A newly discovered species of Tyrannosaur - the group of meat-eating dinosaurs to which the infamous T. rex belongs - could hold the key to how these creatures grew so huge.
Dinosaur Discovery Explains Why T-Rex Became The Earth's Top Predator
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On 16th March 2016
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Dinosaur experts are thrilled after discovering this horse-sized version of the T-rex that lived 90 million years ago.
The discovery of remains belonging to a new species of dinosaur is shedding light on how Tyrannosaurus rex became one of Earth's top predators.
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"It has features of its bones that are also found in T. rex," said Dr Brusatte. "So this is evolving features that would eventually allow T. rex to become this super-dominant top-of-the-food-chain animal."
The team studied about 25 sections of Timurlengia's skeleton, piecing it together to work out its size and shape.
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A team of palaeontologists, led by researchers at the University of Edinburgh , studied a collection of tyrannosaur fossils found in the Kyzylkum desert.
Scientists said the newly-discovered species, named Timurlengia euotica, lived about 90 million years ago and the remains fill a 20-million-year gap in the fossil record of tyrannosaurs.
