We’re talking about the colossal predator Tarbosaurus. The Tarbosaurus, which means “alarming lizard,” was a massive theropod dinosaur that lived about 70 million years ago in what is now Asia.

The skeleton of a young Tarbosaurus. From the LiveScience article. This skeleton, head thrown back and tail arched up in the classic opisthotonic posture, is going to be important in the current ...

Tarbosaurus, the great tyrannosaur of Cretaceous Mongolia, hunted in packs. That is the exceptional claim made by University of Alberta paleontologist Philip Currie in a press release, and news ...

The assembled and articulated Tarbosaurus was expected to fetch nearly a million dollars at the May 20 auction. Paleontologists shook their heads in dismay: Such specimens typically come with very ...

The Tarbosaurus, a prehistoric giant that once roamed the lands of what is now Asia, is a testament to the diversity and magnificence of the dinosaur era. With its fearsome appearance and dominant ...

The closest relative to Tyrannosaurus rex, Tarbosaurus was just as big and bad as its North American counterpart, but until now, how this tyrant dinosaur grew up had mostly been inferred from what ...

The skull of a mounted Tarbosaurus (not the specimen seized by authorities). Photo by Jordi Payà, from Wikipedia. For the past six months, the fate of a million-dollar tyrannosaur has been in limbo.

What will become of the auctioned Tarbosaurus skeleton? Paleontologists have been wondering about the illicit dinosaur’s fate ever since it was sold for more than a million dollars late last month.

In 2006, at a fossil trade show in Denver, Prokopi bought for $18,000 the disarticulated skull of a dinosaur of the spectacular species Tarbosaurus bataar, a massive dinosaur related to ...