The very long necks of sauropods, huge quadruped herbivores that lived between 210 and 65 million years ago, like the diplodocus or the North American camarasaurus, would make a delicious bite of red meat. That, at least, is what Montana State University paleontologist David Varricchio suspects, addressing this issue in an interview published in Popular Science .
This researcher highlights that the activity of the animal would significantly influence the flavor of its meat . Thus, hadrosaurs, gregarious dinosaurs recognizable by the shape of their snout, similar to the beak of a duck, spent a lot of time on the move, looking for the plants on which they fed. Varricchio believes his flesh must have been red.
For their part, ornithomimids, herbivorous theropods from the Upper Cretaceous (between 100 and 65 million years ago), whose anatomy resembles that of the ostrich, could also share its strong flavor with this bird.
Varricchio points out that, on the contrary, the tyrannosaurus one would not be very succulent. “Some abnormalities have been discovered in its jaws that suggest that it fed on spoiled meat. It probably also carried numerous parasites, ”he says.
