Senin, 24 Maret 2014

Mini T Rex fossil Found in the Arctic




Palaentologi experts have found the remains of a fossil Tyrannosaurus rex (t. rex) runt in Northern Alaska. These prehistoric creatures that live in the Arctic, about 70 million years ago, during the Cretaceous period, half-sized cousin feared. Named Nanuqsaurus, or ' lizards ' polar bears in Alaska's Inupiat language, this being an estimated six meters in length and weighs 450 pounds when he was an adult. Experts say, the mini T rex is very similar to the nearby cousin, a giant tyrannosaur, which doubled the size of Nanuqsaurus.

Part of the skull and upper and lower molars of T rex the runt that was discovered by the paleontologist from Museum Perot in Dallas, Texas, in the southeastern part of the United States. They found it while digging up skeletal remains of small horned dinosaur unknown to others. Anthony Fiorillo found bones in a Nanuqsaurus extracting at Prince Creek Formation on the North Slope, Alaska, above the Arctic circle. The invention is not too shocking for the paleontologist because they have suspect there is the presence of a predator in the Arctic thanks to former horned dinosaur bone in the teeth.

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