Tyrannosaurus Rex's family may have just been expanded by a new member, researchers with the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH), in New York City, say. They were part of a time that discovered a new species of large dinosaur in northeastern China. The area is known for the high amount of fossils it conta... |
5 April 2012
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If there were any doubts about whether Tyrannosaurus Rex was a hunter or a scavenger, the latest research carried out by scientists at the Zoological Society of London set things straight: T. Rex was no thief, it was one of the most ferocious hunters of its time.This conclusion is based on the results of a very thoro... |
26 January 2011
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The big tail that Tyrannosaurus Rex had, was helping it run much faster than scientists estimated, making it the fastest hunter of its time.University of Alberta graduate student Scott Persons, discovered that Tyrannosaurus Rex was not at all a slow Cretaceous creature, whose tail only served as counterbalance for it... |
16 November 2010
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In a new series of scientific investigations, experts have demonstrated that analysis of the places where dinosaurs died and were buried can reveal additional insight into how the animals lived. Using the new approach, a team of researchers was already able to determine that the renowned predator Tyrannosaurus Rex li... |
13 October 2010
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Harmonix and MTV Games, the two companies in charge of the future of the Rock Band franchise, have announced that fans of the series will be able to pick up eight new songs from R.E.M. and three new tracks from T. Rex on the Rock Band Music Store, if they game on the PlayStation 3 from Sony, the Xbox 360 from Microso... |
5 October 2010
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Paleontologists have recently identified a new species of dinosaur that they believe is the oldest known ancestor of the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the most fearsome predators to have ever lived. The 170-million-years-old beast was only 10 feet (about 3 meters) in length, and featured a tiny horn on its snout. ... |
4 November 2009
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In 1990, the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation, in South Dakota, provided the world with the most complete Tyrannosaurus Rex fossil to date, a beautiful specimen named Sue. The remains went on to be sold for the highest sum ever paid for a dinosaur, and became a permanent exhibit at the Field Museum of Natural Histor... |
30 September 2009
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Tyrannosaurus Rex fossils are not exactly easy to come by, and nearly complete skeletons are even more uncommon. Only a few of these exist, but most of them miss a large number of bones. That is precisely why the collector community has saluted a recent decision, to put one of the largest and most complete T. Rex ske... |
19 August 2009
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More than two years ago, a team of researchers dropped a bomb-news on the international scientific community – they had found intact proteins from a Tyrannosaurus Rex, one of the largest carnivorous dinosaurs that ever lived. Critics naturally started jumping up and down, arguing that it was essentially impossi... |
1 August 2009
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Recent anthropological studies revealed that the head of large dinosaurs, such as Tyrannosaurus Rex, was more filled with sinuses than with brains, which seems to have prompted their remarkable ability of catching the prey, despite their bulky mass and constitution. CT scans of their heads revealed that the amount of... |
9 December 2008
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