Researchers now identify the "dueling dinosaur" tyrannosaur as an adult Nanotyrannus, not T. rex. "This fossil...flips decades of T. rex research on its head," says Lindsay Zanno. Study reveals ...

RALEIGH, N.C. -- Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a ...

"We've named a new species," Lindsay Zanno, head of paleontology at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences, told a crowd on Thursday. Scientists at the NC Museum of Natural Sciences have found that what ...

Paleontologists at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences have discovered a new species of dinosaur called nanotyrannus lancensis. The discovery came after studying a fossil called "Dueling ...

The most ferocious predator of the ancient world had a smaller, lightweight cousin: a new species of tyrannosaur uncovered in a Raleigh laboratory. For years, paleontologists at the NC Museum of ...

Gov. Josh Stein announced on Thursday the discovery of a new tyrannosaur species, Nanotyrannus, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences on Thursday. The discovery, made in collaboration with ...

AI-generated summary reviewed by our newsroom. Read our AI Policy. Governor Stein lauds discovery reclassifying Montana specimen as Nanotyrannus. DinoLab exhibit in Raleigh displays Dueling Dinosaurs ...

Scientists have long puzzled over the origins of a mysterious dinosaur excavated in the 1940s: Was it a young T. rex or another type of dinosaur? At first, researchers had only a tyrannosaur skull to ...

Richard Butler receives funding from the Leverhulme Trust, the European Commission and the British Institute for Libyan and Northern African Studies. In 2025, dinosaurs were everywhere. In May, the ...

For years, the "dueling dinosaurs" in a North Carolina museum were believed to be a Triceratops and Tyrannosaurus rex. However, an article published on October 30 in the journal Nature has a different ...