Raptorex shows that T.rex body plan evolved at 100th the size

Not Exactly Rocket Science
By Ed Yong
Sep 17, 2009 11:00 PMNov 5, 2019 1:59 AM

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Meet Raptorex, the "king of thieves". It's a new species of dinosaur that looks, for all intents and purposes¸ like the mighty Tyrannosaurus rex, complete with large, powerful skull and tiny, comical forearms. But there's one very important difference - it's 100 times smaller. Unlike the ever-shrinking world of music players and phones, it seems that evolution crafted tyrannosaur technology with much smaller specifications before enlarging the design into the giant predators of the late Cretaceous.

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