What would T. rex meat really TASTE like?

Tyrannosaurus rex is often portrayed in pop culture as a ferocious force of nature and a man eating killing machine. Today we flip the script and take a bite out of the king of dinosaurs! Find out if T. rex would have actually made for a dino-delicacy!

Special thank you to Byron Mckay and Aleksa Mrkela!

Resources used:

T. rex Musculature and Anatomy:

1) Carrano, M. T. & Hutchinson, J. R. 2002. Pelvic and hindlimb musculature of Tyrannosaurus rex (dinosauria: theropoda).
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1002/jmor.10018

2) Gignac, P. M. & Erickson, G. M. 2017. The biomechanics behind extreme osteophagy in Tyrannosaurus rex.
Link: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-02161-w

3) Organ, C. L. 2006. Thoracic epaxial muscles in living archosaurs and ornithopod dinosaurs.
Link: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/ar.a.20341

4) Snively, E. & Russell, A. P. 2007. Functional morphology of a neck musculature in the tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria, Theropoda) as determined via a hierarchical inferential approach.
Link: https://academic.oup.com/zoolinnean/article/151/4/759/2607401

5) Snively, E. & Russell, A. P. 2007. Functional variation of neck muscles and their relation to feeding style in tyrannosauridae and other large theropod dinosaurs.
Link: https://pdfs.semanticscholar.org/7415/b3b061f61463281c393dc1006b77db9eeb41.pdf
Additional Sources

https://sauriangame.squarespace.com/blog/2018/9/20/tyrannosaurus-redesign-2018

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/tyrannosaurus-rex-pulverized-bones-incredible-amount-force

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2010/10/what-did-dinosaur-meat-taste-like.html

Checkout SciShow's video on Dinosaur meat!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y_uNpXt09o

Artist Credit:

Joschua Knüppe: https://www.deviantart.com/hyrotrioskjan
Chris Masna: https://www.artstation.com/chrismasna
RJ Palmer: https://www.artstation.com/artwork/k4EKkx

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