Huge new dinosaur was cousin of t. Rex

(Artist's impression of Zhuchengtyrannus Magnus courtesy of Robert Nicholls)

Paleontologists have just announced the discovery of Zhuchengtyrannus Magnus, which not only one of the world's largest carnivorous dinosaurs was also known as a "Tyrant of Zhucheng," but it was also a cousin of Tyrannosaurus Rex.

Check out his estimated height:

Length - 36 M

Height - 13 m

Weight - well over 13,000 pounds

This "tyrant" Dino unearthed in China and is described in the current issue of the journal of Cretaceous research. His remains consist of a fossilized bones of skull and jaw. In life, such as by drawing, this meat lovers see a mouth full of very sharp teeth sported, the better to bite in his victims.

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Zhuchengtyrannus Magnus joins t. Rex and the Asian Tarbosaurus as members of a special group of enormous carnivores Tyrannosaurines called. The Tyrannosaurines there during the Cretaceous period, which lasted from about 99 65 million years ago in North America and East Asia.

In addition to their fondness for meat, the Tyrannosaurines of small arms, two finger drew hands and large powerful JAWS could have delivered a powerful bone crushing bite. They were probably predators and scavengers.

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David hone, lead author of the paper, words was quoted in a press release, "Zhuchengtyrannus can be distinguished from other Tyrannosaurines seen through a combination of unique features in the skull in other theropods."

"With only some skull and jaw to work bones, it is difficult, which accurately measure the total size of this animal." But we have bones are only a few inches smaller than the equivalent in the largest t. Rex specimen. Therefore there is no doubt that Zhuchengtyrannus was a huge Tyrannosaurine, "added a researchers at hone, University College Dublin school of biology and environmental science."

"We named the new genus Zhuchengtyrannus Magnus - i.e. the ' tyrant of Zhucheng' - because the bones in the city of Zhucheng, in the East were found China's Shandong Province", he continued.

If you follow dinosaur research, the name hone one's colleagues at this project will be familiar to you: Xu XING of Beijing Institute of vertebrate paleontology and paleoanthropology in China. In addition to this dinosaur more than 30 other dinosaurs of Xu are named him what world leader in the description of the new dinosaur species. If we had the pleasure of working with Xu news many times.

He met in particular Dino gold with a few pages. One is a quarry in the province of Shandong, Eastern China, where the remains of this dinosaur were found. (A bunch of duck-billed dinosaurs were also discovered at this point.)

China was clearly an incredible number of dinosaurs, but one of the reasons why so many important discoveries have made it (apart from qualified paleontologists such as Xu and hone) houses because of the particular geological features, that such findings today to facilitate. In this case the dinosaur bones in a great flood level, together with other prehistoric animal remains, washed, and stayed over the millennia.

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