{"id":927158,"date":"2026-10-10T00:58:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:58:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927158\/"},"modified":"2026-10-10T00:58:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-10T00:58:11","slug":"university-of-alberta-researchers-unearth-new-dinosaur-diet-discovery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/927158\/","title":{"rendered":"University of Alberta researchers unearth new dinosaur diet discovery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A passerby\u2019s small find has now led to a massive discovery in the world of dinosaurs. A research team at the University of Alberta has found the first instance of raptors eating their distant cousin, the tyrannosaur.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt has three raking tooth marks\u2026\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Little tooth marks on the lower jaw of an Albertosaurus. That\u2019s what technicians at the Royal Tyrrell Museum found when a member of the public turned in the curious-looking rock in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>The fossil then made its way to a paleontology student at the U of A, who says he just wanted to know how dinosaurs interacted with each other.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s pretty exciting! I\u2019ve always loved dinosaurs, I think a lot of people do as kids and it just never really went away for me,\u201d said Joshua Doyon, the lead researcher and a master\u2019s student.<\/p>\n<p>After four years of study, Doyon and his supervisors concluded that the bite marks were from a fellow carnivore \u2013 most likely, a raptor.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not very often you find meat-eating dinosaur teeth on meat-eating dinosaurs,\u201d said Philip Currie.<\/p>\n<p>This means researchers are now closer to understanding the prehistoric beasts\u2019 dietary behaviours.<\/p>\n<p>Since the discovery was made along the Drumheller badlands, professor Currie says this can bring more teams down to Alberta to learn more.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cScientists looking at it will ultimately, I think, produce more scientific papers [\u2026] whether the ideas are the same or whether the ideas are a little bit different than the conclusions we came to, who knows?\u201d asked Currie.<\/p>\n<p>Doyon says, \u201cThe big, meat-eating apex predators are always the most exciting dinosaurs I think. I\u2019m pretty lucky that I got to spend quite a few years analyzing this specimen.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Albertosaurus existed in what is now our province during the late cretaceous period, between 67 to 73 million years ago.<\/p>\n<p>\t\tKeep it Factual<\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Edmonton as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=edmonton.citynews.ca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"add-trusted-source-badge\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/1791593891_326_google-trusted-badge.png\" alt=\"Add as a preferred source on Google\" width=\"198\" height=\"63\"\/><br \/>\n\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A passerby\u2019s small find has now led to a massive discovery in the world of dinosaurs. A research&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927159,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,66],"class_list":["post-927158","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927158","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927158"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927158\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927159"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927158"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927158"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927158"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}