Scientists Find Earliest Known Ancestor of T. Rex
Sun-Journal Lewiston, Me. › June 28, 2006
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NEW YORK (AP) - Digging near Chinese badlands that appeared in the movie "Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon," scientists have found their own hidden dragon: the oldest known tyrannosaur, a primitive ancestor of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex.
The two skeletons they unearthed shed light on the lineage that produced T. rex, revealing a creature that lived some 160 million years ago. That's more than 90 million years before T. rex came along.See the full content of this document
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Scientists Find Earliest Known Ancestor of T. Rex
A two-legged meat-eater with a puzzling crest on its head, the beast was far smaller than its celebrity descendant,...
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