An early tyrannosaur relative was smallSourced
One of the oldest known tyrannosauroids was roughly three metres long.
Proceratosaurus lived in what is now England during the Middle Jurassic. Known mainly from a skull, it is placed among the oldest relatives of the tyrannosaur line. Its estimated length of about three metres is far from the image of a giant T. rex.
A famous giant's lineage had smaller members.
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