Nature Podcast · Springer Nature Limited
Meet the ‘Wee-rex’. Tiny tyrannosaur is its own species
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Paleontologists debate if a 5.5-meter dinosaur is a young T-Rex or its own species, with new evidence ending a 65-million-year argument.
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A solid science hour that balances a tyrannosaur debate, a breast cancer prevention trial, and a short animal-inspired device note.
The episode follows a long-running tyrannosaur dispute, asking whether Nanotyrannus was a juvenile T. rex or a separate species. It is at its strongest when it leans on the new limb-bone analysis, the size comparison, and Lawrence Whitmer's commentary, which keep the fossil…
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You want a dinosaur mystery that ends in real science, not spectacle.
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