New T.Rex Cousin Suggests Dinosaurs Arose in S. America

Thursday, December 10, 2009 - 23:42 in Paleontology & Archaeology

The newfound, 215-million-year-old species suggests dinosaurs originated in what is now South America—and reveals the roots of the lineage that spawned T. rex and, eventually, birds.

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