A newly identified dinosaur, named Suskityrannus hazelae, has been described in a paper published in the journal Nature Ecology & Evolution.
About:
Genus: Suskityrannus is a genus of small tyrannosauroid family. It contains a single species, Suskityrannus hazelae.
Time of existence: The fossil discovered in New Mexico dates back 92 million years to the Cretaceous Period.
Features:
It is a tiny relative of the Tyrannosaurus rex. It stood roughly 3 feet tall at the hip and was about 9 feet in length, the entire animal only marginally longer than the just the skull of a fully grown Tyrannosaurus rex.
It is believed to have weighed between 45 and 90 pounds, compared to 90 tons for a typical full-grown T rex.
Its diet likely consisted of the same as T Rex, but likely hunted small animals.
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