The Little Prince o' dragon #Khankhuuluu

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis The newly identified theropod from last night has a short torso and long legs, which are its most obvious features, similar to a jerboa.

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis

Khankhuuluu mongoliensis This version of body restoration is the author's personal opinion and does not represent complete accuracy.

You know I had to do it. This long-legged beauty is Khankhuuluu mongoliensis, a small (ish) Tyrannosauroid from Late Cretaceous Asia The description of Khankhuuluu was published just a couple of days ago. The taxon has a mixed suit of basal and derived tyrannosauroid characters

PhD completed!

Was the key to bird flight 'all in the wrist'? New research, published today in Nature, shows that important adaptations for flight in the wrists of modern birds were present in bird-like theropod dinosaurs . 🧵 Illustration by Hank Sharpe