Good grief, I can’t believe this is a surprise that dinosaurs were cannibals. Frogs eat frogs. Rabbits eat their young. We can go on for quite a time enumerating mammals (including people), reptiles, birds, and insects that eat their own. The surprise is finding ones that aren’t cannibals.
Barbara Bennett Preston, Md.
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