Newly Discovered Theropod Was a Terror to Primitive Tyrannosaurs

Meet Ulughbegsaurus, the predator that ruled over the ancestors of the famous T.rex…

Ulughbegsaurus uzbekistanensis, the new carcharodontosaur from Uzbekistan / Photo posted on Twitter by TheDarknix1998

Despite their fearsome reputation, tyrannosaurs were not always the largest or fiercest dinosaurs of the Mesozoic Era. For tens of millions of years, the earlier relatives of Tyrannosaurus rex lived in the shadow of…