PyPy, an alternative runtime for Python, uses a specially created JIT compiler to yield potentially massive speedups over CPython, the conventional Python runtime. But PyPy’s exemplary performance has ...

A group of researchers has estimated how long it took tyrannosaurus rex to reach its full size — and the time period is significantly longer than scientists previously believed. The dinosaur is ...

Py don’t believe it. A stunned woman woke up to find an 8-foot python on her chest after it slithered through the bedroom window of her home in Australia. Rachel Bloor thought her pet dog had curled ...

The study, published in PeerJ on Wednesday, analyzed bone samples from 17 Tyrannosaurus rex specimens using advanced microscopic and statistical techniques. Lead author Holly Woodward, a professor of ...

Rachel Bloor got the shock of her life after she reached out to stroke what she thought was her pet dog in Brisbane, Australia Getty Rachel Bloor from Brisbane, Australia was lying in bed when she ...

Tyrannosaurus rex lived longer and took more time to reach its maximum size than previously thought, according to a new study. Scientists have long counted annual growth rings in fossilized ...

For decades, scientists have been counting annual growth rings—similar to tree rings—inside fossilized leg bones of Tyrannosaurus rex to estimate how old the giant carnivores were when they died and ...

The largest-ever analysis of Tyrannosaurus rex fossils suggests the giant and fierce Cretaceous predator was a late bloomer, taking 35 to 40 years to reach maturity. Based on studies done two decades ...

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For decades, paleontologists argued over the lone skull used to establish the distinct species Nanotyrannus. Was it truly a separate species or simply a juvenile Tyrannosaurus rex? A new paper ...