The North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh and NC State University have announced a new study which provides “definitive proof” of a new tyrannosaur species which coexisted with the famous Tyrannosaurus rex. The new species, described as a “speedy and agile creature,” has been dubbed Nanotyrannus. Governor Josh Stein hailed the findings as “the biggest dinosaur discovery of the decade” in a statement Thursday. “North Carolina’s public universities and public museums are continuously on the forefront of scientific research and advancement,” he said. Lindsay Zanno, head of paleontology at the Museum of Natural Sciences and an associate research professor at NC State, co-authored the Nanotyrannus study with James Napoli, an anatomist at Stony Brook University in New York. The study was published Thursday in the scientific journal Nature. The findings come after paleontologists at the Museum of Natural Sciences’ SECU DinoLab studied two specimens known as the “Dueling Din...