“It definitely would have been quite an imposing animal.”
NBC reported on Monday that the carnivorous Thanatotheristes degrootorum is a cousin of the infamous Tyrannosaurus rex and has large serrated teeth.“Imposing” might even be putting it lightly — the tyrannosaur’s teeth were each more than 2.7 inches long, according to NBC.
According to researchers on a study about the finding, the 79.5 million-years-old tyrannosaur is the oldest known tyrannosaur on record to have been discovered in North America and is also the first new species to be discovered in Canada in half a decade. Voris who is a doctoral student at the University of Calgary doctoral student of paleontology said to Live Science:Speaking to Live Science about the discovered animal’s feature , he said that they “are not like anything we’ve ever seen before in other tyrannosaur species.
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