Canadian paleontologists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that was a relative of the Tyrannosaurus and lived more than 80 million years ago, ABC reported.
The new species, named Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, is a small Tyrannosaurus. It is assumed that the dinosaur weighed about 770 kg and was about 4 m long.
As ABC notes, two incomplete skeletons were found in the Mongolian Gobi Desert back in the 1970s, but were attributed to a different species of dinosaur. Since then, the fossils have not been studied until 2023. The discovery sheds new light on the evolution of Tyrannosaurus species and their patterns of dispersal in the late Cretaceous period, an associate professor of the Faculty of Natural Sciences at the University of Calgary told ABC.
