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Tyrannosaurus rex

Trex jaw
Image by Mike Chung (Redpath museum).

Redpath Museum Tyrannosaurus rex skull fragments are on loan from the Chicago Field Museum. The pieces of jaw with teeth are casts of the real fossil bones from the Tyrannosaurus rex named 鈥淪ue鈥�.

Name means: Tyrant Lizard King
Family:Tyrannosauridae
Group: Theropoda
Adult size: 12 metres long (39 ft), 5-6 metres high (18-19 ft)

Tyrannosaurus rex: size comparison
Image credit:聽Matt Martyniuk. Accessed at the . .

Weight: 6 tonnes
Lived during: Late Cretaceous (74 million years ago)
Group: Theropoda
Diet: Carnivore, probably scavenged meat from animals that were already killed rather than chasing and hunting fresh prey.
Distribution: Fossils discovered in western North America
Other info: Teeth had serrated edges like a steak knife for sawing flesh.

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