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In the dark of night and at the edge of a large pond, a young male Tarbosaurus baatar prepares to feed on what he could snatch from the fallen titan; little more then the arms. Such little meat will not sustain him for long, and with his worn teeth, he cannot risk breaking into the arm bones; eventually he will abandon the gnawed-upon arms into the water and return to pick off the carcass.

The arms themselves will eventually fossilize and become the first bones of Deinocheirus known to paleontology.
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(Update: Similarly to my previous night piece, the stars are looking a bit better now.)

This is my own personal interpretation of how the Deinocheirus holotype came to be. We know that a Tarbosaurus scavenged upon the remains, as tooth marks are present on the bone. However, seeing as how the holotype arms are relatively intact, it seems unlikely that the tarbosaur scavenged for very long, especially since tyrannosaurs can break through bone.

Thus, I've got a hypothesis about it, specifically that the arms were removed from the body and disassociated, hence this entire piece. Perhaps a tarbosaur took the arms, ate what it could and then left; leaving the bones of the arms to fossilize.

We don't know exactly how old the tarbosaur that scavenged on the bones was; however, I think it's plausible to conclude the culprit was probably pretty old, given how large Deinocheirus is.

Description

In the dark of night and at the edge of a large pond, a young male Tarbosaurus baatar prepares to feed on what he could snatch from the fallen titan; little more then the arms. Such little meat will not sustain him for long, and with his worn teeth, he cannot risk breaking into the arm bones; eventually he will abandon the gnawed-upon arms into the water and return to pick off the carcass.

The arms themselves will eventually fossilize and become the first bones of Deinocheirus known to paleontology.
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(Update: Similarly to my previous night piece, the stars are looking a bit better now.)

This is my own personal interpretation of how the Deinocheirus holotype came to be. We know that a Tarbosaurus scavenged upon the remains, as tooth marks are present on the bone. However, seeing as how the holotype arms are relatively intact, it seems unlikely that the tarbosaur scavenged for very long, especially since tyrannosaurs can break through bone.

Thus, I've got a hypothesis about it, specifically that the arms were removed from the body and disassociated, hence this entire piece. Perhaps a tarbosaur took the arms, ate what it could and then left; leaving the bones of the arms to fossilize.

We don't know exactly how old the tarbosaur that scavenged on the bones was; however, I think it's plausible to conclude the culprit was probably pretty old, given how large Deinocheirus is.