A tiny, earlier cousin of Tyrannosaurus rex sported at least a partial coat of hair-like feathers, scientists
reported today. "It's the kind of thing we expected, but we thought we might never find a fossil that would
justifiably show it," said Mark Norell, who co-authored a paper that describes the new species. The study
appears tomorrow in the science journal Nature. This dinosaur chased prey and roamed the lakeside forests
of Boulder County in Colorado some 130 million years ago Researchers said the latest un- earthing has been
nothing short of a miracle. Dubbed Asasaurus rex, the remarkable specimen can be seen photographed
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