Tyrannosaurus Rex is cool!!!!!The name Tyrannosaurus Rex means ‘Tyrant Lizard King’ which stems from the Greek word ‘tyranno’ meaning tyrant, ’saurus’ meaning lizard and ‘rex’ meaning king. The grand name comes directly from the fact that the T. Rex was most probably one of the largest and most terrifying carnivores of its time.
At over 20 ft tall, 40 ft long and weighing up to 8 tonnes the Tyrannosaurus was longer than the width of a tennis court, heavier than an african bull elephant and tall enough to look into an upstairs window. It’s massive legs bore its weight on three large, bird like clawed toes, whilst its arms which despite being extremely short were strong and powerful with 2 clawed digits.
One feature that stood out in all Tyrannosaurids was the size of their skull. In simple words it was huge and at 5ft long the skull was almost half as long as the backbone between the hips and the head. The head was basically the size of a small car and considered huge even for dinosaurs.
To support such a large head the T. Rex had an extremely short but muscular neck giving it extra strength and allowing it to stabilise the head as it moved. Obviously a huge skull meant plenty of room for large teeth which were so hard that they were known to penetrate even bone.
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