🦖 New T. Rex Details Imminent

Andrew Rossi at Cowboy State Daily has some exiting news for anyone interested in dinosaurs: "Rex Junior" is a partial but perfectly preserved Tyrannosaurus skeleton found on the Zerbst Ranch in eastern Wyoming. A paleontologist said that the "extraordinary specimen" could rewrite 100 years of knowledge about how the T. rex looked. [...] Many details on Rex Junior are still secret, pending publication, but Sereno said this specimen from the newly discovered "mummy zone" will redefine what we know about T. rex, inside and out. “All I’ll say is we don't see scales,” he said. The discoveries aren't just skin deep, though: The first big revelation was the articulated right arm. Every bone was there, from the long, thin scapula to the very tips of the claws, perfectly articulated as they would have been when Rex Junior was alive. “It was the only complete T. rex hand and forearm ever found,” Sereno said. “Every single bone, in place outside of the ribcage. I was totally shocked.” And…