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Bookmark or Share- Five Things We Don’t Know About Tyrannosaurus RexOriginally named for its discoverer, rancher Kathy Wankel who found it in 1988 in eastern Montana, the fossil was excavated by paleontologist Jack Horner in 1989 to 1990. The 65-million-year-old...
- Analyze This: How big was the biggest T. rex - Science News ExploresTyrannosaurus rex towered over many other dinosaurs. But the biggest of the king of the dinos may have been even heftier than fossils hint. Only around 80 fossil T. rex skeletons have been found so far, and not all of them are complete.
- Barnum Brown: The Man Who Discovered Tyrannosaurus RexBy 1902 he was the first paleontologist to discover a partial skeleton of Tyrannosaurus rex, from the famous Cretaceous-age Hell Creek Formation, and six years later he found an even more...
- Specimens of Tyrannosaurus - WikipediaThe first-named fossil specimen which can be attributed to Tyrannosaurus rex consists of two partial vertebrae (one of which has been lost) found by Edward Drinker Cope in 1892. Cope believed that they belonged to an "agathaumid" ( ceratopsid ) dinosaur, and named them Manospondylus gigas , meaning "giant porous vertebra" in reference to the ...
- Tyrannosaurus - WikipediaSpecimens of Tyrannosaurus rex include some that are nearly complete skeletons. Soft tissue and proteins have been reported in at least one of these specimens. The abundance of fossil material has allowed significant research into many aspects of its biology, including its life history and biomechanics.
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