Organic Material Detected in Eggshell Fossils Could Unlock Dinosaur Secrets
As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous.
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As a scientist, lab work can sometimes get monotonous.
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. The species, Nanotyrannus lancensis, was first named decades ago but later r
<p style="text-align:justify"><strong>A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of <em>T. rex</em> now shows they were adults of a small tyrannosaur, with narrower jaws, longer legs, and bigger arms than <em>T</em>. <em>rex</em>. The species, <em>Nanotyrannus lancensis</em>, was first named decades ago but later reinterpreted as a young <em>T</em>. <em>rex</em>. The new study, published in <em>Fossil Studies, </em>shows <em>Nanotyrannus </em>was a sma...
Researchers claim to have new evidence that fossils found in the 1940s are not of a juvenile T-Rex, but of another distinct species: the Nanotyrannus.
Palaeontologists can’t agree on whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a separate species that lived alongside them