No creature in the history of planet Earth sparks the imagination quite like Tyrannosaurus rex. But how do we separate the movie-monster myth from the actual animal? Victoria the T-rex, a traveling ...

New research is trying to remake the case that fossils known as Nanotyrannus were their own species, rather than a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex. By Asher Elbein Asher Elbein previously wrote about ...

No conversation about the most influential films of all time is legitimate without discussion of Steven Spielberg’s Jurassic Park. While the marketing made the joke that the movie was “65 million ...

University of Southampton provides funding as a member of The Conversation UK. An icon from the age of dinosaurs, Tyrannosaurus rex has featured in everything from blockbuster movies to the shape of ...

Since its discovery in 1902, there’s only been one known type of Tyrannosaurus: the rex. However, a new study says there were three types of Tyrannosaurus, based on differences in fossils' femurs and ...

The premise, put forth in a new paper, highlights an assortment of tensions in dinosaur paleontology, including how subjective the naming of species can be. By Asher Elbein Tyrannosaurus rex is the ...

More than 66 million years ago, a “tyrant lizard king” ruled western North America: the fearsome predatory dinosaur Tyrannosaurus rex. But how large was this monarch’s royal family? Could what we call ...

WASHINGTON, Jan 11 (Reuters) - Scientists reassessing a partial skull first unearthed in 1983 in southeastern New Mexico have concluded that the fossil represents a new species of Tyrannosaurus - the ...