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Cannibalism in Tyrannosaurus rex

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  • 1. Department of Geology and Geophysics, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
  • 2. Museum of the Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana, United States of America
  • 3. Department of Biological Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, United States of America
  • 4. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

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Nicholas R. Longrich, John R. Horner, Gregory M. Erickson, Philip J. Currie (2010): Cannibalism in Tyrannosaurus rex. PLoS ONE 5: e13419, DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0013419

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