Dinosaur skull remains found in campground belong to T. rex 'great-uncle,' Alberta study shows
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University of Alberta researchers identified a 76-million-year-old partial skull impression discovered in 2017 in Tumbler Ridge, B.C., as belonging to Gorgosaurus, a tyrannosaur species lighter and faster than T. rex, publishing findings in Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology last month.
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