A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China

Nature64.80
Volume: 484, Issue: 7392, Pages: 92 - 95
Published: Apr 4, 2012
Abstract
The discovery of a new species of Tyrannosaurus relative from the Early Cretaceous of China, some 125 million years old—the largest feathered creature known, living or extinct—has implications for early feather evolution. Tyrannosaurus rex and its gigantic cousins lived at the close of the Cretaceous period, around 70 million years ago. Earlier relatives were thought to have been much smaller than T. rex, but recent finds from the early...
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A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the Lower Cretaceous of China
Published Date
Apr 4, 2012
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Volume
484
Issue
7392
Pages
92 - 95
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