T. rex “lived fast, died young” according to reports in news@nature 11 August 2004 and Nature, vol. 430, p772, 12 August 2004. As animals grow their bones become thicker by adding extra layers of bone mineral. In present day reptiles such as alligators and lizards it is possible to count growth rings in the bones […]
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No Feathers on T rex
No feathers on T. Rex, according to reports in Science (AAAS) News and National Geographic 6 June 2017, BBC News 7 June 2017, and Royal Society Biology Letters doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2017.0092, published online 7 June 2017. Over the last two decades there have been many claims of evolved “protofeathers” being found on dinosaur fossils, including a […]