Tyrannosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. Most paleontologists today accept that Tyrannosaurus was both an active predator and a scavenger.
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Tyrannosaurus is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods. Tyrannosaurus lived throughout what is now western North America, on what was then an island continent known as Laramidia. It was the last known member of the tyrannosaurids, and among the last non-avian dinosaurs to exist before the Cretaceous–Paleogene extinction event. Most paleontologists today accept that Tyrannosaurus was both an active predator and a scavenger. The most complete specimen measures up to 12.3 meters in length though T. rex could grow to lengths of over 12. 3 m, up to 3. 96 m tall at the hips, and according to most modern estimates 8. 4 metric tons to 14 metric tons in weight. Some experts have suggested the dinosaur was primarily a scavengers. The abundance of fossil material has allowed significant research into many aspects of its biology, including its life history and biomechanics. The feeding habits, physiology and potential speed of T. rex are a few subjects of debate. Its taxonomy is also controversial, as some scientists consider Tarbosaurus bataar from Asia to be a second Tyrannosaurus species while others maintainTarbosaurus is a separate genus. It is still among the largest known land predators and is estimated to have exerted the strongest bite force among all terrestrial animals.
It has been featured in film, advertising, postal stamps, and many other media since the early 20th century, and has been the archetypal theropOD since the late 1800s. In the early 1890s, John Bell Hatcher collected postcranial elements in eastern Wyoming. The fossils were believed to be from the large species Ornithomimus grandis, but are now considered T. rex remains. In June 2000 the Black Hills Institute found around 10% of a Tyrannosaurus skeleton at a site that might have been the original M.ospondylus gigas. In 1902, Barnum Brown, assistant curator of the American Museum of Natural History, described a large Dinosaur Marshivorous Dinosaur, not a Dinosaur, as a large, humerus-ivorous dinosaur not yet described by humans. The bones were found in the Hell Creek Formation in Montana in 1902, comprising approximately 34 fossilized bones, including three vertebrae and two undetermined bones of a large crocodile-like dinosaur. In 2003, the Museum of Nature and Science in New York City published a book on the Tyrannosaurus, entitled T. Rex: The Last Tyrannosaurus. The first skeleton of T-Rex was described in 1900 in. 1902 in. Montana in. Hell Creek formation, comprising about 34 fossil fossil bones, and another partial skeleton of. Carnivorous dinosaurs, not undetermined by humans, in. the Carnivore Marshivores Marsh.
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