Tagged: tyrannosaurus

At the high end, it’s probably less than half the total number of humans that have ever lived. But it doesn’t take many to be terrifying. Humans in our current form have been around for maybe a few hundred thousand years, which seems like an...

“Whatever the arms are for, they are not for passing potatoes,” paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter of Utah State University jokes in an email. He’s referring to a gag from Gary Larson’s beloved comic “The Far Side.” One installment in the series shows a family of Tyrannosaurus...

Paleontologists discovered a new species of tyrannosaur that roamed the earth 79.5 million years ago, after identifying a fossil uncovered in Canada. Known as Thanatotheristes degrootorum, the species is one of the oldest ever found in North America and is directly linked to Tyrannosaurus rex,...