T.rex
Take a good look all around the T.rex
- Pronunciation:
- tie–RAN–oh–sore–us
- Lived:
- 67–65 million years ago
- Size:
- up to 12 metres long
- Name means:
- tyrant lizard
- Fossils found in:
- Canada and USA
- Diet:
- carnivore – ate other dinosaurs
- Huge, strong and fierce, I would attack and eat any dinosaur around.
- I had one of the strongest bites of any animal that ever lived.
- 60 sharp teeth, some up to 20 centimetres long, meant I could easily crush thick bones.
- Scientists think I hunted my prey or fed on already dead animals. I probably did both, I was just lazy sometimes...
- I had very short arms – they did not even reach my mouth!
- I could eat the equivalent of 1,500 sausages a day.