Tyrannosaurus

***Tyrannosaurus rex*** (Greek for "tyrant lizard king"), or more commonly abbreviated as *T. rex*, is a species of tyrannosaurian theropod dinosaur that flourished during the Maastrichtian age of the Late Cretaceous epoch, 68-66 million years ago.

Ever since its discovery, *Tyrannosaurus* has become one of if not the popular of its kind; as over 50 individuals of this taxon have been unearthed. The most complete specimen of the *T. rex* was nicknamed "Sue" (located at Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History, which is roughly 90% complete), measuring approximately 12.3+ meters (40+ feet) in length, around 3.8 meters high at the hips, and over 9 tonnes in weight, making it amongst the biggest terrestrial predators existed. There are other specimens estimated to be larger than Sue but this information is debated. However, one specimen, known as "Scotty", measured 12.6 meters (43 feet) in length, stood 3.9 meters at the hips, and weighed nearly 11 tons.

## Appearances

### The Last Tyrant

A pair of T. rexes appear within The Last Tyrant. In the first act of the film, at the lake, a herd of various herbivorous/omnivorous dinosaurs including Triceratops, Pachycephalosaurus, Struthiomimus and Edmontosaurus are shown resting, drinking, etc., when the female of the Tyrannosaurus arrives startling and putting the other dinosaurs at edge (including a Triceratops and Edmontosaurus that had been attacked by this specific animal before), the rex then goes down for a drink which establishes herself as a non-threat o the other dinosaurs for the time, causing them to calm down and carry on with what they were previously doing. Eventually the T. rex leaves and heads to her nest and meets up with the male and unhatched eggs before noticing the incoming asteroid and lies down with the male before being engulfed by the impact.

In the second act, during the aftermath only the female appears to have survived with the male being completely torn apart and the eggs opened with the babies shown to have died, the female roars in distress before apparently lying down and dying. She is then shown decomposing into a skull, changing over millions of years along with the enviroment.

In the third act a crow then lands on the skull with a shot of the birds feet intercutting with a shot of the female rex earlier in the film, after crow then leaves and in the epilogue we get to see a scene of a T. rex attacking a Triceratops, biting its frill and leaving a scar and a poster of the movie "The Valley of Gwangi", a movie about an Allosaurus in the wild west (however Gwangi's design is based on a Tyrannosaurus rex). The final shot of The Last Tyrant is of the Tyrannosaurus skeleton cast known as Wankel in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh.

## Trivia

* Tyrannosaurus rex has been described as David James Armsbys favourite dinosaur
* As shown in the behind the scenes video the T. rexes in The Last Tyrant are sexually dimorphic. With the males being smaller and having slightly larger keratin crests.

## References

1. ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZwYXc8pV6Y

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