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While adult “tyrant lizards” were bone-crushers, capable of hunting large prey and reducing carcasses to little more than splinters, paleontologists have long wondered exactly what the younger tyrannosaurs were munching on.

From National Geographic • Dec. 8, 2023

Part of the answer, researchers report in the journal Palaeontology, rests in what herbivorous dinosaurs were munching on.

From Scientific American • Jul. 1, 2022

Oops and Lindeza, the oldest of the 14 horses, were munching hay when I arrived.

From Washington Post • May 6, 2022

Everywhere I looked, teenagers were munching on candy, playing chess, tapping on their phones and chatting.

From New York Times • Nov. 23, 2020

The cows were munching hay in their stalls when the big barn door slid open and a mechanical monster stomped in from the rain.

From "The Wild Robot Escapes" by Peter Brown