June 1, 2019

Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis were two distant relatives of T.rex

An article published in the journal “Acta Palaeontologica Polonica” reports the identification of two new species of dinosaurs that lived in present-day Thailand, in the Sao Khua Formation, in the Lower Cretaceous period, about 125 million years ago. A team of researchers named the two species Phuwiangvenator yaemniyomi and Vayuraptor nongbualamphuensis, classified in the group of coelurosaurs, distant relatives of the T.rex even if with more primitive physical structures but good enough to make them efficient predators too.