Tyrannosaurus

* T. rex
* T. bataar

## *Tyrannosaurus rex*

★★★★★

* Leatherhide
* Molten
* Brumal

### Aggression

80% - This animal actively attacks other animals and guests for enrichment. Keep calm.

## Creation

### Breeding Cost

$250,000

> *"Meet Tyrannosaurus! Impressively large and robust, Tyrannosaurus is equipped with excellent eyesight, razor sharp teeth and a bone-crushing bite, granting it instant popularity."*
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*Tyrannosaurus rex* is a large carnivorous theropod that lived in the general regions of North America and Asia during the Cretaceous.

The Asian close relative *Tarbosaurus bataar* is also represented in Prehistoric Kingdom.

## *Tarbosaurus bataar*

★★★★☆

Scorched

## Social

### Aggression

80% - This animal actively attacks other animals and guests for enrichment. Keep calm.

## Creation

### Breeding Cost

$250,000

> *"Meet Tyrannosaurus! Impressively large and robust, Tyrannosaurus is equipped with excellent eyesight, razor sharp teeth and a bone-crushing bite, granting it instant popularity."*
>
>

*Tyrannosaurus rex* is a large carnivorous theropod that lived in North America during the late Cretaceous.

The Asian close relative *Tarbosaurus bataar* is also represented in Prehistoric Kingdom.

## In-Game

### Description

Tyrannosaurus is a large bulky theropod with an iconic body plan composed of several unique traits. With a massive head and small yet powerful arms, Tyrannosaurus is famous for its imposing build. A distinctive brow lines the top of the animal's snout, with sizeable ridges composed of keratin jutting out from the animal's head. With two variants in integument, or skin, Tyrannosaurus can either be purely scaled or coated with a light layer of feathery down through the "Brumal" skin option.

Unlike the other skins, "Scorched" switches Tyrannosaurus species from the more iconic *T. rex* to the Asian *Tarbosaurus* *bataar*. Differences in body shape compared to its North American cousin include a somewhat smaller build and size, shorter arms, longer legs and tail, a thinner snout with less pronounced keratin structures, and the presence of a large dewlap below the throat.

### Management

*Tyrannosaurus rex* is an aggressive large predator which requires strong fences to keep it contained. It prefers coastal, temperate, wetland and tropical biomes and a paddock of at least 1.5 hectares with moderate foliage and low water density. They are also solitary animals but can form mating pairs.

The alt species, *T. bataar*, is smaller but has similar needs to the Rex the main differences being that it's more social, can live in smaller enclosures, dislikes the coastal biome and also prefers the scrubland biome.

### In-Game Trivia

"*There it is. The one and only King of the Tyrant Lizards. Tyrannosaurus is as big as the movies and yet somehow even scarier.*"

"*While your favorite dinosaur movie might have depicted the T. rex with rather poor vision, brain scans have revealed that its vision rivaled that of modern birds of prey. Which means that it's watching you, just as much as you're watching it. Eerie stuff…*"

"*Take a good look at those arms. Each arm is a meter long, can hold almost 200 kilograms, and ends in razor-sharp claws. Far from the 'wimpy' little stubs most of the public makes them out to be.*"

"*T. rex has the most powerful bite force of any land animal on the planet and if those massive jaws weren't threatening enough already, just know it could swallow you and me both in one go. This is a creature of pure instinct, so let's hope it doesn't try to take back its kingdom any time soon.*"

## Paleontology

With estimates ranging from 5.4 to 8.8 tonnes, the Tyrannosaurus is the largest theropod in terms of mass yet discovered, as well as one of the largest land predators known to science.

The first partial skeleton of Tyrannosaurus was found in 1900 by paleontologist Barnum Brown, who also found a second skeleton in 1902. However, fragmentary remains were found as far back as 1874 but they were assigned to other genera some of that were later synonymized with Tyrannosaurus. In 1905 Henry Fairfield Osborn named the skeleton found in 1902 *Tyrannosaurus rex*, meaning "Tyrant Lizard King". That same year, Osborn named the other specimen found in 1900 Dynamosaurus imperiosus which was later synonymized with *T. rex*.

Since it was first described in 1905, Tyrannosaurus has become the most widely recognized dinosaur in the world. It is the only dinosaur that is commonly known to the general public by its full scientific name, *Tyrannosaurus rex*, and the scientific abbreviation *T. rex* has also come into wide usage.

