However, the Uzbek tyrannosaur was still a Mini-Me, just about the size of a horse. In spring 2016, Sasha, Hans, and I gave the Uzbek tyrannosaur a formal scientific name, Timurlengia euotica. The name honors Timur, also known as Tamerlane, the infamous Central Asian warlord who ruled over Uzbekistan and many of the surrounding lands in the fourteenth century.
