Using high-resolution scans, the team also found the Nanotyrannus skull contained more tooth sockets than a T. rex of any age and different routes for cranial nerves and sinuses than T. rex exhibits.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Jane, the dinosaur fossil housed at Rockford’s Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a ...

For decades, a small tyrannosaur skull has divided paleontologists over whether it belonged to a separate species or a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. New research anchored in the spectacular “Dueling ...

It's known as the "Dueling Dinosaurs" fossil: A triceratops and a tyrannosaur, skeletons entangled, locked in apparent combat right up until the moment of their mutual demise. Even in the Hell Creek ...

Scientists at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences have found that what was believed to be a juvenile T.rex skeleton is instead a distant relative, the first of its kind to be found in a full skeleton.

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Jane, the dinosaur fossil housed at Rockford’s Burpee Museum of Natural History, may not be a Tyrannosaurus rex as previously believed. A new discovery suggests Jane, which was ...

The most definitive evidence comes from a microscopic feature called an external fundamental system—a series of tightly packed growth rings in bone—that suggests the fossilized animal had finished ...