Scientists may have solved the mystery of Nanotyrannus

After decades of fierce debate, researchers say fossils once thought to be juvenile T. rex actually belong to a separate, ...

Agile and vicious Nanotyrannus was not just a teenage T. rex

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) -At the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, an agile and vicious predator named ...

This tiny T. rex is actually a new species

Specifically, whether or not certain fossils found in Montana belonged to a young Tyrannosaurus rex or a completely separate, ...

What is a nanotyrannus? What scientists recently discovered about the much-debated dinosaur

A new study reveals that fossils once believed to belong to a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex may actually belong to a separate species ...

Meet Nanotyrannus, a Tiny Tyrannosaur Previously Mistaken for a Teenage T. Rex

Paleontologists have long debated whether small tyrannosaurs were their own species or simply teenage T. rexes. This debate ...
Smithsonian Magazine

This Tiny Tyrannosaur Could Settle a Huge Scientific Debate

A new analysis of a fossil unearthed in 2006 provides a fresh line of evidence that a separate tyrannosaur lineage called Nanotyrannus lived alongside the famous T. rex ...

New 'miniature T rex' rewrites the history of the world's largest predator

A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the ...
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NC researchers discover new dinosaur species

The new species is called Nanotyrannus. Compared to the well known tyrannosaurus rex, a nanotyrannus was more speedy and ...
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'I was wrong': Dinosaur scientists agree that small tyrannosaur Nanotyrannus was real, pivotal new study finds

An argument over whether fossils from several small dinosaurs represent a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex or smaller adults of a ...