News articles tagged with 'tyrannosaur'
Scientific understanding of T. rex revised by a decade of new research and discovery
— 17 Sep 2010 08:38 | Geology and palaeontologyWe've all heard this story: the Late Cretaceous of Asia and North America - about 65 million years ago - was dominated by several large-headed, bipedal predatory dinosaurs like Tyrannosaurus…
Scientists find first ever southern tyrannosaur dinosaur
— 26 Mar 2010 13:03 | Geology and palaeontologyScientists from Cambridge, London and Melbourne have found the first ever evidence that tyrannosaur dinosaurs existed in the southern continents. They identified a hip bone found at…
New species of Tyrannosaur discovered in SW U.S
— 29 Jan 2010 16:56 | Geology and palaeontologyNew Mexico is known for amazing local cuisine, Aztec ruins and the Los Alamos National Laboratory. In the January issue of the Journal of Vertebrate Paleontology, palaeontologists Thomas…
Bizarre new horned tyrannosaur from Asia described
— 6 Oct 2009 16:48 | Geology and palaeontologyNow, just a few weeks after tiny, early Raptorex kriegsteini was unveiled, a new wrench has been thrown into the family tree of the tyrannosaurs. The new Alioramus altai - a horned,…
Did Tyrannosaurus rex suffer from a common bird disease?
— 30 Sep 2009 14:54 | Geology and palaeontologyPalaeontologists Ewan Wolff (University of Wisconsin-Madison), Steve Salisbury (University of Queensland), Jack Horner (Museum of the Rockies) and David Varricchio (Montana State University),…
Tyrannosaur design evolved at 'punk size'
— 17 Sep 2009 18:00 | Geology and palaeontologyA new dinosaur shows that tyrannosaur design evolved at 'punk size.' The creature, Raptorex, from NE China had evolved all the hallmark anatomical features of Tyrannosaurus rex at least…
Field Museum palaeontologist leads study on two new dinosaurs from China
— 22 Apr 2009 15:22 | Geology and palaeontologyDuring the summers of 2006 and 2007, an international team of researchers from China and the United States excavated a treasure trove of dinosaur skeletons from Early Cretaceous rocks…
Duck-billed dinosaurs outgrew predators to survive
— 6 Aug 2008 06:15 | Geology and palaeontologyWith long limbs and a soft body, the duck-billed hadrosaur had few defences against predators such as tyrannosaurs. But new research on the bones of this plant-eating dinosaur suggests…
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