When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. For years, key fossils were thought by many paleontologists to be juvenile examples of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The skeleton of a Nanotyrannus lancensis is displayed as part of the "Montana Dueling Dinosaurs & Distinguished Fossils" ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new analysis of fossils believed to be juveniles of T. rex now shows they were adults of a small tyrannosaur, with narrower jaws, longer legs, and bigger arms than T. rex. The species, Nanotyrannus ...

(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 ...

A new study hopes to finally settle a debate that has been raging since 1988. The study focuses on a 23-inch-long dinosaur skull. Some believe it is a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex, but others believe it ...

Paleontologists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered a new species of dinosaur called nanotyrannus lancensis. The discovery came after studying a fossil called "Dueling ...

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 ...