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tyrannosaur

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Tyrannosaur (noun) means a large meat-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived in North America millions of years ago.

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A large meat-eating dinosaur that walked on two legs and lived in North America millions of years ago.

"Instead it belongs to a new species of tyrannosaur, which the researchers have dubbed Tyrannosaurus mcraeensis in a paper published on January 11 in Scientific Reports." — Meghan Bartels, Enigmatic Dinosaur Skull Sparks Debate over Tyrannosaur Evolution (2024)

"So far, Druckenmiller and his team have dug up species from seven different dino families: from big duck-billed dinos, ceretopsians, and tyrannosaurs to smaller thescelosaurs, leptoceratops, dromaeosaurs, and troodontids." — Karen Hopkin, Dinosaurs Lived—and Made Little Dinos—in the Arctic (2021)

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