is tyrannosaurus a dinosaur
For other uses, see T. rex (disambiguation). Tyrannosaurus (/táµ»ËrÃ¦nÉËsÉËrÉs/ or /taÉªËrÃ¦nÉËsÉËrÉs/, meaning tyrant lizard, from the Ancient Greek tyrannos (ÏÏÏÎ±Î½Î½Î¿Ï), tyrant, and sauros (ÏÎ±á¿¦ÏÎ¿Ï), lizard) is a genus of coelurosaurian theropod dinosaur. The species Tyrannosaurus rex (rex meaning king in Latin), is one of the most well-represented of the large theropods.
The Tyrannosaurus rex was a large, carnivorous, or meat-eating, dinosaur that inhabited North America approximately 65 to 98 million years ago during the late Cretaceous period. The most widely recognized of all the dinosaurs, T. rex has inspired much speculation about how it lived, as well as what and how it ate.