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Here's exactly how T. rex grew from a slender tot into a massive carnivore
https://www.livescience.com/tyrannosaurus-rex-size-age.html

CNET: "Fossils of the oldest meat-eating dinosaur were just discovered in Brazil"
https://www.cnet.com/news/oldest-meat-eating-dino-discovered-in-brazil/

Scientific American: "Stunning Skeleton Reveals Early Carnivorous Dinosaur"
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/stunning-skeleton-reveals-early-carnivorous-dinosaur/

Fox News: "World's oldest carnivorous dinosaur found"
https://www.foxnews.com/science/worlds-oldest-carnivorous-dinosaur-found

TLE: "World’s oldest meat-eating dinosaur has been unearthed"
https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/science/worlds-oldest-meat-eating-dinosaur-has-been-unearthed/11/11/

Small Wyoming dinosaur helps rewrite the evolutionary story of birds, flight
https://news.wisc.edu/small-wyoming-dinosaur-helps-rewrite-the-evolutionary-story-of-birds-flight/

Meet Lori, a tiny dinosaur that may help explain how birds evolved flight
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2019/07/new-dinosaur-species-velociraptor-cousin-lori-may-upend-flight-evolution-theories/

Listed as one of the top 5 Dinosaur Highlights of 2015
http://newviewsonoldbones.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/dino-highlights-of-2015.html

Listed as one of the Top 100 Science Articles of 2015 by Altmetric
http://www.altmetric.com/top100/2015/#numbers

New York Times: A Prehistoric Giant Is Revived, if Only in Name
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/08/science/earth/the-brontosaurus-a-prehistoric-giant-is-revived-if-only-in-name.html