Some 75.3 million years ago, a young dinosaur known as a Gorgosaurus swallowed the hind limb of a feathered dinosaur. It would be the predator’s last meal. Within days, the Gorgosaurus—a slightly smaller relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex—ended up dead in a river near what is now Alberta, Canada. By a stroke of luck,

Darla Zelenitsky, a paleontologist at the University of Calgary in Alberta, Canada; François Therrien, curator of dinosaur palaeoecology at Alberta’s Royal Tyrrell Museum, where the fossil can be found; Still digesting: Gorgosaurus’s left side, with yellow dots indicating its rib cage and blue dots indicating its prey. The larger bones are the Gorgosaurus’s foot. Royal Tyrrell Museum via The New York Times
A Dinosaur’s Final Feast
Julius Csotonyi/Royal Tyrrell Museum via The New York Times
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