New
Tyrannosaur named 'Pinocchio rex'
By James Morgan Science reporter, BBC News
A new type of Tyrannosaur with a very long nose has
been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex".
The ferocious carnivore, nine metres long with a
distinctive horny snout, was a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex. Its skeleton was
dug up in a Chinese construction site and identified by scientists at Edinburgh
University, UK.The 66-million-year-old predator, officially named
Qianzhousaurus sinensis, is described in Nature Communications."Pinocchio"
looked very different to other tyrannosaurs
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