Dinosaur Sighting: Tyrant King of the Crustaceans

Most of our dinosaur sightings come from around the Unites States, but today’s photo features a more distant dinosaur. This snapshot, sent in by reader Maija Karala, stars a Tyrannosaurus outside a restaurant in Negombo, Sri Lanka. “He apparently likes crustaceans,” says Karala, who wonders, “could it be that tyrannosaur diet has been completely misunderstood all along?”

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Riley Black is the author of The Last Days of the Dinosaurs and many other books. She is a science correspondent for Smithsonian magazine covering fossils and natural history, and she writes about the prehistoric past for a variety of publications.