‘The Missing Link’: New Early Tyranosor species discovered by Calgary researchers

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Scientists at the University of Calgary have discovered a new dinosaur sample that they say that the “missing link” appears in the development of Tyranosaurus.

The sample was originally discovered at Gobi Desert in Mongolia in the 1970s 50 years ago, but its importance was not recognized until Darla Zanlamla Zaleitsky, an associate professor of the university’s faculty science, sent a graduate student for Mongolia on a research journey to Jared Voris.

“He was there a few years ago on this research trip and saw the fossil and read me (that). He thought it was a new species. I loved” Yay, “Zelenitsky told The Canadian Press.

“I said,” It’s good, but we don’t want to jump a gun on it. ” It was a new species () it was revealed. ,

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Siberia to Alaska 85 million years ago

The species, Khanhulu Mongoliensis – meaning “Dragon Prince” or “Rajkumar of Dragon of Mongolia” – was believed to have crossed through a land bridge about 85 million years ago from Siberia to Alaska.

Zelenitsky stated that it appears to sit on the evolutionary scale between small tirenosoroids and tirenosaurus.

“This is the missing link between small tyrannosauroids and large hunter tyrannical tyrannosaus,” she said.

“This missing link was about 750 kg. Its ancestors were a couple of hundred kilograms and simply small, but then when you are appropriate for Tyranosaurus, they were more than a thousand kilograms, until an estimate of 5,000 kg.”

The findings were published in the British Weekly Scientific Journal Nature on Wednesday.

“It is really exciting to join the discovery of something sitting in a drawer for 50 years.

“This discovery forced us to see the family tree of Tirenosaurus in very different lights. It ended with us re -writing the family history of Tirenosaur with us.”

Right place, right time

Zalenitsky said that after going from Asia to North America, the arrival of Khanhulu or similar species may be the result of following its prey at a new place.

He said, “It is possible that many types of Tyranosor types were not made, so it is possible that they were able to handle that niche in North America and went to the top of the food chain,” she said.

“Tirenosaurus were in the right place at the right time. It allowed them to diversity and developed a large body shape, eventually became a large -scale top hunter that terrorized North America and Asia during late Cretaceous period.”

Zelenitski said that Tirenosaur developed rapidly, speaking geological, and perhaps it took a few million years.

She co-written more than 50 different publications during her career and was part of a team, with the first time evidence of winged dinosaurs in North America.

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‘The Missing Link’: New Early Tyranosor species discovered by Calgary researchers

Siberia to Alaska 85 million years ago

Right place, right time

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