Episodes

Recently, scientists discovered the fossil of a hadrosaur, a duckbilled dinosaur, which was bitten by a Tyrannosaurus. A bite on a fossil is not that unusual, but this one helped settle an argument. Over the past few decades, some paleontologists maintained that T. rex was a ferocious hunter. Newer theories pointed to his useless forelimbs, small eyes, and huge olfactory chambers. He wouldn’t have been able to grasp prey and may have had poor vision—but he would have been able to smell a rotting...