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Tyrannosaur age-population distributions
Greg Erickson and Phil Currie have a nice paper in this week's Science on
population distributions among the big tyrannosaurs. Once they reached about
two meters (at age 2), they tended to survive until they reached sexual
maturity. Then life got tougher.
I've got a report at
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn9547-the-living-was-easy-for-young-tyrannosaurs-.html
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