Could We Eat Dinosaur Meat? (And What Would It Taste Like?)

It could be said that we still live in an age of dinosaurs. After all, birds are dinosaurs , but they’re not the only close relatives we have to look to as analogs for extinct dinosaurs. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

Dinosaurs, birds, and crocodiles all sit within the Archosauria, a clade of “ruling reptiles” made up from diapsids with single openings on each side of the skull just in front of the eyes. This is why phylogenetic bracketing often borrows inspiration from birds and crocodiles to make decisions about how dinosaurs might have looked and sounded, but what if we wielded it for something less noble? What if, really, we just want to know what dinosaurs would have tasted like? (For mammoths , we don’t hav