New, Much Smaller Cousin To T-Rex Unveiled

Having only one claw on each forelimb and standing about the size of a parrot, a tiny distant cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex was discovered in China and named Linhenykus monodactylus, after the city of Linhe in Inner Mongolia where the fossilized remains were found.

The remains of the dinosaur representing a sub-branch of the theropods, which include a partial skeleton, bones of the vertebrae, forelimb, hind limbs, and a partial pelvis, were removed from sediments between 84 and 75 million years old in what archaeologists have dubbed: The Upper Cretaceous Wulansuhai Formation.
Besides T-Rex, therapods also include the Velociraptor, from which scientists believe the bird kingdom, as we know it today evolved. Details surrounding the process were published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

This small cousin of the terrifying T-Rex did have unusual claws but its presence would hardly have raised a hair of fright on any creature crossing its path.

Weird Asia