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Family Meal: Cannibal dinosaur known by its bones

By Sid Perkins

- More than 2 years ago

Some carnivorous dinosaurs routinely fed on their own species, according to an analysis of scarred fossils. Paleontologists contend the ancient gnaw marks are among the strongest evidence yet that some dinosaurs indeed were cannibals.

GROOVY BONES. The size and spacing of denticles on the teeth of Majungatholus atopus match the grooves on bones of another member of the dinosaur species.