Pinocchio rex'

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New Tyrannosaur named 'Pinocchio rex'

By James Morgan
Science reporter, BBC News


A new type of Tyrannosaur with a very long nose has been nicknamed "Pinocchio rex".

The ferocious carnivore, nine metres long with a distinctive horny snout, was a cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex.

Its skeleton was dug up in a Chinese construction site and identified by scientists at Edinburgh University, UK.

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[pickinduck]

Why don't a lot of these countries have their own scientists for such things?

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Well, let see. China does have her own archaeologists.

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[sherlew99]

I'm not quite sure how Chinese archaeologists are faring in the world of archaeology, but they're making some neat discoveries.

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