palaeontology – Eye on the Arctic

Tony Fiorillo is shown in this undated handout photo on an Alaska's North Slope. Scientists have discovered a new species of dinosaur that roamed the Arctic 70 million years ago. Nanuqsaurus hoglundi is a tiny cousin of the Tyrannosaurus rex that lived in northern Alaska, close to the Yukon border on the Beaufort Sea. (Perot Museum of Nature and Science / The Canadian Press)

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Scientists discover pygmy tyrannosaur that once roamed Arctic Alaska

Yereth Rosen, Alaska Dispatch News
Posted: Thursday, March 13, 2014 at 14:09
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A previously unknown meat-eating dinosaur — a petite tyrannosaur related to the much-larger Tyrannosaurus rex — roamed Alaska’s North Slope