New Horse-Sized Dinosaur Could Explain Rise Of T. Rex
- 8 years ago
A recently published study describes the discovery of a new dinosaur species called Timurlengia euotica which is believed to fill in a missing 20-million-year gap between smaller carnivores and giant T. rex predators.
The Tyrannosaurus rex is known as one of the most fearsome dinosaurs that ever lived, and now, scientists led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh have a better idea of how it might have gotten that way.
A recent study documents the discovery of a new species called Timurlengia euotica which is believed to fill in a missing 20-million-year gap between creatures that were smaller carnivores and the giant predators.
Based on fossil evidence found in Uzbekistan, the Timurlengia has been dated to around 90 million years ago.
It has been described as horse-
The Tyrannosaurus rex is known as one of the most fearsome dinosaurs that ever lived, and now, scientists led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh have a better idea of how it might have gotten that way.
A recent study documents the discovery of a new species called Timurlengia euotica which is believed to fill in a missing 20-million-year gap between creatures that were smaller carnivores and the giant predators.
Based on fossil evidence found in Uzbekistan, the Timurlengia has been dated to around 90 million years ago.
It has been described as horse-