Babatirannosauruses were absolutely adorable, the study finds – BGR

• Tyrannosaurs are the most iconic of all dinosaurs, but how they were as babies was the subject of debate and mystery.
• New research on rare tyrannosaurus embryos offers researchers the first good look at what the massive carnivores looked like fresh from their eggs.
• When the dinosaurs hatched, they were about the size of a medium-sized dog.

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If you jump into a time machine and travel millions of years backwards, you could stand face to face with an adult tyrannosaurus. Well, it’s probably going to be more like face to knee, because the dinosaurs can be very large, but I’m quitting. The most important thing here is that you will be scared and whether you will be eaten or run away.

However, if you came across a juvenile tyrannosaurus, you are more likely to caress it on your head rather than run your life, as new research shows that baby tyrannosaurs were about the size of a medium-sized dog. The finding comes thanks to the discovery of fossilized tyrannosaurus embryos that give scientists a glimpse of how large the creatures were when they first crawled out of their shells.

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As CNN reports, the study, which was published in the Canadian Journal of Earth Sciences, is largely based on a jawbone of a tyrannosaurus embryo. Because so many tyrannosaurus fossils have been discovered over the years, it often takes researchers only one leg to determine the overall size of the animal. In this case, the baby dinosaur was about three feet long.

It’s a small version of a creature that can grow taller than 30 feet as an adult, but three feet is still large when it comes to baby animals. These dinosaurs come from eggs, and the researchers estimate that the egg that the dinosaur used for this study would have been alone about 17 inches long. This is a great omelet.

Of course, a baby predator is still a predator, so while a small tyrannosaurus may have been adorable, it could still cause harm. The creatures were born with all the tools they needed to secure their own food, with a mouth full of teeth that would yield a painful or even deadly bite to small prey. However, as the debate over whether tyrannosaurs are primarily hunters or scavengers is raging, it is worth considering

Discovering the size of a baby tyrannosaurus is really just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to understanding how the creatures were like juveniles. Scientists have learned a lot about the parenting habits (and sometimes the lack thereof) of many different dinosaurs, but there is particular interest in how tyrannosaurs raised their young. In the coming years, perhaps more of these questions will be answered.