What is Yutyrannus?
{{italictitle}} {{speciesbox |fossil_range = [[Early Cretaceous]], {{Fossil range|124.6}} |image = Laika ac Dino Kingdom 2012 (7882288828).jpg |image_caption = Restored skeletons mounted in fighting poses |display_parents = 2 |parent_authority = Xu ''et al.'', 2012 |authority = [[Xu Xing (paleontologist)|Xu]] ''et al.'', 2012 |Genus = Yutyrannus |species = huali }} '''''Yutyrannus''''' is a [[Tyrannosauroid]] [[dinosaur]], an early [[forebear]] of ''[[Tyrannosaurus rex]]''. It lived during the [[Lower Cretaceous]] 124.6 million years ago (mya). It was about 10 meters long and 3 meters tall, and is the largest known dinosaur with direct evidence of [[feathers]].<ref>{{cite news|author=Wilford, John N |title=Bus-size dinosaurs, as fuzzy as chicks |newspaper=The New York Times |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/science/dinosaur-dig-in-china-turns-up-largest-known-feathered-animal.html |date=4 April 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_62wDqYgXhE|title=New flying T-Rex discovered!?|publisher=YouTube|work=SourceFed|date=April 5, 2012|accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112508306/new-dinosaur-species-is-largest-known-feathered-animal/|title=New dinosaur species is largest known feathered animal|work=Red Orbit|date=April 5, 2012|accessdate=December 28, 2012|archive-date=March 27, 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150327110600/http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112508306/new-dinosaur-species-is-largest-known-feathered-animal/|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|author=Ker Than|url=http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04/120404-yutyrannus-feathers-dinosaur-science-nature-biggest/|title=One-ton feathered dinosaur found: fluffy and fierce|magazine=National Geographic|date=April 2012|accessdate=December 28, 2012}}</ref> It is forty times heavier than the previous record holder, ''[[Beipiaosaurus]]''.<ref name=yutyrannus>{{cite journal | last1 = Xu X. et al. 2012. A gigantic feathered dinosaur from the