Tyrannosaurus

• Tyrannosaurus is not only one of the most famous of the dinosaurs, but also one about which a great deal is known. Several discoveries have revealed fossilized bones, teeth, whole skeletons, and other remains.

• Tyrannosaurus lived at the very end of the Age of Dinosaurs, about 68-65 mya. ~

• The full name of Tyrannosaurus is Tyrannosaurus rex, which means "king of the tyrant reptiles."

• The head of Tyrannosaurus was 3.9ft (1.2m) long and had more than 50 teeth, some longer than 6in (15cm).

• Tyrannosaurus fossils have been found at many sites in North America, including Alberta and Saskatchewan in Canada, and Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, and New Mexico in the U.S.A.

• The arms and hands of Tyrannosaurus were so small that they could not pass food to its mouth, and may have had no use at all.

• Recent fossil finds of a group of Tyrannosaurus, includes youngsters, suggesting that they may have lived as families in small herds.

• Tyrannosaurus may have been an active hunter, pounding along at speed after its fleeing prey, or it may have been a skulking scavenger that ambushed old and sickly victims.

• Until the 1990s, Tyrannosaurus was known as the biggest meat-eating dinosaur, and the biggest meat-eating animal ever to walk the Earth, but its size record has been broken by Giganotosaurus.

STAR FACT
Tyrannosaurus, when fully grown, was about 40-45 ft (12-13m) long and stood taller than a semi-truck.

By: Parker, Steve, Dinosaurs