Rediscovering the Age of Dinosaurs Season 1 Episode 19 The Tough Lives of Allosaurus and T. rex
- June 22, 2023
- 20 min
Throughout life, dinosaurs were vulnerable to many kinds of injury and disease, from combat injuries and predation to parasites and bacterial infections. Examine evidence from a large find of skeletons of the predator Allosaurus, showing traumatic injuries and infections, all of which also indicate healing. In T. rex, note pathologies that would have made breathing, eating, and walking painful.