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Tiny look-alike of Tyrannosaurus rex discovered

Source: Chicago Tribune
Shanghai : China | 2 months ago  
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A Chinese fossil with a shady legal history landed on the doorstep of University of Chicago paleontologist Paul Sereno three years ago, and turned out to be a notable discovery ¡V a 125 million-year-old dinosaur that looks like a tiny version of the most famous dinosaur of all, the 65 million-year-old...
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