Chip Clark/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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Reconstructed skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex.Tyrannosaurus rex was a carnivorous theropod dinosaur that walked on strong hind limbs. The brains of T. rex were small relative to the brains of large modern mammals.
Chip Clark/Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History
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Tyrannosaurus rex ranks among the largest meat-eating dinosaurs known.Tyrannosaurus rex was an enormous dinosaur. It ranks among the very largest meat-eating dinosaurs known and lived around 66 million years ago, during the Cretaceous Period.
Category hierarchy: Biomes | Geology | Fossils & ArtifactsDescription: A mounted tyrannosaur skeleton which was excavated in the territories of the former Soviet Union. Photograph taken circa April 2002 at a traveling museum exhibit. Photographer has tentatively identified the specimen as Tyrannasaurus bataar.Capture device: Camera: Pentax K1000Capture details: Lens:Quantaray 52mm P.L; Film: FujichromeOriginal date: 20020400Locality: Latitude: 2.902800000000000e+001; Longitude: -8.107550000000001e+001