article_snippet.sent: They already have a fearsome reputation as the top predator of They time, but it seems the Tyrannosaurs were also prone to eating each other.
article_snippet.sent: A new study has uncovered evidence that a relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, called Daspletosaurus, may have indulged in cannibalism.
article_snippet.sent: This artist's reconstruction shows a another Daspletosaurus feeding on the body of another in an act of cannibalism .
article_snippet.sent: The findings help to shed light on the brutal world in which the dinosaurs inhabited.
article_snippet.sent: While The researchers, whose work is published in the journal PeerJ cannot say what killed a Daspletosaurus, damage on the jaw bones suggest that a large tyrannosaur bit into the dead creature between one and three times in what appears to be feeding behaviour.
article_snippet.sent: a Daspletosaurus is thought to have not just hunted but also scavenged for food and the research team say the injuries appear to have occurred after a Daspletosaurus had begun to decay.
article_snippet.sent: Cannibalism is relatively common in the natural world, with more than 1,000 species known to eat Cannibalism own species.
article_snippet.sent: a Daspletosaurus, shown in the artists reconstruction above,  led a violent life the study suggests .
article_snippet.sent: Tyrannosaurus rex is also thought to have indulged in cannibalism, according to a study in 2010.
article_snippet.sent: Writing in the journal, Dr Hone and Tyrannosaurus rex colleague Darren Tanke from the Royal Tyrrell Museum in Drumheller, Alberta, said a Daspletosaurus a Daspletosaurus appeared to have lived a violent life involving battles with other members of a Daspletosaurus own species.
article_snippet.sent: After death, the animal suffered at least one major bite to the right dentary, and perhaps two more from another tyrannosaurid, possibly another Daspletosaurus. '
highlights_snippet.sent: was eaten after Fossilised skull of Daspletosaurus - a close relative of Tyrannosaurus rex - found to be  had died .
  
highlights_snippet.sent: Palaeontologists believe another Daspletosaurus scavenged on the body .
  