Nanotyrannus
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Sep 18, 2026
Jingmai O'ConnorGUEST
So it's too girthy and has an unusual shape to, to be a crocodilian, and the only other large enough carnivores are theropod dinosaurs.
Jingmai O'ConnorGUEST
So there's four contenders, but I think the most likely is a Tyrannosaurus rex or a Nanotyrannus.
Jingmai O'ConnorGUEST
So not a full-grown T. rex, like a, an immature, smaller individual.
Bob McDonaldHOST
How rare is it to find feathers from the age of the dinosaurs like this?
Dinosaur GeorgeHOST
But with Electrosaurus, they didn't seem to outgrow that, so they are probably Tyrannosaurs that are running a lot.
Dinosaur GeorgeHOST
I suspect that Nanotyrannus did the same kind of thing.
Dinosaur GeorgeHOST
I suspect Nanotyrannus was probably a pretty fast Tyrannosaur, and it lived a totally different life than Tyrannosaurus rex.
Dinosaur GeorgeHOST
Uh, you don't have to all look and be the same if you're in the same family, right? I mean, look at lions and look at leopards.
Dinosaur GeorgeHOST
They're related, but they live totally different kind of lifestyles.
Jingmai O'ConnorGUEST
So okay, it's the best-preserved feather ever, but we have to understand where that feather came from.
Jingmai O'ConnorGUEST
What bird does it belong to? And lucky for us, there were a couple pieces of bone also in this coprolite, and we were able to hypothesize that these feathers belong to a group of birds called Hesperornithiformes, which were actually first described in 1872.
Roland PeaseCORRESPONDENT
Okay, so what I'm hearing is, first of all, if you found the bones and the feather in some dinosaur poo, this means th- this was presumably some poor individual got eaten by a dinosaur and then came out the other end.
Roland PeaseCORRESPONDENT
[laughs]
Jingmai O'ConnorGUEST
Yes, absolutely.