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NEWS ABOUT: Tyrannosaurus rex

Tyrannosaurus rex stories: 7 news summaries

 Fossil Hunter 
 Finds Giant 
 Sea Monster 

Colossal pliosaur was big enough to snack on T. Rex

Oct 28, 09 2:36 AM CDT
(Newser) - A sea monster big enough to have munched on T. Rex has been found by an amateur fossil collector scouring Britain's south coast. The collector gathered chunks of the prehistoric beast's 8-foot-long skull as they fell from a cliff face over several years. Paleontologists believe the pliosaur skull is the... More »

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paleontology • fossil • dinosaur • Tyrannosaurus rex • sea creatures

 'Ballerina-Like' T. Rex 
 Cousin Discovered 

Size, light skeleton and delicate teeth suggest different prey from larger relative

Oct 6, 09 3:27 PM CDT
(Newser) - A smaller, more agile cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex has been identified. The skull and a nearly complete skeleton of Alioramus altai was discovered in Mongolia in 2001, and has features that distinguish it from its more lumbering cousin. Unlike its “big bad boy” relatives, a study author... More »

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paleontology • fossil • Gobi desert • dinosaur • Mongolia • predators • Tyrannosaurus rex • Alioramus altai

 Sore Throat May 
 Have Axed T Rex 

Trichomonosis still affects modern birds and makes eating almost impossible

Sep 29, 09 12:40 PM CDT
(Newser) - Tyrannosaurus rex could have been laid low not by a planetwide dinosaur holocaust or vicious infighting, but by a parasite that still affects modern birds. Researchers have taken a close look at lesions on T. rex fossils once presumed to be battle scars and concluded that they are the work... More »

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birds • paleontology • starvation • infection • extinction • parasite • T. rex • Tyrannosaurus rex • feeding • trichomonosis

 Pint-Size T-Rex 
 Surprises Scientists 

'Raptorex' was 1/100th the weight of its descendant

Sep 17, 09 5:50 PM CDT
(Newser) - Paleontologists have unearthed a miniature predecessor of Tyrannosaurus Rex, a finding that may rewrite the origins of the most iconic of dinosaurs. “Raptorex,” discovered in China, has all the distinctive features of a Tyrannosaurus—large head and jaws, long legs, and small arms—but it weighed only 150... More »

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paleontology • fossil • dinosaur • T Rex • T. rex • Tyrannosaurus rex

 T. Rex 'Mostly Ate Babies' 


Aug 5, 09 1:19 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Hollywood image of Tyrannosaurus Rex battling huge herbivores is a long way from Jurassic reality, according to a new study. Instead of picking on animals its own size, T. Rex and other massive carnivores preferred their prey as young as possible, ideally when they were small enough to be... More »

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paleontology • dinosaur • Tyrannosaurus rex

 Sea Monster 
 Makes T-Rex 
 Look Wimpy 

50-ft Jurassic creature had crushing jaws

Mar 17, 09 10:26 AM CDT
(Newser) - A fossil sea monster dug up last year had a bite far more crushing than T-Rex’s, scientists in Norway have found. The jaws of the 50-foot Jurassic reptile, known as "Predator X," carried a force of 33,000 pounds per square inch, 10 times more than that... More »

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fossil • jawbone • Tyrannosaurus rex

Tyrannosaurus Rex: Tastes
Like Chicken?

Study says birds are dinosaurs' closest living descendants

Apr 24, 08 8:01 PM CDT
(Newser) - Dinosaurs are more closely related to birds than reptiles, protein extracted from a Tyrannosaurus rex bone suggests. T. rex collagen, the main protein in bones, is similar to chicken and ostrich collagen but much different than material from alligators and lizards, scientists say. The findings could remap the evolutionary tree... More »

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birds • fossil • dinosaur • bones • DNA evidence • reptiles • Tyrannosaurus rex • collagen

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