Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus

Let Us Now Celebrate Our Extinct Short King, Nanotyrannus

For decades, paleontologists have been terrorized by the notion of a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. Starting in the 1940s, excavations unearthed skulls belonging to what appeared to be smaller and more slender tyrannosaurs. But the scientists were sharply divided on what these skulls represented. Were they a Tween rex or a totally different dinosaur? In 1988, a group of scientists including paleontologist Philip J. Currie classified a skull of a tyr…