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T. rex teeth show the enormous predatory dinosaur was warm-blooded

The world’s most famous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex , was probably warm-blooded like birds and mammals, new evidence, obtained from 66-million-year-old tooth enamel, suggests, adding weight to previous findings.

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The world’s most famous dinosaur, Tyrannosaurus rex , was probably warm-blooded like birds and mammals, new evidence, obtained from 66-million-year-old tooth enamel, suggests, adding weight to previous findings. Scott Persons at South Carolina State Museum, who wasn’t involved in the new study, says the research means “the opening to the last Jurassic World flick was one big pile of Hollywood bunk”.

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