What is a nanotyrannus? What scientists recently discovered about the much-debated dinosaur

A new study reveals that fossils once believed to belong to a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex may actually belong to a separate species ...
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Rare dinosaur mummies help scientists recreate their prehistoric lives

Many of them — including a duck-billed dinosaur mummy discovered in 1908 — hail from an area in eastern Wyoming. In the new study, scientists returned to this so-called mummy zone and found new ...

New 'miniature T rex' rewrites the history of the world's largest predator

A new specimen of one of the most controversial species of dinosaur has the potential to overturn decades of research on the ...

How a great-grandmother helped researchers unravel a dinosaur mummy mystery

A paleontologist was trying to locate the site of a famous 1908 discovery when a rancher in Wyoming shared an important clue.

Nanotyrannus declared a distinct tyrannosaur species, turning dinosaur research upside down

A long-standing dinosaur mystery has finally been solved, revealing surprising details about a small predator that once lived in the shadow of the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex.