Dinosaurs swallowed their prey complete and spat out their bones, scientists say

DINOSAURS swallowed their prey complete and spat out their bones, scientists have discovered.

Newly found fossils recommend large flying Pterosaurs had two ­stomachs — one for digesting meals and the opposite for amassing inedible bones and scales.

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It means their greater land-based cousins, such because the mighty T-Rex, in all probability did the identical.

Dr Shunxing Jiang, of Beijing’s Chinese language Academy of Sciences, defined: “The 2-part abdomen might have developed early on, including credence to the speculation that it was frequent to all dinosaurs.”

Trendy birds all have two stomachs and a few, such because the owl, nonetheless swallow meals complete and regurgitate the bones.

Pterosaurs first emerged 250million years in the past earlier than going extinct with the remainder of the dinosaurs 65million years in the past.