New T-Rex ancestor discovered in drawers of Mongolian institute
This handout artist's illustration made available by University of Calgary on June 6, 2025, shows the newly discovered dinosaur species Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, an ancestor of Tyrannosaurus Rex. Misidentified bones that languished in the drawers of at the Institute of Paleontology of the Mongolian Academy of Sciences in capital Ulaanbaatar, in Mongolia for 50 years actually belong to a new species of tyrannosaur which rewrites the family history of the mighty T-Rex, scientists said on June 4, 2025.
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