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T. Rex's Cousin Unearthed

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• July 23: Researcher Mahito Watabe of the Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, western Japan, displays the fossilized skull, and left hind leg of a skeleton of 70-million-year-old young Tarbosaurus that was uncovered in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in August 2006. Behind those is a reproduction of the chunk of sandstone with the complete skeleton of the Tarbosaurus -- related to Tyrannosaurus rex -- that shows how it looked when it was uncovered by scientists from Japan's HMNS, including Watabe, and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
• In this artist's conception released by Hayashibara Museum of Natural Sciences in Okayama, western Japan, a full-grown Tarbosaurus is shown. A spokesman for the Japanese museum said a fossilized complete skeleton of the 70-million-year-old young dinosaur, believed to have died at age five and measured about 6.6 feet (2 meters) long, was uncovered in August, 2006 by scientists in joint research projects by Japan's HMNS and the Mongolian Academy of Sciences.
• The fossilized skull of the Tarbosaurus, which died at about 5 years of age 70 million years ago.
• Aug. 8, 2006: Japanese and Mongolian scientists uncover the Tarbosaurus skeleton in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia.
• The complete skeleton of the young Tarbosaurus.

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