Mini Arctic T. Rex Relative Discovered. A miniature cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex once roamed the Arctic, a new fossil discovery reveals. / Source: LiveScience. By Stephanie Pappas, Senior Writer.

Nanuqsaurus hoglundi fossils discovered in Alaska show pygmy tyrannosaur braved changing seasons in ancient Arctic, say Dallas ... That’s small compared to T. rex’s skull, which was 5 ...

This may seem rather tall, but if you compare its size with a T. rex, an animal whose hips were 13 feet above the ground, N. hoglundi — nicknamed the “polar bear lizard” — does seem just a ...

That fur would have helped keep the T-Rex warm in the difficult climate, with scientists suggesting that N. hoglundi may well have been a little bushier than other dinosaurs.. However, the marked ...

Tiny T. Rex Relative Roamed a Warmer Arctic. ... In comparison, an adult T. rex boasted a skull about 60 inches (150 cm) long — that's a whopping 5 feet (1.5 meters).

Tyrannosaurs included some of the largest carnivores of all time, but a new Arctic tyrant was a pipsqueak compared to T. rex. Near the end of the Cretaceous, about 70 million years ago ...

The mini tyrannosaur, duck-billed swamp-stompers, armor-headed planteaters and other dinosaurs found in northern Alaska hint of a story that is theirs alone. That tale is separate from the one we ...

A miniature cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex once roamed the Arctic, a new fossil discovery reveals. The new tyrannosaur (Nanuqsaurus hoglundi) had a skull length of between 23 and 27 inches (60 to 70 ...

When the fossils of Nanuqsaurus hoglundi were discovered in the Arctic three decades ago, scientists thought they belonged to a whale, reports the AFP. But a second, more recent look from ...