Photos: Brainy, Horse-Size Tyrannosaur Discovered in Uzbekistan

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By Laura Geggel
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Camels, not dinosaurs

Uzbek tyrannosaur, tyrannosaur relative

(Image credit: Hans-Dieter Sues)

Camels walk the desert of Uzbekistan, a land that the newly identified species of tyrannosaur walked about 90 million years ago.

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Laura Geggel
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Laura is the archaeology and Life's Little Mysteries editor at Live Science. She also reports on general science, including paleontology. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Scholastic, Popular Science and Spectrum, a site on autism research. She has won multiple awards from the Society of Professional Journalists and the Washington Newspaper Publishers Association for her reporting at a weekly newspaper near Seattle. Laura holds a bachelor's degree in English literature and psychology from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in science writing from NYU.