246: PNSO Tyrannosaurus Rex (Cameron 2023) Part 2 Plus Facial Reconstruction

As expected, there’s just too much to say when it comes to a flagship dinosaur like Tyrannosaurus Rex, and one from PNSO to boot! In part 1 we looked at the model itself. In part 2, we get to the comparisons and there’s going to be a lot of it! But equally interestingly, we’ll look at the ideas behind the facial reconstructions seen in the by now famous Cullen et al 2023 paper! 𝙍𝙀𝙁𝙀𝙍𝙀𝙉𝘾𝙀𝙎: Bell PR, Campione NE, Persons WS IV, Currie PJ, Larson PL, Tanke DH, Bakker RT. Tyrannosauroid integument reveals conflicting patterns of gigantism and feather evolution. Biol Lett. 2017;13:20170092. Carr TD. Craniofacial ontogeny in Tyrannosauridae (Dinosauria, Coelurosauria). J Vertebr Paleontol. 1999;19:497-520. doi: Carpenter K. A closer look at the hypothesis of scavenging versus predation by Tyrannosaurus rex. In: Parrish JM, Molnar RE, Currie PJ, Koppelh