tyrannosaurus rex

     

Tyrannosaurus (pronounce /tɨˌrænəˈsɔːrəs/ or /taɪˌrænoʊˈsɔːrəs/, meaning 'tyrant lizard') is a genus of theropod dinosaur. The famous species Tyrannosaurus rex ('rex' meaning 'king' in Latin), commonly abbreviated to T. rex, is a fixture in popular culture around the world. It lived throughout what is now western North America, with a much wider range than other tyrannosaurids. Fossils of T. rex are found in a variety of rock formations dating to the last three million years of the Cretaceous Period, approximately 68 to 65 million years ago; it was among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist prior to the Cretaceous–Tertiary extinction event.

Trivia about tyrannosaurus rex

  • In 1997 Chicago's Field Museum paid over $8 mil. for the largest & most complete skeleton of this dinosaur
  • You wouldn't want to meet this scary, royal, supposedly green creature in a dark alley
  • This dinosaur's skeleton was discovered in Montana
  • This dinosaur "king" could run as fast as 25 MPH & recent evidence suggests it was warm-blooded
  • (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from the L.A. County Museum of Natural History) I'm standing between two dueling dinosaurs: a triceratops & this carnivore
  • Nicknamed Sue, the largest of these, the "King of the Dinosaurs", was uncovered in South Dakota in 1990
  • This "king" of the dinosaurs had a muscular jaw that, it's thought, could rip off 500 pounds of meat at once
  • The "rex" in this dinosaur's name is Latin for "king", so you could say it's the "King of the Dinosaurs"
  • (Sofia of the Clue Crew reads from the Chicago Field Museum.) My friend Sue here is the largest, most complete & best preserved one of these dinosaurs ever discovered
  • In 1997 the journal Nature reported this giant meat-eating dinosaur may have been a gout sufferer
  • At the Las Vegas Natural History Museum, a 35'-long replica of one of these "tyrant lizards" actually moves & roars
  • The world learned of a dinosaur larger than this one usually thought the biggest carnivore
  • Cretaceous "king" of carnivores
  • This "king" of the carnosaurus wasn't from the Jurassic period, but the late Cretaceous
  • The nasty claws seen here belong to this type of dinosaur unveiled at Chicago's Field Museum in 2000

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