Scientists have identified a new dinosaur from fossils in China that they say is a cousin to Tyrannosaurus rex.
It was identified from skull, jaw bone and tooth fragments in a “dinosaur quarry” in Shandong and is thought to have been 4m (13ft) tall, 11m long and weighed about 6 tonnes.
David Hone, of University College Dublin, who led the research said: “It’s the first super-gigantic T. rex relative discovered in quite a long time. It would be top of the food chain.”
It lived about 99 million years ago in North America and East Asia. The dinosaur has been