{"id":83511,"date":"2018-10-10T17:04:59","date_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:04:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scary-dynamoterror-dinosaur-discovered"},"modified":"2018-10-10T17:04:59","modified_gmt":"2018-10-11T00:04:59","slug":"scary-dynamoterror-dinosaur-discovered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/10\/scary-dynamoterror-dinosaur-discovered","title":{"rendered":"Scary \u2018Dynamoterror\u2019 dinosaur discovered"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scary-dynamoterror-dinosaur-discovered.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Tyrannosaurus rex may be among the most well-known and terrifying <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/category\/science\/archaeology\/dinosaurs\" target=\"_blank\">dinosaurs<\/a> to walk the Earth, but a newly discovered relative may have been even scarier.<\/p>\n<p><em>Dynamoterror <\/em><em>dynastes<\/em>, a variant of T. rex, was discovered in New Mexico in 2012 by a team of researchers, led by Western Science Center paleontologist Andrew McDonald. It has a slightly different bone structure compared to its successor cousin.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite fragmentation of much of the axial and appendicular skeleton prior to discovery, the frontals, a metacarpal, and two pedal phalanges are well-preserved,\u201d the study\u2019s abstract <a href=\"https:\/\/peerj.com\/articles\/5749\/\" target=\"_blank\">reads<\/a>. \u201cThe frontals exhibit an unambiguous autapomorphy and a second potential autapomorphy that distinguish this specimen from all other tyrannosaurids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/scary-dynamoterror-dinosaur-discovered.amp#referrer=https:\/\/www.google.com\">https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/science\/scary-dynamoterror-dinosaur-...google.com<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Tyrannosaurus rex may be among the most well-known and terrifying dinosaurs to walk the Earth, but a newly discovered relative may have been even scarier. Dynamoterror dynastes, a variant of T. rex, was discovered in New Mexico in 2012 by a team of researchers, led by Western Science Center paleontologist Andrew McDonald. It has [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}