Newfound fossil is not a teen T. rex but a whole new species

Newfound fossil is not a teen T. rex but a whole new species

For more than 30 years, researchers have debated whether a fossil of a small but fierce dinosaur came from a teen Tyrannosaurus rex or some other species. Now two new reports come to the same conclusion: Despite its looks, this was no T. rex. Two paleontologists debuted the first evidence for this on Oct. 30 in Nature. Lindsay Zanno works at North Carolina State University in Raleigh. Co-author James Napoli is at Stony Brook University in New Yo…

A whole new species has been discovered in the form of a new fossilized T. rex teen

Two new reports have come to light on the dispute over whether a small, aggressive dinosaur fossil was actually a young Tyrannosaurus rex, and...