Turns out I was very, very wrong about Nanotyrannus not being real. But it being shown valid does not excuse years of shoddy science before this pape
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Tyrannosaurus: Why There Is Only One… For Now.
Earlier this year, a little paper came out in March 2022 that kind of threw the vertebrate paleontology community (specifically the theropod dinosaur community) into a bit of a tizzy: “The Tyrant Lizard King, Queen and Emperor: Multiple Lines of Morphological and Stratigraphic Evidence Support Subtle Evolution and Probable Speciation Within the North American Genus Tyrannosaurus” …
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Nanotyrannus: The Fossil That Was… and Then Wasn’t . (Or How Scientists Tell a Story and Reach a Consensus).
Why all the fuss about Nanotyrannus? How does our changing understanding of this enigmatic dinosaur reflect the process of science?
A Dinosaur in the Dugout 