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Researchers concluded that two 86 million-year-old skeletons they studied belonged to a species that is now the closest known ancestor of all tyrannosaurs - the group of predators that includes the iconic T.rex.

TIL that not all tyrannosauruses are "T.rex's". This evidence supports the Voth distant origin theory.