T.rex: The Killer Question

Was Tyrannosaurus rex a predator or a scavenger? Let your visitors discover the answer to this killer question for themselves.

This 3D blockbuster exhibition features terrifying animatronic and static models, fossils, casts and graphical displays.

A man with a T.rex model

T.rex: The Killer Question is a stimulating exhibition that uses animatronics, casts and static models to engage the visitor and guide them into considering both sides of the debate about how T.rex might have got its food.

Was it an active hunter – the traditional image of T.rex? Or was it a scavenger? Or could it have been something in between - an opportunist and an ambush predator relying on easy pickings, whether alive or dead?

Girls peering into the T.rex's mouth

T.rex: The Killer Question is a blockbuster exhibition containing lifelike animatronic dinosaur models and life-size skeleton casts of real fossils, divided into five scenes involving either skeletons, static or animatronic models.

The scenes encourage visitors to evaluate T.rex 's size, the power in its legs, length of its arms, the sharpness of its teeth, to decide if its physical features were best suited to catch prey or to steal carcasses.

T.rex skeleton cast body

At the end, visitors decide which side of the scientific debate they support.

For more information, download the T.rex: The Killer Question information pack (PDF 1.0MB)

T.rex: The Killer Question is now showing at Jeddah Science Oasis.

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