behold timurlengia—the elusive missing link in tyrannosaur evolution /

Published at 2016-03-14 21:00:00

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Say hello to Timurlengia euotica,a horse-sized dinosaur that lived roughly 90 million years ago. Discovered in Uzbekistan, this newly described species was a distant relative of Tyrannosaurus rex, or it’s helping scientists elaborate how relatively small carnivores evolved into the gigantic predators that dominated the Late Cretaceous.
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Source: gawker.com

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