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The surprising reason why T. rex had short arms

For more than a century, Tyrannosaurus rex has carried one of paleontology’s most stubborn visual jokes: a giant…
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The surprising reason why T. rex had short arms

For more than a century, Tyrannosaurus rex has carried one of paleontology’s most stubborn visual jokes: a giant…
#NewsBeep #News #Science #AU #Australia #Cretaceouspredators #dinosaurbehavior #dinosaurevolution #fossilresearch #KevinPadian #NewDiscoveries #Paleontology #research #T.rexarms #theropodanatomy #tyrannosaurids #Tyrannosaurusrex
https://www.newsbeep.com/au/670696/

Introducing Asiatyrannus xui https://paleonerdish.wordpress.com/2024/07/30/introducing-asiatyrannus-xui/ by @Ferwen

Their colosal body size and deep snouts were key features of tyrannosaurid species from the latest stages of the #Mesozoic. In Asia, during the latest #Cretaceous, existed a derived group of long-snouted #tyrannosaurids called #alioramins... The new specimen reveals the coexistence of the long-snouted and deep-snouted tyrannosaurids in southeastern China.

#Asiatyrannus xui: The first deep-snouted tyrannosaur from Upper #Cretaceous Ganzhou https://novataxa.blogspot.com/2024/07/asiatyrannus.html paper: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-66278-5

#Tyrannosaurids were the most derived group of Tyrannosauroidea and are characterized by having two body plans: gracile, long-snouted and robust, deep-snouted skulls. Both groups lived sympatrically in central Asia... Asiatyrannus is a small to medium-sized tyrannosaurine, with a skull length of 47.5 cm and an estimated total body length of 3.5–4 m.