. rex eat?

rex swallowed flesh and bone whole, using its powerful neck muscles to throw its head back to flop meat to the back of its mouth. This is called “inertial feeding,” a behavior shared by birds and crocodiles today, and in a 2007 study scientists estimated that the neck muscles of T.