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1 day ago · The generic name is derived from Asia, and the suffix ‘tyrannus’ is derived from the Latin word for ‘king’ or ‘tyrant’, to emphasize that this is the new tyrannosaur collected in the ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Turannosaurus rex, species of large predatory theropod dinosaurs that lived during the end of the Cretaceous Period (about 66 million years ago) known from fossils found in the United States and Canada dating to between about 80 million and 66 million years ago.
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2 days ago · Jan. 2, 2024 — A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of T. rex now shows they were adults of a small tyrannosaur, with narrower jaws, longer legs, and bigger arms than T. rex.
4 days ago · Tyrannosauroidea (meaning 'tyrant lizard forms') is a superfamily (or clade) of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaurs that includes the family Tyrannosauridae as well as more basal relatives. Tyrannosauroids lived on the Laurasian supercontinent beginning in the Jurassic Period.
1 day ago · It depends on who you ask. Last year, the iconic dinosaur received the glow up of a lifetime. Neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel calculated that the fearsome reptile had 3.3 billion neurons — nerve cells — in just one part of the front of its brain. The discovery seemed to put the brainpower of T. rex ’s forebrain on a par with that ...
1 day ago · Like most known tyrannosaurids, Tarbosaurus was a large bipedal predator, with the type specimen measuring approximately 10 metres (33 ft) long, 3 metres (9.8 ft) tall at the hips, and weighing up to 4.5–5 metric tons (5.0–5.5 short tons).
5 days ago · Trix is a Tyrannosaurus rex specimen excavated in 2013 in Montana, United States by a team of paleontologists from the Naturalis Biodiversity Center in Leiden, the Netherlands and Black Hills institute of Geological Research in South Dakota.
