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At present, two species of Tyrannosaurus are considered valid; the type species, T. rex, and the earlier in age and more recently discovered T. mcraeensis. As the archetypal theropod, Tyrannosaurus has been one of the best-known dinosaurs since the early 20th century and has been featured in film, advertising, postal stamps, and many other media.
Tyrannosaurus was named by Henry Fairfield Osborn in 1905, along with the family Tyrannosauridae. [17] The name is derived from the Ancient Greek words τυραννος tyrannos ('tyrant') and σαυρος sauros ('lizard'). The superfamily name Tyrannosauroidea was first published in a 1964 paper by the British paleontologist Alick Walker. [18]
T. rex specimen discovered by Sue Hendrickson She also met Swiss paleontologist Kirby Siber, who allowed her to join his team consisting of paleontologists Carlos Martin and Peter Larson . [ 9 ] The group began excavating Miocene baleen whale fossils at an ancient seabed in Peru, and Hendrickson joined the team for several summers, discovering ...
T. rex was fully grown at around 18-21 years. Perhaps the largest-known Tyrannosaurus, a specimen named Sue at the Field Museum in Chicago, is 40-1/2 feet (12.3 meters) long.
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Instead, the T. rex was put on display in the building’s main hall directly in front of the museum’s north entrance, where it would remain for the next 18 years. [38] Sue was unveiled on May 17, 2000, attracting over 10,000 visitors that day. [39] John Gurche, a paleoartist, painted a mural of a Tyrannosaurus for the exhibit. [40]
The eye-sockets of T. rex faced mainly forwards, giving it good binocular vision. The eye-sockets of Tyrannosaurus are positioned so that the eyes would point forward, giving them binocular vision slightly better than that of modern hawks. While predatory theropods in general had binocular vision directly in front of their skull, tyrannosaurs ...
The T-Rex, for example, was thought to be as smart as a monkey once. But the newest research shows that they were more similar in their behavior to crocodiles and lizards.