New York, Dec 11 (THAINDIAN NEWS) There has been new discovery about the origins of dinosaurs. There has been a new and exciting discovery of a primitive precursor to Tyrannosaurus Rex, which points that the dinosaurs originated from South America. Paleontologists reported this on Thursday.

The Science journal, unveiled Tawa hallae, which was done by a team led by Sterling Nesbitt of the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This fossil was found in a fossil bone bed near New Mexico’s Ghost Ranch. The naming of this creature was done by Nesbitt’s team, after a Pueblo sun god and the fossil collector Ruth Hall. It is a 6.5-foot-long meat-eating precursor to T. Rex.

“Tawa helps us reconstruct the origins of all the most primitive dinosaurs, suggesting they were likely located in South America,” Nesbitt says. The dinosaur, “probably ate anything he got his hands on,” he adds.

This new discovery creature Tawa lived a whooping 215 million years ago. The fossils that were found had two nearly complete skeletons of the primitive dinosaur and non-complete parts of six others dinosaurs. They possess the claws, skull and bones of the first dinosaurs from about 230 million years ago found in South America.

“We’ve got to rewrite some chapters in textbooks, and I have to rewrite my next lecture,” says paleontologist Thomas Holtz Jr. of the University of Maryland in College Park. Holtz and some paleontologists had argued that some theropods originated in North America, but Tawa displays clear links to earlier South American ones and to later ones found in Europe, jammed against North America at that time, he now says. “All carnivorous dinosaurs are relatives, this suggests,” he adds.