Baby T. rex bones found stashed in museum drawer: ‘Vanishingly rare’

The purse was made with collagen from lab-grown Tyrannosaurus rex fossils. Alessandro Grandini - stock.adobe.com It’s a tyke-rannosaur. The T-rex might have grown into the biggest, most terrifying creature to ever roam the planet, but it started life no bigger than a house cat. British researchers claim they’ve identified the first-known fossils of baby tyrannosaurs, offering a rare glimpse at the earliest days of the giant reptile’s life, according to a groundbreaking new study in the journal Biology. “Going through museum collections, my colleagues and I have discovered the first remains of hatchling tyrannosaurs,” declared Nick Longrich, a paleontologist and evolutionary biologist at the University of Bath in the UK. The bones of the baby T-rex were found when scientists were searching