For decades, a small tyrannosaur skull has divided paleontologists over whether it belonged to a separate species or a ...

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a ...

For more than sixty years, one battered skull has stirred a fight that would not fade. The fossil, stored in Ohio, carried a ...

Scientists have confirmed that Nanotyrannus was a mature species, not a young T. rex. A microscopic look at its hyoid bone ...

New research has overturned decades of uncertainty by showing that Nanotyrannus was a fully grown predator, not a juvenile T. rex.

Was Nanotyrannus a bona fide species or just a teenage Tyrannosaurus rex with a lot more growing to do? Scientists have settled that debate.

In the latest episode of a long-standing debate over the identity of a set of dinosaur fossils, a controversial new study has found that the dino bones belong not to a young Tyrannosaurus rex but to a ...

This week's cover of the international scientific journal 'Nature' features two small dinosaurs facing a giant Tyrannosaurus ...

Dinosaurs haven’t roamed the Earth for millions of years, but the nature of their reign has sparked no shortage of controversial debates among paleontologists that remain unresolved today. Late last ...

For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a ...

An old dinosaur debate gained new traction after a new study’s findings suggesting that miniature versions of the famed Tyrannosaurus rex may actually be a distinct species. Researchers from the ...

Microscopic analysis of an unconventional throat bone helps resolve a long-standing debate in paleontology, researchers report, revealing evidence ...