Being there doesn't seem to be opposing bite marks or broken spinous processes, this may not be an actual bite wound. A 30+ foot Hadrosaur would have used its tail as a very dangerous defensive weapon and could have swung it much more rapidly than a T-Rex could move its body to bite.
From the presented evidence I feel it more likely that the T-Rex was dealt a tooth and bone shattering and possibly even fatal blow before it could bite.
Ted
--- In geology2@yahoogroups.com, "fossrme" <fossrme@...> wrote:
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> This settles the question of whether T-rex was a predator, but not whether it was also a scavenger. Some paleontologists, including Jack Horner, pushed the idea that they were only scavengers, and there is some evidence suggesting they did eat carrion. One of the best is T-rex's huge nasal cavity, that would have allowed it to detect rotting meat over a large area.
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> If the Cretaceous was anything like today, the vast majority of the predators would have also been scavengers, and there has never been much reason to think otherwise.
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> --- In geology2@yahoogroups.com, Lin Kerns <linkerns@> wrote:
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> > <http://images.sciencedaily.com/2013/07/130716135841-large.jpg>
> > *Researchers recently discovered the crown of a T. rex tooth lodged in the
> > fossilized spine of a plant-eating hadrosaur that seems to have survived
> > the attack. (Credit: Illustration by University of Kansas alumnus Robert
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