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The T-Rex is back and hunting again, and here’s what changed

Tyrannosaurus Rex. King of the tyrant lizards. It’s 6 meters tall (20 feet), 12 meters (40 feet) long, and it weighs upward ...
Los Angeles Times

Canny as a crocodile but dumber than a baboon — new research ponders T. rex’s brain power

In December 2022, Vanderbilt University neuroscientist Suzana Herculano-Houzel published a paper that caused an uproar in the dinosaur world. After analyzing previous research on fossilized dinosaur ...
The New York Times

Study Aims to Bring a Tinier Tyrannosaur Back From Oblivion

New research is trying to remake the case that fossils known as Nanotyrannus were their own species, rather than a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein previously wrote about ...
Smithsonian Magazine

Fossils Reveal a Possible New Tyrannosaur Species, the Closest Relative of T. Rex

A fossilized partial dinosaur skull originally thought to be from a Tyrannosaurus rex might actually represent a previously unknown species, according to a paper published Thursday in the journal ...
The New York Times

Splitting T. Rex Into 3 Species Becomes a Dinosaur Royal Rumble

A team of researchers published a rebuttal to an argument advanced by another group earlier in the year. The disagreement over the king of dinosaurs is far from over. By Jack Tamisiea See more of our ...