Republican Rep. Will Stapp introduced a bill Tuesday asking the Legislature to designate the Nanuqsaurus as Alaska’s state dinosaur. Its bones and teeth were discovered more than 30 years ago ...

The remains of a carnivorous, tyrannosaurid dinosaur were found in Alaska — named Nanuqsaurus, or “polar bear lizard”, after the cold, snowy upper latitudes of its natural habitat.

When a new dinosaur species was discovered in the North ... Its scientific name translates as the “polar bear lizard.” If Nanuqsaurus hoglundi, the tyrannosaur that roamed the ancient Arctic ...