{"id":37970,"date":"2019-02-20T15:43:13","date_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/?post_type=news&#038;p=37970"},"modified":"2019-02-20T15:43:13","modified_gmt":"2019-02-20T20:43:13","slug":"museum-paleontologist-to-unveil-new-tyrannosaur-species","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/news\/museum-paleontologist-to-unveil-new-tyrannosaur-species\/","title":{"rendered":"Museum Paleontologist to Unveil New Tyrannosaur Species"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-37971\" src=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lindsay_Utah_2014_ed_800x600.jpg\" alt=\"Lindsay Zanno on a dig in Utah, 2014.\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lindsay_Utah_2014_ed_800x600.jpg 800w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lindsay_Utah_2014_ed_800x600-500x375.jpg 500w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lindsay_Utah_2014_ed_800x600-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/Lindsay_Utah_2014_ed_800x600-768x576.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Lindsay Zanno, head of paleontology at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences and paleontologist at North Carolina State University, will announce the discovery of a new, diminutive \u2013 by <em>T. rex<\/em> standards \u2013 relative of the tyrant king of dinosaurs. The discovery reveals crucial new information about when and how <em>T.\u00a0rex<\/em> came to rule the North American roost.<\/p>\n<p><strong>You are invited to attend the event, which will be held Thursday, February 21 at 2 p.m.<\/strong><strong> at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences\u2019 SECU Daily Planet Theater. The theater is located in the Nature Research Center wing, 121 West Jones Street, downtown Raleigh. <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t make it in person? <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/SqWi-yJg80E\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Watch it on YouTube Live<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p>The new species of tyrannosaur lived in what is now Utah during the Cretaceous Period. Zanno and her team recovered teeth and a hind limb from the new species in the same area that yielded the giant meat-eating carcharodontosaur <em>Siats meekerorum <\/em>in 2013. The fossil is the oldest Cretaceous tyrannosaur species yet discovered in North America, narrowing a 70-million-year gap in the fossil record of tyrant dinosaurs on the continent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37971,"menu_order":0,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37970"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/37970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37971"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/naturalsciences.org\/calendar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}