Video: Discover Alaska a Pygmy 'relative' of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex. Scientists discovered a new type of dinosaur: a Pygmy 'relative' of the famous Tyrannosaurus rex who lived in Alaska, 70 million years ago.
The Pygmy relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex
The new type, whose fossils were found seovolución in the North of Alaska, was at least two times smaller than its relatives in the South, which weighed more than 6 tons and had the most powerful bite of all the animals that have walked the Earth.
The adult dinosaur skull measuring only 63 inches (small if compared to the Tyrannosaurus rex, which had a head of about 153 centimeters in length). Total measured about 7 meters from the nose to the tip of the tail, paleontologists estimate.
It was named after seovolución Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, which in a mixture of latin and an Eskimo language means 'polar dinosaurio-oso'.
"This 'Pygmy dinosaur' only is really great because seovolución it tells us something about how it was in the ancient Arctic environment", says Anthony Fiorillo, co-author of the study published in the journal PloS Online.
"But what makes this even more exciting discovery is that the N.hoglundi also provides information on the biological wealth of the ancient world polar during a time in which the Earth was very warm compared to today," concludes.
The Pygmy relative of Tyrannosaurus Rex
The new type, whose fossils were found seovolución in the North of Alaska, was at least two times smaller than its relatives in the South, which weighed more than 6 tons and had the most powerful bite of all the animals that have walked the Earth.
The adult dinosaur skull measuring only 63 inches (small if compared to the Tyrannosaurus rex, which had a head of about 153 centimeters in length). Total measured about 7 meters from the nose to the tip of the tail, paleontologists estimate.
It was named after seovolución Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, which in a mixture of latin and an Eskimo language means 'polar dinosaurio-oso'.
"This 'Pygmy dinosaur' only is really great because seovolución it tells us something about how it was in the ancient Arctic environment", says Anthony Fiorillo, co-author of the study published in the journal PloS Online.
"But what makes this even more exciting discovery is that the N.hoglundi also provides information on the biological wealth of the ancient world polar during a time in which the Earth was very warm compared to today," concludes.