Meat of the issue. (Letters)."Veggie Bites: Fossil suggests carnivorous car·niv·o·rous adj. 1. Of or relating to carnivores. 2. Flesh-eating or predatory: a carnivorous bird. 3. dinosaurs begat vegetarian kin" (SN: 9/21/02, p. 179) is surely wrong in stating that the honey badger honey badger or ratel (rāt`əl), carnivore, Mellivora capensis, of the forest and brush country of Africa, the Middle East, and India; it is a member of the badger and skunk family. shuns meat. It aggressively attacks snakes and small mammals, as well as invades bees' nests for honey. I was looking at the picture of the animal's skull and wondering how large it is. There's no scale for reference, so I can't tell if it's the size of a Tyrannosaurus Tyrannosaurus (tīrăn'ōsôr`əs, tĭr–) [Gr.,=tyrant lizard], member of a family, Tyrannosauridae, of bipedal carnivorous saurischian dinosaurs characterized by having strong hind limbs, a muscular tail, and short rex skull or a shrew shrew, common name for the small, insectivorous mammals of the family Soricidae, related to the moles. Shrews include the smallest mammals; the smallest shrews are under 2 in. (5.1 cm) long, excluding the tail, and the largest are about 6 in. (15 cm) long. skull. Scientists estimate the entire creature was about 1 meter long.--S. PERKINS |
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