#### Paleontological Comparisons

In comparison with the game's Tyrannosaurus, the only major deviations from accuracy favoring stylization is less extensive oral tissue, or lips. Although other major differences are mainly speculative, such as the lacrimal keratin extension limit and shape, many often leaning to a more "horn" appearance, or a more rounded "boss" appearance.

Feathering is often debated in *Tyrannosaurus rex* and *Tarbosaurus* *bataar*, but current modern consensus leans towards *Tyrannosaurus* having a very light fuzz-like covering, similar to an elephant, located on the back of the neck and back. Potential evidence leads towards this viewpoint. *Prehistoric Kingdom*'s *Tyrannosaurus* does have a feathered alternative for *Tyrannosaurus rex* somewhat similar to what some consensus implies, although some may argue that it's more densely feathered than what would've been seen.

## Paleoecology

Tyrannosaurus existed in the Maastrichtian age of the Cretaceous in what is now western North America, specifically from what is now Canada to what is now the southwestern portion of the United States.

Its most notable appearance is in the Hell Creek Formation where it coexisted with Triceratops, Edmontosaurus, Ankylosaurus, Acheroraptor, Pachycephalosaurus, and an unnamed ornithomimid among others. It also appears in the Lance Formation, which possesses a similar landscape and climate to Hell Creek.

Tyrannosaurus also ranges into the Ojo-Alamo formation in the south where it lived alongside Alamosaurus, 2 species of Quetzalcoatlus (Q. northropi and Q. lawsoni) and the ceratopsids Torosaurus, Bravoceratops, and Ojoceratops among others.

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## Gallery

* Photos
* Renders
* Animations
* Concept Art
* Videos

A resting Tyrannosaurus.Leatherhide Tyrannosaurus rex.A Tyrannosaurus rex eating from a Ground Feeder in an enclosure.A pair of Brumal Tyrannosaurus rex resting in a Boreal enclosure.A Brumal Tyrannosaurus walking in a Coastal ForestSleeping Brumal Tyrannosaurus rex.Brumal in a Wetland exhibit.A Brumal Tyrannosaurus rex roaring on a hill.Brumal Tyrannosaurus resting on a concrete moat

Leatherhide skin.Molten skin.Brumal skin.Scorched skin.Website render.Render of Tyrannosaurus rex's Leatherhide skin from Cindy's ArtStation.Female Leatherhide from Cindy's ArtStation.Render of Tyrannosaurus rex's Brumal skin from Cindy's ArtStation, minus the feathery down.Render of Tyrannosaurus rex's Molten skin from Cindy's ArtStation.Render of Tarbosaurus bataar's Scorched skin from Cindy's ArtStation.All Tyrannosaurus skins.Crytivo Render.Render comparing old Tyrannosaurus model to current.Tyrannosaurus Species Profile

Scorched Walk Animation.Scorched Walk Animaion."Brumal" Rex runs through a Tropical forest.

Molten skin concept art.Brumal skin concept art.

Prehistoric Kingdom- Tyrannosaurus Locomotion[1]

## Trivia

* Tyrannosaurus in Prehistoric Kingdom is depicted with half-lips, which splits the difference between the debate on if the genus had an exposed tooth row like a crocodile or fully covering lips like most lizards and mammals.
	+ With this in mind, the partial lippage both Tyrannosaurus species possesses are partially a design choice rather than an accurate choice.
		- Spinosaurids (Spinosaurus, Baryonyx) will also be lipless to an extent ingame, yet there is no solid answer to what spinosaurids would've had in life, either being completely lipless or partially lipped due to their amphibious nature like crocodiles.
* Tyrannosaurus is one of the few animals in Prehistoric Kingdom to both have integument variants and exceed the skin count of 3.
* The dewlap present on the neck of the Scorched skin, *T. bataar*, is more than purely a design feature to distinguish it from the three *T. rex* skins. The dewlap featured ingame is based on rumors from an as of yet undescribed specimen of *T. bataar* which possibly featured a dewlap on the animal.
* Tyrannosaurus was featured in Prehistoric Kingdom's second logo.
* Tyrannosaurus was one of the dinosaurs available in the 2017 Prehistoric Kingdom demo.
* Tyrannosaurus is one of the dinosaurs available in Prehistoric Kingdom’s alpha.
* Initially the *T. rex* was going to have multiple feathered skins as originally planned in the Demo, however they were later replaced with a single new feathered skin (Brumal). This skins were present in the 2017 demo.
* Possibly the most famous dinosaur in the world, appearing in countless sources of media, Tyrannosaurus shares its 5 star status with its similarly iconic rival, Triceratops.