The Tyrannosaurus rex developed to be a superior predator of its time with a massive body, but its arms were only a fraction of its body size. Palaeontologists have been trying to understand why, and now they may have an answer. Charlie Roger Scherer, the lead author of a new study by University College London and Cambridge researchers, says: “T rex is an extreme among extremes. It’s an outlier among outliers. Its entire family’s weird.” “T rex took that idea of a massive predator with a strong
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The Tyrannosaurus rex developed to be a superior predator of its time with a massive body, but its arms were only a fraction of its body size. Palaeontologists have been trying to understand why, and now they may have an answer. Charlie Roger Scherer, the lead author of a new study by University College London and Cambridge researchers, says: “T rex is an extreme among extremes. It’s an outlier among outliers. Its entire family’s weird.” “T rex took that idea of a massive predator with a strong
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