March 17, 2016

Reconstruction of Timurlengia euotica skeleton (Image courtesy Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved)

An article published in the journal “Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences’ describes the study of fossils of Timurlengia euotica, a horse-sized dinosaur that lived about 90 million years ago of which various bones have been discovered in Uzbekistan allowing to identify this new species. It’s a tyrannosaurus that lived before the famous T.rex: it wasn’t its direct ancestor but provides information on its evolution.