tyrannosaur


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large carnivorous bipedal dinosaur having enormous teeth with knifelike serrations

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In this case, Tyrannosaur is a story about the futility of faith in terms of salvation.
juvenile tyrannosaur fossils are rare simply because not many of them died because they were big and mean enough to make the average predator think twice.
However, it also held surprises: A lot of dinosaurs would have looked really strange because they were completely feathered--like the recently discovered tyrannosaur, which we named Dilong paradoxus, meaning "surprising emperor dragon." It wasn't the first feathered dinosaur discovered, but it was the first tyrannosaur ever found with primitive feathers.
The paleontologists who unearthed the 130-million-year-old fossils in northeastern China announced in October that their find provides the first direct evidence that tyrannosaurs had protofeathers.
This tyrannosaur braincase, the first well-preserved one found from the mid-Cretaceous period, shows that, although still small, tyrannosaurs of the time already had brain and ear features of later tyrannosaurs.
"It might have looked a little comical, but it would have been as deadly as any other tyrannosaur, and maybe even a little faster and stealthier." The huge and "remarkably well-preserved" skeleton was found by construction workers on a building site.
TYRANNOSAUR (18) Verdict: EVERY time I see a British film like this, I wonder what planet its makers are on.
TYRANNOSAUR 18 remorse after kicking his dog to death, seeks shelter in a shop run by Hannah (Olivia Coleman).
However with information available about the numbers of T.rex in the rocks of the Hell Creek formation it is the closest we have got so far to discovering a tyrannosaur track."
"Then, we thought it might be from a tyrannosaur," like Tyrannosaurus Rex, Xu adds.
Washington, March 13 ( ANI ): A 70 million year old fossil discovered in the Late Cretaceous sediments of Alaska reveals a new small tyrannosaur.