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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Nanotyrannus lancensis, which recent findings suggest was a distinct dinosaur and not a young Tyrannosaurus rex, was a small-sized ...

Dinosaurs haven’t roamed the Earth for millions of years, but the nature of their reign has sparked no shortage of controversial debates among paleontologists that remain unresolved today. Late last ...

A handout illustration shows a pack of the dinosaur Nanotyrannus attacking a juvenile Tyrannosaurus in what is now Montana 67 million years ago. Anthony Hutchings/Handout via REUTERS THIS IMAGE HAS ...

View post: A Slovak National Was on the Run for 16 Years. Then He Went to the Olympics in Milan Researchers now identify the "dueling dinosaur" tyrannosaur as an adult Nanotyrannus, not T. rex. "This ...

WASHINGTON — Paleontologists for decades debated whether meat-eating dinosaur Nanotyrannus was actually just a juvenile Tyrannosaurus. But within a span of five weeks, the matter seems to have been ...

For more than sixty years, one battered skull has stirred a fight that would not fade. The fossil, stored in Ohio, carried a name that many doubted: Nanotyrannus lancensis. Some experts said it was a ...

(TMX) - A fossil once locked in prehistoric combat has just rewritten one of paleontology’s longest-running debates — and upended what scientists thought they knew about Tyrannosaurus rex. The ...

New research from a team including the University of Nebraska State Museum’s Ashley Poust further moves a decades-long scientific debate toward a conclusion — the Nanotyrannus, a teacup variation of ...

When fossil hunters unearthed the remains of a dinosaur from the hills of eastern Montana five years ago, they carried several key characteristics of a Tyrannosaurus rex: a pair of giant legs for ...

WASHINGTON — At the twilight of the age of dinosaurs, an agile and vicious predator named Nanotyrannus prowled western North America, resembling a smaller version of Tyrannosaurus - about a tenth the ...