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Meet the elder cousin of T-Rex

Newsday

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It was no bigger than a horse and roamed planet Earth around 90 million years ago. Scientists believe that this creature could have been the elder cousin of Tyrannosaur Rex, who was the king of meat-eating dinosaurs. Dr Steve Brusatte is a paleontologist at the University of Edinburgh,in Britain, and he's been telling Newsday more about what the newly discovered species of tyrannosaur was like: (This illustration shows the new dinosaur known as Timurlengia euotica prowling around Central Asia about 90 million years ago. Credit: Todd Marshall)

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