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Nature 439, 665-666 (9 February 2006) | doi:10.1038/439665a; Published online 8 February 2006

Palaeontology: A Jurassic tyrant is crowned

Thomas R. Holtz Jr1

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A newly discovered species of dinosaur, characterized by a wonderfully elaborate head crest, is the oldest known member of the lineage that culminated in Tyrannosaurus rex more than 90 million years later.

Dinosaur research — and indeed a whole swathe of palaeontology — has been revolutionized by recent discoveries in China. Most famous are the feathered dinosaurs, early flowering plants, various mammals and other spectacular fossils from the 128- to 110-million-year-old lake deposits in Liaoning Province in the northeast1.

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