A reexamination of fossils found in Mongolia has revealed a previously unknown “missing link” species that led to dinosaurs ...

New Species of Dinosaurs 'Khankhuuluu Mongoliensis' Sheds Light on Tyrannosaurus Family Tree Dinosaurs have always been ...

Scientists have discovered a new species of tyrannosauroid—the group of dinosaurs that includes Tyrannosaurus rex. The ...

Altogether, the pieces reveal a slender tyrannosaur that roamed Cretaceous Mongolia about 86 million years ago and was about ...

The world of dinosaurs has always been an almost inexhaustible source of study. The discovery of new fossils has been fundamental to learn more about these animals and to allow fic ...

Apex predators, like the Tyrannosaurus rex, eventually arose from smaller-bodied tyrannosauroid dinosaurs called Khankhuuluu ...

Scientists announced the discovery of a new species of early tyrannosaur in a museum vault in Mongolia, an ancestor to notorious apex predators like T. rex.

Uncover the fascinating Tyrannosaur story with the discovery of Khankhuuluu, a key link in dinosaur evolution.

Discovery leads to revised tyrannosaur family tree, shedding light on T. rex's ancestry.

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis lived roughly 86 million years ago and was an immediate precursor to the dinosaur lineage called tyrannosaurs ...

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, or a closely related ancestor species, likely migrated from Asia to North America across a land bridge between Alaska and Siberia that connected the continents 85 ...

Perhaps Khankhuuluu's most notable features are a pair of tiny horns just over the eye sockets. Those horns would later evolve to be much more prominent in species like Albertosaurus and Gorgosaurus.