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Tyrannosaurus rex
Tyrannosaurus rex means "tyrant lizard king" .It is also called T.Rex abbreviation. The first T. rex was first found by Barnum Brown in 1902. The first T. rex was found in Hell Creek, Montana, USA, North America.
Tyrannosaurus rex was a meat-eater about 40 feet (12.4 m) long, about 15-20 feet (4.6-6 m) tall, and about 5-7 tons in weight. T. rex probably had about 200 bones, roughly the same as us (no one knows exactly how many it had, since no complete T. Rex Skeletons have been found). About a dozen T. Rex Skeletons have been found. T. rex 's jaws were up to 4 feet (1.2 m) long and had 50 to 60 thick, conical, bone-crunching teeth that were up to 9 inches (23 cm) long. T. Rex Dung has been found containing crushed bone - its teeth were capable of inflicting an enormous amount of damage on other creature). Diapsids are animals that have two extra holes in the sides of their skulls. Like all other dinosaurs, T. rex walked on its toes. There is a pad of tissue on the back of the feet on these animals that acts like a shock absorber. People, bears, and crocodiles walk differently they are flat-footed. T. rex had three clawed toes on each foot and one dew claw, a very small, virtually useless toe. Its legs were very strong and powerful. T. rex had tiny arms in comparison with the rest of its body. The upper part of the arm was imbedded in its body, rendering the arms almost useless and with a very limited range of motion. T rex 's arms couldn 't even reach its mouth! T. rex had two clawed fingers on each hand. T. rex was a saurischian dinosaur, a "lizard-hipped" dinosaur. This type of dinosaur had a hip structure in which the pubis bone pointed forwards and downwards.
T. rex was a meat-eater and was at the top of the food chain in its environment. It probably chased its prey and took huge bites of their flesh, mortally wounded the prey, then devoured it. Its huge jaws and powerful, clawed legs were its lethal weapons. T. rex 's tiny arms may not have played much of

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