Pinnochio Rex

Remember when dinosaurs were monsters? Just big, dumb, scaly, devilbeasts that brutally killed and died in the distant past. That’s why you liked them when you were  a kid. That’s why Jurassic Park made so much money. But as always, science comes along with facts and blows away our misconceptions, even the kewl ones. Now we know that lots of dinosaurs probably had feathers.  And that they were more complex than slavering beasts. And that one of them, recently discovered in China, had a great big dumb-looking nose. According to the BBC: The 66-million-year-old predator, officially named Qianzhousaurus sinensis, is described in Nature Communications. “Pinocchio” looked very different to other tyrannosaurs. “It had the familiar toothy grin of T. rex, but its snout was long and slender, with a row of horns on top,” said Edinburgh’s Dr Steve Brusatte. “It might have looked a little comical, but it would have been as deadly as any other tyrannosaur, and maybe even a little faster and stealthier. “We thought it needed a nickname, and the