A MINI DINOSAUR RESEARCHERS BELIEVE TO BE AN ANCESTOR OF THE TYRANNOSAURUS-REX IS FOUND HERE IN NEW MEXICO. UNM PhD CANDIDATE KAT SCHROEDER CALLS THE THREE-FOOT TALL DINOSAUR A “CUTE, FLUFFY LITTLE T-REX.”
STERLING NESBITT, A VIRGINIA TECH GEOSCIENCE PROFESSOR, TELLS KOB TV HE WAS ONLY 16 YEARS OLD WHEN HE FOUND THE FOSSIL REMAINS DURING A ZUNI BASIN DIG IN WESTERN NEW MEXICO. HE SAYS THE SMALL DINOSAUR REPRESENTS THE ANCESTRAL BODY TYPE OF THE T-REX BEFORE IT GREW LARGE.
BUT NESBITT SAYS THE SIZE OF THE MINI-DINOSAUR IS JUST ONE ASPECT OF IT THAT’S DIFFERENT FROM THE T-REX. HE SAYS THE ANIMAL’S ENTIRE BODY WAS ACTUALLY JUST SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN THE T-REX’S SKULL.
