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Skeletal mount of the Tyrannosaurus holotype.. This timeline of tyrannosaur research is a chronological listing of events in the history of paleontology focused on the tyrannosaurs, a group of predatory theropod dinosaurs that began as small, long-armed bird-like creatures with elaborate cranial ornamentation but achieved apex predator status during the Late Cretaceous as their arms shrank and ...
The only recorded find of a dinosaur fossil in Central America consists of a single femur discovered from Middle Cretaceous age deposits in Comayagua Department in the central part of Honduras. The fossil had been found in January, 1971 by Bruce Simonson and Gregory Horne, though it was later sent to the National Museum of Natural History, USA ...
[50] [51] The first unquestionable remains of tyrannosaurids occur in the Campanian stage of the Late Cretaceous in North America and Asia. Two subfamilies are recognized. The albertosaurines are only known from North America, while the tyrannosaurines are found on both continents. [1]
A rare fossil discovery marks the first time a tyrannosaur’s stomach contents have been found, a new study says. The young apex predator was a cousin of T. rex.
When T. rex was first discovered, the humerus was the only element of the forelimb known. [6] For the initial mounted skeleton as seen by the public in 1915, Osborn substituted longer, three-fingered forelimbs like those of Allosaurus. [4] A year earlier, Lawrence Lambe described the short, two-fingered forelimbs of the closely related ...
The fossil embryos were returned to Bynum a few years ago and are now on display at the Two Medicine Dinosaur Center. 1979. Fran Tannenbaum discovered the first whole dinosaur egg in North America at Egg Mountain, Montana [26]
It was the last known sauropod dinosaur in North America, known for their long necks, long tails and small heads, like the well-known Brontosaurus, which were first believed to have gone extinct ...
On August 12, 1990, Susan Hendrickson -- a fossil hunter -- discovered three huge bones protruding out of a cliff near Faith, South Dakota. Those burned turned out to be part of the largest ever T ...