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 officially named Zhuchengtyrannus magnus after Zhucheng, the city where it was found.