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Dinosaurs Dinosaurs Timurlengia

Timurlengia

tim-oor-LENG-ee-ah, (after Timur Lenk, a 14th-century conqueror from the region where the fossil was found)

The inside of the Timurlengia skull fossil suggests that this dinosaur had keen hearing. Scientists think this shows that good hunting senses developed in tyrannosaurs before their large size did.

Where:

Uzbekistan

How Long:

12 feet

What It Ate:

Other small dinosaurs

When:

90 million years ago

By: Dougal Dixon

Art by: Robert Squier

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