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Hello everyone! I just started learning about dinosaurs and am very excited! I’m trying to grapple with some weird things about the T-rex and was wondering this: could T-rex have been a “persistence” or endurance hunter? I’ve been reading things that say the T-rex was probably slower than most of its prey. Rather than out-sprinting its prey, might T-rex have simply been in “better shape”? That is, might it have been capable of sustaining an elevated pace far longer than its prey, then relying on superior tracking skills to relentlessly close on hiding prey attempting to cool down and recover from exhausting sprints? I’ve heard this method proposed for early hominids and wondered if T-rex might also fit the bill, but I really don’t know what goes into a successful “persistence predator”. Thank you all for being understanding - obviously I’m new at this - and thank you especially for not laughing at yet another monumentally uninformed crackpot idea! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistence_hunting
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I searched the web and found only a reference to another thread that seem to say this was Tyrannosaurid indet but it seems to be some time back before Timurlenga was described as a species. My question is, is it possible this is timurlenga? Or does the Bissetky Tyraanosaurid sound a better fit?