T-Rex Dinosaur, it is the short name of Tyrannosaurus Rex,it could be the most well known dinosaur due to its huge size, ferocious nature and regular appearances in popular media. Thanks to a large number of well preserved fossils, the T-Rex has been studied in detail by paleontologists all around the world.
Tyrannosaurus comes from the Greek words meaning ‘tyrant lizard’, while the word ‘rex’ means ‘king’ in Latin.So,normally, people often abbreviated Tyrannosaurus to T-Rex. T-Rex lived in an area of the Earth that now makes up western North America. It have a huge head with a long and heavy tail that sometimes contained over 40 vertebrae. measured up to 13m (42ft) in length, 4m (13ft) at the hip and could weigh up to 7 tons! The skeleton of a T- Rex alone measured up to 1.5m (5ft) long,the largest tooth of any carnivorous dinosaur found to this date is that of a T-Rex. It is estimated to have been around 30cm (12in) long when including the root.
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