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  • Manning, whose work still needs to be peer-reviewed, suggested the 67-million-year-old print "could only" be one of the two species previously found in Hell Creek, Nanotyrannus or its bigger relative Tyrannosaurus rex.

    Tyrannosaurus Rex ‘Footprint’ Is Found | Impact Lab 2007

  • He recently found that the smallest tyrannosaur, Nanotyrannus, had a brain twice the expected size, with a large vision center that would have resolved minute detail.

    New Theories And Old Bones Reveal The Lifestyle Of The Dinosaur 2008

  • ~ Tyrannosaur Footprint Found in Montana -- "The giant footprint was made by either T. rex or Nanotyrannus."

    Speedlinking 10/11/07 William Harryman 2007

  • The purported Nanotyrannus fossils have the look of a teenaged T. rex, according to Horner.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • Nanotyrannus-actually a young T. rex in Horner's view-had 17 lower-jaw teeth, and an adult T. rex had 12.

    Daily News & Analysis 2009

  • Their demise comes after a three-horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, was assigned to the dustbin of history last month at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in the United Kingdom, the loss in recent years of quite a few duck-billed hadrosaurs and the probable disappearance of Nanotyrannus, a supposedly miniature Tyrannosaurus rex.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

  • Their demise comes after a three-horned dinosaur, Torosaurus, was assigned to the dustbin of history last month at the Society of Vertebrate Paleontology meeting in the United Kingdom, the loss in recent years of quite a few duck-billed hadrosaurs and the probable disappearance of Nanotyrannus, a supposedly miniature Tyrannosaurus rex.

    PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories 2009

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