A new study reveals Tyrannosaurus rex took 40 years to reach full size, not 30, as previously thought. Researchers analyzed ...
Tyrannosaurus rex is arguably the world’s most famous dinosaur, yet paleontologists are still learning more about this giant ...
Dinosaur bones are like trees—every year is represented by a new ring, and paleontologists can count those concentric circles ...
Pioneering techniques used in this research may soon be applied to other dinosaur fossils and alter the course of ...
A study of fossil bones shows Tyrannosaurus rex kept growing until around age 40, challenging long-held ideas about dinosaur ...
Now, a new study of 17 tyrannosaur specimens, ranging from early juveniles to massive adults, has revealed that the king of ...
A new study of growth patterns in the bones of Tyrannosaurus rex has contradicted previous reports that it stopped growing in ...
For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of ...
By counting visible and hidden rings, researchers found that T. rex did not reach full size until 35 to 40 years of age.
There is no question that Tyrannosaurus rex got big. In fact, this fearsome dinosaur may have been Earth's most massive land ...
Dr Holly Ballard and her team at Oklahoma State University studied leg bones from 17 different T.rex fossils to get a better ...
By cutting into a tiny throat bone, Princeton's Chris Griffin showed that it belonged to an adult of a smaller tyrannosauroid ...