Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
Naked Scientists, In Short Special Editions Podcast
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Mystery of the miniature T-Rex
3 minutes Posted May 13, 2019 at 11:00 pm.
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Everyone's heard of T-Rexes, the twenty-foot-tall monsters that roamed the Earth back in the Late Cretaceous Period. But you may not have heard of their miniature cousin. It's a six foot tall dinosaur called Suskityrannus hazelae, and it gives us a clue about when and how T-Rexes got as big as they did. Sterling Nesbitt is the paleontologist who found the second and most complete fossil of this new dinosaur, but it took him twenty years to put this paper together. Phil Sansom asked him how. Like this podcast? Please help us by supporting the Naked Scientists