World Dinosaur

Don't believe everything the papers tell you

Posted from Laelaps 121 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

On Saturday it was announced that Polish paleontologists have uncovered the remains of an ancient predatory animal, heralded as an ancestor to Tyrannosaurus in the mass media accounts. Nicknamed "the Dragon" the fossil remains were recovered from Lisowice and are of Triassic age, the large size of the animal (~16 feet) suggesting that it ate almost anything it wanted. Yet there are some questions about this fossil, especially since it has not yet been published in the technical literature. Is it really a Triassic representative of the Tyrannosaurus family tree? If you take a look at the lates... (original story)