An ancestor of T. Rex has been found in China, the fossils are ten feet long and the skull has a crest atop it.

The much smaller relative of the king of dinosaurs was discovered in a older time period of 160 million years ago. T. Rex was thought to have lived 90 million years ago. T. Rex was also a towering 40 feet tall versus his ten foot ancestor.

Guanlong wucaii is the new name of this mini T. Rex ancestor. The name means “crowned dragon of the five-colored rocks”. -- a reference both to the crest that runs from its nose to the back of its head and the colorful layers of sediment where two of the beasts, one atop the other, were discovered three years ago.

The fossils were actually discover not far from where scenes from “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” were filmed near the Gobi Desert.

James Clark, a paleontologist at George Washington University, and Xing Xu of China’s Institute of Paleontology and Paleoanthropology discovered the skeletons in a layer of rock in China’s oil-rich autonomous region of Xinjiang. They are the principal authors of a report on the find appearing today in the journal Nature.