[url=http://www.history.com/news/t-rexs-little-cousin-new-pygmy-tyrannosaur-discovered-in-alaska?cmpid=Social_Facebook_Hith_03132014_1]Source[/url]
[quote]A team of paleontologists has announced that fossilized remains recovered from a remote site in northern Alaska belong to a new species of pygmy tyrannosaur. The animal, which they dubbed Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, lived some 70 million years ago, during the Late Cretaceous period, when the land was part of an ancient subcontinent called Laramidia. Though only around half the size of its close cousin, the famous Tyrannosaurus rex, this polar pygmy was still around 25 feet long and weighed some 1,000 pounds.[/quote]
[t]http://www.history.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/t-rex-cousin.jpg[/t]
dawww
I don't know why I clicked this thinking it was alive.
like jumbo shrimp
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;44230757]I don't know why I clicked this thinking it was alive.[/QUOTE]
For some reason I thought it'd be one of those "found with skin" things.
They explained that they know it's not just a baby T.Rex because of certain bone structure, but how are they sure it's not just one with dwarfism? It's like treating midgets as a separate species rather than individuals with a disorder.
or maybe it's [url=http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/21/Danny_DeVito_by_Gage_Skidmore.jpg]tyranny derexo[/url]
I just brought my son to the burpee museum here in rockford to see another specimen of pygmy-tyrannosaurus. He loves dinos
[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrannosaurus#Notable_specimens[/url]
[quote] Dubbed "Jane", the find was initially considered the first known skeleton of the pygmy tyrannosaurid Nanotyrannus but subsequent research has revealed that it is more likely a juvenile Tyrannosaurus[/quote]
never mind it was just a juvenile, still pretty cool.
[QUOTE=Snickerdoodle;44230757]I don't know why I clicked this thinking it was alive.[/QUOTE]
It's ok
I did too.
I thought it was alive:(
I like how even the pygmy variety of t-rex is still fucking huge
[QUOTE=FingerSpazem;44231316]I like how even the pygmy variety of t-rex is still fucking huge[/QUOTE]
They didn't name them lizard kings for nothing.
Atleast they put the feathers there.
A polar tyrannosaur is something I would have gone nuts over when I was a kid.
i thought they reclassified all these tiny t-rexes as baby t-rexes
nerf entropy, give us dino dna, please God
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.