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News -02-08-06 Spinosaurus May Have Towered Over T-Rex Dinosaur (Guardian Unlimited) "The spinosaurus - now officially the biggest predatory dinosaur known to man - measured 17 metres (55ft) from nose to tail, had long, crocodile-like jaws, and is thought to have had a sail on its back." 02-06 Papers -02-08-06 Earliest Known T. rex Dinosaur Found (Nature.com) "Ask any dinner-party palaeontologist and they'll tell you that, despite its star turn in Jurassic Park, Tyrannosaurus rex didn't live in the Jurassic period. But now a team in China has found a tyrannousaur that did, and it gives us valuable clues about the rise of this clan of prehistoric predators." "The new species, found in Xinjiang province in northwestern China, lived around 160 million years ago. This makes it more than twice as old as T. rex, and the most primitive known member of the family." 02-06 -02-08-06 Earliest Known T. rex Dinosaur Found (USNews.com) "Scientists say they've found the earliest known tyrannosaur, shedding light on the lineage that produced the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex. The discovery comes with a puzzle: Why did this beast have a strange crest on its head?" 02-06 -03-25-05 Dinosaur "Flesh" Found in a Surprise Discovery (CBS News) "In an announcement that conjured up thoughts of the movie 'Jurassic Park,' researchers revealed they had recovered soft tissues that resemble blood vessels and even cells from a 70-million-year-old Tyrannosaurus rex." "They don't know if they'll be able to recover DNA — the blueprint to life that was the key to recreating the giant animals in the fictional film." 3-05 Sue, Most Complete T-Rex Fossil on Display (FieldMuseum.org) Provides pictures and information. 02-06 Tyrannosaurus rex (American Museum of Natural History) "Almost everything about this dinosaur -- the four-foot-long jaw, the six-inch-long teeth, and the huge thigh bones -- bespeaks the enormous power of Tyrannosaurus rex, one of the largest theropod (or meat-eating) dinosaurs that ever existed." Visitors sometimes misspell as Tyranosaurus or Tyranosorus. 02-06 Tyrannosaurus rex (EnchantedLearning.com) Provides diagrams and other information on Tyrannosaurus rex and other dinosaurs. Includes a search engine that checks for spelling errors. 10-00 Tyrannosaurus rex Ancestor Had Feathers (Nature.com) "Ancestors of the fearsome Tyrannosaurus rex were clothed in delicate feathers, a fossil discovered in China suggests. The find may come as a surprise to people used to images of Tyrannosaurus as a scaly monster. But many palaeontologists [sic] have been predicting just such a find ever since the first evidence of a dinosaur with a feathery coat came from the same site in Liaoning in 1995." "The 130 million-year-old fossil is the oldest member recorded from the tyrannosauroid family, and the first in the group with a feather-like covering." "Paleontologist" is the correct spelling in the United States. 10-04

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