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Oldest T. Rex Relative Unveiled

Dr Occult writes "A group of researchers have found the forefather of T. Rex in Xinjiang province in northwestern China. It lived around 160 million years ago. This makes it more than twice as old as T. Rex, and the most primitive known member of the family. The researchers were surprised to learn the 3m long dinosaur sported a spectacular feathered crest on its head which may have been brightly coloured."

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  1. Ha ha ha America by MillionthMonkey · · Score: 5, Funny

    Ha ha ha America
    China have
    T Rex father
    160 million year old dinosaur
    in Xinjiang province
    American hillbilly have
    intelligent design
    So commence cry
    as you not keep up
    What no dinosaur?
    Too bad so sad
    Already you behind
    We sell you dinosaur
    make you good deal hillbilly!

    1. Re:Ha ha ha America by Afecks · · Score: 3, Funny

      America have
      bill of rights
      democratic elections
      ethnic diversity
      root name servers
      Google, Microsoft, Cisco, Apple....

  2. Dinosaur? Great Wall? by ben_1432 · · Score: 3, Funny

    This sounds very familiar. Was there a giant gorilla too?

  3. Re:Brightly coloured? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    Can't you tell? Those paleontologists invoked Intelligent Design.

    It's obvious that a half dinosaur half bird must be designed. And since it was designed, we can conclude from the brightly coloured feathers and crest that the designer might have been homosexual, but definitely camp. And because the designer is probably gay, the feathers and crest must have been brightly coloured.

    Do not think that just because you evilutionists have found another transitional fossil, the intelligent designer did not design the show "Queer Eye for the Straight Guy". You evilutionists cannot explain how that show evolved, can you?

  4. Head crest? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    "The researchers were surprised to learn the 3m long dinosaur sported a spectacular feathered crest on its head which may have been brightly coloured."

    Hell I was surprised too! Being that old I would have guessed a beard!