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Traveling together in search of
food made long journeys less risky. Europasaurus herd migrating

By combining strength,
small hunters could bring
down larger prey.

Deinonychus
pack hunting

Chasmosaurus may have defended Daspletosaurus
their young by forming a protective circle,
turning their horns toward the predator.

Chasmosaurus defense

lived in groups. While big tyrannosaurs such as Tenontosaurus, suggesting that they attacked it
Daspletosaurus probably hunted alone, smaller in a pack. They were almost certainly not smart
ones like Lythronax may have joined forces enough to devise joint tactics. But they may
to bring down larger prey. Several skeletons of have learned from experience that they were
the wolf-sized Deinonychus have been found more likely to get a meal if they all targeted
near the remains of the big, plant-eating the same victim. 103

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