World Dinosaur

A new juvenile Tarbosaurus

Posted from Laelaps 34 days ago
Dinosaurs! : Dinosaurs

The skeleton of a young Tarbosaurus. From the LiveScience article. Poor Tarbosaurus. Even though it was a top predator during the Cretaceous most people have never heard about it, the theropod from Asia being a poor man's Tyrannosaurus. (Some people think that Tarbosaurus = Tyrannosaurus, but I side with those who hold that they are distinct.) Still, even though it is not as famous as it's North American cousin it is still pretty cool that the recovery of a nearly complete skeleton of a juvenile Tarbosaurus has just been announced. Discovered two years ago in the Gobi Desert the fossils ha...