Cracking the myth of the teen rex


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  • Wednesday, 03 Dec 2025

A life reconstruction of a pack of ‘Nanotyrannus’ attacking a juvenile T. rex. — Anthony Hutchings/ The New York Times

FOR 40 years, dinosaur experts have been locked in a huge debate over diminutive fossils found in the western United States. Did they belong to a teenage version of Tyrannosaurus rex or another species in the tyrannosaur family entirely?

A new study may have settled the dispute.

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