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Thursday 2 April 2015

Dinosaur Inquiry



Type of dinosaur
Tyrannosaurus-Rex
Features
Name Means
Tyrant lizard" T-Rex is short for Tyrannosaurus rex

Type
Predator dinosaur

Lived When
(70 million years ago)

Weight
Up to 7 1/2 tons

Height
12-13 feet tall at hips (the hips would have been twice as tall as a tall man!

Length
Up to 43 feet

Weapons
Massive jaws with 50 to 60 blade-like teeth, some up to 9 inches long!

Interesting
T-Rex
Facts

T-Rex's head was about 5 feet long. Its skull had holes in it which made it lighter and easier to carry around.

T-Rex was one of the best known dinosaurs, but it didn't live all that long. T-Rex came along just before the dinosaurs became extinct.

You often see T-Rex pictures with his tail stretched out behind him. He did this for balance.

T-Rex had a very good sense of smell.

When T-Rex ran, he could go 20 miles per hour and could cover 15 feet in one step!
When it lived on Earth
During the Late Cetaceous Period, about 85 million to 65 million years ago
When it became extinct
Tyrannosaurus Rex went extinct during the K-T mass extinction, about 65 million years ago. This extinction killed the remaining dinosaurs
Diet
Tyrannosaurus rex was an aggressive carnivore. Scientists believe this powerful predator could eat up to 500 pounds of meat in one bite. It also eats Herbivores and Edmontosaurus and Triceratops
Other facts
It weighs up to 7 tons,

When Tyrannosaurus rex is he age of 14 its body size would increase rapidly, putting on around 600kg a year over the next 4 years,

It is measured up to 13m in length,
4m at its hip

The skull of a Tyrannosaurus Rex is measured up to 1.5m long.

The largest tooth of any carnivorous dinosaur found to this date is that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex. It is estimated to have been around 30cm long when including the root

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